Winner: 

A Ball for Daisy, written and illustrated by Chris Raschka  Call number:  813 R18312bd

Honor Books:

Blackout, written and illustrated by John Rocco  Call number: coming soon!

Grandpa Green, written and illustrated by Lane Smith Call number 813 Sm61419gg

Me … Jane, written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell Call number: 813 M1466111m

To find the Dolly Gray books, please search “Dolly Gray Award” in the books and more search on the library homepage: www.lib.byu.edu.  The current collection contains books nominated for the 2012 award, award winners and nominated titles from previous years will be added in the months to come so keep checking back.

Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 941 titles, equaling approximately 746 hours.

You can find it on the library databases A-Z list, or the direct url is:  http://dbs.lib.byu.edu/film

Newly added titles include Cyberbullying: Activities to Help Children and Teens to Stay Safe in a Texting, Twittering, Social Networking World, by Vanessa Rogers (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010) and Banishing Bullying Behavior: Exploring the Culture of Pain, Rage and Revenge, by Suellen Fried and Blanche E. Sosland (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2010).

Visit the site here:  http://site.ebrary.com/lib/cyberbullying/home.action

You may also register for the site to help them better understand its usefulness by clicking here:  http://www.tfaforms.com/216765

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Education in Video is a collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers.  The publisher notes that this collection has “more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750+ hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms giving your education students a way to observe the intricacies of behavior, tone, facial expression, and body language that define effective teaching styles.”  For additional product details go to:  http://alexanderstreet.com/products/ediv.htmU

Please take a look at this resource by clicking on the link below and then send any feedback to Rachel_Wadham@byu.edu

Access Education In Video Here

“TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children’s and young adult books. This online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.”

This is an top-quality resources that compiles content from a number of sources but it also creates its own content making this a unique resources with information that does not exist elsewhere.  The other major benefit of this databases is its extensive multimedia, with many videos and audio files no matter what content area you teach if you are looking for ways to integrate children’s trade books into the classroom this resource has lots to offer.

Find this resource on the Education subject guide under Lesson Planning Resources Tab, or on the main library home page under databases either by searching the title or clicking on “T” then clicking on the title.

This informative newsletter provides inspiration, ideas, and insight into teaching and learning.  For example the most recent issue offers articles on strategies to get students to do reading assignments as well as another on civil behavior in the classroom.

Access is available though the HBLL journal finder.  To use it go to the library website: www.lib.byu.edu.  Click on the Journals Tab in the lower left box.  Type in Teaching Professor.  Click on the title link.  Then click on the link that says Full Text Online Miscellaneous E-Journals.   This website then offers you full text access to the newsletter from 2004 to the present.

Any comments on this resource are welcome.

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