11.12.09
Website: Learn.Genetics
I’ve just come across a very interesting looking website. It’s called Learn.Genetics and is run by the University of Utah. It provides students and teachers with some great information on learning and teaching genetics and heridity.
There are lots of presentations on topics such as:
- addiction
- cells
- chromosomes
- cloning
- DNA
- gene therapy
- genes
- heredity and traits
- medical technologies
- molecular geneology
- neurobiology
- newborn genetic screening
- stem cells
- viruses
- and more.
09.14.09
Great websites
While browsing around on the internet the other day I came across some great websites which I wanted to share with you all.
The first website is a very simple but helpful one, called OttoBib. This helpful little resource will help you generate a bibliography for any books you have used. All you have to do is enter the ISBN into the bar, choose which type of bibliography you need to make up and click Get Citations. Too easy!
Next is a website called MondoLibrary which is an image library. It contains photos which have been catagorised under the headings People, Society, Earth and Special. The site describes the photos as ‘award-winning, fair trade photography for the public interest community’. You may find these royalty-free images helpful for your next assignment or presentation.
Notely is another great website which contains all the tools a student could need. You can store you schedule, calendar, notes, homework plan and more on here. It’s a great tool if you want to get organised with your schoolwork.
Another great image website, that you might already know about, is GettyImages. All you have to do here is sign up to become a member and you have access to millions of royalty-free photos and images that you can use. GettyImages also contains footage and music that you might be interested in using.
I’ll try to post more of these websites on a regular basis.
09.02.09
Competition
There’s a few different blogs that I like to follow, just to get an idea of what’s going on in the book and library worlds. One blog that I love is called Windowpane Memoirs which contains lots of great reviews as well as eye candy for book lovers. They also run some fantastic competitions which is why I’m posting about them on here. At the moment, through Windowpane Memoirs, you can win a $50 Amazon gift card! It’s a great prize and it’s very easy to enter the competition. All you have to do is go to http://windowpane-memoirs.com/2009/08/31/arcs-contest to find out more!
Good luck!
08.06.09
The Louvre website in English
All of you budding artists or those of you who have an interest in art will be interested to see that the website for The Louvre is now available in English. It’s a great website and definitely worth having a look at!
Thanks to Skerricks for pointing this out!
08.04.09
New blog: The Reader’s Nook
I tend to read a lot of fiction that our Library doesn’t have a copy of, so I feel that I can’t review these on the Library blog. Therefore I’ve decided to start up a new blog called The Reader’s Nook which you’re more than welcome to have a look at. I also cover more adult fiction in that blog, rather than just young adult fiction, including historical fiction, literature, mainstream and chick lit.
I’m hoping, if I get a big enough following, to introduce competitions in the future and make this an ongoing thing.
06.23.09
English essays & info
A great website that I’ve found out about recently is Shmoop which is directed at English & Literature students. The website contains lots of different information about literature and poetry written by PH.D and Masters students in the US. Many of the texts currently taught at Salesian can be found on the website, including Macbeth, The Outsiders and more. This is a great resource for students and I highly recommend it.
05.25.09
Issues
If you’re in year 12 or doing VCE English this year you might be looking for some articles or information about issues that have been in the paper lately. And of course the library can help you with that. 
I’ve made up a folder in Learning Point which you can find here. There’s a large range of topics you can find information on, the latest addition being about Rugby Players and standards of conduct. Other topics include bullying, sexualisation of children, teenagers and alcohol and many more.
There’s also a great website that I’ve linked to called Act Now where you can find a huge amount of information about many different issues. You can find articles which include links to some great newspaper articles. There are also areas where you can find videos, photos, stories, organisations involved with that particular issue and also how you can get involved.
05.14.09
The Library is now on Twitter! I’m planning to do lots of quick updates about new books, news, great websites etc for you all to check out, so if you’re on Twitter follow us! Our account is Salesian Library which you can find by searching for us or going to the following site https://twitter.com/SalesianLibrary
You can also follow us through this blog. The last few updates will be posted at the side of the page.
03.30.09
Essay Map
I’ve just been introduced to a great new tool called Essay Map! Essay Map is an online essay planner for students.
Students don’t have to sign up or make an account to use Essay Map. All you have to do is enter in your name and your essay topic and you’re ready to go!
You can move between screens as your ideas develop and become clearer.
The only downside to Essay Maps is that you can’t save essay maps. However, they can be printed out before you exit.
06.05.08
Websites
I’ve just been browsing around the internet and found a couple of websites that I think are great.
The first is http://ottobib.com/ which makes automatic bibliographies. All you have to do is type in the ISBN of the book you’ve been using (this is found with the publication details in the front of the book, or on the back cover above the barcode) and wallah! you have an already made bibliography!
The second website is for those chefs amongst you. It’s at http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp and you’ll find lots of different recipes. The great thing about this website though, is that the recipes are for all the top secret foods like KFC’s crispy chicken or Krispy Kreme’s doughnuts. Yumo!
And thirdly, the website I’ve pretty much become addicted to in the past week is http://icanhascheezburger.com which is all different photographs which people have added captions to. There’s some really funny ones amongst them!
