Receives Linked in the Library with iPads grant ...

The East Elementary School Library in Waukon was recently awarded the Linked in the Library with iPads grant in the amount of $4,955.88. The grant was written by Allamakee Community School District Teacher Librarian Lisa Snitker through the CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation’s Teachers and Technology grants program designed to help fund projects that advance student success through the innovative use of technology. Snitker is pictured at left in the above photo with CenturyLink Regional Operations Supervisor Jonathan Herbst at the grant presentation. Linked in the Library with iPads will consist of library skills lessons in grades three through five, where students will use iPads throughout the year to create and complete innovative digital projects that bring learning outside the library walls. School libraries are no longer a place where students simply come to listen to a story and check out a book. With incorporating iPads into library lessons, students have the opportunity to create digital learning journals where they can record videos, write stories, narrate text, create puppet shows, give book talks and complete scavenger hunts locating books by call numbers. Students can also use the iPads to locate digital information on credible resources for research projects, read eBooks and create QR codes for books. Submitted photo.