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LFHS Library Newsletter
March, 2010
Web 2.0 in the Classroom: Weebly
Like the idea of having your students create a website to present their research but feel overwhelmed by the thought of teaching web design? Meet Weebly – a free, web-based program with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface that makes creating your very own professional-looking web site a snap!
Lesson Highlight: Contemporary Literature
One of our favorite English senior electives is Contemporary Literature, taught this year by Rick Moore and Barbara Hayes. Throughout the semester, students form reading groups, select books to read, and set up a schedule for their reading and discussions. The library gets to take part by presenting monthly booktalks to spark some interest in different types of reading materials, and YOU can take part too! If you haven’t already, think about joining one of these groups as a reading partner – it’s a ton of fun!
Our next movie selection will be Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. We’ll leave it up to the students to decide which book selection they’d like to pair with the upcoming film. Feel free to join us for the movie after school on March 12.
This month the library helped Steve Forgette’s Consumer Education class learn to use Weebly in order to present information on the process of buying a car. Working in groups, each was responsible for developing a site on a particular aspect of car buying. The sites were then put together to form one, comprehensive web resource for car shoppers. Click here to check out their progress so far!
Blockbuster Book Club: Alice in Wonderland
Just a reminder that you can now check out Flip and Kodak Video Cameras in the library. Click here for more information about reserving cameras for your next class project!
poster yourself
Flip and Kodak Video Cameras
The Social Studies Research Manual has recently been updated to reflect the newest MLA formatting changes. The library website has also beefed up its pages on citation help, especially in the areas of database citation, annotated bibliography, and using EasyBib. Click here to learn (just about!) everything you and your students need to know about the finer details of research writing.
Research Writing
In the library, March means research paper time. And when it comes to researching, we love using primary sources. Come down to the library to check out our newest display on primary source materials!
Primary Sources Display
Half Price Fines
This St. Patrick’s Day, instead of hoarding their gold like a bunch of leprechauns, we’re encouraging students to stop by the library to return their overdue books and pay their library fines. Our incentive: 50% off all fines!! (*but no discounts on lost books). Please join us in spreading the word to students. March 17th only!
