1. Keeping Your Library at the Edge:
Online Tools Not to Overlook
Emily Barry
Old Dominion University
Media Assistant
Sparrow Road Intermediate School,
Chesapeake, Virginia
2. So…
Why should you be listening to me?
I’m not even a real school librarian yet?
4. Four Tools to Keep You From Jumping Off
Images:
• ImageChef
• FoldPlay
Audio/Visual:
• Jing (both)
• Vocaroo (audio)
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6. What is ImageChef?
• A website that provides templates to
help you create unique images
containing your own pictures and text.
• Stamps, memes, signs, photo frames,
etc.
• http://www.imagechef.com/
7. ImageChef Ideas For School
Supports Virginia SOL C/T 6-8.14: Apply
knowledge and skills to generate
innovative ideas, products, processes,
and solutions.
A. Independently use technology
tools to create and communicate for
individual and/or collaborative projects.
8. Practical Uses For ImageChef
• Students introducing themselves during
the first week
• Creating word clouds
• Re-creating News headlines (altering
history for a class assignment)
• Creating advertisements for school events
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14. Using Foldables with FoldPlay
• Hands on study aids are scarce with the
increased use of technology.
• Students can create study aids of all
types
• Used for study tools like vocabulary or
fun like origami
• http://foldplay.com/foldplay.action.
15. FoldPlay
Supports Virginia English SOL 4.4
The student will expand vocabulary
when reading.
(a)Use context to clarify meanings of
unfamiliar words.
16. FoldPlay Fun
• Vocabulary foldbooks (great for both
visual, auditory and kinesthetic
learners)
• Kaleidoscope of the planets
• Puzzles made from maps of areas
studied
21. Jing: Photo and Video
• Downloadable program used to
create screenshots and videos
• Used for academia and fun
• Sits on computer hard drive
until opened and ready to use
• https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html.
22. Jing For Education
Supports Virginia SOL AI.6 ~ The
student will use a variety of
traditional and contemporary
media (e.g., two-dimensional,
three-dimensional,
multidimensional) to create
works of art.
23. Take A Shot with Jing!
• Capture maps from lectures to help
study
• Shoot tutorial videos to help classmates
• Transfer photographs of artwork directly
to hard drive and post to blog/social
media
• Save images that you can’t cut/paste
into projects/papers
30. Online Video Recorder
• Small excerpts of recorded audio that
can be embedded into blogs, websites, or
emails
• Take 2: record your message as many
times as needed until you are satisfied
• http://vocaroo.com/.
31. Can you hear me?
• Supports Virginia SOL 9.2
The student will produce,
analyze, and evaluate
auditory, visual, and written
media messages.
32. Good, You Heard Me...
• Great for reciting poetry to the class
• Present morning announcements
without having to repeat yourself
• Provide feedback to students after
recording them reading or reciting aloud
• Send a voice message or greeting when
not together (e.g. to assist a substitute
or to a student home sick)
38. So I’m not even a librarian yet,
but I can use more than these.
39. Expanding Your Personal Edge
Use these four tools to expand your skills to
the leading edge of media for librarians.
Blend technology and creativity to enhance
your students’ skills as they gaze out and see
what they can accomplish.
Share your own experience with colleagues
who may be looking for an edge of their own.
40. Citations
• Angie from Sawara. (2005). Origami Ball. Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Origami_ball.jpg.
• Clown a Laugh Every Day. (2016). Sick in Bed. Retrieved from
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-
image.php?image=176730&picture=sick-in-bed.
• Geralt. (2015). Camera, Film, Video, Recording, Filmstrip, Media. Retrieved from
https://pixabay.com/en/camera-film-video-recording-660090/.
• Geralt. (2015). Globe, Puzzle, Earth, World, Planet, Globalization. Retrieved
from https://pixabay.com/en/globe-puzzle-earth-world-planet-673010/.
• Hudson, Dawn. (2016). World Kids. Retrieved from
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-
image.php?image=127837&picture=world-kids.
41. Citations Continued
Mary Washington Logo. (2016). Retrieved From
https://collegediabetesnetwork.org/find-school/university-mary-washington.
Old Dominion Logo. (2016). Retrieved from http://wavy.com/2015/10/18/odu-
responds-after-four-students-shot-at-off-campus-parties/.
OpenClipart-Vectors. (2013). World Map, Earth, Global, Continents, World.
Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/en/world-map-earth-global-continents-
146505/.
Pattern Pictures. (2008). Books, Spine, Colors, Pastel, Hardcover, Literature.
Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/en/books-spine-colors-pastel-1099067/.
Public Domain Pictures. ( 2014). Read, Book, Boy, Child, Kid, Student, Think,
Teen, Test. Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/en/read-book-boy-child-kid-
student-316507/.
42. More Citations
• Randell, John. (2016). File: Creative Commons.jpg. Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_commons.jpg.
• Shux. (2012). Microphone, Silver, Metal, Sound Waves, Colorful. Retrieved from
https://pixabay.com/en/microphone-silver-metal-sound-waves-1074362/.
• Sparrow Road Brave (2016). Retrieved from
https://www.ixl.com/signin/sparrowroad.
• Weiner, Johannes. (2014). White Dome Terrace on Brown Cliff during Daytime.
Retrieved from https://www.pexels.com/photo/ocean-spain-mallorca-63508/.
• Whiteford, K. (2016). Woman Teacher Cartoon. Retrieved from
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=56146&.