
Books & Bytes
FDHS Library News - Volume 1 Issue 3
Tech Tidbit: Teach Your Students How to Email!
Our students tend to think of themselves as tech-saavy but we all know that social media doesn't make them tech saavy. One important skill that students need no matter what their post-secondary plans are is how to email effectively and professionally. What constitutes an appropriate email address? What should my subject be? What should my content be? Teaching students to write emails is a great technology skill, professional skill, and writing skill. So take a moment and think: how could you incorporate email into your classroom? It isn't something that has to take away very much time at all from the curriculum that you need to teach! Here are a few resources for teaching email ettiquette:
- How to Teach Kids to Email
- Strategies: Teaching Email Ettiquette
- Email ettiquette (slideshare presentation)
- Teaching Email Ettiquette
- Email Ettiquette (lesson plan)
Or if you want, I can come in a do a short lesson! Just talk to me. :)
Food for Thought
The power of student-driven learning: Shelley Wright at TEDxWestVancouverED
Featured Books: Gateway 2015-16 Nominees
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.
Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader
Since the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed “Garden of Eden” deep in the South American jungle, everyone follows the Reverend’s strict but arbitrary rules—even the mandate of whom they can marry. Now sixteen, Mia dreams of slipping away from the armed guards who keep the faithful in, and the curious out. When the rebellious and sexy Gabriel, a new boy, arrives with his family, Mia sees a chance to escape.
Winger by Andrew Smith
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Northwest. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.
Trivia!
Who were the World Series Champions in 1987?
*Know the answer? Come to the Media Center to claim a prize. :)
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