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Virtual Library: http://springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com
Springfield Township HS Library, 1801 East Paper Mill Road | 215-233-6030 X. 2502 | http://springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com
LIBRARY REPORTFeb. 2012
Big, Big Library News! Coming soon, a media production space!
A generous grant from an anonymous donor will allow us to set up a fabulous multimedia production lab in the reference area of our library. The lab will feature new Mac desktops, a green screen, drawing tablets, café-‐style seating, and a laptop charging/using counter, and more. It will be available for independent student use as well as class bookings. We’ll be looking for student volunteers (with study halls) to help staff the area.
Our Library is an app. (well, actually a mobile site)Our new practicum student, Kathie Jackson, and I have been working on creating a library mobile app. Students should be able to easily access library resources easily on their iPads, iPhones, and others mobile platforms.
We’re still working out a few bugs, but for now, just visit: http://sdst.libguides.com/mobile/1552 to open the mobile site.
Volume 12 Issue 2
S P R I N G F I E L D T O W N S H I P :
HIGH SCHOOL L IBRARY
1 8 0 1 E P a p e r M i l l R o a d
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T E L E P H O N E215-233-6030 X 2502F A C S I M I L E215-836-5237
Books and book clubs!
Coming soon: a community-‐wide One-‐Book-‐One SpringQield (OBOS) discussion featuring author Len Miller. The discussion of Silent Thunder: Breaking Through Cultural, Racial, and Class Barriers in Motorsports takes place on Wednesday, March 14 at 7:00 PM and will be led by Voices of Excellence students.
In collaboration with the Retina, OBOS is planning a spring Family Film Night at the Ambler Theater. Proceeds will beneQit Retina and the James Taylor Scholarship. The event is scheduled for Monday night, March 26th. The title of the Qilm will be announced shortly.
Andy Dippell and BethAnn Olesen have volunteered to lead the May 16th discussion of Dave Eggers bestseller Zeitoun:
the true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Join us on the evening of May 16th for this community-‐wide OBOS discussion.
This year our student Book Club has become somewhat virtual. Yes, we continue to host face-‐to-‐face meetings, but we also connect with Qive other high school book clubs around the country via Skype and Google Hangouts. Our last discussion was a comparison of The Invention of Hugo Cabret with the new Qilm Hugo with clubs from California, Connecticut and Oregon. Our next discussion is John Green’s new novel, The Fault in our Stars.
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Author James Kennedy The Order of the Odd-‐Fish, will be visiting with our Book Club and our Creative Writing class face-‐to-‐face on April 11th. (A big thanks to our PTA for the mini-‐grant!) We also look forward to a virtual visit from really popular YA author Libba Bray, who has promised to join us through Skype when we discuss her latest book, Beauty Queens.
Kindles to go!Thanks to last year’s PTA Mini-‐Grant, we have three Kindles, packed with most of the titles on our reading and lit circle lists, as well as lots of classics and popular titles. Your students are welcome to borrow them. We also have a little money left on our PTA-‐funded Amazon gift card so we can add titles you suggest. (See the current list of titles on the last page of this report.)
Build your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) and attend our workshop!Over the couple of years, I’ve learned about some great new ways to learn and grow thanks largely to social networking. I recently built a LibGuide for our District Professional Development Committee. You can Qind it easily as a tab on our Guide for Teachers. The new PLN Guide includes: lists of educational hashtags for quickly accessing relevant Twitter discussions and regularly scheduled chats, and a list of online communities of practice for educators. But if you want a more personal PLN building experience . . .
Ken Rodoff and I will present an after-‐school workshop on PLNs.
What: Building a Professional Learning Network - A how-to hands-on experienceWhen: Monday, February 27, 3:00PM - 4:00PMWhere: High School LibraryDetails: Build a powerful network of colleagues without leaving your laptop. Learn how to leverage Twitter (Yes, Twitter!), Skype, curation tools, webinars, & online professional networks to inform and inspire your practice. Bring your laptop to this heavily hands-on opportunity.
Need help guiding your students with a papers or projects?
Remember that our Research Guide (http://sdst.libguides.com/researchtools) offers support for documentation, thesis development, communication strategies, and much more. If your students are in a Google rut, please remind him or her that our subscription Database Guide (http://sdst.libguides.com/databases) is the online portal to a rich collection of curricular/academic resources and media. These resources represent the type of content students will be expected to reference at the university level. Also check out our recently revised Current Events Guide(http://sdst.libguides.com/currentevents) with its links to major news feeds and news sources from around the world.
If you need help developing any instruction or supporting student inquiry and communication, we can plan together. I am so happy to help you develop lessons and to work with you to create new guides. Some guides of interest for teachers include: Rubrics, Teacher Tools, Teaching Portals, and e-‐Curricula and Texts.
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Springfield Township HS Library, 1801 East Paper Mill Road | 215-233-6030 X. 2502 | http://springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com
Databases update:
When EBSCO and Wilson merged recently, we experienced a bit of database shift. I am currently updating the links, but here is a list of the current EBSCO titles:• EBSCOhost
• Business Abstracts with FullText
• Education Fulltext
• General Science Fulltext
• GreenFile (Environmental resources)
• Humanities Fulltext
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• OmniFile Fulltext Mega
• OmniFile Fulltext Select
• Readers' Guide Fulltext Mega
• Readers' Guide Fulltext Select
• Social Science Fulltext
• Teacher Reference Center
New TitlesWe just received Gale’s
C r i t i c a l C o m p a n i o n :
Feminism in Literature, a six-volume set, exploring the history of women and
feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern
times.
Information Plus!
Just in are the 2011 volumes of Gale’s Information Plus series, jam-packed with statistics about
important social issues, featuring such titles as:
• The American Economy• Child Abuse and Domestic Violence• Electronic America• Energy• Gambling• Gun Control• The Health Care System• National Security• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs• Animal Rights• Crime, Prisons, and Jails• Genetics and Genetic Engineering• Growing Up• Immigration and Illegal Aliens• Social Welfare• Water
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Springfield Township HS Library, 1801 East Paper Mill Road | 215-233-6030 X. 2502 | http://springfieldlibrary.wikispaces.com
Tech News you May Have Missed
Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) the computational search tool we already love, recently launched i t s Wo l f r a m E d u c a t i o n P o r t a l ( h t t p : / /education.wolfram.com/) with highly interactive texts for the high school classroom. The site now offers algebra and calculus, but there’s more to come. For more e-texts, see our e-Curriculum Pathfinder (http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/joycevalenza/350887) which includes Wolfram’s multidisciplinary source, CK-12 (http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/).
instaGrok (http://instagrok.com) still in beta, is a
search tool designed for students. It is a useful place
to begin a search and to gather context and new vocabulary. It offers users the following features:
• retrieves materials in multiple formats• filters out non-educational content• determines difficulty levels• incorporates a rating system
• identifies important concepts• generates interactive visual concept maps similar to
Google’s now defunct WonderWheel• Defines terminology with examples of use in context
Quixey
(http://www.quixey.com/) is a search tool designed to help people easily find apps simply by function--by describing what they want to do.
APPitic (http://appitic.com/) is a collection of 1300+ apps for education organized by theme, Bloom’s taxonomy, multiple intelligences and special ed needs. Apps are selected by Apple Distinguished Educators.
iWitness
http://iwitness.usc.edu/SFI/
Imagine that you could have 1,000 survivors in your classroom . . .
The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation recently launched the BETA version of a truly important gift–a searchable, interactive archive of more than 1000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.It is a creatively designed, Common Core standards-aligned portal for instruction. And if they register, students and educators have permission to make derivative works using the editing tools provided on the site.
The King Center in Atlanta recently launched the King Center Archive, (http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive) making available thousands of never-before-seen documents and images connected to Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement.
This year, the JFK Presidential Library http://www.jfklibrary.org/released a great number of primary source documents including the final White House recordings secretly taped during President Kennedy’s time in office.
This one is not new, but it is cool. Looking for a secure social learning environment for your classes? Give Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com/) a try. The tool features:
• A safe environment for differentiating instruction with one-to-one or whole group communication.
• An anytime, anywhere mobile learning environment with smartphone apps and mobile site.
• Easy access to projects, classwork and school events through assignments, quiz builder, calendar and gradebook features.
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Scenes from the library:
Remember, your laptops can travel. I’d love to work more closely with laptop classrooms. We welcome your learners and your laptops into the Library to use our services, our wireless, our books, and our lovely learning spaces! Hope to see you and
your classes soon!
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