Bunker Library Blog

While I was looking for music, I ran into a site that was jam-packed with great material: The Internet Archive.

http://www.archive.org/index.php

This site has downloadble images, moving images, music, text, and more!  You can watch vintage movies,  television,  newsreels,  classic cartoons, pro- and anti-war films, and amateur and home movie collections. You can listen to vintage radio programs, classic music and musicians.  The texts collection includes digitized books from libraries around the world as well as many special collections.  The amount of material is overwhelming.

 You can also use the “Wayback Machine” to see see archived versions of web pages across time.  Very interesting.

I am working with students to create book trailers.  Finding music is always a challenge.  Here are a few sites I have found:

Here are a few:

Partners in Rhyme has royalty free music that you can download for use in multimedia projects.  They also have stock music for sale.

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml

Royalty Free Music also has a free page for education.

http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-resources.html

 Oddio Overplay has all sorts of music that is free and downloadable.   It is a little hard to search, but what a wealth of material.   http://www.oddiooverplay.com/

Amazon actually has free mp3 files, too.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=&x=13&y=22

There are so many goodies out there in the big, wide world.  I will try to keep you posted on new ones that I find.  Mind you, they are probably new to me, and known to zillions of people throughout the world.

Take a look at “Common Craft.”

http://commoncraft.com/show

A husband and wife team “make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos.”  Have you wondered what a “wiki” is, how they are made, or how to make them.  This video tells you in simple English.

http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

If you like Power Point presentations, you might want to try:

http://www.slideshare.net/

You can search by subject, check the “most downloaded,” favorites, and more.

We are off to a busy start this year.  Bunker has a new principal, secretary, and counselor.  Lots of changes!  The librarians, four us us in the district, are busy working on ordering materials for a federal “Improving Literacy Through School Libraries” grant.  We are extremely fortunate to have received $500,000 for our school libraries.  Purchases will include books, new technology, and extended library hours.  Wow!

I am the librarian at Bunker Middle School in Muskegon, Michigan.  If you would like to know more about Bunker or me, please check the pages to the right.

Mary Hendon

One of the projects I tackled for the beginning of this year was to take a photo of every staff member to be hung outside their classroom or office.  I asked staff to choose a favorite book for their photo.  They also could choose a special background.  Check out our teacher pages to see some of the photos. It may be a few days until they are uploaded.

http://www.muskegon.k12.mi.us/schools/bunker/Teachers/

My book is a collection of stories told at the Jonesborough Storytelling Festival in 1993.  Attending that festival was one of my favorite experiences of all times.  Master storytellers kept my attention for three days.  My background is a scene from Ireland.  I was fortunate to visit Ireland in 2001 with my mother, my husband, and his mother.  I have a soft spot for Irish stories.