New Library Resources
Title: 121 strategies for bully proofing your school
Author: Erika Karres
Pub Date: 2009
Record Type: Book
Abstract: "Based on the best practices of top principals, teachers, guidance counselors, and resource officers, this book offers a complete array of quick and practical solutions to what many experts call our nation's worst school problem today-bullying. Using the suggestions, hints, and advice in this book will immediately create a No-More-Bullying climate in your classroom, and in your cafeteria, school, and community. It teaches all educators, related professionals, parents, and students how to quickly spot the red flags of bully potential and to recognize the various types of bullies." -- Publisher
Title: Al E. Gator Toothbrushing Buddy
Author: Zata
Pub Date: 2009
Record Type: Puppet
Abstract: Teaching children how to brush and floss-and having them practice what they've learned-is fun and easy with this colorful puppet. Comes with an oversized toothbrush. Stain resistant and easy to clean.
Title: Media Literacy Grades 7-8 (Also Available for Grades 5 & 6)
Author: Melissa Hart
Pub Date: 2008
Record Type: Book
Abstract: "Help students learn to think critically about the thousands of media messages they encounter each day via art, music, video games, radio, TV, websites, newspapers, magazines, ads, and packaging. Standards-based lessons require students to deconstruct, examine, discuss, and create media messages. As they develop media literacy, they learn to make thoughtful, informed decisions."-Publisher
Title: Video Games & Your Kids
Author: Hilarie Cash and Kim McDaniel
Pub Date: 2008
Record Type: Book
Abstract: Video Games & Your Kids is for parents who are worried that their children may be spending too much time playing video games. Based on research and the authors' clinical experience, the book explains what gaming addiction is, how much gaming is too much, and the affects gaming has on the body and brain. The authors give gaming advice on each stage of life; birth-2 years, ages 2-6, elementary school years, adolescence, and adult children still living at home. Where there is a problem, the authors provide parents with tools that will help the them successfully set appropriate limits for their children.
Title: Here Comes Everybody
Author: Clay Shirky
Pub Date: 2008
Record Type: Book
Abstract: An examination of how the rapid spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects--for good and for ill. Our age's new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d'e^tre swiftly eroded by the rising tide. Business models are being destroyed, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound. Clay Shirky is one of our wisest observers of the transformational power of the new forms of tech-enabled social interaction, and this is his reckoning with the ramifications of all this on what we do and who we are.--From publisher description. Discusses and uses examples of how digital networks transform the ability of humans to gather and cooperate with one another.