Google like a pro: Tip #8

Use Google as a timer or stopwatch

You can use Google as a timer by typing in set timer for [time]. It will bring up a timer, and start
counting down immediately.

You can also use Google as a stopwatch by searching for the word stopwatch.

What is the tagline? - Winners!

Another massive response to the quiz meant that 10 students answered every question correctly! Five lucky students were drawn out of a hat to win a major prize. All the other winners can come to the ILC to collect a small prize of their own

Congratulations...

Lucas Robertson (7 Licona)
Tadhg Evans (7 Carroll)
Rory Quinn (8 Rubio)
Eva Kilpatrick (8 Xavier)
Kiera Galan (9 Regis)

Minor prize winners:

Luca Martino (7 Claver)
Charli Nisbet (8 Castillo)
Dylan Vigilante (8 Xavier)
Nicholas Beraldo (9 Faber)
Liam Power (11 Juana)

You will need to come to the ILC to collect your prizes.

Congratulations to the other students who had a go. Better luck next week!

Check out the blog again next week for a new competition and a chance to win!

Book recommendation

Talk Under Water by Kathryn Lomer

Will Lane never expected to make friends with some random girl on the internet.
Summer Rainbird never expected some random guy from the internet to turn up on her door step.
Both Will and Summer are missing a parent and needing a friend. But when they meet in real life, will they even be able to talk to each other, let alone be friends?

Isn't anyone why they say they are anymore?

Deciding who to trust

As everyone knows, not everything on the internet is trustworthy. Some of it is obviously wrong.
Some of it is obviously biased or out of date. These sites can easily avoided when you are doing assignments.

But what about the things that are not obvious?

EasyBib (you remember, the site you use for your Bibliographies) has a tool that can help:

http://webeval.easybib.com/

This site will guide you, step-by-step through making up your own mind.

Quiz - Movie Taglines

This quiz asks you to be able to match the movie to the tag line. How closely do you pay attention to movie posters? From only a few words can you remember, or guess, what the movie is?
Yummy prizes will be awarded to the student/s with the most correct answers*.

Go to the competition

Entries close on Friday 24th of March.

Winners announced here on Monday 27th of March.

*The number of prizes awarded for each competition may be limited at the library's discretion.

Now in the Cinema - Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan.

Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.
With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.

And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse.
In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart. (Goodreads.com)

Can you spot a fake news article?

With more and more "fake" news out there you need to be able to tell what is real and what is click-bait. This infographic tells you quickly what to look for.

Fantastic worlds - winners!

There was a massive response to the last quiz with 21 students answering every question correctly! Five lucky students were drawn out of a hat to win a major prize. All the other winners can come to the ILC to collect a small prize of their own

Congratulations...

Harrison Rolfs (7 Carroll)
Anthony Elliott (8 Realino)
Charli Nisbet (8 Castillo)
Dylan Vigilante (8 Xavier)
Joshua Cuttris (9 Faber)

Minor prize winners:

Harley Corless (7 Licona)
Lindsay Musella (7 Borgia)
Luca Martino (7 Claver)
Lucas Robertson (7 Licona)
Matthew Warwick (7 Carroll)
Nick Gibbon (7 Carroll)
Tadhg Evans (7 Carroll)
Agnel Joseph (8 Xavier)
Eva Kilpatrick (8 Xavier)
Smit Patel (8 Xavier)
Tess Craven (8 Realino)
Georgia Mantzaris (9 Faber)
Kiera Galan (9 Regis)
Emily Jones (10 Loyola)
Harrison Curtis (12 Howett)

You will need to come to the ILC to collect your prizes.

Congratulations to the other students who had a go. Better luck next week!

Check out the blog again next week for a new competition and a chance to win!

Now in the Cinema - Before I Fall

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Sam Kingston is dead.
Except she isn't.

On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the imposible happens: she wakes up in her own bed, on the morning of the day she died.

Forced to live over and over the last day of her life - the drive to school, skipping class, the fateful party - she desperately struggles to alter the outcome, but every morning she wakes up on the day of the crash.

This is the story of a girl who dies young, but in the process learns how to live.

And who falls in love... a little too late.

Online dangers - funny video

What is the thing that is most dangerous to you online? Enjoy the video - it is entertaining and informative.

Quote of the Month

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend"

- Paul Sweeney