SAGE Library News
October 7, 2014
SAGE Library News is the newsletter of the school library at Newbury Park High School. I hope you find the information useful. I suggest that you right-click on the links and choose "open link in new tab" so that you can get back to the newsletter easily.
-- Sue Heraper, NPHS Teacher Librarian
School Libraries at the Core
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Shivers
Emily Carroll invites readers to take a walk Through the Woods and into a frightening and fascinating realm. This gripping graphic novel presents five terrifying tales that flicker with folkloric elements, classic horror tropes, and unwholesome twists of fate. Set in various time periods and locales, the vignettes all feature protagonists alienated from those around them by circumstances, making their perspectives all the more insular and unsettling.Stranded in their snowbound home, a middle sibling watches helplessly as her two sisters are taken away by a mysterious stranger with “a wide-brimmed hat” and teeth-filled smile; a lonely young bride hears a ghastly song emanating the walls and digs up the shocking truth about her husband’s first wife; an introverted girl suspects that there is something hideous and heinous hiding beneath the skin of her brother’s beautiful fiancée.
Study Ties College Success to Students’ Exposure to a High School Librarian
A recent study shows that the training students receive before college can be more crucial than what happens during their university years. Being prepared as early as their high school freshman year had a positive impact on the higher education experience, and when training happened in a partnership with a teacher and a school librarian, the impact was even greater.
Social Media Can be as Valuable as Pencils in the Classroom
When Students Get Creative With Tech Tools, Teachers Focus on Skills
3 things every teacher should be doing with web 2.0 tools
Web 2.0 technology — the free digital tools that empower all users to create and share — has changed the way the world operates. In the hands of educators, it can become a powerful catalyst for changing the way students learn. Lynne Schrum, co-author of Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools and its companion guide,Web 2.0 How-To for Educators highlights three critical opportunities web 2.0 tools offer for educators.
Anatomy of a Google Search
Anatomy of a Search is a free downloadable one page PDF that explains how Google search works. I think this is a great material to use with students in class to teach them how Google search works. Knowing the parameters Google draws on to rank web pages and select relevant content for search queries will definitely help students improve their search techniques and enable them to tap into its full potential. Download this short PDF and share it with your students.
Tuesday Tech Tip: VideoNot.es
VideoNotes allows students to view YouTube, Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edX, and Vimeo videos and take notes as they watch. The notes are automatically synchronized with a position in the film, allowing them to jump back to that film position later. The video/notes file automatically saves to Google Drive and can then be shared for viewing or collaborative notetaking. Other features include playing the video at faster or slower speeds, inserting snapshots from the film in the notes, and incorporating more than one video into a note file.
Use this for flipped classroom video assignments, having students take notes as they watch, and share the notes with you to demonstrate completion of the assigned material.
Gold Coast CUE Event
- What: Fall Tech Expo & Workshop
- Where: Conference & Educational Services Center, 5100 Adolfo Rd, Camarillo, CA
- When: Saturday, October 11, 9 am - 3 pm
- How much: $35 CUE/$75 Non CUE Member
SAGE Library
Email: sheraper@conejousd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sagelibrary/
Location: 456 N. Reino Rd. Newbury Park, CA 91320
Phone: (805) 498-3676
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