SecondaryLibaries


 * Get to know your Librarian!**


 * [|Julie Parmer] - Tivy High School ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Melanie Huckaby] - Hal Peterson Middle School ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Sandra West] - BT Wilson 6th Grade Campus ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Campus Library Resources:

[|Tivy High School] [|Hal Peterson Middle School] [|BT Wilson 6th Grade Campus]

Local Public Library Links** [|Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library] – Kerrville, Texas

[|ALA Great Web Sites for Kids]
 * Resources for Elementary Libraries:**

[|Best Books for Young Adults 2009] [|Best Books for Young Adults 2008] [|Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2009] [|Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2008] [|Book Trailers] [|Romantic books]
 * Looking for the perfect book?**

[|Backgrounds, fonts, and graphics:] [|Backgrounds, fonts, graphics and wallpaper:] [|Clipart for educators:] [|Microsoft Design Gallery:] [|Copyright free stock photos] to use in Webpages, presentations, etc: [|Free online Office Suite:] [|Free 1 GB of online storage space:] [|PDF Convertor]
 * Technology/graphics/clipart:**

[|ikeepbookmarks.com] [|Delicious]
 * Keep up with your favorite bookmarks on the web:**

This website will convert nearly anything! If you have different versions of Office tools at home, but not at school, this is a definitive website for conversions. Upload your doc, audio, movie, and it will email you the file in a converted form. [|www.zamzar.com]

Need some help finding digital images to use in a project but not sure about copyright? Check out this website that will help you find images and sounds. Share your work with others to keep the love going! [] [|http://www.wikimedia.org]

READING LISTS:


 * Web 2.0 -- share online!**

This is a new online word processor that allows multiple authors to collaborate on one project. You can access your docs online without having to send as an attachment in email and send back and forth. You can add lists, see who's working online right now, add images...great and free!! [|http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/]

Store you documents online and never lose another jump drive again! [|Google docs] [|Need to store a powerpoint]

[|Homework links] for most curricular areas, including computer science, English, foreign languages and math [|Reference Desk] [|Easy Bibliography] - Works Cited website for MLA documentation [|High School Ace]
 * Homework help:**

Online e-books of classics! Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

Reference help: A website with searches of familiar quotations, phrases and proverbs Government website with information about population, housing, economics and geographic information on the United States: Essential reference tools including calculators and conversion tables, almanacs, dictionaries and thesauri, maps, and style and writing guides CIA World Factbook This site, updated every year, is one of the most authoritative sites on the numerous countries of the world. It provides easy point-and-click searching and browsing: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ Free online dictionary Free online thesaurus COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: For teachers: Copyright Information for Teachers • Can I print information from the Internet for use in my classroom?

If you are using one of the school's databases (NewsBank or Worldbook, for example) you may print articles to use with your students. If you are on the Internet, you must check the site for copyright information (usually found at the bottom of the page under copyright, visitor agreement, usage information, etc.) or ask your librarian. • Can I download pictures to use in my classroom?

If you are using United Streaming or another one of the school's databases, you may do a search for pictures and copy or print them for use at school. Again, if you are on the Internet, you must check the site for copyright information. Check the student page for links to safe sites. • Can I download pictures to put on my Web site or on a school wiki? Putting pictures up on the internet is not the same as printing for a class project. Since anyone can access the sites, much stricter guidelines apply. You must get permission from the author before posting any picture on the internet. • Can I show commercial movies in my classroom?

You may show short clips of movies for educational purposes. Videos from United Streaming may be shown in their entirety. Showing an entire movie (for example, as a reward) is not permitted.

Click on the links below for relevant Links. For students: Copyright Information for Students Can I copy and paste information I find on the Internet and the databases into my school project? You should be reading information and putting it into your own words to show what you have learned. Sometimes, you will find a sentence or two that you want to use exactly as it is written. In that case, you should put those sentences in "quotation marks" and tell who wrote it. Can I copy and paste pictures that I find on the Internet into my school project? If you are using school databases, such as United Streaming, Worldbook, or Britannica you may do a search for pictures and copy or print them for your project. If you are on the Internet, you should not copy or print any pictures unless the site specifically says you may. The bottom of this page has links to some sites Ms. Foley has found that will allow you to use the pictures. Can I use music from home for a podcast? Since our podcasts go up on the internet for anyone to hear, we can not use anyone's music without their permission. Go to Free Play Music (the last link on the bottom of this page) to get music for podcasts. Click on the links below for relevant Links. For parents: Copyright Information for Parents How can I help my children do research?

The library is a great place to start. Your public or school librarian can show you resources that are age appropriate for your children and provide you with passwords to access subscription databases online.

How much help is too much?

Once your children have gotten the information, have them tell you what they learned. This will help them put the information into their own words and not plagarize. Discussing the topic together will give them a greater understanding as well.

How can I help my children get pictures for their school projects?

Check out the Copyright Information for Students page. Search Engines: []

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Reading Rants Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists

Wired for Youth Miscellaneous Free eBooks for your PDA!! This site contains more than 10,000 eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, or Symbian cellphone. When eBooks are added to the site they're listed on the Recent Additions page. http://www.manybooks.net/ At the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at the Stanford University Web site, you can watch things being built, such as cars, candies and clothes and crayons. Crank up the virtual tour and watch a Boeing 777 being built from scratch. It takes seven minutes--on film. Included is a neat clip of some Rosie the Riveter during wartime. Since these are downloaded, you might want to try it at home. http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/%20 This website lets you put pictures, from Flickr (to store, search, sort and share your photos online: http://www.flickr.com/ or from your computer, into billboards, magazine covers, movie posters, badges, calendars, and a whole lot more. http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/

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K-12 Online Databases – username and password available from librarian



Can we somehow put a link to a positive/motivational quote of the day???

I want the background to be a corkboard where you can place sticky notes and stuff:

http://goinside.com/98/7/cboard.html