Sending 21 people to the Iowa 1:1 Conference!

This year, our district is sending 21 individuals to the Iowa 1:1 conference on April 4th at the Iowa Event Center.  The conference is dedicated to helping Iowa’s 1:1 districts learn from each other about innovative teaching, learning, and administrative practices.

Participants include not only teachers, but also administrators, parents, and school board members.  Participants were selected from the district’s 1:1 study team that is researching topics related to 1:1 this spring.  Visit  https://wdmtech.wordpress.com/11-study/   for more information on our district’s 1:1 study team.

At this time (March 17th), this years sessions are not available, however, if you’d like to see last years sessions including videos, please visit: http://www.jdlhorizons.com/secret/i11ithankyouemailv4.html

 

Participants include………..

1. Andi Lipman

2. Liz Brennan

3. Ross Bower

4. Bret Miller

5. Carrie Jacobs

6. Natalie French

7. Jessica Novelli

8. Brooke Dey

9. Scott Brown

10. Adam Ponsor

11. Bob Davis

12 Kerry Ketcham

13. David Feingold

14. Julia McGuire

15. Jana Edwards

16. Kevin Neal

17. Karl Goldsmith

18. Brian Abeling

19. Jackie Neuberger

20 Kathy Talbot

21. Kelsey Hudson

Tales 2 Go Audiobooks now available!

Heartland AEA11 recently announced the purchase of Tales 2 Go audiobooks for elementary, middle and junior high school students. Tales 2 Go is an award-winning audiobook service that streams thousands of titles from leading publishers and storytellers to desktop or laptop computers. You’ll find popular titles and some old favorites. All have professional narration. Titles range from two minutes to two+ hours. You can search by character, age, grade, level, story type, and more.

Go to www.mackin.com/via and log in with the online database username/password. Click Databases, click Tales 2 Go, click Read Now.

To obtain the schools user id and password, please contact your schools teacher librarian.

Audiobooks and the Common Core
Audiobooks have been used in classrooms for decades because listening builds critical listening, comprehension and fluency skills.  Oral language precedes written language (i.e. developmentally), making listening an important component of language acquisition. In fact, there are reading methods such as The Daily 5 that include listening as a component of reading instruction.  Also, the Common Core Standards spell out specific Listening and Speaking skills required of all primary grade students.

Tales 2 Go will be another effective resource to support literacy instruction. Some students may want to check out the book from the school or public library and follow along as they listen to the book. If you are looking for audiobooks that also include the text, don’t forget BookFLIX, TrueFLIX, and the audiobooks (cassette or CD) and accompanying books that are also available resources from Heartland AEA.

Desktop Instructions (pdf) for Tales 2 Go

Mobile Device Instructions (pdf) for Tales 2 Go

General information about Tales2Go (pdf)