Story Time organized by Middle School students. Great initiative!

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/



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!

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

7 En MI Book Trailers: Read this Book!

The MYP 2 students (7En MI) worked hard on their recommendations of good books.  Enjoy their book trailers!

By Anna T.



By Rakel S.
GoAnimate.com: Marked by Sweetmoore

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

By Sofia P.
GoAnimate.com: Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants-Book Trailer by bubblegum07

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

By Aly K.
GoAnimate.com: Thirteen Reasons Why by aly1

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

By James P.
GoAnimate.com: james007p's Animation by james007p

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

By Lara D.
GoAnimate.com: Book Commercial by Piggles710


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

MYP 2 (7 En T) Book Trailers: Read this Book!

Here are some books that MYP 2 students find worth reading!  Here are their book trailers:

By Elizabeth L.
GoAnimate.com: Brisingr by Elizabeth Lam


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

By Noa D.
GoAnimate.com: cgh by redrecorder


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

7En NG Book Trailers - Read this Book!

The MYP 2 students (7 En Nic Giolla) worked hard on their library project to recommend some books for you.  See their book trailers!

By Yulia D.
GoAnimate.com: HUGO CABRET 7D library by yd




By Junaid Z.


By Emily Y.
GoAnimate.com: Fudge-a-mania by farie




By Georg L.
GoAnimate.com: libery pro by Georgl




By Sung H.
GoAnimate.com: don quixote by SungHyun




By Juyoung
GoAnimate.com: airhead book trailer by pinkypoo97




By Laura H.
GoAnimate.com: In her shoes. by Laurahh




By Sonja
GoAnimate.com: Teen idol..............i hope final by Sonjabonja




By Sirin
GoAnimate.com: Kati by sirintang




By Yeong
GoAnimate.com: english by yeong

Li

By Tosia
GoAnimate.com: Judy Blume- Are you there, God? It's me Margaret. by shishobella




By Daniela
GoAnimate.com: The mediator Shadowland by Meg Cabot by dani mauni


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Amazing Authors! MYP 1

Here are some sites to help you finding information about the author you chose for the booklet project.

Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Children's Book Wiki
Kids Read

Speaking about amazing authors, have you read any books by
Amy MacDonald ?  She is the author of Little Beaver and the Echo, Please, Malese!, No More Nasty, Too Much Flapdoodle, and many more.

She will be visiting CIS on 19 and 20 November!

Check her website: http://www.amymacdonald.com/ . 

Her books are available in the library. Check them out!

 

Read this Book! MYP 2

The Project:
Your task is to persuade the audience to read a book that you have read recently. You are to create a book trailer with duration of 3 minutes (max.), and post the book trailers on this blog. Check the assignment handed to you for more details and deadlines.
Some useful tools to create the book trailers are:
http://www.animoto.com/
http://www.goanimate.com/
http://www.animasher.com/
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ (for music)
http://creativecommons.org/ (watch the video on the homepage!)
I-Movie
Windows Movie Maker (see instructions here)

For some good examples of books trailers, check
Pettus Elementary Library Blog.


Watch The Graveyard Book trailer narrated by Neil Gaiman, the author.