Movie in the Library - November 12, 3:30 PM

Join us in the library on Thursday, November 12, to relax and watch the movie, Nightmare Before Christmas!

Tips in a Minute: Moodle for Teachers — Organizing by Adding Text

This video shows how faculty members can organize Moodle by adding text fields and summaries directly to their Moodle class pages. The video also shows how to embed Youtube videos in Summaries and Web Page Resources.

Web site of the Week -- Teacher Tools and Templates

This month’s Web site of the month is called Teacher Tools and Templates. It contains a wealth of free links to time-saving templates for your curriculum, bulletin boards, lesson plans, etc. So, before you re-invent the wheel, click on this site and simply download their free, editable templates. If you lose this link or forget to bookmark it in your favorites, you’ll also find it posted on our blog. Happy searching and love from your librarians! http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates.shtml

Tips in a Minute: Moodle for Teachers — Adding Documents

In this video, teachers can learn how to add and arrange documents on their Moodle class.

Cite It! NCS Plagiarism Prevention Presentation

This is the presentation regarding citation rules, plagiarism prevention and consequences for cheating at NCS. Click on Full Screen at the bottom of the slideshow box for full screen viewing.

Cite It

View more presentations from ncslibrary.

The Quest for the Best - Guide to the Internet

Do you want to become an Internet power-user?

Then take a look at this list of recommended web sites and services, and learn about the hottest Web sites:

The Quest for the Best

Web site of the Week—New Yorker Fiction Podcast

Are you having trouble finding the time to read for pleasure? Well why not try the next best thing, with fiction podcasts! It's easy to subscribe to a podcast using iTunes services and upload them to an iPod. Or, you can download audio files and burn them to a CD to listen in the car.

• New Yorker Fiction Podcast

We highly recommend the New Yorker Fiction podcast. In this free podcast, famous authors read their favorite stories from the back catalog of the New Yorker magazine. Afterwards, they discuss the significance of these stories with the New Yorker's fiction editor.

Listen to Joyce Carol Oates read Eudora Welty’s “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” or Mary Gaitskill read Vladimir Nabokov’s “Symbols and Signs.”

These short stories and discussions are the perfect length for a commute!

• NPR Books Podcast

This podcast includes NPR book reviews, news and author interviews -- for people who love to read.

For other podcasts, check out these podcast repositories online.

• Librivox —This collection focuses on books from the public domain, including many classics. Many of these podcasts are user-created, so the quality may vary.
  
• Audible — If you are looking for contemporary authors, nad are not worried about paying for your content, this is the place to go.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=89697155
http://librivox.org/
http://www.audible.com/