Great News @your Library

We now have 11 eBooks on our Follett Shelf. The books selected

are the 2014-2015 Gateway award nominees. They are waiting to be

consumed by our readers. Students and staff may login using a

guest user name and password that will be in the email. These

eBooks will not be “checked out” but will be accessible as long as an

internet connection is available.

The eBooks are 1 to 1 access, meaning that if someone has it open

online, then someone else can not see it at the same time.

In order to access the eBooks:

• Fern Ridge School page

• Click on Resources

• Scroll down to Fern Ridge Library

• On the left hand side you will click on Fern Ridge eBook

Collection

• Click on Follett Shelf

• Enter the username and password (located in the email)

• Voila, you have access to the eBook collection

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Contact Information

Bill Bass

Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3

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Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources

Frisbee Science Fun

On January 23, 1957, the Wham-O toy company debuted the first batch of Frisbees. To celebrate, here’s a teaching

guide from Newton’s Apple on “Frisbee Physics:” h8p://www.newtonsapple.tv/

Digital Learning Day (February 5th), presented by the Alliance for Excellent Educa;on and other na;onal

educa;onal associa;ons and organiza;ons, with ALA's American Associa;on of School Librarians (AASL) as a core

partner, calls on teachers, schools, principals, community leaders, parents and students. The event celebrates

innova;ve teaching prac;ces that make learning more personalized and engaging and encourage explora;on of how

digital learning can provide more students with more opportuni;es to get the skills they need to succeed in college,

career and life. www.digitallearningday.org

Read & Download 250 + Art Books from the Ge(y Museum

The Ge8y Museum has put more than 250 art books online for anyone to read online and or download. You can find all

of these books in the Ge8y Publica;ons Virtual Library. You can search through the collec;on by author, keyword, or

;tle. Alterna;vely, you can simply browse the collec;ons. All of the free books are also available on Google Books. This

is ideal for students who are researching ar;sts or art movements and need to consult a collec;on to find reference

materials. Another place offering free online books is the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, they have nearly 400 free art

history books.

Many of us are in different places when it comes to using Google Drive. So we will be star;ng at the beginning and

offering resources to get everyone started. What can Google Drive do for you? Use Google Drive to store and access

your files, folders, and Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides anywhere. Change a file on the web, your computer, tablet, or

your mobile device, and it updates on every device (when connected to the internet) where you’ve installed Google

Drive. You’ll always

have the latest version

of your files and Google

Docs at your finger;ps.

Read, edit, share, and

collaborate wherever

you are!

Check out h8p://

learn.googleapps.com/

drive to get an

interac;ve tour,

download guides, and

access the Drive Help

Center.

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Some New Nonfic;on Books have come to Fern Ridge!

he dead of an Arc+c winter. Whaling ships

full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three

rescuers in a race against +me — and all

odds — in this heart pounding true

adventure.

In 1897, whaling in the Arc;c waters off

Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was

lucra;ve. And in that par;cular year,

winter blasted early, bringing storms and

ice packs that caught eight American whale

ships and three hundred sailors off guard.

Their ships locked in ice, with no means of

escape, the whalers had limited provisions

on board, and li8le hope of surviving un;l

warmer temperatures arrived many

months later. Here is the incredible story

of three men sent by President McKinley to

rescue them. The mission? A perilous trek

over 1,500 miles of nearly impassable

Alaskan terrain, in the bone-chilling

months of winter, to secure two herds of

reindeer (for food) and find a way to guide

them to the whalers before they starve.

With the help of photographs and journal

entries by one of the rescuers, Mar;n W.

Sandler takes us on every step of their

rive;ng journey, facing raging blizzards,

killing cold, injured sled dogs, and setbacks

to test the strongest of wills.

When Osama bin Laden was assassi-

nated, the en;re world was fascinated

by the men who had completed the

seemingly impossible mission that had

dogged the U.S. government for over a

decade. SEAL Team 6 became synony-

mous with heroism, duty, and jus;ce.

Only a handful of the elite men who

make up the SEALs, the US Navy's best

and bravest, survive the legendary and

grueling selec;on process that leads to

becoming a member of Team 6, a

group so classified it technically does

not even exist. There are no be8er

warriors on Earth.

Don Mann knows what it takes to be a

brother in this ultra-selec;ve fraterni-

ty. As a member of Seal Team Six for

over eight years and a SEAL for over

seventeen years, he worked in count-

less covert opera;ons, opera;ng from

land, sea, and air, and facing shoo;ngs,

decapita;ons, and stabbings. He was

captured by the enemy and lived to

tell the tale, and he par;cipated in

highly classified missions all over the

globe, including Somalia, Panama, El

Salvador, Colombia, Afghanistan, and

Iraq. As a coordinator for several civil-

ian SEAL training programs, and as a

former Training Officer of SEAL Team

Six, he was directly responsible for

shaping the bodies and minds of SEALs

who carried out the assassina;on of

Osama bin Laden.

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"King, there is only one thing le� for you

to do. You know what it is. . . . You

be�er take it before your filthy, abnor-

mal, fraudulent self is bared to the na-

�on." Dr. Mar;n Luther King received this

demand in an anonymous le8er in

1964. He believed that the le8er was

telling him to commit suicide. Who

wrote this anonymous le8er? The FBI.

And the man behind it all was J. Edgar

Hoover, the FBI's first director. In this

unsparing explora;on of one of the

most powerful Americans of the twen;-

eth century, accomplished historian

Marc Aronson unmasks the man behind

the Bureau- his tangled family history

and personal rela;onships; his own

need for secrecy, deceit, and control;

and the broad trends in American socie-

ty that shaped his world. Hoover may

have given America the securi-

ty it wanted, but the secrets he knew

gave him

— and the Bureau — all the pow-

er he wanted. Using photographs, car-

toons, movie posters, and FBI tran-

scripts, Master of Deceit gives readers

the necessary evidence to make their

own conclusions. Here is a book about

the twen;eth century that blazes with

ques;ons and insights about our choic-

es in the twenty-first.