Summer Holiday

Hey Guys!

SO it is the summer coming up, all the staff in the FYi hope you all have a fantastic time off.

Those that are off to festivals don't get too drunk :-)

The one thing that you should remember to do is so important that it would be pointless to have a break and not do it, and that is HAVE FUN! enjoy the sun, sea and sand.

We look forward to seeing all Lower Sixth Students, bronze smiling faces in september with the new additions.

Last point is the new building will be done by the time you get back if all goes well. all ready for you to enjoy!

All the best

Jai Hill

Student Editor

Remember to have a look at www.jaihill.blogspot.com (My Big Gay College Life)

LIBFEST!

It has been the Libfest this week and WHAT A WEEK!!

Monday was a fatal death in the FYi

Tuesday was fantastic Musefest 

Wednesday LitFEST

Thursday was the disturbing clock work orange art work thing...

Friday was the wonderful drama group that did a great piece in the LRC

The Libfest was put on to celebrate the opening of the new LRC. To be honest what a way to do it! All the staff did their best and it really shows. So cheers to Dave sorting out the Musefest and Jonathan for sorting out all of the images that were shown and taken at the concert. All of t he Forensic staff and students that planned and executed the murder. WE KNOW WHO DUN IT!!

Also to all of the people that worked behind the scene. Dawn, Joanne, Helen, Dave, Linda, Gill and Colin You all did Great!! But I cannot forget one person that worked with me on the FYi Team video and that is Louise! 

So all in all this was a great day and I hope that college students really enjoyed the festiveness!

The image is of the first day Forensics! CSI eat your heart out!

I hope that everyone has a great easter! 

Jai Hill Editor  

New Editors

Hello to all you followers!
I am Jai Hill and I attend The Blackpool Sixth Form College.

I was approached the other week and asked if Myself and Jon Fletcher would be editor of the Library Blog and what did we say... well we said yes! 

We will do our best to keep you all up to date on all the HAPS in the Library this year!

Jai Hill

So as Jai said we have been asked to keep the blog going for all you readers out there. The Picture above is awful of me but what can you do hey?? So form now on me and Jai will be updating you on all the news in the FYi... not the library :)

All the best 

Jai & Jon

Student Librarians

The student librarians are the coolest people you will ever meet and yes they work at the library which just shows that the library is cool so Ha! You see them working hard ... well working :D every time you come to library giving up there free time. So woohoo to them :D

Now then although they don't seem that important to your life personally, and you're probably already bored of this blog, they have all at some point saved your lives and I'm not talking about providing revision books and helping you out with anything you need, even though they do do that. (stop giggling that i wrote do do). there helping out has also ensured that the librarians didn't go crazy and start shooting you all a long time ago ... in the nicest way possible :D.

They've also helped me loads, along with everyone else, by making me feel welcome and I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't for there help i would of accidently blown this place up within my first hour of being here. So thanks to you all. We'd all be dead without you, literally. This is Michael Kimber over and out :)

Goodbye, Fairwell

The changing of library's is getting closer and closer everyday and I'm sure you're all in your rooms crying your heart out into a pillow listening to a depressing Dido CD such as 'I Will Go Down With This Ship'. Or quite possibly you're just not particuarly bothered. But either way you obviously have time on your hands so you might as well read on.

Although the library is being changed, I'm sure the legend that is the old library will still live on. I'm sure you all have amazing memories from painful revision to the back breaking books you're forced to carry round, most of which you'll probably never use. Or if you're actually honest you'll have the amazing memories of coming here in an attempt to look smart to impress someone or reading your latest copy of Nuts expertly hidden behind a 2 tonne psychology textbook. Either way i'm sure the old library will be dearly missed.

So from everyone at Sixth Form goodbye , fair well library. Now I'm going to leave you to go back to crying in your pillow or to try out reading Nuts behind your textbook. But thats all for today. This is Michael Kimber over and out :)

Me Me Me

Hi there, i thought i might as well introduce myself because ... well because then i don't have to do any work :D so woohoo, go blog. Ok so my name is Michael Kimber, I'm 15 (Yr 10) and i'm here on work experience from Palatine and I'm currently doing my work experience in the library and it's great because everyone is really nice here but i guess you all probably already know that.

So now you all know a little more about me it would probably be a good idea to start writing about the library which is why I'm writing on this in the first place but ended up rambling about myself. The library, what to say about the library, well let's start with the new building. I've been told to inform the world of blog readers, yes all 3 of you, that the new library will be ready for September. Enjoyment for all, the new library is suppose to be amazing, bright, funky what better place to do never ending, brutal, exhausting, treacherous revision. Yay.

So this means that as the library is moving some books are being packed away, this however does not mean you have an excuse to not do your homework by telling your teacher the book you need is packed, as only the non essential books are being packed at the moment. Sorry.

Last but not least, the new library design has not been finalized which means if you just randomly happen to be a library enthusiast who is a architect/designer and you're dying for the library to be a certain color its not to late to plead, beg and pester Helen into making it your color. But be quick.

And i guess that's all for today. Now you can all go on knowing you know a little bit more than you did before you read this. This is Michael Kimber over and out. :)

Web 2.0 - bet you don't know what it is...

...oh, you do. Well, that would have saved me a blog entry. You should have said something before. So you'll know Web 2.0 is just a phrase describing a way of generating your own content on the net, rather than letting the geeky programmers have all the fun?

I guess you'll know you can share your wikis and blogs with whomever you like, collaborating with work colleagues and students on the same document, rather than sending a flurry of emails all over the place? That Google Docs thing is brilliant, too - you don't need to be hampered by that pesky incompatibility problem sharing Word between a PC and a Mac.

And I spose you'll have like, a million friends on Facebook or MySpace already?

What - you mean, you didn't know any of this? Well, you'd better talk to Louise or Helen in the Library, or the Teaching and Learning Group at the College. The T&L Group are amazing - they've just learned loads of stuff about Web 2.0, so they'll be able to help too.