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Book Creator
Create interactive digital books on any topic using many forms of multimedia. Accounts are easily set up with Google and Clever. When beginning a new book, users can opt to start off with a blank template or choose from a collection of pre-designed templates. Users can collaborate in real-time on their book creations, including leaving feedback outside of the margins of each page and utilizing the integrated chat feature.
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Classroom Screen
Use this site to manage classes during information literacy sessions and other instructional opportunities. Classroomscreen offers QR codes, groups, timers, whiteboards, and more in one easy-to-use space, and it lets users manage classes and groups in one spot. This tool is highly intuitive and useful for those who teach more than one class with the same material. Classroomscreen has a variety of tools and features for educators to streamline their instructional process.
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Global Oneness Project
One of the Global Oneness Project's main goals is to "connect, through stories, the local human experience to global meta-level issues such as climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity, poverty, endangered cultures, migration, and sustainability." Content on the website includes stories told via films, essays, photo essays, audio stories, virtual reality, and interviews.Matching lesson plans for grades 3-12 are also included which integrate the stories and assist in meeting national and Common Core curriculum standards across multiple subject areas. Not all content has accompanying lesson plans, though the lesson plan content provided is very high quality. -
News-O-Matic
"News-O-Matic is an educational daily news experience for elementary and middle school students." This resource covers current events in kid-friendly language and "inspires children to become habitual readers of the news and well-informed global citizens." New editions are published every weekday throughout the year.
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PBS Newshour Classroom: Journalism in Action
Produced by PBS NewsHour Classroom, Journalism in Action utilizes primary sources from the Library of Congress available through the Teaching with Primary Sources partner program to create a highly interactive experience that places students in the role of a journalist. Students explore authentic "news articles, broadcast segments, political cartoons, and photographs" to see the history of journalism and conduct their own investigations.
