1. eBooks for eKids TCEA 2010 Wednesday, February 10 th 11:45-12:45 session # 100527 Mary Carole Strother Library Media Specialist http://finchfalcons.wikispaces.com/ Bryce Kennaugh 2 nd Grade Teacher Finch Elementary McKinney ISD McKinney, Texas

2. Fun with Spot

3. Watch Spot Watch three Spot videos

4. Create a Spot Story Pick a scene, add characters, add props, add words—then read the story. Save the story as a PDF, then use the video recorder in Smart Notebook 10 to read your story and create a movie for your kids.

5. Adventures with Spot Interactive stories

6. Clifford Interactive Storybooks

7. Meet Author Frank Asch

8. Frank Asch Animated Books

9. Author Mercer Mayer Little Critter Storytime Videos- These videos play through YouTube. If YouTube is blocked for your students you can paste the link into www.keepvid.com and then download the video. Little Critter Storytime Videos- www.keepvid.com

10. Pick a Page Play and Read Pick a Page Play and Read After hearing and reading each page, use your cursor to click on the animals and objects in each page.

11. Write a Letter to Little Critter Sing-a-long with Little Critter

12. Story time with Robert Munsch Read about it. Listen to it Read about it. Listen to it Read about it. Listen to it

13. Mem Fox Reads Aloud Koala Lou Sleepy Bears Tough Boris Where is the Green Sheep? Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Hello Baby See the videos of Mem Fox reading: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Possum Magic The Goblin and the Empty Chair These videos play through YouTube. If YouTube is blocked for your students you can paste the link into www.keepvid.com and then download the video. www.keepvid.com

14. Eric Carle See and hear Eric Carle reading his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. See and hear Eric Carle reading his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. See and hear Eric Carle reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear See and hear Eric Carle reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear

15. Meet Rosemary Wells Author Video : A Visit with Rosemary Wells Max’s Chocolate Chicken Otto Runs for President Read to Your Bunny Noisy Nora Emily’s First 100 Days of School Voyage to Bunny Planet

16. Jan Brett Videos

17. Meet Mo Willems

18. Toot and Puddle

19. Author Videos by Scholastic

20. Storytime with Charlie and Lola

21. Learning to Read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – Read along with Eric Carle, illustrator of this beloved children's book. The Snowy Day – Follow the adventuers of a little boy in the city on a snowy day. Black and Red Ants – One black ant and one red ant meet upon a hill

22. Highlights Kids

23. Corduroy in English and Spanish

24. Starfall Learn to Read

25. Starfall I Am Reading

26. Starfall

27. Between the Lions Stories

28. Childtopia Stories

29. National Geographic Young Explorer Listen and Read

30. National Geographic Little Kids Animals Dolphins at Play Learn about bottlenose dolphins. Get fun facts, pictures, and more. Dolphins at Play Koala Family See a baby koala ride piggyback, climb a tree, munch leaves, and more! Koala Family Giant Pandas Explore the world of a baby giant panda. Giant Pandas Ladybugs Look at more animals, like these lovely ladybugs, on National Geographic Kids. Ladybugs

32. Storyline Online 23 online books from the Screen Actors Guild Here is a list of the stories, as of March, 2009 (list subject to change): – To Be a Drum, by Evelyn Coleman; read by James Earl Jones Guji Guji, by Chih Yuan Chen; read by Robert Guillaume Sebastian's Roller Skates, by Joan De Deu Prats; read by Caitlin Wachs Sophie's Masterpiece, by Eileen Spinelli; read by CCH Pounder Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon; read by Pamela Reed Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, by Mem Fox; read by Bradley Whitford No Mirrors in My Nana's House, by Ysaye M. Barnwell; read by Tia and Tamera Mowry The Night I Followed the Dog, by Nina Laden; read by Amanda Bynes Thank you, Mr. Falker, by Patricia Polacco; read by Jane Kaczmarek My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother, by Patricia Polacco; read by Melissa Gilbert Knots on a Counting Rope, by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault; read by Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels Brave Irene, by William Steig; read by Al Gore A Bad Case of Stripes, by David Shannon; read by Sean Astin Private I. Guana, by Nina Laden; read by Esai Morales Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, by Eileen Spinelli; read by Hector Elizondo The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg; read by Lou Diamond Phillips Me and My Cat, by Satoshi Kitamura; read by Elijah Wood Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy, by Jason Alexander; read by Jason Alexander When Pigasso Met Mootisse, by Nina Laden; read by Eric Close White Socks Only, by Evelyn Coleman; read by Amber Rose Tamblyn Romeow and Drooliet, by Nina Laden; read by Haylie Duff Enemy Pie, by Derek Munson; read by Camryn Manheim

33. Into the Book Teacher View Explore the eight strategies using the menu on the left-hand side of this page. Here's what you'll find when you click on each strategy: Student Interactive: teacher guide for each interactive on the student Web site Student Video: teacher guide for each Into the Book student video episode Teacher Video: information about each Behind the Lesson professional development episode Lessons: additional lesson plans for teaching the strategy Books: a list of suggested books for each strategy Research: quotes and citations to research about the strategy Links: additional information, lesson plans and activities from other Web sites

34. Teacher View

35. Student View

36. Britannica Learning Zone from Encyclopedia Britannica Click on Play Choose: I Can Read

37. Choose a book to read If you click on the animal in the left hand corner of each book, it will read the story aloud.

38. Britannica Learning Zone from Encyclopedia Britannica Click on Play Choose: First Steps

39. Choose a book to read If you click on the animal in the left hand corner of each book, it will read the story aloud.

40. Britannica Learning Zone from Encyclopedia Britannica Click on Play Choose: I Can Read

41. Choose a book to read If you click on the animal in the left hand corner of each book, it will read the story aloud.

42. Britannnica Learning Zone from Encyclopedia Britannica Free from the State of Texas – http://web.esc20.net/k12databases/accessk12.html http://web.esc20.net/k12databases/accessk12.html Contact your campus LMS for your username and password.

43. Online Readers Science and Social Studies Readers Pearson SuccessNet Science and Social Studies Readers Pearson SuccessNet New ELAR Adoption

44. Tumblebooks You can now download two different Tumblebooks apps for your iTouch or iPhone.

45. Discovery Education

46. Discovery Science ebooks

49. Online Readers LitLibary Online http://litlibraryonline.com LitLibary Onlinehttp://litlibraryonline.com username: read@llo.com password: read2010 Leveled readers from levels 1-30 in English & Spanish.

51. Caldecott Kids Blog We created our videos using FLIP cameras.FLIP cameras Then I converted them to mp4’s to load on the video iPods. – I used Format Factory to convert them. It’s free!!! I used Format Factory to convert them. It’s free!!! Read the Book, See the Movie

52. Web 2.0 Tools VoiceThread for education – Maybelle in the Soup Maybelle in the Soup Mixbook – Caldecott Kids and Mixbook Caldecott Kids and Mixbook Slide – Caldecott Kids and Slide Caldecott Kids and Slide Wordle – Caldecott Kids Wordles Caldecott Kids Wordles Voki – Caldecott Kids Vokis Caldecott Kids Vokis

53. More Web 2.0 Tools Storybird-Collaborative storytelling for families and friends. Storybird-Collaborative storytelling for families and friends. Tikatok-Imagine a story, create a book

54. Storybird Collaborative storytelling

55. Technology Tools at Finch Elementary Creating Your iTunes Library Mary Carole Strother Library Media Specialist Finch Elementary

56. Training Videos http://www.learningelectric.com/itunes7/ itunes tutorial by Apple – http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/

57. Open iTunes Double click on itunes and you are ready to begin to organize your library. Download iTunes

58. iTunes is not just music

59. Favorite Podcasts CNN Student News Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts Reading Rockets Electronic Field Trips Webisodes Nature PBS Dragonfly TV Miss Lori and Hooper on PBS Kids Downloading Podcasts Subscribe to podcast Unsubscribe Get episodes

60. Downloading Movies from Discovery Education Download videos in segments They download as asf files To play in iTunes and go on your iPod they need to be an mp4 format. There are many conversion packages. Format Factory- http://www.formatoz.com/ http://www.formatoz.com/ – http://media-convert.com/ – http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.ht m http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.ht m

61. You can download movies from YouTube http://vixy.net/ http://mediaconverter.org./ http://keepvid.com/ Make sure you preview all videos from YouTube. They must be G rated. The movies from YouTube are flv Choose to convert to mp4

62. How Do I Individualize Instruction? Create playlists Create your own movies Can record with a microphone-extra cost

63. Tips about your iTunes library The iTunes library will look different for each person that logs onto the computer. Under a teacher login –the iTunes library will stay organized. Under a student login- the iTunes library is deleted when they log off.

64. Sharing your iTunes library On the top menu bar click edit Click preferences Click share my library on the local network Choose between: share my library shared selected playlists