5/28/2010
School library Mystery
Ever thought about how the library angel sees the library? Or even the fairies that come out of the Fairy Story department or Pinio the library companion? Well, take a look at the slideshow above and start looking at thing from a different point of view!
Πώς άραγε να φαίνεται η βιβλιοθήκη στον Πίνιο, την μασκώτ της βιβλιοθήκης, ή στον Άγγελο της Ανάγνωσης που σου λύνει όλες τις απορίες, ή ακόμα στις νεραϊδούλες που το βράδυ δραπετεύουν από τον τομέα της Λαογραφίας;
Ας μάθουμε να βλέπουμε την βιβλιοθήκη και τον κόσμο με άλλον τρόπο...
Etykiety:
creativity,
school library,
view
5/26/2010
Little library friend

Our little library friend is a dwarf. He comes from different Polish city. This time he lives in Lublin. The dwarf is the best reader in the library. He is called Booklover and he is very smart and prudent. We know him such an intellectual and a multilingual person. Sometimes he helps pupils to study but not everybody can meet him. You should respect books and from time to time you should to look for him beetwen books in the library.
Watch the little library friend move in the Bogatynia school library. He seems a booklover, don't you think?
Maybe he can find a twinner in the partner libraries soon!Οι μασκώτ των βιβλιοθηκών μας. Ο βιβλιόφιλος νάνος του Λούμπλιν και ο Πολωνός Πίνιο που αγάπησε την Ελληνίδα Πίνια. Φτιαγμένα από τους μαθητές μας με πλαστελίνη.
We even made the littelest Pin(ia) compared to a pin. Φανταστείτε πόσο μικρή είναι αυτή η Πίνια, η μασκώτ της βιβλιοθήκης!
Etykiety:
Bogatynia,
bookraft,
etwinning,
library friend,
Lublin
5/25/2010
A book can make you "see" better
Etykiety:
book,
bookraft,
booksculpture,
drawing,
gallery
5/21/2010
Magia Biblioteki: A library angel
Did you know that if you have a personal question and you go to a library, the Library Angel will answer it?
Just choose a book and start reading in a random page, until you find your answer!
Τι γυρεύει ένας άγγελος κλεισμένος σε ένα βιβλίο; Μήπως τα παιδιά από την Λακατάμεια μπορούν να γράψουν τις απαντήσεις τους;

Just choose a book and start reading in a random page, until you find your answer!
Τι γυρεύει ένας άγγελος κλεισμένος σε ένα βιβλίο; Μήπως τα παιδιά από την Λακατάμεια μπορούν να γράψουν τις απαντήσεις τους;
One more bookcarving from Elefsina and what we make of the parts we carve. We try to waste nothing!

Etykiety:
bookraft,
booksculpture,
etwinning,
library angel,
school library
5/18/2010
Making our own books
An origami book
This is a presentation about an origami book. Let's try to do it yourself and show us the way you are doing your own origami book. Good luck! Enjoy your new hobby!View more presentations or Upload your own.
For a simpler version, click here!
And here we are, posing as origami books. Don't judge a book by its cover, though! While making them we read a little Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat) and the very interesting student newspaper from the Avlona adolescent prison house. More about it here. The Elefsina team.

A Polish Lublin team as books.
And here is the Cyprus presentation of their own books!
Φτιάχνοντας τα δικά μας βιβλία στην Κύπρο, την Πολωνία και την Ελλάδα!
5/14/2010
Bookraft new(s), old collections, and a mystery lady

Speaking of old books, let us tell you a real story about the oldest book in our school library. It is a dictionary of 1861 belonging to the family of Katina (Catherine) Laskaridi aka “Arria Claudia” a minor author of some books, born in Constantinople to a wealthy family. An ardent reader, a polyglot and a traveler, we tried to reconstruct her personality though the books she read, the notices left inside, the writings on the margins. After travelling around the globe, losing her one and only love, she settled in Greece with her sister. She died at the age of 93, childless. We like to think we have our very own “library grandma” whose books we treasure. Her memory lives on in our library.
Η Ελληνική ομάδα του Bookraft είχε λάβει από την αρχή της χρονιάς ήδη έναν θησαυρό. Η συλλογή βιβλίων μίας γυναίκας η οποία δεν είχε κάποιον κοντινό άνθρωπο στη ζωή της, έφτασε στα χέρια μας μέσω γνωστών. Η συγγραφέας Κατίνα Λασκαρίδη με το ψευδώνυμο «Άρρια Κλώντια», η οποία καταγόταν από την Κων/πολη από ευκατάστατη οικογένεια, αφού γύρισε όλο τον κόσμο και συνέλεξε βιβλία από πολλές χώρες, αφού έμαθε ένα σωρό ξένες γλώσσες και αφού έχασε τον έρωτα της ζωής της, κατέληξε πίσω στην μητέρα Ελλάδα. Πέθανε σε ηλικία 93 ετών. Δεν παντρεύτηκε ποτέ. Το παλαιότερο βιβλίο της που βρήκαμε ήταν ένα λεξικό του 1861 που ανήκε στον πατέρα της, το οποίο αποτελεί πλέον και το παλαιότερο βιβλίο της βιβλιοθήκης μας. Γνωρίσαμε αυτή την γυναίκα μέσα από τα βιβλία της, συγκινηθήκαμε με τα ποιήματά της αφιερωμένα στον αδικοχαμένο παιδικό της έρωτα, αισθανθήκαμε την αίγλη του πνεύματός της και πλέον, νοιώθουμε παιδιά της.
N.M.
5/13/2010
Magia Biblioteki: Book illusions
Can you find the artists or the paintings? The partner school that will find the most, will receive from the Elefsina school library a book on Greek art! Post your answer and the name of your school in the comment box.
5/09/2010
5/06/2010
When books speak to us - (A parenthesis)




Our parenthesis show problems of growing up and teenagers's life. Look at covers and read titles. We ask each others about your life and your difficulties. We would like to share your problems with us. Sometimes teenagers life is upsite down like in the photo.
Teenager's diary/Diary of a Chaw.Slinging the Bling./The eigteen/The adolescent girl./On wave of success./ The world upside down./ The uncommon reader./ Sense and Sensibility./ The liar
Welcome in the world little./ Here's Lucy./ Listen to me./ It's not all about you, Calma!./ I didn't speak./ My aunt is a dolphin.
Catch 22./ To Kill a Mockingbird./ Where angels fall./ At the first sight./
Reality may make the magic vanish. At least for a while. In Greece we asked the books to lend us their titles, to help us figure out the reason for all this absurdity. Here is what he books told us.
Enough with the Society of Plenty! /Wild nights… /Savage minds… /Bloody land… /OUR blood!/ Just like birds in a frenzy/ Passengers’ eyes/ scan/ The Road…/
The Mistake…/ Limits (?)…/ Subversion…/ The cages…/ All that violence and slyness…/ That all lead to Corpses of real Life…
A Garden seeded with Illusions/ full of Fear mixed with Hope…
Hope is needed
Confronting Poverty/ I have a dream/…to Rebuilt our society…./
“Axion esti”
Η Μαγεία της Βιβλιοθήκης εξανεμίστηκε από την σκληρή πραγματικότητα. Για τα χθεσινά γεγονότα, η αναγνωστική λέσχη στην Ελευσίνα έψαξε να βρει την απάντηση στη συλλογή της βιβλιοθήκης. Εδώ είναι η φωνή των βιβλίων...
Etykiety:
authors,
booksculpture,
Elefsina,
Elytis,
greek modern poetry,
titles
5/05/2010
Elefsina and Lublin chat on etwinning birthday!
On the day Europe was celebrating etwinning's fifth anniversary, we gathered in our school libraries for a party and a chat. You can tell from the pics we enjoyed ourselves! We continue chatting twice a week in Twinspace. For our festive video, see "Etwinning Celebration" page on top.
N.M.'s animation with our partner's coins seems to fit here!
Etykiety:
bookraft,
chat,
etwinning,
school library
5/03/2010
Magia Bibliotheki: Where statues come to life
Ένα νέο βιβλίο ήρθε πρόσφατα στη βιβλιοθήκη μας: «Ο Μαραθών και το αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο»
του Γεωργίου Σταϊνχάουερ. Αμέσως τράβηξε την προσοχή του παιδιού του Μαραθώνα που ατένιζε την σχολική βιβλιοθήκη ψηλά από το ράφι του. Κατέβηκε αθόρυβα και άνοιξε το βιβλίο. Εκεί είδε τον εαυτό του άρτιο, με πόδια, χέρια που κρατούσαν αόρατα δώρα. Λένε ότι ήταν ο Περσέας που κρατούσε το κεφάλι της Μέδουσας, άλλοι λένε ότι ήταν ο Πάρις που έδινε το μήλο στην ομορφότερη θεά. Το παιδί του Μαραθώνα φοράει στεφάνι από κλαδιά ελιάς κομμένα έξω από το σχολείο. Ήταν νικητής στους αρχαίους αγώνες. Τώρα κάνει τις σελίδες να γυρνούν μόνες τους, γιατί δεν έχει χέρια.
Εκεί, είδε τον Μαραθώνα, το τοπίο της ένδοξης μάχης μεταξύ Ελλήνων και Περσών το 490 π.Χ.
Η καθηγήτρια φιλοσοφίας τον ρώτησε αν πήρε μέρος. «Βέβαια!» απάντησε ο νέος «Πολέμησα με τους Αθηναίους. Αλλά δεν πρέπει να θλίβομαι που έχασα το σώμα μου, γιατί το έκανα για να δοξάσω την πατρίδα. Πάνε όμως οι εποχές όπου οι άνθρωποι έκαναν τέτοια αγάλματα για να αναδείξουν το κάλλος», είπε λυπημένα το παιδί και ανέβηκε ξανά στο ράφι του.
Made by the Greek team for the new book donated to the library. Take a look here!
Etykiety:
Elefsina,
etwinning,
Marathon youth,
school library
5/01/2010
May: Magia Biblioteki . Μάιος: Ο μήνας της Μαγείας της Βιβλιοθήκης
Again, stemming from Lublin School Library blog, a post that needs no translating, "Magia biblioteki', inspired the team in Greece to tell its story. Here goes: When the lights go out in the library, the fairies come out of the books, section DDC 398, (Social sciences, Fairy Tales) and danse on the table made especially by the team for bookraft. You may well continue the story! For the sceptical readers, the fairies are really two of the Greek Reading Club members who took photographs as ballerinas especially for this project. Το βράδυ, όταν όλα είναι ήσυχα στη σχολική βιβλιοθήκη και το φεγγαρόφωτο τρυπώνει από τις γρίλιες, βγαίνουν οι μικρές νεράιδες από τον τομέα DDC 398 των Κοινωνικών Επιστημών, Παραμύθια και χορεύουν επάνω στο τραπέζι που έφτιαξαν τα μέλη της βιβλιοθήκης! Μπορείτε να φανταστείτε την συνέχεια; Για τους σκεπτικιστές μπορεί να είναι πιο αποδεκτή η εκδοχή ότι δυο μέλη μας φωτογραφήθηκαν ως μπαλαρίνες ειδικά για το Bookraft. Δείτε πώς εκδηλώνεται η μαγεία της βιβλιοθήκης στην Πολωνία και την Ελλάδα!
Etykiety:
bookraft,
etwinning,
school library
4/30/2010
Chatting with the Cyprus team
Look what we came across today in the Greek library. A monastery lamp, a special "tama", with the island of Cyprus hanging at its end.
The Cyprus team will explain everything its special meaning.
The photo belongs to one of the 22 books on Greek monasteries donated by OPAP to the school libraries. The coincidence was too big to ignore today, waiting to chat with the Cyprus team. We had an interesting chat on the oncoming 5th anniversary of etwinning!
Η εικόνα από τον τόμο 19 της σειράς "Μοναστήρια και Προσκυνητάρια της Ελλάδας", εκδόσεις Πήγασος Α.Ε. που μόλις παραλάβαμε στη βιβλιοθήκη.
Περιμένοντας να συνομιλήσουμε με την Κύπρο, το θεωρήσαμε....καλό σημάδι. Πράγματι σήμερα δεν είχαμε τεχνικά προβλήματα και είχαμε μια ευχάριστη κουβέντα με τα παιδιά για τα επερχόμενα γενέθλια του etwinning και τις ετοιμασίες μας.
The photo belongs to one of the 22 books on Greek monasteries donated by OPAP to the school libraries. The coincidence was too big to ignore today, waiting to chat with the Cyprus team. We had an interesting chat on the oncoming 5th anniversary of etwinning!
Η εικόνα από τον τόμο 19 της σειράς "Μοναστήρια και Προσκυνητάρια της Ελλάδας", εκδόσεις Πήγασος Α.Ε. που μόλις παραλάβαμε στη βιβλιοθήκη.
Περιμένοντας να συνομιλήσουμε με την Κύπρο, το θεωρήσαμε....καλό σημάδι. Πράγματι σήμερα δεν είχαμε τεχνικά προβλήματα και είχαμε μια ευχάριστη κουβέντα με τα παιδιά για τα επερχόμενα γενέθλια του etwinning και τις ετοιμασίες μας.
Etykiety:
Cyprus,
Elefsina,
etwinning,
Lakatameia
4/29/2010
Four-legged library advocats!
We enjoyed reading in our twinners' blog about Dewey Readmorebooks, the true story of a cat that lived in a library and became a library advocat!
Just next to it is the kitty a member brought to the Greek library, a truly unobtrusive pet, as it is always asleep on the "Dracula" shelf, waiting to be bitten, probably!
Below you can see Ioanna's Eguptian kitten. She follows her everywhere!
Δείτε την αληθινή ιστορία ενός γάτου, που λεγόταν Dewey Διαβαστερός και ζούσε στη βιβλιοθήκη. Ο κόσμος ερχόταν να τον δει από τις γύρω περιοχές για τα καμώματά του. Πέθανε υπέργηρος και ευτυχισμένος στην αγκαλιά της βιβλιοθηκαρίου που τον μάζεψε από γατάκι. Στη διπλανή φωτογραφία είναι το γατάκι της δικής μας βιβλιοθήκης. Μεγάλος υπναράς.
Και πιο κάτω είναι η γάτα της Ιωάννας που την ακολουθεί παντού!
Ο Dewey ο γάτος, πήρε το όνομά του από τον Melvil Dewey, που πριν από 100 χρόνια σκέφτηκε ένα απλό και έξυπνο τρόπο να ταξινομεί από 10 μέχρι ... εκατομμύρια βιβλία! Διαβάστε εδώ για περισσότερα!
2. Why is Telis fond of children?
3. Who took care of Telis while he was recovering?
4. Why does he come to the library when we have the Reading Club?
5. Why is he fond of the Art Department? (or the Religion dep., for this fact)
6. Although he seems alright, there is something wrong with him. Does it show?
Lublin answered:
1.He wanted to play with strangers on the street
2.Children rescued him.he likes to have fun with them.
3.Kids/Teenagers
4.He likes to listen to books.He likes people from bibliothek.He gets food from you
5.He attached to this place and people. This is his house.
6.He looks healthy, happy and friendly.Do not see that it is something wrong.
Telis’ true story
Telis had a lot of names before his accident. He was a dog students remember waiting for them in the school yard or outside the school door, as stray dogs aren’t allowed inside schools. He is nearly four years old.
In October 2008 he got struck by a vehicle, most probably a motorbike which he likes to chase. A group of students hurried to the library to get help. His rear leg was hanging lose. It was broken.
The students gathered money and we had Telis’ leg bound. We couldn’t afford an operation, unfortunately. In order for him not to bite his wound we had him wear a special collar. Teachers brought food and bought him a doghouse. Students took care to feed him in weekends. But Telis escaped from the bars and his leg couldn’t heal as it was supposed to. So he remains lame.
He was adopted by our school, named after it “Aristoteleio” and got his medical booklet and his digital id, as the law demands. He is the guardian of the library, he is always there when the Reading Club discusses books and takes a nap in the art Department (because it is quiet) and the Religion Department (because it is near the airconditioning. Some doubts remain as to if Telis is a believer). He sometimes gets himself into trouble in dogfights. Then he is taken to the vet by his fan club (consisting of a couple of teachers and a few hundreds pair of eyes watching him and reporting to the library, the “Telis-net”). He is very well-behaved, very smart and as independent as a ...cat.
He was there at the 5th anniversary of etwinning wearing a birthday hat. But he got no cake, just an extra piece of sausage, which he gobbled up.
With Telis, we learnt to change the way we see an abandoned animal. We got to know him as a character rather than one of many stray dogs with a two-year life expectancy. He loves children, we love him. That is the story of Telis the Library dog!
This is a short story made interactively as a webtool test. It is about a cat who could read. (I know many that can type, too!) Try it yourselves using our Digital Fun page tools.
Just next to it is the kitty a member brought to the Greek library, a truly unobtrusive pet, as it is always asleep on the "Dracula" shelf, waiting to be bitten, probably!
Below you can see Ioanna's Eguptian kitten. She follows her everywhere!
Δείτε την αληθινή ιστορία ενός γάτου, που λεγόταν Dewey Διαβαστερός και ζούσε στη βιβλιοθήκη. Ο κόσμος ερχόταν να τον δει από τις γύρω περιοχές για τα καμώματά του. Πέθανε υπέργηρος και ευτυχισμένος στην αγκαλιά της βιβλιοθηκαρίου που τον μάζεψε από γατάκι. Στη διπλανή φωτογραφία είναι το γατάκι της δικής μας βιβλιοθήκης. Μεγάλος υπναράς.
Και πιο κάτω είναι η γάτα της Ιωάννας που την ακολουθεί παντού!
Ο Dewey ο γάτος, πήρε το όνομά του από τον Melvil Dewey, που πριν από 100 χρόνια σκέφτηκε ένα απλό και έξυπνο τρόπο να ταξινομεί από 10 μέχρι ... εκατομμύρια βιβλία! Διαβάστε εδώ για περισσότερα!1. What bad habit of Telis on the street put his life in danger?
2. Why is Telis fond of children?
3. Who took care of Telis while he was recovering?
4. Why does he come to the library when we have the Reading Club?
5. Why is he fond of the Art Department? (or the Religion dep., for this fact)
6. Although he seems alright, there is something wrong with him. Does it show?
Lublin answered:
1.He wanted to play with strangers on the street
2.Children rescued him.he likes to have fun with them.
3.Kids/Teenagers
4.He likes to listen to books.He likes people from bibliothek.He gets food from you
5.He attached to this place and people. This is his house.
6.He looks healthy, happy and friendly.Do not see that it is something wrong.
Telis’ true story
Telis had a lot of names before his accident. He was a dog students remember waiting for them in the school yard or outside the school door, as stray dogs aren’t allowed inside schools. He is nearly four years old.
In October 2008 he got struck by a vehicle, most probably a motorbike which he likes to chase. A group of students hurried to the library to get help. His rear leg was hanging lose. It was broken.
The students gathered money and we had Telis’ leg bound. We couldn’t afford an operation, unfortunately. In order for him not to bite his wound we had him wear a special collar. Teachers brought food and bought him a doghouse. Students took care to feed him in weekends. But Telis escaped from the bars and his leg couldn’t heal as it was supposed to. So he remains lame.
He was adopted by our school, named after it “Aristoteleio” and got his medical booklet and his digital id, as the law demands. He is the guardian of the library, he is always there when the Reading Club discusses books and takes a nap in the art Department (because it is quiet) and the Religion Department (because it is near the airconditioning. Some doubts remain as to if Telis is a believer). He sometimes gets himself into trouble in dogfights. Then he is taken to the vet by his fan club (consisting of a couple of teachers and a few hundreds pair of eyes watching him and reporting to the library, the “Telis-net”). He is very well-behaved, very smart and as independent as a ...cat.
He was there at the 5th anniversary of etwinning wearing a birthday hat. But he got no cake, just an extra piece of sausage, which he gobbled up.
With Telis, we learnt to change the way we see an abandoned animal. We got to know him as a character rather than one of many stray dogs with a two-year life expectancy. He loves children, we love him. That is the story of Telis the Library dog!
Read the poem of Cypriot teacher, and prized poet Theoclis Kouyialis (1936-) about the Dog Who stopped Barking.
For years he barked normally
Which means he barked whenever he should have
And then he stopped.
A dog who doesn't bark is useless
And so they gave him to understand that it was time to get out of the corner.
Now that he walks alone in the fieldIn that field where the summer sun mercilessly beats him
He reflects on the human antics of dogs
The life he wasted among humans until he arrived at the painful decision
to renounce all he had earned with so many sacrifices and so much effort!
And he brings to mind all thoseDogs and others
–Who bark continuously without meaning
Who do not stop their prattling and empty barking
Who do not have self-knowledge and go and identify with humans
They acquire human habits
And finally forget that after all they belong to the honoured family of dogs.
Such things did he think and grief seized him deeply and his soul pined
Such things and the night descended like rain on his coat.
In my view the successful dog is not he who relaxes on a carved armchair
Nor he who has won the confidence of humans
But he who proceeds even though alone
He who feels and behaves like a dog
Who barks without self-interest
What has happened, anyway, to the honesty, purity, and that whichour grandfathers called doglike?
Such things did he soliloquize and went his own way
The dog who stopped barking.
Translated by: David Bailey
Για χρόνια γάβγιζε κανονικά/Που σημαίνει γάβγιζε όποτε έπρεπε/Κι ύστερα σταμάτησε./Ένα σκυλί που δεν γαβγίζει είναι άχρηστο/Γι’ αυτό του ’δωσαν να καταλάβει πως ήταν καιρός ν’ αδειάσει τη γωνιά./Τώρα που περπατά ολομόναχο μέσα στον κάμπο/Σ’ αυτό τον κάμπο που τον δέρνει ανελέητα ο ήλιος του καλοκαιριού/Συλλογίζεται τ’ ανθρώπινα καμώματα των σκυλιών/Τη ζωή του που χαράμισε κοντά στους ανθρώπους ώσπου να φτάσει στην οδυνηρή απόφαση ν’ απαρνηθεί όσα κέρδισε με τόσες θυσίες και τόση προσπάθεια!/Και φέρνει στο νου του όλους εκείνους-Σκύλους και μη-/Που γαβγίζουν συνέχεια χωρίς νόημα/Που δε σταματούν τη φλυαρία και τα παχιά γαβγίσματα/Που δεν έχουν το γνώθι σαυτόν και παν και ταυτίζονται με τους ανθρώπους/Αποκτούν ανθρώπινες συνήθειες/Και τέλος ξεχνούν πως στο κάτω κάτω ανήκουν στην τιμημένη οικογένεια των σκυλιών./Τέτοια συλλογιζόταν κι η θλίψη τον κυρίευε βαθιά κι η ψυχή του μαράζωνε/Τέτοια κι η νύχτα κατέβαινε σαν βροχή πάνω στο τρίχωμα του./-Το κατ’ εμένα επιτυχεμένος σκύλος δεν είν’ εκείνος που αναπαύεται σε σκαλιστή πολυθρόνα/Ούτε εκείνος που κέρδισε την εμπιστοσύνη των ανθρώπων/Αλλά εκείνος που προχωρεί έστω και μόνος/Εκείνος που νιώθει και συμπεριφέρεται ως σκύλος/Που γαβγίζει χωρίς ιδιοτέλεια./Που πήγε τελοσπάντων η τιμιότητα, η αγνότητα και αυτό που οι παππούδες μας αποκαλούσαν σκυλισιά./Τέτοια μονολογούσε και πήγαινε κατά τον εαυτό του/Το σκυλί που σταμάτησε το γάβγισμα.
This is a short story made interactively as a webtool test. It is about a cat who could read. (I know many that can type, too!) Try it yourselves using our Digital Fun page tools.
Etykiety:
DDC,
library pets,
school library
4/27/2010
Making patterns


A usb microscope brought today at the library made us see the wonders of nature. Samples from leaves to handicrafts, even a tiny ant became gigantic and filled us with awe. We decided to make patterns from the photos. Enjoy and feel free to use them in your powerpoint presentations. Remember you are looking at a petal or a leaf!
Σήμερα δεν ξεκολλούσαμε από τη βιβλιοθήκη στο σχόλασμα, χάρις στο usb μικροσκόπιο μέλους της Αναγνωστικής μας ομάδας. Ότι είδαμε, από μια...τρίχα της κεφαλής μέχρι ένα μυρμυγκάκι, μας έδωσε την ιδέα να φτιάξουμε και να μοιραστούμε μαζί σας υφές για τον υπολογιστή. Ελπίζουμε να σας αρέσουν. Μήπως μαντεύετε και τι είναι;
Etykiety:
bookmarks,
bookraft,
etwinning,
microscope art
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