The Turnitin Calendar

Use the turnitin calendar to stay on top of due dates. Log into your account and click on the calendar tab. 

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Your First Stop for General Reference

To verify the information that you find on wikipedia, check out Encyclopedia Britannica online, a great general resource for facts and general reference. Click here to visit our Library's list of at least twenty electronic resources and refer to your school agenda for usernames and passwords.

      Why use a database?

Sign up for turnitin

If you haven't already, please sign up for turnitin using the class id and password provided by Mr. Go. Be sure to use an email you check frequently since this will be used for class announcements.

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Welcome Back Classes of 2011-2012!

[Sept. 7th, 2011]

Please take a moment to fill out the following survey as your first media assignment (take care to fill out the correct information at the top of the survey).

Click here to fill out the survey

• Please take a moment to register for wikispaces and click on "join this wiki" on mistergo.wikispaces.com as well as your own class page (Gr. 9 or Gr. 11)
• For next day's question of the day, find a document or page on this site that you think may be useful to you (write down the title of the resource and bring this title to class)

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Become a library volunteer

[Sept. 7th, 2011]

For new and returning Library Volunteers,applications are available on the right hand panel (scroll down to the Volunteer heading) or click here.

Have a great 2011-12 Academic Year! 

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Visit the library often - it's designed for YOU

[Sept. 12th, 2011]

Be sure to check out Earl Haig's library - more than just a quiet place to study or do research. The EHSS Library website is also chalk full of useful resources for most subjects. Check out this orientation video a former student, Wellington Chow, created. Press the fullscreen button on the bottom right for best viewing experience.

High School Seniors Predict Their Future

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women

Food for thought.

Educate yourself. Don't Buy It & Library Volunteers

Educate yourself. Don't Buy it!

Check out this site and educate yourself!
Click here.

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CALLING ALL NEW AND RETURNING LIBRARY VOLUNTEERS

Are you a people person? Like working with books? Looking to become a member of a dedicated, book-loving community?

Well fill out an application and become a Library Volunteer for the 2011-12 School Year!

If you are a new or returning volunteer, please fill out the application linked under the Volunteers heading at earlhaig.ca/library. Please get all applications in before the week of June 6th.
Click here for more info.

International Day Against Homophobia

http://www.homophobiaday.org/

CELEBRATE ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH

The Toronto Public Library celebrates Asian Heritage Month with programs all over town.
◙ Click here for more info.


ASIAN HOMELANDS FESTIVALS
Eight Asian Homelands Festivals on Saturdays throughout May celebrate the breadth of Asia, including Balinese music and dance, Chinese opera, Persian dance, Arabian and South Asian cooking, and storytelling from across Asia. Only Marco Polo covers more Asian ground than our 2011 Asian Homelands Festivals! Click here for more info


Also check out this ◙ Virtual Museum of Asian Heritage by Heritage Canada.


Find out what the Toronto District School Board is doing ◙ by clicking here.


◙ Asian Heritage Poster

Help End Homophobia

Try out the CBC Vote Compass 2011

Get involved in the democratic process early!  Don't take your democratic right for granted. With the recent turn of world events, it's even more important to appreciate the voting rights we have in this country.  Try out the CBC's voting compass and see where you stand on the issues at hand.

Click here or on the image below to try it out.

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Celebrate ◙National Poetry Month and check out a collection of poetry by your favourite writers in the library.

Try your hand at the ◙ CBC's  Literary Limerick Contest.


Read a collection by ◙Dionne Brand, a Toronto Poet (and author of ◙What We All Long For) who was just shortlisted for the $65,000 Griffin International Poetry Prize.

Great new invention!

Call for Creative Writing Submissions

Like creative writing?  Well check this writing contest out from the Toronto Public Library.

Writing Gone Wild

Young Voices Magazine

Calling for Submissions - Young Voices 2011

We're now accepting creative writing and artwork and photographs for Young Voices 2011 – Toronto Public Library's magazine of teen writing and visual art. The editors will look at submissions in the spring of 2011. GUIDELINES: Write what you want to write! It can be a poem, story, essay ... whatever you like. Submit only your own original work. Submissions are not returned, so keep a copy of your work. Toronto Public Library has one-time print and electronic rights to all work selected for publication, as well as the right to excerpt from the work for purposes of promotion. Written submissions will be selected from each of the following age categories: 12-14; 15-16; 17-19. Artwork will not be categorized by age for the purposes of choosing what to publish. Who Can Enter -- Teens, 12-19 years who live or go to school in the City of Toronto. What Can Be Entered You can enter two pieces each year: One piece of writing per person One visual piece per person, either a piece of artwork OR a photograph Written Work: poems, stories, rants, reviews... 1000 words maximum Typed entries preferred, but not required Artwork: 81/2" x 11" preferred Black and white artwork only Originals are preferred, but if you submit a copy you will be required to submit the original should your work be selected for publication. Photography: for inside the magazine or on the cover 4"x 6" preferred; 300 dpi resolution for electronic submissions Black and white photographs only How To Enter Complete the submission form. Attach the form to your work Drop your work off at any library branch. Or submit online. Submission Deadline: Saturday, April 2, 2011 ---------------------------------------------

Did you catch the Supermoon?

If you didn't, check out the ◙SuperMoon that happened last Saturday.  Check out ◙this article from Popular Science, of the many magazines available in our library.  ◙Here's another even more detailed article on this astronomical phenomenon from Scientific American.  

Japan: Our thoughts are with you

Click here for a link to Japanese Relief


See the effects of the disaster in before/after pictures here.






Japanese Consulate in Toronto

March Break 2011

Have a safe and relaxing holiday!

Taking notes for a Project? Try EASYBIB Notes

Check your class wiki under "useful links" for the coupon password to sign up for this fantastic service. Keep your sources and notes together!

TED event comes to Earl Haig

Wed. March 2nd, 2011

Check out the agenda and lineup of speakers: click here.

◙Click here to sign up.

Simulcast of the following event:

“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design”  (TED.com). Click here to find out more

Check out some of our favourite TED Talks by clicking on the links below…

• Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
• Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat
• Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
• Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants (uses PREZI!)
• Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
• Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
• Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

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Awesome Technology course to take next year (2011-02-24)

Awesome Technology course to take next year (2011-02-24)

Looking for a cool course on technology to take next year?

Check out this one. (IDC4UP)

Reel Canada Film Festival returns to Earl Haig (2011-02-20)

Reel Canada Film Festival returns to Earl Haig (2011-02-20)

The Reel Canada Film Fest is coming back to Haig! Get your permission forms in to Mr. Go ASAP so you can partake in this Tinseltown-North affair!

TRUE LOVE (2007) 6 min. 
DIRECTOR: Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany

Click the images to find out more about Reel Canada of each of the features.

Check out Ms. Marshall's latest installation by English:

Rise of the ebook (2011-02-20)

Ideas Air Date: Monday - January 31, 2011

Closing The Book

The world of letters is being rocked by new technology. The rapid rise of the e-reader could be the biggest change in books since Gutenberg invented movable type. Readers, writers, booksellers, and publishers are all grappling with its implications and asking a fundamental question: is a book really a book when it exists only as a digital file? CBC producer Sean Prpick goes between the covers of the question.

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Enrichment opportunity: join The Toronto One Book program (2011-02-18)

Enjoy reading? See Mr. Go for a bonus opportunity to read Midnight at the Dragon Café, this year's selection for the Toronto One Book program.

Announcing the 2011 One Book: Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates

Toronto Public Library is pleased to announce our selection for the 2011 Keep Toronto Reading One Book program: Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates.

Set in a small Ontario town in the 1960s, Fong Bates’ debut novel tells the story of a young Chinese girl and her family – the owners of the only Chinese restaurant in town. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets.

We encourage everyone to read this book. Then please join us during our Keep Toronto Reading Festival this April for readings, discussion and other events that bring this book’s themes to life.

Fong Bates: "I have always felt that were I not an immigrant, I would probably not write."

Judy Fong Bates came to Canada from China as a young child and grew up in several small Ontario towns.

She is a writer, storyteller and teacher, whose stories have been broadcast on CBC radio and published in literary journals and anthologies. In addition to Midnight at the Dragon Café, she is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection,China Dog and Other Tales from A Chinese Laundry, and a family memoir, The Year of Finding Memory.

Judy has two adult daughters and two grandchildren. She lives with her husband on a farm outside of Toronto. They are both devoted gardeners and hikers.