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Wednesday, February 1st is Digital Learning Day! This is a day in which schools and organizations across the nation will celebrate innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology. In CPS, Digital Learning Day will kick off a month-long series of activities that students and teachers can participate in to learn new educational technologies. See the CPS Digital Learning Day webpage.
 * Digital Learning Day **

The Digital Learning Day website is at [|http://www.digitallearningday.org]. You can sign up at the website to receive email updates. In addition, you can follow the #DLDay hashtag on Twitter to see what others are saying. Librarians across the country are participating in this event; AASL and YALSA are partners.

Please see the attached flyer for information on how your school can participate with other CPS schools in Digital Learning Day and the kick-off to a full months activities. Use these activities to highlight your studies of Black History Month and other curriculum topics through the use of engaging educational technologies.

Our showcase activity is Your 3 Words based on a similar video series that appears on Good Morning America in which people hold up three signs bearing one word each, one after the other, to make a statement. Our CPS take on this will be three words related to what digital learning means to you. Create a short video of you and/or your students holding up signs. Email the video or link to the address on the flyer. (Make sure you have photo release forms on file for any students who appear in the video.) Although you can submit videos throughout the month, those schools that submit videos by Wednesday will be especially showcased.

Librarians play a special role as technology leaders in their schools. A celebration of Digital Learning Day and the entire month of February provide us with some great opportunities to show the role of libraries in technology integration. Please share news of DLD with your colleagues.

If you submit any work on DLD to edtech@cps.k12.il.us, please copy Lisa Perez at leperez1@cps.k12.il.us, so the Dept of Libraries can also have a record of your work and share it with other librarians.




 * Digital Learning Day Mash-Up Video**

Byrne Elementary Video Chase Elementary Video Inter-American 1 | Inter-American 2 Phillips HS Video