Brittani Scott - AVL assignment

https://youtu.be/O2RQTxetFH0

PBS LearningMedia is a helpful online resource that offers free videos, lesson plans, and activities for K-12 students. It's got content for all kinds of subjects like science, math, reading, and social studies, and everything is designed to be fun and engaging. For kindergarten teachers like me, it’s a great way to bring exciting, interactive lessons into the classroom, whether through short videos or hands-on activities. I could use it to introduce new topics to my students or reinforce lessons in a creative way, helping them stay engaged and making learning more fun.

Alabama Virtual Library

AVL Video

PebbleGo is an educational database designed for young learners, primarily aimed at children in grades K-3. It offers many resources on various topics, including animals, science, social studies, biographies, and more, all presented in an engaging and accessible way. The content is specifically tailored to early readers, with simple text, audio support, and vibrant images to help students understand complex concepts. PebbleGo’s interactive features allow students to explore and learn independently while building essential research skills. In my Kindergarten classroom, this resource can be used for guided research projects where students explore animals or famous figures, using PebbleGo’s read-aloud option to support literacy. You can also incorporate PebbleGo into a thematic unit, allowing students to discover new facts about topics like plants, weather, or community helpers. It fosters curiosity and promotes independent learning, making it an excellent tool for both whole-class lessons and individual exploration. With its engaging format, PebbleGo is an ideal resource for sparking young students' interest in the world around them.

AVL - Cruz

AVL - Cruz 

    In my English class, I use the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) as a primary research resource, specifically focusing on the Academic Search Premier database. Academic Search Premier provides a comprehensive collection of scholarly articles, academic journals, and peer-reviewed research across multiple disciplines, making it ideal for high school students engaged in research projects. This database is particularly valuable for students as it offers credible sources for literary analysis, thematic exploration, and historical context, all of which enhance their understanding and critical thinking in English studies. For example, when analyzing a complex text or exploring a specific literary theme, students can use Academic Search Premier to locate scholarly articles that provide different interpretations or in-depth analyses. This not only helps students learn how to evaluate sources but also supports them in developing well-rounded arguments and perspectives in their essays and presentations.

Alabama Virtual Library Demo

PebbleGo by Capstone 

Here is a clickable link to my screencast project 

https://youtu.be/L1bb0jwvlUQ

    PebbleGo by Capstone is a learning platform for students. In my professional opinion and how I use it, I think this source is best for individual learning experiences regarding various topics within the state standards. Students can click on subjects such as science, social studies, health, math, etc, and read "student-friendly" information. They can watch videos and complete games. Also, there are resources that teachers can print for students to complete. My recommended age level would be those in 2nd and up. Even for those in the lower grade who can't read or struggle to read, they have a listening option for each passage. 

EIM 505 AVL: Pebble Go

 https://app.screencastify.com/v3/watch/tvwAgqsFbtwdOv9Q7F34

Pebble Go

Pebble Go is a wonderful resource that I found on the AVL website. This resource is targeted for grades K-3rd. It provides information on animals, science, social studies, and biographies. I think this information would be useful when used to support curriculum or content being taught and/or teaching informational or research writing. Pebble Go provides text to speech options that is extremely useful for kindergarten and first grade (learning to read grades). The information provides pictures and definitions to unknown or difficult words (such as amphibian). The site is easy to navigate for teachers and students. I would use this in my second grade class as we are learning to write informational pieces. Another great aspect of this site is it offers a button students can click on and it gives them the MLA format of their 'cited' work. This is very beneficial as we have been talking about crediting our sources. 

Alabama Virtual Library Screencast on McGraw Hill: Access Science

AVL Screencast

McGraw Hill: Access Science is a virtual library program where students and teachers can find a wide variety of science resources. These resources include articles, biographies, books, news, videos, and images of all science subjects. The focus of this database is to provide a wealth of information in all science subjects for all ages: elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as, college students and educators. I find these resources most useful to high schools and I would plan to use them with high school students. My main use for these resources is to provide students opportunities to read in the curriculum, research primary source literature, and develop research/project based assignments. 

AVL Demo TeachingBooks

 AVL TeachingBooks Resource

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5RExZQ9xU

Whitney Hamm

EIM 505

TeachingBooks

    TeachingBooks is an online tool that helps teachers make reading more engaging and meaningful for students. This resource can be used for all ages K-12. It provides resources like author interviews, book trailers, lesson plans, and discussion guides for many popular and diverse books. Teachers can use TeachingBooks to give students a closer look at authors, fun activities, and helpful book information. This resource is especially useful for helping all students enjoy reading, understand books more deeply, and connect with stories in new ways. It's particularly valuable for supporting differentiated instruction, building a love for reading, and deepening comprehension through multimedia resources that make literature more accessible and enjoyable for all learners.

Alabama Virtual Library

 PebbleGo by Capstone

Find out about PebbleGo and how to navigate through the program: https://youtu.be/_y6UfTi9vzo

PebbleGo is a student friendly online virtual library where students can find non-fiction information about animals, biographies, science, and social studies. One great thing about PebbleGo is everything can be read aloud. This opens up its age ability to meet younger students or even students who struggle with reading. This would be a great resource to use in my kindergarten classroom because the students are not able to read yet, but are learning about these topics. PebbleGo would be a way to enrich the students knowledge of these skills and topics. 

AVL Demo

 

LBrisendine AVL Demo- Youtube

I chose to dive deeper into Explora for Middle School. What I liked most about this database is that it is very user friendly, and helps students quickly narrow down their research topics by providing them with clickable images for categories, subgroups, and individual topic areas. Sometime I know they can be overwhelmed when they search for keywords, and they are bombarded with hundreds of articles, books, and videos. This allows them to quickly search for things that are related to their topic of choice and only shows that information. I also like that they can save the articles, download them as pdf files for annotations in other programs, and quickly find the citations needed when providing their sources. In my middle school classes, I plan to use this resource when they work on their "Computer Science is Changing Everything" research presentations that focus on how computer science is impacting all areas of out world. 

Alabama Virtual Library Demonstration

 

https://youtu.be/IyndB2nJONY

I chose the Gail in Context Elementary database. This database was very well presented. It is user friendly and provides many different topics for students to chose from. This would be a great resource to use for a research project. There are book, news, pictures, and videos available for students to utilize. Each topic that you select also provides different books, magazines, pictures and videos to go along with your subject. This resource would benefit grades k-6. I teach 4th grade and I plan to use this in my science class to facilitate a research project for plants.