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Starmount High School 'Cybrary' Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow. |
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Welcome to the Starmount High School "Cybrary" Website - your link to information 24 hours a day 7 days a week!
First let me introduce myself. I am Mrs. Suzie Thomasson, the resident Cybrarian, Media Coordinator, Teacher Librarian, and Digital Diva. Please feel free to ask for help at any time. I enjoy helping in any way that I can.
Media Center Hours:
The SHS Media Center opens at 7:45 each day. Students can come to the library with classes or individually with a pass from their teacher. With a library issued lunch pass, students can also come to the library during their lunch periods to read or work on school work. Computers can only be used for educational purposes but there are many different ways to get educated and to engage your mind using a computer. Cell phones and electronic devices cannot be used in the media center. Please do not bring food or drink in the library.
The SHS Media Center will be closed on Mondays after school for faculty meetings when announced. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday students may work on school work or read until 3:45 pm. The Media Center will close at 3 pm on Fridays.
Loan Periods:
Students can check out fiction books and regular nonfiction books for 3 weeks. Reference books may be checked out at the end of the day and must be returned before school the next day. Magazines and videos may be checked out overnight.
Copyright Guidelines
Do you have questions about how much you can use in your student project? This page has everything you need!
Copyright Friendly Web-Resources
Links to websites that you can use in your projects
Sweet Search
A search engine for students powered by Google. Each web page has been checked for accuracy and credibility.
NCWiseOwl
Your own library at the click of a mouse! Check out InfoTrac and EBSCO's Student Research Center for quickly finding the magazine article, newspaper, or reference source you need. Britannica and Student Reference Center are good places to start your research. There are biographies, TV and radio transcripts,primary sources, maps, country and state report sources right at your fingertips. See Mrs.Thomasson for the password.
Son of Citation Machine
Use this website to cite sources. Most often you will choose MLA on the top left side. Then on the next page choose the kind of source you are using. The next page will have blanks to fill in and when those are filled in you choose submit and like magic you have your citation that you can cut and paste to a word processing program.
Teenreads.com
Great website for reading suggestions! Be sure to check out "Cool and New" and "the Ultimate Reading List"
www.animoto.com
Create professional videos with music, pictures, and text
www.edu.glogster.com
Create online interactive posters
www.prezi.com
Zooming presentations to amaze your teachers and friends
www.wordle.net
Generate word clouds in different fonts and colors
Lexile Map
This is a map of book titles and lexile scores to help readers find books that they may enjoy reading with success.
Find a book
This site allows readers to search for books based on their interests and lexile score, and to create personal reading lists.
