Our kanopy trial ends soon (on April 26th). Watch these critically acclaimed anime before they're gone!
Log-in with your library card at https://cinlibraries.kanopy.com/, set-up a free kanopy account, come back to this tab, and click on the links below to go straight to the movie in kanopy's catalog. (The age ratings come from Common Sense Media.) 1) The Case of Hana & Alice (Japanese only) [10+] 2) A Cat in Paris (French/English) [9+] 3) Eleanor's Secret (French/English) [5+] 4) Ernest & Celestine (French/English) [6+] 5) The Girl Without Hands (French only) [12+] 6) A Letter to Momo (Japanese/English) [9+] 7) Nocturna (English only) [8+] 8) The Painting (French/English) [9+] 9) The Rabbi's Cat (French only) [12+] 10) The Secret of Kells (English/Irish/Gaelic) [9+] 11) Tales of the Night (French/English) [8+] 12) Zarafa (French/English) [9+]
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Did you know April is National Poetry Month? Celebrate with these online resources!
INTERACTIVE POETRY WRITING TOOLS 1) Blackout Poetry Maker is a web app that allows you to create blackout poetry with no physical supplies. Choose sample texts from three public domain classics as the base of your poem, or copy and paste your own text into the web app, and go from there! Simply select the words you want to keep, and click 'black out' when you're finished, and your poem will reveal itself like magic. 2) Magnetic Poetry is a web app that's freely provided by the creators of the famous Magnetic Poetry sets that can be purchased in physical format. They have generously provided some of their sets digitally online, so you can have the fun of creating a magnetic poem virtually without any of the physical supplies. 3) Language is a Virus (collection) is an eclectic collection of writing-related resources. The previous link takes you directly to the 'Poetry' section of the website. My favorite find from this collection is the Visual Poetry tool. It allows you to input text and draw shapes with it. It's basically an easy web app for creating online Shape Poetry (aka Concrete Poetry). 4) Poetry Machine (collection) is a large collection of interactive poetry 'games'. My favorite find from this collection is the Diamonte tool. Every tool, including this one, presents the rules for that poetry-type very simply. It makes poetry writing have a very self-guided feel. 5) ReadWriteThink (collection) is a large collection of online literacy tools and lesson plans, which includes several Poetry-related Interactives. The trouble with the web apps on this site might be accessibility. Flash is used by the majority of the interactive web apps, and some devices are no longer supporting the ability to use Flash. Having said that, if you can figure out workarounds and access the Flash-based web apps, they are much more visually appealing than some others that I've mentioned. My favorite, for instance, is the Haiku Poem Interactive, which has a really nice Asian-inspired design. RHYMING DICTIONARIES 1) Rhyme Desk is an easy-to-use, minimalistic online rhyming dictionary and thesaurus that has a special area specifically meant for poetry-writing, called the Poet's Desk. This special area allows for you to compose your poem, search for rhymes and synonyms, and even count syllables all at the same time. 2) Rhyme Zone gives you the capability to search for rhymes, but also search for the word in song lyrics or Shakespeare, etc. You can find synonyms, antonyms, homophones, or just check the spelling of a word. There are a lot of random search options in the drop-down menu, which make this site more than meets the eye. 3) Dillfrog muse is a complex rhyming dictionary with a lot of search features that you won't find elsewhere. In fact, it's so complex and multi-layered that I'm not even sure what the parameters are for some of the site's search features. For instance, in the drop-down menu under 'Storm' there are over ten different search features that all seem to be different types of wordplay opportunities. Basically, if you're feeling like your word choice abilities are lackluster and becoming cliche, this site might offer some random inspiration in a chaotic, eclectic way. PUBLISH YOUR POETRY ONLINE 1) Teen Ink is a well-established magazine that publishes teen writing. The library actually subscribes to this magazine, and it's widely distributed nationwide. Here's how to submit. 2) Underlined is an online writing community geared towards teens. If you sign-up for an account, you can share your writing with others, but even if you don't want to submit your writing, it has a lot of great articles and inspiration, which makes it a great resource to know about. 3) Power Poetry is another online writing community geared towards teens, but this one is specifically for teen poets. It has digital poetry slams, collections of poetry resources, ways to find local poetry groups, etc. In order to submit a poem to the site, you have to sign-up for an account. 4) Newspaper Blackout is not geared towards teens specifically, but I believe it's the only online blackout poetry community. If you find blackout poetry to be especially inspiring, this is a good resource for you to know about. It doesn't require an account, but that also makes it less private, so keep that in-mind, if you choose to submit something. It's a site that's inspired by a book (of the same name) by one of my favorite authors, Austin Kleon. His blog and newsletter are another great source of creative inspiration. 5) Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is a competition for teens that's held yearly for art and writing. The current year's deadline has already passed, but that gives you until September to anticipate what you want to write about and prepare to submit your masterpiece. There are scholarship opportunities and the chance that your writing will be published in the annual collection of "The Best Teen Writing" for that year. GENERAL POETRY RESOURCES 1) Academy of American Poets is a storehouse of information about celebrating National Poetry Month with ideas such as Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day (which is on April 30 this year). 2) Poetry 180 is a list of 180 poems that were hand-selected specifically for high school students. They are available in full-text online. 3) Poetry Foundation is an organization devoted to celebrating poetry's place in our culture. They have a section of their site specifically for Teens, as well as a great resource list for Teaching Poetry Online. They also sponsor a sister site devoted to reading Poetry Out Loud (which is also a poetry recitation competition for teens). 4) Sit Down and Write is an article about poetry that was submitted by a local teen poet who found it helpful. There's a lot of great advice and further resources available here. Check it out, if you're hungry for more! Have a favorite resource that's not on this list? Feel free to comment below, or contact us! Coeur d'Alene Public Library is not affiliated with or sponsored by these companies or offerings and cannot be held responsible for faulty links, gaps in service, special requirements, or other issues. Stuck inside? Bored? Want to escape for a bit? Or find something new and interesting?
Here's a dozen options for eBooks and eAudio: 1) Libby (via Overdrive) is the most robust and versatile option. It probably should come as no surprise that this service's eBooks and eAudio are hand-selected and curated by the Coeur d'Alene Public Library (and our local networked libraries) and are available free-of-charge to anyone with a library card. There's thousands of titles, ranging from fiction, non-fiction, and even some graphic novels and manga. If you're babysitting younger siblings, there's also some great children's content here, too, such as Read-a-longs and easy-readers that will help the time fly by. Can't find what you're looking for? Request that we purchase new digital content through our purchase request form. Overdrive has the Big Library Read program, too, which allows for unlimited checkouts of a digital title; at the time of this post, the selected title is "Funny, You Don't Look Autistic", which is an autobiography that's intended for teen audiences. We're having a digital book club geared around it, too, which will meet on April 13; click the link for more details. 2) Teen Book Cloud (via Tumblebooks) is a service that we've been temporarily given access to during the COVID-19 crisis. (If you enjoy this service and would like to see it continue, please let us know.) It offers unlimited simultaneous viewing of its digital titles (which come from a wide range of genres), so you can easily start a digital book club with your friends. 3) Riveted Free Reads (via Simon Teen) is a website from a teen book publishing company that offers free reads, as well as free excerpts from new books coming out. It's available all-year-round, but it might be especially helpful right now, if you're trying to start (or join) a digital book club. It offers unlimited downloads of digital titles (while they're available), updates its offerings often, and creates curated posts suggesting what to read next. 4) Audible Stories (via Audible) contains some freely released eAudio (from the Audible subscription service--but available without subscription) to help people during the COVID-19 crisis. 5) Comixology Free Comics (via Comixology) contains some freely released eComics (from the Comixology subscription service--but available without subscription) to help people during the COVID-19 crisis. 6) Shonen Jump (via VIZ) contains some free eMangas. VIZ is a publishing company for manga and also has a subscription service, but you only have to join in order to read select chapters. Many of the newest chapters are free online. Most of these series will likely be ones that you've heard of, such as "My Hero Academia" and "Demon Slayer". It's available all-year-round. (There's also an app version.) 7) Marvel Unlimited - Free Comics (via Marvel) contains some freely released eComics (from the Marvel Unlimited subscription service--but available without subscription) to help people during the COVID-19 crisis. Most of these series will likely be ones that you've heard of, such as "Avengers" and "Black Panther". (There's also an app version.) 8) B&N Free eBooks (via Barnes & Noble) contains some free eBooks for Teens and some free Graphic Novels. Accessibility might be an issue, if you don't have a B&N Nook device or the Nook app. It may also require a Barnes & Noble account. 9) High School eBook Collection (via EBSCO) is a service that we've been temporarily given access to during the COVID-19 crisis. (If you enjoy this service and would like to see it continue, please let us know.) It's part of an EBSCO eBook collection that's been made available through LiLI.org, for this season. The collection includes several reference-like materials and more non-fiction and DIY titles than some of our other library-affiliated offerings. It may require your Idaho zip code and the name of your city (e.g. coeur dalene) in order to access it. (While this particular offering is only temporary, LiLI offers a wide variety of research databases to Idaho residents free-of-charge all-year-round; be sure to check them out!) 10) SYNC Audiobooks for Teens (via Audiofile) is a service that annually provides free eAudio to teens over the summer (April 30 to July 1). At the time of this posting, the service begins in about a month. This year, it's a worldwide service, so you could be listening to the same eAudio as teens from a different location on the globe! The Sora app (another Overdrive app, geared towards schools) is required in order to access the content. Two new titles are released every week. Here's 2020's schedule of releases. 11) LibriVox (via Public Domain) contains both a volunteer opportunity and a great collection of eAudio titles from the public domain (which are freely available titles whose copyright has expired). Through this site, you can volunteer to record yourself reading a public domain title, or you can access the thousands of titles that have already been completed by other volunteers from across the world. This a great resource for eAudio versions of classic literature (as many of these are in the public domain). 12) Project Gutenberg (via Public Domain) is one of the largest collections of public domain eBooks on the internet. There are volunteer opportunities through the site for proofreaders, as well. This is another great resource for digital versions of classic literature. It legally provides a wide-variety of content from books that have fallen out of copyright. Each book has been scanned, OCR'd, and proofread by several volunteers before it's available to the general public. The sheer number of titles can be overwhelming, so here's a link to Project Gutenberg's Top 100, which might help you narrow your choices. Have a favorite resource that's not on this list? Feel free to comment below, or contact us! Except where described, Coeur d'Alene Public Library is not affiliated with or sponsored by these companies or offerings and cannot be held responsible for faulty links, gaps in service, special requirements, or other issues. |
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