WHS Technology Newsletter for Parents and Students

WHS Library, Chrome, and Canvas Corner Canvas :   It is getting to be research paper writing time again.  Did you know that your student has access to college-level academic databases that they can access at home?  All of the links for their research are available on our WHS All Student Canvas page:  http://bit.ly/whslibrary2   It includes tech handouts, links to databases, and informs them how they can access the databases at home. Library :   Love comics?  Know a lot about superheros?  Come to the mini-convention at your local Cedar Mill Library  Friday , May 4th from 4-6pm.  At  Epic Infinity Comic Crisis Extravaganza @ Cedar Mill  you can meet artists  Leila Del Duca  (Shutter, Afar),  Benjamin Dewey  (Autumnlands) and  Erik Nebel  (Well Come). There will be a Q&A discussion panel with these comics creators.   Bring your best cosplay to win the costume ...

WHS Library, Chrome, and Canvas Corner Canvas :    Still haven't set up your parent Canvas account?  Check out the  district  resource webpage for help :  http://bit.ly/WHScanvasforparents   Need more?  Here is  a quick-guide with pictures on page 2:  http://bit.ly/whscanvasquick   Once you join,  stay connected with us!  Consider joining our new Wildcats Alumni page:  http://bit.ly/alumniwhs  for updates on events, alumni activities, and more.  Go Wildcats! Library :   Come celebrate Portland’s creative youth during our sixth annual Verselandia! poetry slam.    Verselandia! is the Grand Slam for the winners from individual school slams hosted by public high school library media specialists, it  is held on the 26th.  Information can be found  http://bit.ly/studentpoetry Digital Citizenship:   "The internet has a memory?"  As we work toward assisting...

WHS Library, Chrome, and Canvas Corner Canvas :  Calling all Wildcats:  we want to stay connected with you!  Consider joining our new Wildcats Alumni page:  http://bit.ly/alumniwhs  for updates on events, alumni activities, and more.  Go Wildcats! Library :  Many of our students can't check out books from the library due to long standing fines.  Starting this Saturday, they can g et that library fine off their chest and do a good deed at the same time! Donate non-perishable food items to either Beaverton City Library location during National Library Week 4/7-4/15 and you'll be forgiven $2 in fines for every item you bring in. You can eliminate up to $20 in fines. Additionally, if you bring in long overdue, billed items, those charges will be removed.   Digital Citizenship:    Students share a wealth of information on their social media accounts, so a reminder to run a social media check is pretty much alwa...

WHS Library, Chrome, and Canvas Corner Library :  Many of our students can't check out books from the library due to long standing fines.  Starting this Saturday, they can g et that library fine off their chest and do a good deed at the same time! Donate non-perishable food items to either Beaverton City Library location during National Library Week 4/7-4/15 and you'll be forgiven $2 in fines for every item you bring in. You can eliminate up to $20 in fines. Additionally, if you bring in long overdue, billed items, those charges will be removed.   Digital Citizenship:    Working with students, one concept that needs to be clarified is what it 'private' and what is 'public' online.  Can you have private items on the internet?  Students sometimes assume that what they post could never been seen by more than their intended audience, but this just isn't the case.  Google has put together an informative video that may help studen...