April 30, 2020 Hello again, everybody! Librarian Office Hours During School Closures
Books and More! “We’re All In This Together” Summer and 2020-2021 Library Thematic Booklist Please suggest titles for next year’s thematic library booklist, “We’re All In This Together.” The WAITT list will consist of works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and short stories that demonstrate people putting their differences aside and joining forces to overcome a challenge, solve a problem, seek justice, promote peace, or otherwise make the world a better place. Also feel free to submit articles, films, documentaries, plays, music, and podcasts that feature the theme. Click HERE to submit your suggestions! Temporary Chicago Public Library eCards for all CPS students who need them! In partnership with Chicago Public Library, the CPS Department of Libraries and Instructional Technology is offering temporary CPL eCards to all CPS students who need them. During the COVID crisis, students and families can fill out this form and I will email you login information for a temporary eCard. Acquiring a temporary eCard through JCP does not require any personal information. Students with a regular Chicago Public Library card can use it to access all CPL online library resources, including electronic books and online databases (explore the JCP library’s Online Resources Page for links to great CPL databases). Log in using your library card number as the username and your 5-digit zip code as your PIN. All Chicago residents without a physical card may apply for an eCard online (online eCard application, eCard FAQ’s). Sync AUDIOBOOKS FOR TEENS - Audiobooks FREE OF CHARGE! Starts TODAY!! SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+ running thirteen weeks from April 30 until July 29. SYNC provides participants two thematically paired audiobooks a week. Check out the SYNC website to register using your CPS email, to download the SORA reading app, to sign up for weekly new title alerts, and to learn about the 26 titles that will be provided over 13 weeks (two per week). Once you download titles they are YOURS TO KEEP! Two new titles become available each week on Thursday at 12am Eastern Time. SYNC is sponsored by AudioFile Magazine. THIS IS GOLD! The New York Times - All CPS high school students and staff have on campus access to The New York Times and The New York Times Learning Network (Resources for Bringing the World Into Your Classroom). Students and staff can enjoy complete, ad-free access to these services off-campus through July 6. Email me (Fran Feeley [email protected]) to request access. I will submit your request. You will receive a notice in your CPS Gmail from The New York Times. Please respond to that email to register and gain access to this valuable service. April is School Library Month - the American Association of School Librarians' celebration of school librarians and school libraries. Try to spot your current and former CPS librarians in this video below! Send them a little love during the shutdown. If you really want to warm their hearts tell them what you have been reading lately! Click HERE for the video. LIVE FROM THE LIBRARY: A Daily Story Time for Kids of Chicago streamed on Facebook at 10 AM CST Monday-Friday Readers include CPL librarians, CPS librarians, and celebrities. Click here to view all read alouds given up to the present. The Daily Read Alouds by CPS Teacher-Librarians end this Friday May 1, as we join forces with Chicago Public Library. Click here for the remaining schedule and to view most past CPS read alouds. Click HERE for my April 29 reading of “La Llorona” from Joe Hayes’ collection: The Day It Snowed Tortillas/ El día que nevaron tortillas: Folktales Told in Spanish and English. Media and Resources Jones students organized and presented three TEDx Youth events on campus in April 2017, May 2018, and June 2019. Co-organizers have included Abigail Barton ‘18, Olivia Landgraff ‘18, Ari Dworkin-Cantor ‘20, and Sunny Eimer ‘20. Primary faculty support has been provided by Ms. Miller and Mr. Gunnink with additional support from other teachers. The May 28, 2020 TEDx Youth event has been cancelled. Check out the provocative talks provided by Jones students:
LAST CHANCE TO ACCESS DRAMA ONLINE AND FOUR OTHER AMAZING ONLINE SERVICES Available only through May 7, 2020 The descriptions and log-in information for all five of these services can be found HERE. CPS Google sign-in is required to access this information. Hamilton Education Program AT HOME The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and HAMILTON are thrilled to announce EduHam at Home, a free digital program for students and their families. Participants will use online resources provided by the program to inspire the creation of their own original performance pieces. More info here.
For both of these services you can speak commands to insert punctuation and invoke other formatting options. Explore Google Docs Voice Typing Editing and Formatting Commands (scroll down the page). The commands all work in Docs and the basic ones work in Gmail. Cultural Institutions ATTENTION: Writers, Comedians, Actors, Singers, Performers! Steppenwolf Virtual Workshops / Maker May Steppenwolf Theatre invites educators and teens to participate in virtual workshops in which participants engage with one or more artists/creators and then create something original based on a different maker challenge each week. The two-part workshop scheduled for May 12 & 15 features Erika L. Sánchez, the author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Two Free Streaming Spanish Language Films Weekly The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, host of the annual Chicago Latino Film Festival, is providing two free streaming Spanish language films weekly. Subscribe at the bottom or their homepage to receive emails each Wednesday with links to the films with required passwords. Art Institute Essentials Tour Spend some time with the museum’s most iconic works of art and get insights from the experts with this special video series. El Greco Online While the museum is temporarily closed, explore different ways to experience the exhibition El Greco: Ambition and Defiance online. That’s Jones senior Zimra Chickering, a member of the Art Institute’s Teen Council. Be sure to check out Zimra’s May 2019 TEDx@JCP talk, “The Future of Art Museums Is You.” Stay Home. Hit Play. Introducing a weekly video series brought to you by Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and Citadel that takes you inside Chicago's educational and cultural institutions. Watch the first episode on Wednesday, April 29, featuring Mayor Lightfoot at the Shedd Aquarium. Learn more here. ATTN: Journalists! VERIFICATION HANDBOOK: An Ultimate Guideline on Digital Age Sourcing For Emergency Coverage Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. Click HERE to read the book or download it in several formats free of charge. Please use this Google Form or email me at [email protected] for support or just to connect! Take great care and thank you! Mr. Feeley Read current and past library newsletters on the Keeping Up With the Jones Library blog on the library website. Three COVID closure library newsletters (including this one) can be accessed in the archives of this blog. Click here to see what I have been reading lately. Comments are closed.
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