Teen Book Festival

Do you love books? Would you like to meet the authors of the books you love? Want to meet some other book lovers? Go to the 6th Annual Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival!

Mrs. Beirne and Mrs. Parsons are planning a bus trip to the conference on May 14th on the Nazareth College campus in Rochester. The cost is $5 plus money for meals (lunch and dinner).



For more information about the event: http://www.teenbookfestival.org/

If you want more information or would like to sign up, see Mrs. Beirne in the library or Mrs. Parsons in room 121.

Free Conference

For more details, see Mrs. Beirne in the library!

At-a-Glance Comic Tutorials

This are awesome. Big thanks to Gwyneth Jones, the Daring Librarian, for creating these very cool Web 2.0 tutorials!
She has several available on her Flickr page and has given them Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial and Sharelike" licenses so they can be shared and embedded in your blog, wiki, etc.

Check them out!

Here is a closer look at the Xtranormal tutorial:

See how cool it is!!

Please Vote!

Tubechop

Tubechop is a site that "allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it."

Sharing options include embedding, emailing, linking, and sharing on social media sites including Twitter, delicious, and Facebook.

Here is a clip "chopped" from the YouTube video Social Media in Plain English:

Internet Searching

As you may have noticed, I'm a HUGE fan of Google, but I recently found a new search engine for students. Often Google is overwhelming for students who are search for the best, most reliable information.

It's called Sweet Search and is located at http://www.sweetsearch.com

Sweet Search searches only the 35,000 web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. They constantly evaluate search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.

Sweet Search was created by the team at Finding Dulcinea (http://www.findingdulcinea.com) which presents only credible, high-quality and trustworthy Web sites, saving time for the novice and the experienced user alike.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

Wondersay

made on Wondersay - Animate text with style

The animation above was created using Wondersay, a free online tool for generating text animations. You can customize with various fonts and colors or simply use "random." Obviously, "wondersays" can be embedded on blogs and other HTML-code friendly sites.