The Daring Librarian

Like Bitmoji?   I love mine, she's like a cartoon doppelganger version of me (Ok, ok, she's a younger skinnier aspirational version of me!)   Don't have Bitmoji yet? Don't worry! I Got You ! Do you love your Bitmoji and want to use it everywhere? Well, you're in luck because now your customized Bitmoji, that animated cartoon of yourself set in hundreds of fun & pop culture savvy vignettes, is available in a FREE Chrome extension that lets you insert these avatars just about anywhere! Who knew!? How to INSTALL the Extension Open Chrome - (if you're not already in it) find this blog post again by Googling "The Daring Librarian" and then click on the LINK to install the Bitmoji Extension on your Chrome Browser OR go to Window in the toolbar ,  click Extensions & search for Bitmoji   You'll then be taken to a new screen where you can enter your Bitmoji login information from a previously created an account (save pas...

The hot new Makerspace Movement is NOT new to Murray Hill Middle School. Eighteen years ago we designed and opened the school with the idea that we would have creation labs in the Media Center, GT room, and the TV studio. We started with video production, iMovie, Specular LogoMotion , Hyperstudio, and animation with Hollyood High kids. Here's an example of an EARLY (2003) video production called Bookfellas, featuring some Guy Ritchie-esque film direction techniques . These kids are now all grown up and we've kept evolving, too! --------We interrupt this blog post for an important announcement-------- -------------------- As of August 2018 the--------------------   Makerspace Starter Kit Has Been Updated We return you back now to our first and original Makerspace post ......Thank you! It's OK to Start Small! We recently expanded upon our Makerspace offerings thanks to being inspired by several of my librarian friends in our amazing...

((re-post from my MHMS Media Blog - showing how we use our Google Forms, Google Docs and Wikspaces to have a conversation with our community!)) Murray Hill Middle School strives every day to put into practice our motto “excellence is our standard” and in doing so we need your help and your action! Utilizing Google forms, docs, and wikipages we provide many ways for you to feel connected to our school and to have a voice! You suggest the books & we buy them! During your media center orientations you will hear more about contributing YOUR suggestions to our annual book order. But for those of you who are tech savvy, at home, you can Google “MHMS Learning” and our Learning Wiki comes up first! (OR you could click the link ! LOL) ….there you will see the banner “ I WANT THIS BOOK .” Click on that banner and you can add any books, authors, or subjects of books that you would like to see purchased for our school library collection. (Murray Hill peeps only...sorry world!) You suggest ...

(reposted from our MHMS Media Blog ) Every week we have kids come to the library media center, flash drive in hand, eyes wide and panicked because their computer or printer didn't work the night before and the paper is DUE TODAY! And though 99% of the time we can help them - how much less stressful would it be if you had solid tech tips to finish, save & print that report or assignment outside of school? Visit our newly re-designed MHMS Learning Wiki Tech Trouble Shooting Tips page for step by step directions (with pictures!) on how to email your teacher your work digitally if you find your printer out of ink at 10pm, how to save a .DOC and NOT a .DOCX, and other great techie trouble shooting tips! First suggestion: Email your work to your teacher! Visit the Murray Hill Middle School Website and follow the directions below (click to go to wikipage) Other Hot Topics Covered: My Printer Isn't Working Home! What do I Do!? I can't open my report! I don't h...

Write a Book Review - Read a Book Review! Hey there Teacher-Librarian peeeps! I've started up something super cool i just gotta tell you about! And yeah, i'm behind the curve on this one....but i'm running to catch up! LOL Using a simple to create Google doc with a pre-set theme i created an online book review wikipage! Where i can send my kids to to write & submit an online reivew and read published reviews ! of course i'm not going to publish their *real names* on these reviews - i've asked them to come up with an appropriate screenname! once we get started we're gonna have a drawing for prizes on book reviews for a chance to win FREE Advanced copy books, iTunes gift cards, and other random stuff i think is cool! Write a Book Review TODAY!~ Want to WATCH a Book Review? - My Teacher-Librarian friend Mr. Yeargin does book review VLOGS called Read This Book ! now, Ms. Jones is WAY to shy [cough cough] to do this - but hey! if anyone of my kids wants to, ...