The Scholastic Book Clubs orders we placed before the Chinese New Year break arrived this week. Thanks to the purchases of our community members, the IST library was able to acquire many excellent new titles for our library collection as well as many books for the ESL classrooms from grades 1 to 5. To see [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tutorials'
Reading the Spine of a Book
February 17th, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics
Library books most often show their spines to the world. On the spine of a book you can see the title of the book, the author and the name or logo of the publisher. In addition to this, library books often have a call number label. At IST our call numbers are at the bottom [...]
Register for December 7 library database workshops
November 29th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
We are offering three short workshops on Wednesday, December 7 from 8:05 – 8:25 in the library. Please complete the form below if you would like to participate. PowerSpeak Languages: We will have a basic introduction to this language-learning database which supports students of Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. We will learn to log in [...]
Get to Know Your Library OPAC Main Page
November 21st, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
What can you do with the library OPAC? OPAC stands for Online Access Public Catalog and it is a public and online listing of all the materials we have in our library collection. Thanks to the joys of living in the 21st century, we can view and search for titles in our collection from the [...]
Japanese School Cultural Exchange
November 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Elementary Topics, General Topics
“Konnichiwa! This means “hello” in Japanese, a phrase that will be heard throughout the morning on Friday 18 November. Why? On this day, IST will host a Culture Exchange Day with Grades 1 through 6 and 200 students from Tianjin Japanese School participating. This event will begin at 8:45 am and end at 11:45 am. [...]
Maps with National Geographic
November 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics, General Topics
The National Geographic Society, publishers of the National Geographic magazines, have created an educational site with many interactive features. One of these is an Interactive Map that allows users to create and customize maps of any region or country. Third graders continue their unit on boundaries and they may find this map maker useful. I [...]
Maps for Third Graders (And Everyone Else, Really)
November 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elementary Topics, General Topics
The grade 3 students have an extended homework assignment that requires finding maps and information on maps. The IST library subscribes to several databases that feature accurate and reliable maps. I will list two here that are particularly good for this third grade homework project. You will need to log in to the library OPAC [...]
New Library OPAC Login
August 24th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
This year, we’ve merged the ID data on our ID cards to the library OPAC. This means that now you can login with your name and your ID card number. It’s very easy. First, go to the library catalog. From school, the URL is http://172.30.2.2. From home, the URL is http://60.29.119.90. Clicking on the images [...]
We Love Edheads!
March 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Grade 1 is currently studying simple machines as part of the PYP theme, How the world works. As for all PYP units, there are links to useful websites for this unit. One of the most fun is the Edheads Simple Machines activities, but Edheads has a bit for everyone. See how to get to Edheads [...]
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Got maps?
January 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · General Topics
Students and teachers often need maps for school assignments. While maps can be found on Google Images, those used on school assignments should be from accurate, reliable sources such as the ones I will list here. Online databases The IST library subscribes to many online databases to support the learning that goes on in school. [...]
