Windham High School Library April 2018 Newsletter |
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This month's newsletter contains featured lessons, available teacher resources, useful links, information about an upcoming event, and much more. Don't forget that you can now "Book Us!" Just go to the homepage of the library's website and select Amy, Kristin, or "No Preference." Click on the image above for access. |
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Teacher Resource of the Month Google Expeditions |
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Google Expeditions is a virtual-reality teaching tool. You can swim with sharks, visit outer space, walk through a museum, and more without leaving the classroom. There are close to 500 expeditions available and more in development. Please contact Natalie Skovran to set up a class tour. Click on the Learn More button above to learn how you can use this new feature in your classes! |
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Content-specific Ideas Math: Expedition = Bridges of Great Britain Lesson = How does shape affect how well a material performs? Science: Expedition = Inside a Fusion Reactor Category = Physics Art: Expedition = Ancient Greek Art, European Street Art, Masterpieces of 19th-Century Art |
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This month's featured lesson involves a resource we find useful for keeping students organized when doing research projects. NoodleTools is a software program that allows students to create projects that can be shared with teachers. This allows teachers to track the progress of their students' work throughout the research process. Once complete, Works Cited lists can be easily created by sending to Google Docs or Word. NoodleTools does all the work! Click on the button below for access to the educator's webpage of NoodleTools. |
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New NoodleTools Features! NoodleTools Express works just like EasyBib or Citation Machine, just better. The citations it creates are far more accurate than any other citation-creation software available on the open web. NoodleTools and Gale now work together! When students find sources for their papers or projects they can now easily and seemlessly export the citations directly to NoodleTools. Click on the image above for a product overview. |
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We can come into your classroom to get you and your students started and to explain the ins and outs of using NoodleTools. Stop by the library or Book Us for more information! |
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The Essex Serpent "Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890s, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at its heart the story of two extraordinary people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way. They are Cora Seaborne and Will Ransome. Cora is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of Aldwinter, and Will is the local vicar. They meet as their village is engulfed by rumours that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming human lives, has returned. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist is enthralled, convinced the beast may be a real undiscovered species. But Will sees his parishioners' agitation as a moral panic, a deviation from true faith. Although they can agree on absolutely nothing, as the seasons turn around them in this quiet corner of England, they find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart. Told with exquisite grace and intelligence, this novel is most of all a celebration of love and the many different guises it can take." -Goodreads Click on the image to the left for access to the ebook. (Reminder: Login is your Personal ID # which you can find in Infinite Campus.) Click on the button below for access to a book review. | | |
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"Al Capone and the Prohibition" "On January 16, 1920, the 18th amendment to the United States Constitution comes into force, one year after its ratification. All sale, production, and transport of alcohol are henceforward forbidden in the entire territory of America. It's the start of Prohibition. Several criminals grab the opportunity to create veritable empires by means of contraband liquor. Al Capone is certainly the most infamous among them." -CVOD Click on the image to the right for access to this video. Click on the button below for access to other videos about the prohibition. Reminder: username= windham-hs password= eagles | | |
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Click on the button below to see the new titles added in March to Classroom Video on Demand! |
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Google Augmented Reality (AR) |
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Google Expeditions will be bringing their Augmented Reality (AR) tour to Windham High School on April 24th. We are excited to have been chosen for a visit and are now accepting teacher requests for their classes to participate! If you choose to bring your class(es) to experience Google AR, please sign up for a 30-minute time block by clicking the button below. During your class's session, you will get to lead your students through two “tours.” The tours are lessons such as "A Closer Look at Volcanoes," "The Circulatory System," and "The World of Ancient Rome." A full listing of the 60 tour choices can be viewed by clicking on the image above. All of the sessions will take place in the high school auditorium and there will be separate spaces for two sessions to run concurrently. One important note is that all teachers who participate must attend mandatory training from 6:50-7:10 am on the morning of the visit. |
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Below are the selections for the next Staff Book Club. Our next meeting is April 24th so please join us! There is plenty of time to read the books over vacation so stop by the library and check them out! |
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| | Click on the book cover above for access to the Dave Cullen's website where you can read all about his experience writing the book. There are also teacher resources and other interesting webpages worth checking out. "10 Years in the Making: I arrived at Columbine the first hour of the shooting, and spent ten years on this book. I was driven by two questions: why did they do it, and what became of the survivors? My surprise was that most of what we "know" about Columbine was wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths or the Trench Coat Mafia. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold didn't even envision a school shooting. They ridiculed school shooters as losers. Eric built his bombs to dwarf Oklahoma City. They planned to mow down survivors fleeing the the burning rubble for "fun." And it would end with more bombs. The key to comprehending Columbine is letting go of our concept of "the killers." Spend a few pages with Dylan and Eric, and you'll discover two starkly disparate boys. Their motives and personalities were poles apart. Eric Harris was monstrous; Dylan Klebold was loving but bitterly angry inside — a tender boy torn apart. Dylan was truly a revelation." | | |
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| | Click on the book cover above to watch the movie trailer. "The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry. Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails." -Goodreads | | |
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New Library Sign-in System! |
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Due to the myriad issues we've had with students signing out from study hall and failing to appear in the library, we've decided to implement a new electronic pass system. Students will now be required to request a digital pass prior to their study hall. Study hall teachers will be able to approve or deny the digital pass as they see fit. The student instructions will be sent out via the Advisory Google Classroom. Click on the image above to access the sign-in system. Click on the buttons below for access to the instructions. Students will still need their IDs to sign in to the library! |
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Need help with citations? We have a webpage that has all the resources you need to help students with citatations. Click on the image to the left for access to the MLA Style Center website. Click on the button below to access our MLA8 webpage. If you need more help, contact Amy or Kristin! | | |
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