CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.3+N.20

**FEBRUARY 26, 2012** **RONDA'S CORNER**

**The common core books have been coming in in droves!! We have to many titles to mention them. If you go to Medianet and put common core in the search box, it will pull up the titles. You can also search for them by using the grade level and module or domain level in the search box - for example Grade 3 module 2A. There are more titles that have come in but haven't been cataloged, so keep checking.**

**MARY ANN'S MEANDERINGS**  DR. SEUSS'S BIRTHDAY POWER POINT ADAPT AND ADOPT Go to [|] Click on "Libraries" at the top of the screen Click on "Bullock School" on the left of the screen. Click on "Dr Seuss Powerpoint" on the left of the screen. Then Click on "Dr. Seuss Powerpoint Presentation"under the bulletin board photo. Download it to your computer.The # of candles is incorrect. Should say 109 this year. You should be able to fix it.You may add your own slides, or you may delete slides to make this "fit" your program.Just please don't take my name or Tony's name off of it.Thanks! Would love an email from you if you use it... fun to see how it's spread!! Karen DeFrank, LMS District Librarian <span style="color: #17d917; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Glassboro Public Schools <span style="color: #17d917; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Glassboro NJ

<span style="color: #17d917; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">A treasure trove of fun --too many to share individual links DR. SEUSS ACTIVITIES

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">“Transitions to Digital Media: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Are school libraries on the way out?” [|http://www.districtadministration.com/article/transitions-digital-media#]


 * <span style="color: #17d917; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The world's biggest atlas, in case you have a shelf this big, a little book budget money left over, and enough staff to lift it and turn the pages. **


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<span style="color: #17d917; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MARCH INFOTOPIA

<span style="color: #17d917; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AASL has partnered with the Carnegie Science Center: Girls Math &Science Partnership (GMSP) to inspire girls to see themselves inscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers throughgaming and online activities. As part of the Can*TEEN Career Exploration initiative, the CarnegieScience Center has developed the Can*TEEN Trivia Wheel LibraryInteractive game, a new spin on the classic gaming style of multiplechoice trivia questions. AASL, working with the Carnegie Science Center,and with support from the Motorola Foundation, will help distributeCan*TEEN Trivia Wheel Library Interactive toolkits to more than 2,500school librarians serving children ages 10-14.AASL has been informed by GMSP that a few hundred kits are stillavailable to ship out this week. Please pass this message on to anyschool librarian serving students ages 10-14 to let them know thedeadline has been extended until quantities have been exhausted - andremind them to register ASAP if they are interested in receiving thiscomplimentary resource.School librarians who participate will receive a free kit for theirschool library and will be asked to complete a follow-up survey at theend of the school year. The survey will evaluate how frequently thetoolkit was checked out and how it was used in within the school. Want to see the game in action? Check out clips from recent play tests,featuring two of the women who helped make the Can*TEEN Interactive at [|<http://www.canteengirl.org/>].