Tulsa Public Schools Librarians Conference: 2024 Conference Resources

ReadWriteThink.org has provided literacy educators with access to an ever-growing collection of free educational materials. This includes hundreds of lesson plans, calendar resources, prints, and interactive tools.

A free graphic design tool that can be used for promoting library books, programming, or visitors, creating assignment templates for students, presenting information such as PowerPoint, creating videos, and creating promotional materials such as QR codes or bookmarks. NOTE: You can get a free educator account by using your school email.

In-depth lesson plans and flexible professional learning options ensure teachers with diverse backgrounds can successfully teach computer science. The course curriculum is free and is built for teachers to cover the basic and build on each skill and concept. There is a full curriculum catalog in addition to the six courses specifically designed to support computer science education.

Unplugged lessons are particularly useful for building and maintaining a collaborative classroom environment, and they are useful touchstone experiences you can refer to when introducing more abstract concepts. Each of these activities can either be used alone or with other computer science lessons on related concepts. Tip: Many of the Oklahoma CS standards connect to concepts and not just skills, using these types of activities allows for connections to library and computer skills.

CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.

Oklahoma Digital Prairie provides visitors unique digital content spanning more than 100 years of rich, vibrant history from the 46th State. The resource areas found here include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps and audio/visual content. Content ranges from the late 1800s to the present day

This collection includes links, descriptions, and summaries of archived and upcoming live sessions as well as self-paced asynchronous courses. Initially gathered for personal use, this wealth of knowledge is now shared with you.

GDevelop is the most powerful, open-source, no-code game engine. Make 2D, 3D and multiplayer games without limits. Publish everywhere: iOS, Android, Steam, web, gaming platforms.

Google Gemini AI is a collection of generative AI models that use natural language processing (NLP) to interpret and respond to user input. Gemini models are multimodal, meaning they can understand and generate text, as well as other types of information like images, audio, videos, and code.

The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript collections, photocopies and Photostats of maps, single sheet maps from atlas's and modern reproductions. Significant maps of interest are Spanish Portolan maps of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Cuba, Map of the British Empire in America, Draught of Cherokee Country, Carte de la Louisiana, Map of Survey Route to the Pacific Railroad, Military Map of the U.S. and Indian Territory (Oklahoma).

These are FREE coding games that can be searched by grade level, subject area, technology type, and comfort level with coding concepts. Clicking on each game gives you a description of the game and its features. Tip: If you filter the list by “computer science only” you can find lessons in addition to enrichment activities.

Kahoot! is a cloud-based learning and engagement platform that allows its users to create, share, and participate in game-based quizzes known as "kahoots." The platform is designed to enhance learning outcomes by making the process engaging and fun.

An open source learning environment where students learn, through the act of creation, essential skills such as fundamental ideas in Computing, problem solving, logical thinking, critical thinking, and design thinking.

Notion is a free organization and note taking tool that can be used for daily notetaking, tracking tasks, creating calendar events and related to-do lists, and creating lesson plans with several free templates.

Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) has information about EBSCO resources provided for K-12 school libraries through ODL. This includes an A to Z list, resources by topic, tutorials and trainings, promotional materials, and more.

Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) has gathered these resources to present information on tribal government and other sites related to the rich history of the Oklahoma Native American tribes for those interested in the geographic origins of the tribes who were removed to Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) has compiled a list of open access resources for Oklahoma libraries, focusing on Oklahoma History.

OER Commons leverages open education resources (OER) to expand the role of educators, allowing teachers to become curators, curriculum designers, and content creators. In sharing teaching tools and strategies, educators network their strengths and improve the quality of education for their students.

An interactive tool that can be used as a live Q&A, as a location to share student work, as a portfolio platform for student assignments, and as a platform for links, videos, images, or other resources students need for assignments.

QuestionWell is an AI tool for teachers that can be used to generate questions aligned with your learning targets. These questions can then be exported for convenient use in other online programs.

Teach your class to code. No coding knowledge required! Rodocodo is a coding game designed to make teaching primary children to code fun and easy. It takes you all the way from Reception to Year 6, removing all the complexity and frustration along the way. Tip: Use the premade lesson plans to connect the concepts to the Oklahoma CS standards.

Scratch is a high-level, block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool, with a target audience of ages 8 to 16. Users on the site can create projects on the website using a block-like interface.

The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources from the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian’s expansive community of knowledge and learning.

Twine is a free open-source tool for making interactive fiction and hypertext fiction in the form of web pages.