May the last month of the school year!

Last day to check out books is May 10th.

Text books can be returned starting May 17th!

Any student with a clear record - that means no missing textbooks, library books or outstanding fines will get a "kiss" (Chocolate!)

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Its purpose is to find out how much the students of Foothill High know about, use, and if they own handheld reading devices. In addition I’d like to learn if the student body wants more    e-books added to our school’s collection. Click here to take the SURVEY .

 Comic Book Book Club News

We had a great visit with Thien Pham author & illustrator of SUMO  and LEVEL UP . Check out the slide show above! I hope to write a grant to get the Comic Book funded for next year. Will keep you posted. Mrs. Ligamari

Click here for an animated slideshow reviewing the problem of plagiarism. http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Take this quiz about plagiarism from Monash University: http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/citing-quiz/quiz.swf

From the University of Southern Mississippi's library a Plagiarism Tutorial to help you understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. This site includes a pretest, tutorial and post test.        
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php

COPYRIGHT - This site includes topics such as:: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators. http://www.teachingcopyright.org/

COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE - learn what they are and how to use materials properly - http://21cif.com/tutorials/micro/mm/copyright/

Public Domain, Free Use & Copyleft Media - from Dulcinea, Librarians of the Internet - http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides.html?topic=/categories/technology/free-use-media

MLA CITATION BASICS - MLA 7th edition - click here for a 24 page explanation of MLA citations - from EasyBib

This site has a research tutorial to help you understand how to set up a proper bibliographical citation:
Citation Research Tutorial (from Eastern Washington University)  http://support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html

Sites to help you create a proper bibliography:

World Book Citation Maker to access go to the California Learns Portal, http://teens.californialearns.org/ in and click on World Book (on left hand side of page) and click on any level EXCEPT KIDS and then look for Citation Makerunder the heading RESEARCH TOOLS.

Citation Maker -MLA Secondary/Elementary & APA are available.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the CITATION MAKER http://secondary.oslis.org/cite-sources

SON OF CITATION MACHINE - Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources. http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?start=#

LITERACY EDUCATION ON LINE - this page will walk you through the process of writing an annotated bibliography
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/annotated.html

EASY BIB is an automatic bibliography composer. When you have sources you need to cite properly for your research paper, EasyBib will help you format your sources quickly and accurately. http://www.easybib.com/

MLA CITATION WIZARD -  from 21st Century Information Fluency -  http://21cif.com/tools/cite/mla/index.html

BIB ME -  fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - http://www.bibme.org/

KNIGHT CITE CITATION SERVICE - http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

NOODLEBIB - Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleTools Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool. http://www.noodletools.com/login.php

MLA - Online WORD Doc Internet Citation Practice Sheet

Historical Investigation MLA Online Citation Practice Sheet

Avoid Plagiarism & Citation Powerpoint

Looking for information about 
Annotated Bibliographies? Try here:
Click here for a Power Point about
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

From Cornell University’s Library “How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography" - http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill28.htm

OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab – Annotated Bibliography http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

University of Maryland University  College Video/tutorial on ‘HOW TO WRITE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY"
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/bibliography_tutorial.cfm

School of Liberal Arts Indiana University University Writing Center, Preparing an Annotated Bibliography  
http://www.iupui.edu/~uwc/pdf/Annotated%20Bibliography,%20Preparing%20an.pdf

Writing an Annotated Bibliography from Writing Across the Curriculum by Sandra Nagy - contains clear breakdown of how to write an annotated bibliography, step by step and has many samples and examples for you to review.
http://write.siu.edu/Handouts/Writing%20an%20Annotated%20Bibliography.pdf

The Purdue Online Writing Lab - OWL

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

MLA Formatting & Style Guide

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

APA Style Guide

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/

10 STEPS TO BETTER WEB RESEARCH -   Want to learn how to do better research on the Internet? This resource organized by Dulcinea Media is broken into 3 sections - "Where to search?", "Planning your research" and "Evaluating your results". http://www.sweetsearch.com/TenSteps

MLA TUTORIAL: From The University of Southern Mississippi, this site has a pretest, tutorial and post test to prepare you to use MLA style properly. http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/tutorialindex.php

ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations. http://www.encyclopedia.com/

SHMOOP  will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how literature & history are relevant today. Shmoop makes learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. http://www.shmoop.com/

PUTTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS TO WORK  -  a step by step tutorial walking you through the research process (A project of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia)  http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit02/search02_01.phtml

ProCon  is a nonprofit public charity that has no government affiliations of any kind. Their  purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. We do not express opinions on our research projects. Go to: http://www.procon.org/ 

Ten Steps to Better Web Research - from the
SWEETSEARCH search engine
Part 1 - Deciding Where to Search
Part 2 - Planning Your Reserach
Part 3 - Evaluating Your Search Results

The Top 10 Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia

 

The sites will provide you with stories in Spanish
and vocabulary practice.
http://www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp
http://www.miscositas.com/cuentos.html

NOAH COMPRENDE  is a PBS show that introduces children to the Spanish language through animated videos with embedded games. Go to Noah's homepage to see what is offered.   http://pbskids.org/noah/index.html

VOCABULARY PRACTICE:
This site has games in Latin, French, German & Spanish
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/foreign-language/

        RECIPE SITES

http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Cooking/World_Cuisines/Latin_American/     Click on your country's name to link you to their food and recipes

http://www.world-recipes.info/   Recipes are listed by country or region. Look at the country list on the left side of the page, find your country and click

http://www.spain-recipes.com/  Authentic recipes from Span

http://mexican.food.com/  Food.com's mexican food section

http://user.xmission.com/~dderhak/recipes.html  Favorite food recipes from Spain

http://recipesource.com/  Recipes are organized into two major groups - recipes primarily identified with an ethnic cuisine are broken down by region and ethnic group, while other recipes are categorized by the type of dish.

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/world-cuisine/european/spanish/ All recipes site with Spanish recipes.

http://www.spain.info/en_US/saborea/recetas/  Recipes from Espana

http://www.foodnetwork.com/regional-international/traditional-spanish-recipes/pictures/index.html  The Food Network's Site - Traditional Spanish food.