Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Teen Leaning 2.0

Hello everyone, and welcome to another school year!  Here is a very useful Website that will help you learn how to use a variety of Web tools to use for your classes or just for fun: Teen Learning 2.0.  Through its tutorials you will learn about blogging, making avatars, animations, digital citizenship and much more.  This site was created by California School Library Association.  Enjoy it!



http://teenlearning.csla.net/


Thursday, April 8, 2010

Mashpedia, The Real-time Encyclopedia

Not a search engine, not wikipedia... way beyond it!  In their own words:
"Mashpedia is an effective medium to find digital content and information about specific themes, providing a didactive and intuitive way of learning. For every topic you get a basic definition, the latest related news, videos, images, twitter messages and relevant links."

Worth trying it for your school projects!

Friday, March 26, 2010

Did you know the library also has some cool audio books?

If you like listening to audio books, you should check these new titles that just arrived in the library!
  • The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. Volume II: The kingdom on the waves
  • Curse of the blue tattoo being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman and fine lady
  • Elijah of Buxton
  • Going bovine
  • Life as we knew it
  • Marcelo in the real world
  • Shakespeare's greatest hits. Volume I


Cover images provided by Follett TitlePeek