Thank you Christen Lindstrom for sharing your class masks with the library! For our final Tech Talk of the year I present our new Collaboration Classroom and Powtoons (video software).

The Collaboration Classroom is open for business! I will be checking in with the departments to see if I can help you integrate collaboration into your coursework. If you already have an idea-email me at harmoka@tulsaschools.org to get your class on the calendar to use this space! Examples of ways students are already using it: Practicing for History Bowl, practice writing the language they are studying (one student practices Chinese almost every day!), team meetings, and more. Hope to see you using it soon!

Speaking of Collaboration...Here are a couple of ideas to get your classes collaborating:

1. Challenge your students to identify and cooperatively solve an actual problem within your subject area. Divide them into groups to brainstorm ideas using chromebooks to research the issues and possible solutions and collaborate within a Google document, slides, and/or sheets. At the end of the hour have each group present their issue and their solution, including why they believe it would solve the problem, to the class using the big screens in our collaboration space. Further class discussion could be whether the class feels as if the problem would be solved, why or why not.

2. Brainwriting - have your students write first, talk second. Introduce your question, each student writes down his/her idea on a sticky note then posts their note on his/her groups' table. Each group then reviews and discusses the ideas shared on the sticky notes in their group. They decide which answers are best and incorporate them into a single group answer and share with the class.

Powtoons-Have your student groups create short videos and presentations on your topic for free! Here is an example of my Powtoon that I have been using to share the rules of the library with the students and online visitors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibb5SXthKtM&rel=0

Thanks for reading the BTW Library Tech Talk. I hope that you have discovered new and helpful information.