In this edition of Utah's Online Library Product & Librarian Spotlight, Dani Sloan and Melinda Overson, a librarian from Bryce Valley High School, explore NoveList Plus. NoveList Plus is a database of book recommendations for all library workers who do readers' advisory.

Dani Sloan and Katie Blunt give us the newest updates with Utah's Online Library and eMedia. Gale in Context now offers ebooks for young learners! Also, did you know eMedia includes a hub for Utah's Online Library?

Explore time-saving teaching tool, including video and audio recordings with authors, lessons, book trailers, vocabulary lists, and more. Discover ways TeachingBooks resources can deepen connections to books while engaging readers, supporting families, and facilitating collaboration with colleagues.

Join this session to learn how to use digital resources in Sora for classroom learning. This session will cover strategies to get every student to the right resource using direct links, ways to help students engage with digital texts using the latest research on reading comprehension and engagement when using digital resources, ready-made resources you can implement in your classroom that incorporate resources available in Sora, ideas for using Sora to support various subject areas including language learning, science, social studies, history and ELA (and others), and more.

Discover TeachingBooks tools that can enhance and deepen your already strong instructional practices. Explore time-saving teaching tools, including video and audio recordings with authors, lessons, book trailers, vocabulary lists, and more. Uncover a collection of quality trade books that support and supplement phonological awareness instruction.

Join us for an overview of your World Book Online resources for elementary school. We will focus on Early Learning and Kids, and we will also take a look at some additional features within the other resources. With read-aloud functions, translation into over 100 languages, different reading levels, and educational games there are tools to help every student access content at their given level!

Join us for an overview of your World Book Online resources. With a specific focus on High School resources, Student and Advanced, you will walk away knowing the best time-saving tools for research, accommodation, teacher-planning tools, and where to find more information on all features. We will also take a brief look at eBooks, Timelines, and Discover and how they can be used in the secondary classroom.

The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource is a lesson plan to guide students through a research project about the American Civil War.

This book’s title tells its intent. It is written to help you understand media and culture. The media and culture are so much a part of our days that sometimes it is difficult to step back and appreciate and apprehend their great impact on our lives. The book’s title, and the book itself, begin with a focus squarely on media. Think of your typical day. If you are like many people, you wake to a digital alarm clock or perhaps your cell phone. Soon after waking, you likely have a routine that involves some media. Some people immediately check the cell phone for text messages. Others will turn on the computer and check Facebook, email, or websites. Some people read the newspaper. Others listen to music on an iPod or CD. Some people will turn on the television and watch a weather channel, cable news, or Sports Center. Heading to work or class, you may chat on a cell phone or listen to music. Your classes likely employ various types of media from course management software to PowerPoint presentations to DVDs to YouTube. You may return home and relax with video games, television, movies, more Facebook, or music. You connect with friends on campus and beyond with text messages or Facebook. And your day may end as you fall asleep to digital music. Media for most of us are entwined with almost every aspect of life and work. Understanding media will not only help you appreciate the role of media in your life but also help you be a more informed citizen, a more savvy consumer, and a more successful worker. Media influence all those aspects of life as well.

As creators, we often want to use others’ creative work in our own work. For example, we may want to make a collage or mashup, or find an illustration or soundtrack for our latest project. In this lesson, students learn about: Fair use, which allows them to reuse copyright protected work in certain situations without permission and how to find creative works that are free to use with few or no restrictions—Creative Commons and the public domain.

Instruction on using the Destiny Quest feature in the Follett Destiny Library Managing Software system. This helps student be more autonomous in holding books, recommending books to peers, reviewing and rating titles, and researching their next read.

This is the second lesson in a series of two introducing the Gale Reference Library. Students will browse the Opposing Viewpoints in Context on Gale Reference Library. After choosing a debatable topic, students will read the overview to summarize the argument and identify opposing claims. Next, students will choose two resources (one representing each side of the debate) and evaluate the claim and argument for each resource.

The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource is an article about how the Big6 model can help prevent plagiarism.

In this lesson, students will research, organize and create a 2-3 minute digital story about 1 of 3 different cultures that have influenced Utah's culture. They can choose from the Fremont People, the Ute Indians, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Pioneers. There are some background lessons and information that will need to be covered in order to finish this final project for 4th grade Utah Social Studies Standard 2 Objective 1. These lessons are linked and highlighted in the Teacher Background section of this lesson plan.There are a few worksheets and mini-lessons (that can be taught in a synchronous manner) associated with this final project that could take 2-3 days to complete and then the digital story can be finished in an hour or two. The final presentation and the mini assignments could all include small group discussions, whole class instruction, and could easily be tailored to teach to students learning virtually.The mini-lessons and supplimental information were found through the UEN website and a youtube video by Nick Epling. Other articles and sources are listed in the materials.

Self-paced lesson plan for students to analyze and think critically about different film elements as they take on the role of a film critic.

Self-paced lesson plan for students to experiment with different materials to create sound effects.

Self-paced lesson plan for students to learn how to dissect films throughout history for implicit and explicit messages as it relates to the time they were created.

This recorded workshop teaches families how to get started with the basic concepts to make a great small film.

Este taller grabado enseña a las familias cómo iniciarse en los conceptos básicos para hacer una pequeña gran película. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Self-paced lesson plan for students to analyze and produce optical illusion via animation toys.