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“Web pages, tools, videos and ideas that I use to improve and promote our school library.”
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readingnow.wordpress.com - September 24, 2011 1:04 AM

Fiction is like a box of chocolates

Fiction is like a box of chocolates is the fiction blog for our school library. We use this to promote reading, new books, student articles and reviews on movies and games submitted by students. 

 

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learning.blogs.nytimes.com - May 21, 8:58 PM

Beyond the Book Report: Ways to Respond to Literature Using New York Times Models

Some alternatives to that classic classroom assignment, the book report, all inspired by an article, essay, blog post, illustration, interview or work of multimedia in The New York Times.
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www.flavorwire.com - May 21, 2:26 AM

10 YA Books That Scarred Us For Life « Flavorwire

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www.bleedingcool.com - April 21, 11:54 PM

Reading With Josh Elder

"Josh Elder wants kids to read comics in school.
Kids want to read them in school too."

 

We have lots of graphic novels and comics in our school library and it is always good to read about what is happening else where.

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www.youtube.com - March 30, 11:12 PM

The Power of Simple Words

Long, fancy words designed to show off your intelligence and vocabulary are all very well, but they aren't always the best words. In this short, playful vide...
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librarycloud.blogspot.com.au - March 12, 12:21 AM

Library Cloud: Summertime in the IRC

Looking at ideas to use QR codes in our library. Tricky as our students are not allowed to have their phones on during the day. But love this idea.

 

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www.fontspace.com - March 1, 10:50 PM

Popular free fonts - FontSpace

The hottest, most popular free fonts for Windows and Mac to download...

 

I know more fonts ....love them all.

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studiowhiz.com - March 1, 10:01 PM

23 amazing free modern clean sans serif fonts for designers on studiowhiz.com

Studiowhiz presents 23 free sans serif fonts for designers that are clean, modern and amazingly fresh...

 

These are really nice fonts clean and impressive

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www.fontsquirrel.com - March 1, 9:54 PM

Font Squirrel | Calligraphic Free Fonts

This page lists the free fonts in the Font Squirrel library by category.

 

Can never have enough fonts can make the difference between an OK poster/brochure and a great poster/brochure.

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www.fawnt.com - March 1, 9:47 PM

Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign

Top Free Fonts in just one look. DonŽt waste time, choose a nice font for best design.

 

Always looking for great fonts to use on our posters and brochures we make for the library

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www.youtube.com - February 29, 3:53 AM

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.Morris Lessmore (2011)...

Great video to show on our screen in the library and all the better that it features books and won an Oscar.

 

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blog.sfgate.com - February 21, 5:13 AM

The best children’s books ever | The Mommy Files | an SFGate.com blog

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www.youtube.com - December 10, 2011 3:17 AM

Like father, like son

The Finnish Library Association celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010. On the occasion of the anniversary The Finnish Library Association wants to promote...
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www.youtube.com - December 5, 2011 3:25 PM

Reading Inspires Children

A new Indigo (Chapters, Cole) book advertisement to promote child literacy.

Love this

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Friday Funny: Overdue Books

Some fun ways to ask about overdue books. I have used the last cartoon when emailing staff about very overdue books

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daringlibrary.edublogs.org - May 21, 2:14 AM

QR Code Quest Scavenger Hunt – Part DEUX! — The MHMS Daring School Library Blog

I love the idea of using QR codes in our library, unfortunatley at our school the students cannot use their mobile phones. But we do use QR codes on posters and bookmarks that they can take home with them.

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www.youtube.com - March 30, 11:29 PM

Lost Generation

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thereadables.tumblr.com - March 30, 10:51 PM

the readables

Hi, I'm Priscilla. These are my videos, designs, photos, anything, and everything to express how...
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www.freetech4teachers.com - March 11, 8:53 PM

11 Web-based Polling and Survey Tools

I will expolore if we could use any of these tools during our National Year of Reading promotion this year or our Book Week promotions or just as a weekly or monthly feature on our Fiction Blog.


Via liblivadia
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www.youtube.com - March 1, 10:09 PM

New John Carter Trailer introduced by Andrew Stanton | Official Disney 2012 Trailer | HD

The boys are going to love this. Will show the trailer on the TV and let them know it IS as often the case based on a book. The movie John Carter is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan) book Princess of Mars. The inspiration, apparently, for all those other sci-fi movies that we know so well.

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keepvid.com - March 1, 10:00 PM

KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more!

Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. Simply copy and paste.

Use this great tool all the time to make book trailer DVD's for our library TV screen

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digitalcollections.harvard.edu - March 1, 9:49 PM

A Selection of Web-Accessible Collections at Harvard University

Wonderful and different images are always useful 

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lostandtaken.com - March 1, 9:45 PM

17 More Old Book Cover Textures

Lost and Taken focuses on giving away free high resolution textures to designers and photographers...

I use these for posters and also on our library blog 

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www.onlineschools.org - February 29, 3:37 AM

100 Best Book Blogs for Kids, Tweens, and Teens


Via janelle mcmahon
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cliptank.com - February 17, 7:00 PM

Guide to Best 100 SciFi and Fantasy Books - Flowchart with Amazon Links

This would make a great poster. 


Via janelle mcmahon
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dotepub.com - December 6, 2011 5:54 AM

dotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book

Tool for automatic conversion to the EPUB format: bookmarklet, widget and API...

This could have many possibilities to promote say author or book websites. I have not used it but plan to see if we could use this in the library

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