Summer Bookish Bucket List

 Anyone else counting down the days until summer? I love working in education- but that doesn't mean I am not also excited about a break (also- public education has been a little much lately)

I love social media- and I saw a SUPER fun idea where a group of friends created a summer bucket list that was attached to points (and a little bit of money)  Thanks @thymephillips on TikTok for the inspiration. 
* You can find the official game that also has money attached to it here -----> THE BEST SUMMER EVER (I personally think I am going to do the Best Holiday Ever.

I loved this idea so decided I wanted to make one of my own.

Check out the Summer Bookish Bucket List- You can find the template HERE--->TEMPLATE

I was going to create a Google Form to collect points- but I decided that was going to be too much for this first year- so I am sharing it with you! I am promoting this to my staff and plan to have prizes for when we get back from the summer vacation.

Want to play along this summer- use the hashtag #readyoursummer25 and tag me!! @akbusybee on X and TikTok- @beeinthebookends on Instagram. You can also use the Total tracker shared below.

Bookishlist2025 by akbusybee

I am ending the year at school with another Book Basket Party that is summer read themed.  How are you promoting summer reading? Will you be joining my challenge?

Using AI for Productivity

 I can't believe that we are already in May! The end of the year my checklists tend to get longer instead of shorter, but that doesn't mean that there is not great learning going on.  

In high school the end of the year also means SO MUCH TESTING.. and that means that often times the library space is being used.  Thank goodness I can travel to classrooms.

A teacher came to me a couple of weeks ago and asked for a lesson that talked about AI and Productivity.  Now, I know that AI is a hot topic.. some agree with the usage and some disagree with the usage. I personally use it EVERY day.

To Prepare:
-looked through Common Sense Media 
-conversed with a fellow librarian (Jessica Ross) on how she had worked with students and using AI tools
-revisited the amazing presentation that I saw while at TLA called Do I Need AI in my Life that was presented by Lindsey Brewer-Munoz and Ami Uselman

After compiling resources (and also thinking about the attention span of a high schooler in May) I came up with a quick lesson.  

To prepare for the Magic School- I did have to create a classroom.

Below is the video of me walking through the lesson- want the whole presentation-

TEMPLATE LINK------>HERE and see below

To Share AI and Productivity by akbusybee

Things I loved about this lesson:

-the kids loved that my friend used Chat GPT to help us go to 7 Buc-ee's in one day- 

-they loved the Which is Real Face page where they had to figure out which face was real

-I LOVED using MagicSchool to write Thank You Notes for Teacher Appreciation

On that note- the list that I made in Goblin.Tools tells me that I need to get started on preparing the books out list of seniors.

Do you use AI? If so- how?