Pasadena's DIGITAL Library!

I hope you all take time to browse through the city library this next week rather than rush in, get your card and some random book then rush out! But perhaps that is all your schedule allows for over the next week. Well, perhaps you are also a lover of technology and enjoy doing things online or on your computer. Then, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the Pasadena City's Digital Library (<- click to visit).

You can link to this website from their homepage (<- click to visit) (where you can also get news, hours, other resources, and search their collection of books, place holds, etc.). The digital library is an online place where you can download copies of books and audiobooks and keep them temporarily on your home computer. You get to rent digital copies of material just as you would hardcopies from a branch. Explore! And if you find something, use your card to rent it then share your digital library experience with the class!

Using Your Multiple Intelligences

In Level 4 today, we talked a bit about what the idea of multiple intelligences is. We also thought of some different skills and categorized them before examining the same discussion had by our characters in our book from Unit 1 pages 6-7. So have you thought more about your own personal strengths? Did you think in class, “Why are we talking so much about this idea anyway”? Well, we did so for good reason. Our homework was to write a short paragraph describing our current study habits of English and what strategies we may add to them the help us improve. If we understand our multiple intelligences, we can better adopt relevant strategies that pertain to our learning strengths. So why not go on a little journey of self-discovery?

Visit this website (ßclick the highlighted word) and take the survey. Once completed, print your results and examine them closely. Do any of their suggested learning strategies appeal to you? If you like some of them, we will be re-writing our paragraphs to incorporate these strategies that are based on our highest ranked category of intelligence. Perhaps this year will be your most successful year of learning now that you’ve incorporated strategies most related to your strengths!