Bitstrips - new cartoon application

Take a look at this site - Bitstrips - a beta program in the early stages of development - great for students to create their own character and comic strip...

What book do you belong in ...

A bit of escapism fun and humour - apparently I belong in :

'What Movie do You belong in?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Take the quiz yourself here

PS love the spelling of insecurities......

NZ Writers and Readers Week - Writing Competition

Next week - 11-16 March is NZ Writers and Readers' Week.

This will be our first competition of the year:

Ernest Hemingway (US author) once wrote a story in six words "For sale. Baby shoes, never worn".

The competition will be for the kids to write their own story in six words. You can find some more examples here.

A couple of great sites..

Just come across these two 0 they both look very useful..

LoudLit is a site that has a great range of oral texts. They are all in the public domain and so are free to download. Texts include some Shakespeare sonnets, Emperor's new clothes ...

and ..

I love this typing game - its sooooo addictive already - I'm getting worse though!!!
Words

Have a play....

NZ Writers and Readers Week

You might like out check out the information on this site NZ Writers and Readers Week

and get your classes involved........

We'll look at running some competitions in the library.

Ciao.

Awesome Site

This site is a great find - Teacher Book Wizard - take a few moments to have a look at it.

The main idea is that you can get a list of texts on a set topic. It is run by Scholastic (USA) and is a similar thing to our journal search....


I know that there are probably dozens, hundreds, squillions of these sites around but ...you know me!!!

Hello 2008....

Welcome back all of you - Happy New Year!

If you haven't picked up your stationery pack from the office do so!!! Goody bags for all!!!.

I'll be keeping this blog and the library blog going throughout the year - a good way to keep updated is to subscribe to the rss feed - if you have no idea what I am talking about pop in and see me!!! Or check out the help link on blogger.com -

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I have also changed the library blog address to make it easier for us and the kids to remember - it's now simply called TuakauCollegeLibraryBlog and you can get it to from the blogroll on the sidebar......



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