Hawaii School Library Conference—August 8–9, 2024

Visit Emily Ice at Infobase’s booth at the Prince Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, HI, for a chance to win a $50 Amazon.com Gift Card!* Emily will guide you through a QR scavenger hunt within Learn360’s platform that will equip you with hands-on implementation ideas and 12 curated playlists you can use in your school and library. While you’re there, you can also take a tour of our elementary and secondary solutions that support information literacy, research, standards-based skills, classroom instruction, library programming, and much more. We look forward to seeing you! 

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Don’t Miss Our Presentation

Are You Ready for It? Go On a QR Adventure with Learn360

Session: Friday, August 9 | Time: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm HT

Presenter: Emily Ice

Location: 100 Sails Private Room

In this hands-on demo/make-and-take presentation, Emily Ice will guide participants through a QR scavenger hunt to discover Learn360 multimedia resources and prepare for the upcoming school year. Learn360 provides engaging assets you can connect to your social studies, science, language arts, and math curricula for a meaningful and memorable learning experience. By the end of the session, you will be equipped with a hands-on implementation idea and 12 curated playlists to use in your school and library. To make the most of this session, please come prepared with your computer or smartphone and active Learn360 credentials.

If you need help accessing Learn360, please contact Tanya Everett prior to the session.

Your presenter: Emily Ice is the Director of Product and Licensing, K–12, at Infobase. As a former elementary school educator, Emily leverages her experience in the classroom, curriculum development knowledge, and passion for teacher training to inform and curate Infobase’s K–12 video content. She has her Bachelor’s in Psychology from Duke University and has her Master’s in Education from the University of Notre Dame.

These Are Just Some of Our Essential Resources for Hawaii Libraries That Are Available as Part of the HIDOE Core Library and Supplemental Resources: 

Elementary Resources

• Learn360 is a dynamic educational video platform that empowers K–12 educators to create engaging learning experiences. With thoughtfully curated multimedia resources, Learn360 enables teachers to easily personalize their instruction and spark curiosity in students of all ages across a wide range of subject areas.
• The Mailbox® Plus is an educator resource offering classroom ideas from prekindergarten through grade 6 that teach essential skills and take the stress out of lesson planning—all on an easy-to-use, teacher-friendly platform. The more than 54,000 fun and engaging ideas, activities, and worksheets in The Mailbox Plus are educationally sound, practical, easy to use, error-free, and child-centered. Plus, you can add all of these assets to your Learn360 subscription just by adding The Mailbox Plus.
• The World Almanac® for Kids Elementary is a reference database that provides engaging and effective content that works for teachers and students from kindergarten through fifth grade. This resource provides a contextualized way of understanding topics for the elementary school student, plus teacher support material that is easy to use, print, and implement in the classroom.
• The World Almanac® for Kids is a cross-curricular reference database for middle school students and teachers. It provides a contextualized way of understanding topics for the student, plus in-depth teacher support material. The database encompasses class lessons, report research, and quizzes that are ready to use and implement.

Secondary Resources

Learn360 Plus Classroom Video On Demand

• Add 17,000+ additional secondary-level videos to your Learn360 streaming video platform with Learn360 Plus Classroom Video On Demand. Classroom Video On Demand content was created for middle and high school curriculum, from basic through honors and AP courses and integrates directly into the Learn360 platform you are already using—no new software, authentication, logins, or training. 

General Reference

• World News Digest is a news database that presents thoroughly vetted and rigorously fact-checked news articles dating back to 1940. Designed to avoid the hot takes and partisan spin that have helped to erode the public’s trust in news and media, World News Digest gives you exclusive access to more than 350,000 original articles edited for maximum clarity and swift retrieval of factual information.
• Writer’s Reference Center is a reference database that provides students with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable online resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing, provides a wealth of vocabulary-building dictionaries, and presents a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay—great for all classes and for SAT prep.

Social Studies

• American History offers a virtual library of U.S. history for educators and students. A great complement to social studies, history, or civics courses, this acclaimed database provides the most comprehensive range of U.S. history information in one complete resource, including subject entries, biographies, primary sources, videos and slideshows, images, timelines, maps, graphs, and more.
• Ancient and Medieval History provides comprehensive coverage of world history from prehistory through the mid-1500s, providing a virtual library of history for educators and students with special Topic Centers on key eras, civilizations, and regions. Each civilization’s history is brought to life through subject entries, biographies, primary sources, videos and slideshows, images, timelines, maps, graphs, and more.
• Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. This multimedia resource helps users find a starting point for their research, offers a visual introduction to key eras and regions, and provides a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.
• Issues and Controversies in History places students at the center of the great debates and conflicts in U.S. and world history. It delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced coverage of a broad range of topics, helping to build a deeper understanding of how historical events and conflicts have influenced U.S. and world history over the past 5,000 years.

Science and Math

• Science Online is an authoritative research database that provides expansive reference coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines to help students better understand STEM and the different scientific fields. It’s a starting point for research projects in all major scientific disciplines and a resource to better understand core scientific concepts with assets that encourage students to find the information they need, evaluate it, and apply it.
• Today’s Science is a science news database that bridges the gap between the science taught in the classroom and real-world discoveries by working scientists, giving comprehensive and in-depth explanations of articles from some of the most important peer-reviewed scientific journals in accessible, easy-to-understand language.

Health 

• Health Reference Center serves both the reference and practical needs of your students. It includes in-depth coverage of body systems, diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures as well as health and nutrition information. This important resource helps improve analytical and decision-making skills, addresses social pressures and influences, and provides functional health knowledge that encourages students to practice healthy behaviors.

Click here for a detailed schedule of all of the events at the Hawaii School Library Conference. 

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