Justin Bieber Has Overdue Books!

Whoda thunk it! Justin Bieber has a very important public service announcement to tell you abooot! (he's from Canada..they say aboot!) With a special guest! Please don't be "THAT GUY" and bring back your library media books!

A video created for MHMS students but anyone is welcome to embed or use! (the KIDS Made me do it! - and funny...none of them (unusually!) wanted to do his voice!?) What!? LOL

Another cool video created by MHMS Students...a second MSA Pep Rally Video!

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photo credit:
Maclean’s Interview: Justin Bieber - The R & B sensation talks about Usher and Justin Timberlake, his mom and his fans, and what his swagger coach teaches him...

And to quote about that Swagger....which had me ROFLMAO

"Q: It’s been reported that you have a “swagger” coach. Can you explain to me what is that?
A: It’s pretty simple, it’s basically a swagger coach, he kind of teaches me, he helps me just stay swaggerific. I don’t know.

Q: What is it to be swaggerific?
A: You don’t know? I mean, it swaggers. It’s confidence, it’s style, I don’t know how else to put it. It’s swagger. It’s a word."

Music Credit: 14 seconds from iTunes

HCL: Summer Reading Club

It's that time again! When the Howard County Public Library rolls out its fun and AWEsome summer reading program! And Mr. Jewitt and Miss Seipel visited our Media Center to talk about it LIVE! From the website:

"Beginning June 1, everyone in Howard County, babies to adults, can read for fun and earn prizes! Read or listen to books from pre-selected reading lists, or choose your own books, magazines, and newspapers. Just kick back, relax, and Make a Splash about summer reading! Sign up online or at any branch.
Make Waves Teen Summer Reading Club
Our goal is to keep you reading this summer. Your goal is to earn book bucks!

Instructions
Earn "book bucks" for time you spend reading. Collect prizes for reaching goals of 50, 100, and 200 book bucks. When you earn at least 200 book bucks, you are eligible to participate in the Make Waves Readers Raffle.

Sponsored by Friends of Howard County Library.

You can read anything!
You may read books, magazines, graphic novels, newspapers, and websites. You may also listen to audio books. Check out a list of books for Middle School and High School students developed by Howard County Library's teen specialists in conjunction with the Howard County Public School System. You may earn book bucks for up to six hours of reading each day.


To get started, register at the information desk at any Howard County Library branch. We'll give you all of the materials you need to get started: a reading log, a review card, your first five book bucks, and a starter prize!

Submit Reader Reviews online or download Reader Reviews to submit paper copies at any branch.

Last day to earn book bucks and enter the raffle is August 14. Raffle winners contacted after August 18.

Instructions for the Make Waves Raffle are available translated into Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.

This year the fun is even better than EVER! With a great collection of prizes JUST FOR SIGNING UP! And after that, the prizes you can win for just spending time reading is AWEsome! Sign up at our local Savage Branch Library or online!

To get the Summer Reading List visit the Savage Branch library or our MHMS Learning Wiki to download the .PDF!

Savage Branch
9525 Durness Ln
Laurel, MD 20723
Phone: (410) 880-5975
TTY: (410) 880-5979

Mon. - Thurs.	10 am - 9 pm
Fri. - Sat.	10 am - 6 pm
Sun.	1 pm - 5 pm

Edward Says: Bring Back those Books!

Edward knows the importance of keeping an intact library....as we all know throughout the years he has been an avid reader...thus he patiently urges Bela to be responsible and bring back those books.


Now...i've ranted before how annoying and MarySue i think Bela is...sorry hon....but here's the whining clumsy little thing who still can't quite get the hang of returning those Library Media Books!

the first movie was created by the talented husband & wife PSA duo...Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hobson Media Specialist, Oakland Mills MS

the second movie was created using Blabberize by Ms. Jones -

bella, blabberize, books back, edward, end of the year, library books, media books, twilight

Tech Trouble Shooting Tips for Students, Parents, & Teachers

Every week we have kids come to the library media center, flash drive in hand, eyes wide and panicked because their computer or printer didn't work the night before and the paper is DUE TODAY!

And though 99% of the time we can help them - how much less stressful would it be if you had solid tech tips to finish, save & print that report or assignment outside of school?

Visit our MHMS Learning Wiki for step by step directions (with pictures!) on how to email your teacher your work digitally if you find your printer out of ink at 10pm, how to directions on how to save a .DOC (and NOT a .DOCX) and other great techie trouble shooting tips!

First suggestion: Email your work to your teacher! Visit the Murray Hill Middle School Website and follow the directions below (click to go to wikipage)

My Printer Isn't Working Home! What do I Do!?

I can't open my report!

I don't have Microsoft Office on my computer!

Saving Word Documents for use at Work/School

Keeping Your Computer Clean of Viruses

Making a PDF

Free Antivirus/anti-malware from Microsoft

And giving credit where credit is due! ....ALL of these great directions bar one (the email comic of course!) were created by the AWEsomely talented Instructional Technology Facilitator Mr. Tony Smith of Eastern Wayne High School, NC blog Tech Tips for You Thank you for your amazing ability to write great PC directions that even a Mac grrl like me could understand! YAY!

girl with computer photo used with permission by snailwithatophaton


tony smith, eastern wayne high school, tech tips, docx, google docs, printing

Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12!

Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12!

From ISTE:

Funding for classroom technology is in jeopardy! We're calling on educators across the US to tweet and blog for education technology funding on Wednesday, May 12.

(this is my blog...sadly, Twitter is blocked at my school)

President Obama's budget for FY11 provides no direct funding for education technology programs. Instead, it zeros out the Enhancing Education Through Technology program, the only source of direct support for ed tech in many states and districts.

Congress doesn't have to agree to the President's budget recommendations.

Help your senator and representative understand what's at stake! On May 12 tweet, retweet, and blog your support for $500 million in FY11 ed tech funding. Mark the date on your social media calendar!

Watch the ISTE Connects blog and Twitter stream for more information on how educators can work with innovative tools to make our voices heard.

For more information, contact Hilary Goldmann (hgoldmann@iste.org), ISTE’s director of government affairs.

Let's go Peeps! Fly Tweet, Fly!

Hispanic-Latino Luncheon

The talented and generous chefs and parents of our Hispanic-Latino community treated us to an amazing lunch on Friday for teacher appreciation week!!

Not to hurt any feelings, I must say it was
ONE of the BEST. Lunches. EVER.

Our wonderful parents pictured here with Mrs. Mehae Roldán, our
Hispanic Achievement Liaison

















Ohhh Noooo! The last of the Mole de Pollo!~
Though I know i could never compete with our resident experts, here's a recipe for that delicious dish!


Nom nom! Muchas gracias por un almuerzo increíble! Todo estaba delicioso y nuestros padres son generosos y talentosos!

here's the link to our online Smugmug Digital photo gallery!


Thanks to all of our Amazing Parents!

Decoración (Decoration)
Amparo Lawson
Ilana Flores

Ensalada (Salad)
Maria Elena Fonseca - salad
Eva Cortes - pico de gallo
Mehae Roldan - pasta salad

Comida (Entrees)
Debby Hernandez - tamales de elote
Angela Hernandez - pupusas, tamales, quesadillas
Maritza Benitez - pollo (chicken)
Ilana Flores - mole con pollo (chicken mole)
Mehae Roldan - 1 main dish
Teresa Rosario - arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas)
Flora Navarrete - relleno de carne de res
Eva Cortes - tortillas
Mercedes Herrera - hard taco shells
Iris Diaz - arroz con habichuelas, fricase de pollo
Lucia Palacio - pupusas, curtido
Barbara Rivera - arroz con gandules, pernil (rice with pigeon peas)

Servir (Serve)
Lubia Mijangos
Flora Navarrete
Ilana Flores
Lucia Palacio
Iris Diaz

Bebidas (Drinks)
Lubia Mijangos
Mercedes Herrera - agua (bottled water)
Flora Navarrete - fresco de frutas (homemade fruit drink) ((MMMMMM!~!~! AWEsome!))

Limpieza (Clean up)
Ilana Flores
Flora Navarrete
Eva Cortes

Utensilios y Platos (Utensils etc)
Amparo Lawson
Elsa Granados - platos, servilletas
Eva Cortes - comal/servilleta
Flora Navarrete - comal

Postre (Dessert)
Carolina Villarroel - sweets
Eva Cortes - arroz con leche (rice pudding)
Flora Navarrete - camotes con miel (sweet potatoes with syrup)
Mayra Argueta - ensalada de frutas

Congrats MESA Science Team!

Mr. Chrzanowski report that our MESA team competed in 4 events with the following results:


Basswood Bridge: 1st Place
Wind Energy: 1st Place
Effective Communications: 2nd Place
Scratch Banner: 2nd Place

Overall: 1st Place in the middle school category (!!!!!)

They will also represent Howard County in the state MESA day on May 3. So again, please congratulate them and wish them luck for the next level.

Ed

Edmund A Chrzanowski III
8th Grade Team Leader / Science Teacher
Murray Hill Middle School

YAY! Science! rocks! our MHMS kids rock! Congrats everyone!