No USB? No Problem!

Ok, so you don't have a USB drive and you've been emailing yourself that project that's due next week and every time you try to get to that one computer in the Media Center that you've secretly dubbed your own, someone else is sitting there working on stuff YOU don't care about. Fear not! You don't need a flashdrive if you have your own online portfolio. Enter, Dropbox, where you can drop all your work in one place and access it anywhere.

Dropbox - Online backup, file sync, and sharing made easy. via kwout

Living Foods Institute Volunteer Opportunity

We invite motivated, positive, energetic people to VOLUNTEER in the kitchen and the office during our next Healthy Lifestyle Course April 7-18, 2011 at the Living Foods Institute in Atlanta, Ga.    We will be holding our class at our NEW CENTER:

 

Living Foods Institute NEW TRAINING & THERAPY SPA CENTER

1700 Commerce Dr.

Atlanta, Ga. 30318

We need VOLUNTEERS 7am - 8pm everyday  April 7-18, 2011

 

You may VOLUNTEER all or part of a day for as many days as you are available.  We request that you work a minimum of 4 hours per shift.  

It's Okay if You Get Knocked Down. Persevere! (Math and You)

PRISM Scholarship at Savannah State

The Proactive Recruitment in Introductory Science and Mathematics (PRISM) Program is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Our program provides up to $3,500 per year to highly qualified freshmen and sophomores enrolled at Savannah State University. In addition to the financial award, our scholars receive weekly mentoring, attend monthly seminars and participate in a summer program (the summer component would be held in summer 2012). Incoming freshmen are eligible to continue in the program through their sophomore year as long as they have been compliant with scholarship requirements. All scholars are expected to maintain at least a 3.0 GPA.

You CAN Afford an Ivy League Education

Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only ten percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution."

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Vox Rox!

VOX Teen Communications via kwou

Vox is the locally teen-produced newspaper. Check out the blog by clicking on the link above or pick up a copy in the library. If you're interested in writing for them, you can visit their website and check out all the options for summer programs and submissions.

Mr. Curran's "Night" Research Page

Here are a few resources to get you started in your research. Some of these links will take you to GALILEO. You'll need to enter the password you received from Mrs. Miles. The good news is that you've already got the citations for some of these.

Articles:
Children of the Slaughter : This is an excerpt from a book on the children of the Holocaust. It gives you an overview of what they went through.

Gottfried, Ted. "THE SURVIVORS." Children of the Slaughter. 57. US: Lerner Publishing Group, 2001. History Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 10 Mar. 2011.

Web Sites:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center : This site is a good place to start to understand who survivors are. You can also browse ID cards which portray the various experiences of those who survived.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute: Oral histories (video clips) of Holocaust survivors.

Yad Vashem : This site has a number of resources collected in remembrance of those who were victims of the Holocaust and those who survived.
Documents: Letters, Memoirs, Diaries
Photos:  Photos of Survivors, Ghettos, Soldiers and Camps
Maps

Holocaust Survivors : This is an audio gallery compiled by the Jewish Community of New Orleans. You'll hear the voices of real survivors.


Auschwitz Memorial and Museum - Overview of the Jewish experience in Auschwitz during it's active state.

Using Databases - The Literary Reference Center

Using Databases - The Literary Reference Center from TechHighLibrary on Vimeo.

Listen to a Life Essay Contest

Listen to a Life Essay Contest

Looking for a great project to promote intergenerational contact at your school or library? The Legacy Project, a multigenerational education initiative sponsored by the nonprofit group Generations United, is inviting young people ages eight to 18 to enter the Listen to a Life Essay Contest. What's required? Just interview anyone who's at least 50 years old about their life experiences, and submit a 300-word essay reflecting on that conversation.
What can you win? The grand prize is a Lenovo ThinkCentre computer and an iPod nano loaded with Orchard Software-plus the winner's school will get an additional $25,000 of Orchard software. And there are 20 runners-up prizes, including MP3 players. Entries must be received by March 31, so get moving.

10 Best Undergraduate Video Game Design Schools

Gaming enthusiasts, take note -- the University of Southern California has been named the Princeton Review and GamePro Media's best school for video game design at the undergraduate and graduate level in 2011.
In 2010 and 2011, the Princeton Review questioned officials at 150 institutions that offer game design programs on their schools' academics, faculty credentials, facilities, infrastructure and post-grad employment placements. The top ten undergraduate and graduate schools were then selected based on these responses, as well as on the Princeton Review's own data on scholarships, financial aid and career opportunities at the schools under consideration.

10 Best Undergraduate Video Game Design Schools via kwout

Read Online: Evernight by Claudia Gray

Browse Inside Evernight by Claudia Gray

Thanks to Harper Teen you can read Evernight online for a limited time. Take advantage and read it from beginning to end. The first to tweet their book review will receive a prize. Good Luck!