The Dear Librarian has moved it’s location. You may now have all your questions answered here: http://dearlibrarian.com. The new site not only looks better, but it has more features: more searching capabilities, a blog roll, even a chat box. Please make sure to change your RSS feeds, and remember to ask me anything here: Dear Librarian.
Fan fiction is fiction continued or changed by fans. Basically, someone may have read a book that they like so much, they find themselves wanting to add to the story. Or, someone may have enjoyed a story but hated the ending; fan fiction gives the reader a chance to change the story–anywhere. Or, perhaps there’s a character from a book, tv show, or movie, that someone wants to continue creating stories for; again fan fiction provides this opportunity.
There are legal considerations to fan fiction. Basically there are two opposing sides to fan fiction. Authors of course do not want their works to be copied and hence have copyrighted their stories. Scholars however look at fan fiction as a way of story telling and continuing myths. For more information on the rights of both authors and fans, Chilling Effects offers valuable information. (Chilling Effects is a joint project to provide Internet users with their online rights.)
Fan fiction, at its root, promotes the love of reading. Students are especially drawn to fan fiction: it lets them carry out a story further, it lets them change a story to their liking, and finally it lets them create a social network in regards to their own writing. People are free to comment and change other people’s writing–continuing the act of fan fiction on and on.
The most important fact to remember when dealing with fan fiction is realizing it is not the original author’s work; it has been changed and manipulated by fans. If and when an author does not approve of fan fiction, the fan is obligated to listen to the work’s creator.
Here are some popular fan fiction sites:
Fan Fiction
Twilight Fan Fiction
Harry Potter Fan Fiction
TheForce.net
For frequently asked questions about fan fiction visit here Chilling Effects.
This may be a dated post because Ask Jeeves was definitely more popular about ten plus years ago with the on start of Web surfing. Ask Jeeves, or more correctly Ask.com, is a search engine where you can ask a question and the results provide answers. Basically by figuring out the key words in the question, a search is conducted.
While Ask.com is a nice search engine to use, it has definitely been overtaken by the mainstream Google.com. And now, in a manner of making arbitrary questions social-able there is now a site called lmgtfy.com, or in other words “Let me Google that for you”.com.
Basically, on this site, you post a question and instead of the results, you actually get an url address of the results. In this way, you share a search results rather than the actual information. With lmgtfy.com you can of course continue and click on the actual results–which by the way were more effective than Ask.com’s. When I asked both search engine’s about the code for a tag cloud my results from lmgtfy.com were more on target than the climate cloud results intertwined with tag clouds that I received from Ask.com.
Even our searches on the Internet have a social aspect to them.
Good question! Next week on March 2nd, the Dear Librarian will be 1 year old! To celebrate, the Dear Librarian will have a brand new look plus a brand new address. From March 2nd on, you can access the Dear Librarian at http://dearlibrarian.com. Here’s a sreen shot preview for you:
It’s that time of year when what you need to print has voluminous: IB papers, Extended Essay, study notes, etc.
To be a environmentally conscious printer follow this procedure to print your items front to back.
1. Select to under “File” to “Print.”
2. Click on “Properties.”
3. Look at the tab options and select “Finishing.”
4. Under “Document Options,” click on the box where it states, “Print on Both Sides (Manually).”
5. Click ok.
*Note: This is the tricky part.
6. Your first page or alternate pages will print. Grab them as they are and insert them as you took them. Don’t change the direction! (The blank page should be up and you enter it as is.)
7. Now the red light will be blinking; you just need to click the green button.
PRESTO! You just printed front to back! You made a consciuos decision to be aware of your printing needs!
On March 2nd, the Dear Librarian blog will celebrate its first birthday, and with this celebration the Dear Librarian will move to a new site with a brand new look. Ann Krembs started this blog right after she received inspiration from Scott McLeod at ASB UnPlugged. After a few weeks of wondering what she could write about, she instantly knew! Take all the little questions people ask her and turn it into a blog. For example, here’s a list of questions she’s gotten this week and will blog about in the near future:
Dr. Jillian Campana has been featured in this month’s issue of TimeOut Mumbai. Campana is the lead, director, and producer of The Mercy Street. It opens this Thursday, February 12 and will also play on Friday, February 13. The theme of this two person play is quite intense: two lovers watch the Twin Towers collapse from an apartment window as their relationship mirrors what’s going on outside. TimeOut Mumbai says this, “Campana strongly believes in theatre’s potential as a medium of catharsis.” To read more about this play and Jillian Campana, you can read the feature here: TimeOut Mumbai, Vol. 5 Issue 12.
Marc Levitt is a storyteller from Wakefield, RI and New York City. He travels to international schools like ours and teaches kids about the art of telling a good story. This is Marc’s second visit to ASB. Mr. Marc Levitt is so good at telling stories, that he has even won awards for his gift. Besides being a storyteller, he is also an educator, writer, tv and radio host, filmmaker, and land use activist. You can learn more about Marc Levitt by linking to his site.
The Superbowl is the championship game of football for the National Football League (NFL). It first started in 1967 when the game was between the NFL and the American Football League (AFL). By 1970 the two leagues had merged, but the game continued. The game is between the two top teams of the AFC (American Football Conference) and the NFC (National Football Conference). The game is always on a Sunday, and the commercials during this game run for the most money in history. This year’s Super Bowl Sunday was on February 1st between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers. For the XLIII Super Bowl it was a close game, but the Steelers won 27-23!
For more information about the Super Bowl you can link here: http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/43
Texting, IMing, updating status, chatting…basically any online communication becomes even more graphically pleasing when you add fun emoticons and symbols. Not all emoticons or symbols come up instantly depending on the application being used, but by linking on Twitter Keys, you could copy a fun emoticon or symbol and insert it into a message. Here’s the options from Twitter Keys. Just double click on a key, copy it, and then paste it into your message.
