Infobase’s Instructional Strategies Toolkit

Impacting Student Learning with Streaming Media

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As teachers, we know all about Shiny Object Syndrome. New educational tools are exciting and fun, but if they don’t make a clear and meaningful impact in the classroom, they get dropped by the wayside. Join instructional designer Waneta Hebert on a journey to dive into research-based practices with Learn360 (streaming media for K–12 schools and districts) and Classroom Video On Demand (streaming video for secondary schools), including how these supplemental resources can impact student learning in your classroom and become a lasting staple in your lesson plans.

Project-Based Learning in the K–12 Classroom

Do your students dream of being everything from doctors and inventors to architects and authors? Combine Learn360 videos, interactives, and printables to design projects that provide real-world applications of interdisciplinary skills. With standards-aligned content, Learn360 provides engaging assets to connect social studies, science, language arts, and math curriculum in a meaningful and memorable learning experience.

Enhance Your Curriculum with Interactive Livestreams!

Open your classrooms to an endless world of interactive, educational livestreams that support curriculum and classroom learning.

• Create equitable opportunities for life experiences across your institution
• Improve student outcomes
• Aligned to educational standards
• Save educator and student time
• Classrooms can directly interact with subject-matter experts through live chats!

Streamable Learning Virtual Field Trips Now Available from Infobase

Field Trips—Celebrate Curiosity with Learn360 and Streamable Learning

Creating Creative Book Trailers the Easy Way: 2-Part Library Workshop

Looking for creative ways to engage your library patrons or students? Book trailers are powerful, short videos that can attract readers and nonreaders to a book. Like a movie trailer, book trailers take the best parts of the book but leave an open ending that can only be filled by reading it.

This two-part webinar workshop with librarian Naomi Bates will allow you to explore the dynamics of book trailer creation from start to finish. Find out what you should think about before creating a book trailer and learn about different types of trailers, the tools you need to create them, and Creative Commons sites you can use to make your own unique trailers ready to share in a variety of ways.

A Summer On, Not Summer Off: Using the Summer to Prevent Learning Loss for K–12 Students

Summer is upon us…WHEW! Recent events have emphasized the need for K–12 students to continue to develop and grow year-round. But the reality is, many students and their families do not have the resources to combat summer melt and the HYPER MELT that has come with COVID learning loss. This timely conversation facilitated by thought leaders Adam A. Smith and Heather C. Lou elevates the voices of K–12 educators and administrators centering on real strategies for educators, parents, and providers to combat melt in all of its forms so that students have a running start into fall 2022.

Asynchronous Learning Workshop

The COVID-19 pandemic required many librarians to move their instruction online. Though a lot of time is spent discussing Zoom and other virtual meeting tools for synchronous instruction, asynchronous learning or online learning objects have many advantages for accessible and engaging learning experiences. This two-part series focuses on the what, why, and how of asynchronous learning, including its advantages, instructional design frameworks, and specific tools you can use to design asynchronous learning experiences. This workshop are presented by two academic librarians: UNCG Information Literacy Coordinator Jenny Dale and UNCG Online Learning Librarian Samantha Harlow.

Leveraging Supplemental Resources to Engage, Empower, Elevate, and Extend

Supplemental resources are additional items we provide our students to support their learning. Often non-required, these resources can have an impact on student learning. When used for optional activities, these supplemental resources can motivate students to explore topics of interest to them, helping them to take ownership of their learning. By taking away the stress that comes with additional requirements, students are left with the freedom to choose their learning. The key is carefully selecting the right resources and embedding them in the right places.

Help Students Build the Social, Civic, and Academic Skills They Need to Face Challenging Issues, Discussions, and Perspectives

Infobase is proud to partner with BBC Learning to bring you free access to My World Global Curriculum, a suite of current events, news videos, viewing and discussion guides, and prompts produced for educators to use in their classrooms. In a time where media plays an ever-increasing role in forming our worldview, this collection provides a unique platform for teaching current events to today’s students and covers important issues impacting young people. We are excited to share this series with you and your students!

What I Wish I Knew: Advice for Emerging Teachers and Those Who Support Them

The first year in the classroom can be both terrifying and exciting. First-year teachers have dreamt of standing in the front of their own classrooms and imparting knowledge on the next generation, but that first year is often fraught with obstacles. Presenter Waneta Hebert shares from her own experience of relocating from Ohio to Texas as a first-year teacher and how she not only survived, but thrived in the field of education. Now as an adjunct instructor, she discusses how to support future teachers as they prepare to embark on their own teaching journeys.

Leveraging Digital Resources to Inspire Changemakers

Join us for an inspiring webinar where we’ll explore some creative ways to incorporate multimedia resources to support social-emotional learning and promote service learning in your school community. Just in time for Earth Day and Arbor Day, we will use BBC content to preview virtual field trip ideas with streamable learning through our educational platform. Learn how you can use media resources to support your school’s service learning program and inspire your student body and teachers to make a difference.

De-Siloing K–12 Schools: Maximizing Partnerships and Resources to Enhance Curriculum Development

Academic officers, curriculum specialists, educational technology coaches, and librarians in many districts exist in separate silos with little communication and collaboration between them. Join instructional designers Waneta Hebert and Karina Quilantan-Garza to find out how all of these departments can build partnerships to shift usage of underused technology and resources. Participants will learn about how communication and collaboration can strongly influence course development and support information literacy in the classroom.

Using Educational Technology Offline: Tips & Strategies for Your Classroom

It’s 2022. Perhaps you began the year with grand goals of curricular alignment, collaborative activities, and joyfully engaged students. Instead, some students have started the year learning remotely, others have started the year with substitutes, and almost all have started the year with an abundance of screen time. No matter how your year began, we’re pretty sure that you and your students are yearning for a little less screen time and a lot more connection. It’s time to reconnect and find your joy in the classroom again.

Educating Through Trauma: Put the Mask on Yourself First

How to take emotional care of ourselves, our colleagues, and our students

How educators address, name, and define trauma has an impact not only on their students but on their own wellness and work. In this first webinar of a year-long conversation surrounding the myriad complicated challenges to college and career readiness in 2022, higher ed professionals Adam A. Smith and Heather C. Lou discuss ways we as educators can take emotional care of ourselves, our colleagues, our team, and our students.

Learn How to Leverage the Right Digital Tools to Connect with Your Students

Chart a New Course: SEL & Teaching Essential Skills for Tomorrow’s World

In this webinar, edtech consultant Rachelle Dené Poth joins us as we explore versatile ideas and digital tools for helping students to navigate in the digital world while building the vital SEL and communication skills they need. Providing a space to connect with our students is critical. Whether in our classrooms or virtually, we can foster connectedness by leveraging the right tools. Empower students as they develop skills essential for their future! Presented by Rachelle Dené Poth, an edtech consultant, presenter, attorney, author, and teacher who teaches Spanish and STEAM: Emerging Technology. Rachelle has a master’s in instructional technology and is an ISTE Certified Educator.

ABOUT KIERA VARGAS

Kiera O’Shea Vargas is an educator, lawyer, and librarian whose education consulting firm, EPIFHANY, LLC, focuses on mentoring students and educators by assisting them with growth on topics that are typically taboo in society. Her experiences in classrooms, in libraries, and within the many organizations she consults has afforded her an abundance of experience that has helped her over the years. Kiera obtained a B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication (concentration in Public Relations) and a master’s in science in English Education (concentration in African American Studies) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She received her teaching credentials from Greensboro College and has had teaching licenses in several states over the years. She also obtained a master’s in Library and Information Sciences and a Juris Doctor. Kiera will begin her Ph.D. studies in the School of Information Science at the University of South Carolina beginning Fall 2021. In her spare time, she blogs for the American Library Association.

Educator Collaborations for Success: Embedded Librarianship

Encouraging Librarians to Collaborate to Foster Relationships within Institutions

EXCLUSIVE EVENTS WITH KIERA VARGAS

Becoming the K–12 Embedded Librarian: Encouraging Librarians to Collaborate to Foster Relationships within Their Schools

Whether you are an elementary, middle, or high school librarian or teacher, this interactive webinar will give you the knowledge and skills to understand the significance of using the embedded librarian approach to successfully support K–12 students. Education consulting expert Kiera Vargas, founder of EPIFHANY, LLC, shares practical strategies that librarians and educators can use together to develop relationships, assist each other with providing diverse and equitable material for students, and improve student self-efficacy, both during and post-COVID and whether online or face to face.

Read the accompanying blog!

The Embedded Librarian: Building Relationships Across the College Campus

College students are still learning the importance of research, but the library and its many resources can often be a bit daunting and overwhelming. In this interactive webinar, education consulting expert Kiera Vargas, founder of EPIFHANY, LLC, focuses on the importance of embedded librarianship, offering practical examples and strategies for how college librarians and professors can work together to help students feel more confident and less intimidated by research skills and the numerous research platforms.

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A Special Event on Collaborative Learning, with Infobase and eSchool News

eSchool News Webinar: Strategies for Creating a Successful Collaborative Learning Environment, Virtual or In-Person

An effective instructional strategy on its own merits, collaborative learning demonstrated some additional benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic—for instance, it provided a much-needed sense of connectedness and social interaction among students, and with the right digital technology, was able to be moved seamlessly to a virtual environment. Collaborative learning can increase student retention and learning, enhance self-confidence, and empower students with skills that will prepare them for lifelong success, in the workplace and beyond.

In this webinar, our panel of educators discusses best practices—and pitfalls to avoid—when implementing or improving your collaborative classroom, and why professional training can be so valuable in supporting educators with the tools they need to use this instructional strategy effectively.

Presented by Infobase & eSchool News.

Turn Your Public Library into a Homeschool Hub

STRATEGIES FOR PROGRAMMING AND MORE TO SUPPORT HOMESCHOOLING PATRONS

Credo Reference: Complete Core for Homeschoolers Webinar

Public Library Programs for the Homeschool Community: Webinar

Learning at Home: Public Library Resources for Homeschooling Families Webinar

Engage and Motivate Students

INCLUDING PERSONALIZED LEARNING, ONLINE INSTRUCTION TIPS & MORE!

Hawaiian Middle School Leverages Streaming Media for Personalized Instruction and Highly Productive, Self-Directed Learning: Case Study

Taking Teaching Online: Tips and Resources from Makematic: Webinar

5 Instructional Strategies to Keep Students Engaged in Virtual Classrooms: Infographic

10 Ways Effective Ideas to Instruct and Engage Students with Infobase Learning Cloud: PDF

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