Updates @your Library

• Check out the eBooks on the Fern Ridge library page. Students and

staff can browse the selection and read with either a guest or personal

username password. If you are interested let me know and I will get

you started.

• On the Fern Ridge Library webpage you will find a link to reserve the library

space. Once on the calendar, you will be able to reserve a #me. Click on

the date you would like, enter your last name and #me in which you want

to be in the library. Be sure to select the FR Library Sign Up calendar in the

drop down op#ons and click the Create Event bu&on when you are

finished. The event can be edited or deleted should you need to cancel or

have a #me conflict.

• I am currently going though all the books at Fern to iden#fy the Gateway

Award books da#ng back to 2003! If funds become available I will be

comple#ng those collec#ons and working on the acquiring more of the

summer reading list books.

• REMINDER: f a student would like a book, please be sure they write down

their first and last name and the book #tle, so that I can manually add it to

the check-out system.

Looking through the library door last week and Fern. Teacher were being video

taped by students. Love to see the library being used as a community space!

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Contact Information

Bill Bass

Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3

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“In a good

bookroom you feel

in some mysterious

way that you are

absorbing the

wisdom contained

in all the books

through your skin,

without even

opening them.”

~ Mark Twain

Highlighted & Underlined Technology, Research, and Learning Resources

What Should I Read Next?

Thoughtplay Ltd. has created a website to give sugges#ons for books you might like to

read. Simply put in the #tle of a book you recently read and find other #tles that you

might like to read. To search their database go towww.whatshouldireadnext.com.

20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online

Open Culture, the cultural and educa#onal media website posted last

week that the New York Public Library now has 20,000 Hi-res maps

online and they made them free to download and use. No copy right

restricts, all are ready to use under the create commons license. Read

the ar#cle through Open Culture and visit the NYPL to get started.

Comics in Educa on is a website run by Dr. Glen Downey for the

purpose of sharing ac#vi#es and ideas for using comics and

graphic novels in literacy educa#on. Head to the classroom sec#on

of the site to find five literacy skills development ac#vi#es that can

be completed online or offline. Those ac#vi#es include wordless

narra#ves, graphic poetry, cave art, visual note-taking, and

symbolic language in words and images. In the classroom sec#on

you will also find curriculum connec#ons and explana#ons of the

ra#onale for using comics with all students. h&p://

www.comicsineduca#on.com/

5 Top Educa onal Apps for Middle School Teachers

The blog, Lesson From the Middle (Krystal Mills), has some sugges#ons for integra#ng

technology in the classroom. These sugges#ons are great for the CTA ini#a#ve and

most are free! Apps discussed are Science Glossary (comprehensive glossary of

scien#fic terms), GoSkyWatch Planetarium ($3.99—200 hi-res images of planets and

deep sky objects), Mental Maths by Maths Doctor (offers mul#ple methods through

which students can expand their mathema#cal knowledge), History: Maps of the World

(historical & geographical knowledge), Grammar Girl: English Grammar Podcasts on

your iPhone (gramma#cal accuracy and impart helpful wri#ng #ps).

Image Search + Text

From Prac#cal Ed Tech Tip (Free Technology for Teachers), the YouTube video describes

how to upload an image and use text to refine your image search. This allows you to

search for other images that are similar to it.

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4 Advanced Search Operators to Help Find Elusive Google Drive Files

A lot of the value of Google Drive comes from how quickly we can iden#fy and access

exactly what we're looking for. While crea#ng a folder structure can serve as a great

founda#on to Drive, we've found that many people fail to maintain these folders, mak-

ing search a much more efficient op#on. Some of those operators are:

• #tle: – search by the file’s #tle (group phrases in quota#on marks)

• owner: – search according to who owns the item (works best with owner:email address)

• type: – search by the file type (this covers: document, spreadsheet, presenta#on, drawing, image, video, im-

age_or_video, pdf, and textdoc)

• is:starred – search items that you’ve marked with a star

Watch the YouTube video to get started today!

5 Tips to Turn Yourself into a Google Drive Gooru

As we jump into Google Apps you are hopefully excited about Google Drive. Many of us are already very happy with

it from the perspec#ve of accessing important informa#on and collabora#ng with others, but there are probably

many ques#ons that you s#ll need answered. The videos on this page will help you with transi#oning from MicrosoM

Office (which was a newsle&er feature a couple of weeks ago), Accessing Google Drive Offline, Customize Google

Drive with Drive Apps, Adding your Shared Files to MY Drive in Google Drive (this one is really good), and Keep Track

of all the Changes in Google Drive with the New Ac#vity Stream (www.googlegooru.com).

Student Opportunities

Epic Yearbook Photo Contest

Get your photography class to enter! Digital Wish is running a yearbook photo

contest and entries are due May 5, 2014, on Cinco de Mayo. They will give away

three Olympus digital yearbook cameras, as well as an iPad. Just simply enter

the contest by uploading your photo to our photo contest website h&p://

www.digitalwish.org/contest.