Tuesday Tips February 12, 2019

TECH TIP:  NewsGuard News Credibility Ranking Tool

NewsGuard is a Chrome extension that, once loaded, will give you a color coded ranking system of credibility and reliability for you news searches.  They use 9 criteria to rank sites from and sites that earn a green ranking follow basic standards for accuracy and reliability, while those with a red ranking do not.  Here's what it looks like:

They also have a lesson plan for teachers on news literacy.

BOOK TIP:  Snuggle Up With a Book This Snow Day

Tuesday Tips February 5, 2019

TECH TIP:  BoClips for Teachers

BoClips for Teachers is a new search engine for finding videos to use in the classroom.  You create an account and this allows you to also save your finds and you can also see how your search term is in News videos.  All are from vetted educationally appropriate sites and there are no ads.  Could be a good alternative to the distractions of YouTube.

BOOK TIP:  The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The American Library Association announced its Youth Media Award winners last week.  This includes the Newbery Award, the Caldecott Medal among others.  The Michael Printz Award goes to the best literature for young adults and this year's winner was The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.  It is a novel in verse about a young Dominican girl growing up in Harlem.  She longs to be a poet and be free of the restrictions of her body, her family, the church.  A moving novel.