ESPECIALLY FOR FERN RIDGE
Know & Go @Your Library
Contact Information Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog
V O L U M E
We are made by history.
•
•
•
•
•
~ Mar$n Luther King, Jr.
|
I S S U E
2 2
Updates @your Library
tinyurl.com/libserv
We are not makers of history.
1
The following magazine subscriptions have been ordered for next year based on the pursuit of personal reading and aesthetic growth : Car and Driver, Motor Trend, People, Glamour, Ebony, Road and Track, Seventeen, and Sports Illustrated. The following eBooks are now available on the Fern Follett shelf: Defy, Divided We Fall, Fire & Flood, Game Slaves, The Hit, Threatened, Alexandre Dumas’s The Count, Endangered, Feed, Flight, Gym Candy, Neverwas, What We Lost in the Dark, The Night She Disappeared, Of Poseidon, Boy 21, Revived, Ashes, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, Bitter End, Croak, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Every Day, Everybody Sees the Ants, I’ll Be There, and Starters
On the Fern Ridge Library webpage you will find a link to reserve the library space. Once on the calendar, you will be able to reserve a $me. Click on the date you would like, enter your last name and $me in which you want to be in the library. Be sure to select the FR Library Sign Up calendar in the drop down op$ons and click the Create Event bu)on when you are finished. The event can be edited or deleted should you need to cancel or have a $me conflict. If a student would like a book, please be sure they write down their first and last name and the book $tle, so that I can manually add it to the checkout system. I have recently acquired addi$onal Gateway Award winners from West High and they should be available as soon as some minor changes are made in the cataloging system. Those books are: Twisted, Store-Bought Baby, The Compound, Beauty Shop for Rent, Hate List, The Hunger Games, Deadline, November Blues, Perfect, Paper Towns, Wake, Life as We Knew It, The Amber Spyglass, The Subtle Knife, Prep, Peak Linger, Shiver, If I Grow Up, The Chosen One, and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.
Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources FREE Manga Reader Manga is the Japanese comics with a unique story line and style. In Japan people of all ages read manga, it does not target younger audiences like American comics. The genre includes a broad range of subjects. Here you will ďŹ nd 1000s of free English translated manga scans to read online. www.mangareader.net Engaging Virtual Field Trip Apps & Resources Some of the resources you have seen before, but others are a great addi$on to your repertoire. These resources allow schools to explore na$onal interna$onal landmarks, see all the links and descrip$ons at E School News. The list includes: Field Trip Zoom, The Center for Interac$ve Learning & Collabora$on, The Life of Art (iPad), Smithsonian Mobile (IOS and Android), The Lascaux Cave, Sphere (IOS and Android), Museum of Science & Industry, and The White House
Shahi Visual Dic onary A visual dic$onary that combines Wiki$onary content with Flickr, Google, and Yahoo images. h)p://blachan.com/shahi/
Primary & Secondary Sources Explained by Common Cra" Common CraA videos are short, animated explanatory videos used by many teachers. They have created over 30 videos and can be followed on Twi)er at @CommonCraA. This short video explains why sources ma)er, what represents a primary source, how use them, what represents a secondary source, and how both may contribute to the best understanding. h)p://www.commoncraA.com/video/primary-and-secondary-sources Fun with Newspaper Ar cle Generator Use the free online newspaper generator to create your own ar$cle. Just upload your photo and add your text. The le)er size ar$cle can be downloaded as a pdf. h)p://www.homemade-giAs-made-easy.com/newspaper-generator.html
to
Thinking about
One of the nice things about Google Calendar is that you can add links and a)achments to your calendar events. This can be a great way to distribute materials to students and their parents. A demonstra$on can be found in the video from Prac$ce Ed Tech. h)ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hz8PRqlIAA New Add-ons for Docs Recently Google unveiled new add-ons for Docs and Sheets. Many of the add-ons are from thirty-party app creators to make features more robust like MicrosoA. Most of them are installed from Google Play and can be found in the add-on menu directly in Docs or Sheets. To read the full ar$cle and see a quick video check on the Verge website. h)p:// www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5496662/google-launchesadd-on-store-for-docs-and-sheets Edi ng Images Right In Google Slides and Drawings Slides and Drawings now make it easy to tell a story and share your ideas. And a big part of storytelling is the images you use to bring a concept to life. Now it’s even easier to get those images just right, because Slides will let you crop, apply shape masks, and add borders to your images right within your presenta$on. To crop an image, select it and click on the crop image icon in the toolbar. h)p://googledrive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/editimages-right-in-google-slides-and.html