HSS Library eBulletin
Information and Resources for the Staff of Hope Secondary
April/May 2013
Staff "Check it out and Win!" Winners
Stormbreaker
We now have this novel in a variety of forms - novel, graphic novel, dvd, and audio cd. Have another favourite that you do every year? - we can search for the same options for that novel too.
Novel Study?
Novel studies can go beyond the English classroom. Here is a collection of books that Social Justice students will choose from for a novel study in fourth term. We have lots of novels that have science themes and historical settings. Something to consider for an individual inquiry project perhaps? I remember reading QB7, by Leon Uris in History 12 - how do novels portray history? science? sports?
Magazines
The library still subscribes to a variety of print magazines. Magazines can be signed out of the library just like other materials.
This month's TECH TIP!
- Open Firefox
- Go to Tools --- Add-ons
- Search for "Easy YouTube Video Downloader"
- Click "Install"
- go to YouTube - when you select a video you will now see a "Download" button
Watch this video - "How To Download Videos from YouTube" - for visual step-by-step instructions. Remember to check "about this video" to be sure your video is part of the "Creative Commons" and downloading is permitted.
Adding to our collection
- 507.8/Har - Blast Lab: More than 30 Mind-Blasting Experiments!
- 551.6/Woo - Climate Change
- 330/Goo - Exonomix: How our Economy Works (and doesn't work) - graphic non-fiction
- 971.131/Law - Adventures in Solitude: What not to wear to a nude potluck and other stories from Desolation Sound
- Microserfs, Eleanor Rigby, and Hey Nostradamus, by Douglas Coupland
- The Red House, by Mark Haddon (author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time)
- The Host, by Stephenie Meyer
- Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
- One in Every Crowd, by Ivan E. Coyote
Found it on Twitter
- art project using recycled materials and shadows - click HERE
- Jackie Robinson: Remembering Number 42 with Primary Sources - teaching with the Library of Congress
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Infographic: “The World As 100 People” - great math, social studies, planning uses for this infographic
- The Lego-ism of Teams
- How to Erase Your Data from an Old Computer or Phone - we can't just throw it all in the shredder any more...