BLOGS > JANUARY 2, 2025
Are you always on the lookout for book recommendations and award winners?
How much time does it take you to compile those recommendations into a format to share with others?
How much time do you spend downloading book images one by one with no easy way to gather all the details?
How much time do you spend trying to find which ones come with free teacher resources?
How much time do you spend manually copying and pasting images into Canva, PowerPoint, or a Word document to make it visually pleasing?
When your time and budget are limited, let us help you in your mission to get high-quality resources for your students with our free PDF exporter tool.
Compile free lists of recommended products by relevant and trending topics in education. Educators and administrators can find:
These lists will empower you to find the books and hands-on learning materials you need to help students succeed!
Check out our three formats:
Presentation (Landscape PDF)
Our PDF exporter tool compiles the list information and your selections into a downloadable presentation you can email, print, or insert into slides. Your colleagues can then review all the pertinent details, including which lists have free educational resources.
Curriculum Recommendations
Our idea lists enable you to easily print out details about your selections in a worksheet-style format, including which ones have free educational resources. Plus, for those who like to print hard copies and scribble notes during a discussion, this format is ideal.
Reading Lists
Are you generating ideas for books to read over school breaks or offering recommendations to help a striving reader find the right book? Provide a list of recommended readings with a short book synopsis, number of pages, and book covers.
Here are other ways to use Pass the Note:
Learn how to fall in love with our Pass the Note tool from trusted Teacher Librarian Shannon McClintock Miller who shares step-by-step how to use it in her blog post:
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Long hold queues for new releases? Here's how libraries are solving it.
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It’s one of the most visible measures of patron satisfaction in a public library: the holds list. When a highly anticipated adult title is released and dozens – sometimes hundreds – of patrons are waiting for a handful of copies,...
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