Your Next Book

You'd like to read a book, but you're not sure what to read next.  Unsure of what you're in the mood for or what will be "good," you don't know where to turn.  Sound familiar?  Have no fear, your friendly high school librarian can help!

Websites
These websites' primary goal is to help you find your next book.

• What Should I Read Next?
• Your Next Read
• WhichBook

Reading Communities

• Good Reads
• LibraryThing

Book Talks, Trailers, Teasers

• WRHS Student Book Talks 2015-2017

Browsing Your Library

• WRHS Library
• WRMS Library
• Turbotville Elementary Library
• Montgomery House Public Library

Classroom Screen for Classroom Management

Do you use your smartboard to show a variety of tools as part of a lesson?  For example, giving students a timer and indicating the countdown for how long they have to complete the task?  Or maybe you want to do a random name choice to choose a volunteer.  Maybe you keep a traffic light in your room to indicate appropriate volume level while working.

Classroom screen has combined these all into one place and made a toolbar to quickly bring up these options.  When you have this page open in chrome, your page will look like this:

The menu at the bottom allows you to add different options on the screen.  They are:

• Language - change to another language such as Spanish or French!
• Random name - import your class list and choose a random volunteer
• Sound level - allow it access to your computer microphone and it will show when the volume is getting too loud
• QR code - tell it a web address and the kids can scan the code on the screen to go to a certain website (K and 1, this is GREAT!)
• Drawing - draw function, similar to the smartboard tools
• Text - same idea
• Work symbols - another volume management, but with the options for "Silence", "Whisper", "Ask a neighbor" and "Work together"

• Traffic light - volume control
• Timer - Start a countdown and tell those kids how much time they have to do a task / break out / etc
• Clock - give the time (analog and digital)

This has great possibilities to help manage class flow.  Check it out and let me know what you think!