The Educational Enhancement Fund donated two iPads to the CGHS Library. They are set up with a variety of apps, including the Kindle app, with a few popular books loaded to start.
Katy DeWeese and Skyler Stevenson were the first two people to check out the iPads on Tuesday.
Photos by MHouse
USA Today ran a good story on November 30, 2011 comparing the e-readers and tablets on the market. Since I have been getting some questions about this very subject, I decided to highlight the story here.
If your children are interested in electronics but are not ready to play around with the real thing yet, consider squishy circuits. "Kids of all ages can create circuits and explore electronics using play dough." If you make your own dough following the recipes here, it conducts or insulates better than purchased dough.
“I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.” – Businessweek
“That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” – New York Times, The Guts of a New Machine, 2003
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” – Fortune
These free guides explore a variety of topics from Linux to Photoshop; networks to online shopping.
We've been hearing a lot about QR codes lately. The following image courtesy of jumpscan does the best job of explaining what a QR code is. Jumpscan allows you to create a QR code of your own. A free QR code generator is QRickit.
After hearing a LOT about school libraries putting QR codes on books that would take readers to video book trailers when they scanned them with a smart phone, we did some experimenting. Unfortunately, every single book trailer we looked at was, well, to put it as gently as we can, incredibly STUPID, poorly designed, or a horrible representation of the book. Maybe we are just too picky. (We know there are good book trailers out there, we just didn't find anything at the high school level with a QR code that we liked.) We will keep looking, and when we find something good, QR codes will show up on the books here.
If you are wondering what to do with your old toner cartridges and cell phones, drop them by the high school library for recycling.
