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Congratulations  to all college bound Seniors!

Here is a handy site that lets you plan your move to college. Good luck! We are very proud of you!!

College Packing List

Defend your right to read. Read a banned book.

This is a map of books banned from 2007-2010

View Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010 in a larger map

Make your presentations more colorful and exciting.

Create a colorful Pie chart using Pie Color.

It happens to everyone. You try to open up your essay or homework assignment on a school computer and the computer gives you a message that telling you it can’t open your file.   Very often the problem is that the software in library computers is  older than the stuff you use at home or in the labs.  Here are some file conversion sites that can help you open up those  files.

Comet Docs

Zamzar (this is my favorite site to use in the library)

DocsPal

YouConvertIt

HTML to PDF (convert any webpage to a PDF)

Text 2 Mindmap (site converts text to mindmap or outline)

Your library wishes you a great summer break.

Be safe on the internet. You need to think about your digital footprint every time you go online.   What you say and do on the web is a reflection of you and it can stay online forever.

Ask yourself:  Would you be comfortable with your parents, college admissions officers or your future boss reading (and seeing) some of the things you do online? If the answer is “NO” then you probably shouldn’t do it.

• Digital Footprints: the basics
• Netsmartz
• NSTeens
• Digital Permanence: Forever is a long time
• A thin line
• Internet safety and you
• Stop bullying now
• Cyberbullying: not just name-calling
• Power to Learn: Internet Safety
• Social Networking: Don’t Give yourself away

A truly scary article: Colleges scan Facebook during admissions

Happy Earth Day Southwest High

And now, in honor of Earth Day 2010 .

Let’s save the planet.

Learn about the history of your stuff.

Click here to see the video.