1. New Teacher Workshop:
Pathways to Supplemental
Texts and Digital Learning
Tools for Teaching

3. Incorporate the Common Core ELA shifts in every
subject area and grade level:

4. Your building’s Library Media
Specialists are here to help you:
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Collaborate on technology and research lessons
Provide technology tools for classroom
Find newspaper and magazine articles
Determine reading levels for texts
Provide helpful websites for classroom use, projects, and
research
• Suggest supplemental resources for classroom use.

5. Destiny© Library Online Catalog
Find fiction and informational texts- novels, primary sources, memoir and
biography, narrative nonfiction- in each school’s library.
*Find the link to Destiny on
building homepages.
• Each building is targeted to grade level
• Quick links to databases and websites built by
building Library Media Specialist
• Access WebPath Express for credible research
websites
• Request new titles from your building LMS

6. Accessing The library
OPAC
Find a book:
1. Find “Library OPAC” link on you building’s homepage
under “Important Links” or go to http://destiny.bbpschools.org
2. Select your school.
3. Click on Catalog.
4. Search titles, authors, subjects by typing in the search bar
5. Optional: Filter reading levels at the drop down sections

8. Destiny© Library Online Catalog: WebPath Express
WebPath Express is an educational search
tool that provides today’s
K-12 students with a safe, fun and familiar
search tool that integrates more than
85,000 trustworthy, relevant websites into
your library catalog while filtering out
questionable content.
Directions:
1. Access your building’s Library OPAC (http://destiny.bbpschools.org)
2. After clicking on your school, select “Webpath Express” on the left toolbar.
3. Enter in a subject.
http://www.follettsoftware.com/webpath-express

9. Virtual Reference
Collection of Online
Databases
provides digital articles for
multiple subject areas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrilurgiazone/5723891101/

10. Virtual Reference Collection:
Online Database
Magazines
Newspapers
Primary
Sources
Educational
Journals
Encyclopedic

11. Online Databases:
Login information for all building levels
esb
Digital Media Library
first initial + last name
tek

12. Digital Media
Library
Educational Multimedia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_nelson/6805351834/

13. DML – K-12 DIGITAL MEDIA LIBRARY
Click on the DML tab in the VRC or go to
http://dml.esboces.org
Contains digital media including
video, audio, images, interactives, maps, podcasts…
Vendors include:
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Discovery Education
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Learn 360
Espresso Education (Pre K-5)
NBC Learns (Intermediate-12)
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PBS Media

14. Resource Cheat Sheet
Note: All of the following can be found on district homepages, Destiny, or Library links.
Destiny Library OPAC
Link: destiny.bbpschools.org
Used for: books in your schools’ libraries
WebPath Express
Link: destiny.bbpschools.org
Used for: credible, research-based websites
Virtual Reference Collection (VRC)
Link: http://xaaa.calypso.scoolaid.net
Used for: online magazine, newspaper, primary source, journal articles
Digital Media Library
Link: http://dml.esboces.org
Used for: videos, images