Get Ready for Summer!

Head out for some beach time but bring your library with you!

It's almost here! Summer is just around the corner and we, both students and faculty, are ready to relax and have a little down time. But... August will soon be upon us and you'll want some resources to get ready for the new school year. 

MeL.org and your local libraries to the rescue! Take advantage of these free and available-wherever-you-are, digital tools that are available to all Michigan residents this summer. 

Not sure how to use these tools? MeL has you covered with on-line tutorials that will show you how to utilize these resources for yourself and your students! They've even created a Google Doc with links that you can make a copy of and share with your students. So, as long as you have an Internet connection, and live in Michigan, you can:

• Research databases (with a tie-in to your Google Drive to make collection/annotation/citation easy).
• Take an online course through Lynda.com and your local library (KDL link / GRPL link ) 
• Download an eBook, 
• Study for the SAT, AP or other standardized tests
• And much, much more. 

If you are in Michigan when you connect, you don't even need to enter your library card information. How easy can this get?! Gotta love MeL.org!

Seniors, Back Up Before You Leave!

It's here! Today is the graduating class of 2017's last official day of school at CCHS. It's one of those bittersweet type of days. Exciting for seniors to anticipate graduation, the senior all night party and to be moving on to the next phase and yet, sad to be leaving behind their high school years, teachers and perhaps some of their friends as they move on to colleges far apart from each other.

As seniors ready themselves to leave high school and move on to the rest of their life one of the last things they are thinking about is archiving their high school digital documents and projects.

Don't Let This Happen To You!

However, every fall we receive calls from last year's seniors asking for access to their Google Drive. If our I.T. department hasn't deleted their account we can usually accommodate their request but we can't guarantee this. If the account has been removed, the content will not be retrievable and the answer will be "No".

Don't let this happen to you! Luckily Google has provided a tool to allow you to take your stuff with you. Log into your school Google account and then navigate to Google Takeout. Select the Google tools that you want to archive (Drive, Contacts, Email, etc.) and Google will zip them up and send you a link to download to your computer or other storage device. Now when you need something from high school, you have it!

So, Congrats to the CCHS graduating class of 2017 and don't forget to take your stuff!