March 2020 Calendar: Behold the Eyes of March - Visual Literacy (bit.ly/mar2020cal) - The first week of March is #WillEisnerWeek. The library has joined in the celebration (bit.ly/rst-eisner2020) to promote graphic novel literacy, free speech, and the sequential arts. Following this theme, the March calendar highlights visual literacy resources throughout the whole month. Print your own copy of the calendar to follow along. Also, if you want to see books that staff members shared as favorites from when they were little, check out our February calendar (bit.ly/feb2020cal).
Resource Snack Time - The library regularly highlights instructional resources in a bite-sized format for teachers, but students and families may also find this information helpful. Below is a recent sampling:
- ILA’s What’s Hot in Literacy Report (bit.ly/rst-ila20) - When looking at findings from the International Literacy Association, we celebrate all of the WHHS teachers who collaborate with the library to increase student access to high-quality, authentic texts. As of March 3rd, we’ve already surpassed the number of library checkouts by 17% when comparing the current school year with all of last year.
- News Literacy Week (bit.ly/rst-nnlw) - There are many types of literacies. The last week of January was #NewsLiteracyWeek. Check out curated resources we shared from the News Literacy Project.
- GUHSD Discovery Search (bit.ly/rst-discovery) - Students now have access to a discovery search tool when searching for information in online databases. This allows our students to start practicing college-level research skills.
- Google Scholar (bit.ly/rst-scholar) - Another option now available for searching online databases is Google Scholar, now linked with our GUHSD subscriptions.
- Smithsonian Open Access (bit.ly/rst-smithCC) - The Smithsonian recently released nearly 3 million images under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licensing and our students (and others) may now use them for creating projects.
- Instapoetry (bit.ly/rst-instapoetry) - Many students enjoy reading poetry both online (especially on Instagram) and in published print versions. Explore some #instapoets!
