Month: April 2021

Good morning,

Some of you may be wondering about how to get content from your classes, ASAs, etc onto the screens around the school. Here is a reminder about how to do that.

First, as they are horizontal screens, we would like to ask that any content you do submit, that you follow these protocols:

• For all media submissions, please ensure that they maximize the horizontal perspective that the screens provide (i.e. landscape layout)
• If you are submitting a single document (i.e. flyer) please make sure to make the text as large as possible (again using landscape layout) and high-resolution images (200dpi/A3 format would help ensure the size and pictures look correct)
• Keep videos to 1GB or less
• Remove audio from any video for the screens
• If you are unsure about how to make a slideshow, you can just put all the pictures in a folder and put your request to make a slideshow in your email

1. Save the content (as described above) in a folder on the Large File Storage server (either Student or Teacher, doesn’t matter as long as you follow Step #2)
2. Send the link/folder location to it-help@nanjing-school.com
3. Please put an appropriate subject heading (like Student Council poster, Swimming Gala, etc.) on the email in Step #2
4. Please also include the duration that you would like your media to run (i.e. 1 week, 2 days, etc., keeping in mind that 2 weeks is maximum duration)

And don’t hesitate to ask us for help as well, if you have an idea but you’re not quite sure how to make it happen. But please give us at least 24 hours (1 full day) notice.

Second, here is the list of screens and their location:

• 2nd Floor Cafe – the Centre (Pool/Activities)
• Foyer Centre (Admissions)
• Centre/Pool Hallway (Pool)
• Foyer/School Entrance – by the sliding doors (Admin)
• Foyer/School Entrance – by Library (Library/Admin/Student Council)
• Library (Library)
• End of Hall by Green Gym – 70″ Screen (Design/Activities)
• 2nd Floor across from IT Office (MS/US/Activities/Counseling)
• 2nd Floor, end of MYP/DP Hall (Middle/Upper School)
• 2nd Floor by Music Department (Music/Student Council)
• PAC (Drama)
• Outside PS Office (PS Office)
• End of EY corridor (PS)

In parenthesis/brackets are departments with primary content oversight, though you can always send email to it-help@nanjing-school.com with your request and we can sort it out. Thanks and have a wonderful day!

All the best,

Your Friendly IT Department

Registration for TEDxYouth@NIS is open!

Scan the QR code or click this link to register your interest in attending TEDxYouth@NIS this year!

Tickets are 50RMB and include light snacks and beverages.

We have a week of vacation coming up…stock up on books either from the library or through Sora!

Dax Jones is an ordinary schoolboy – until something extraordinary happens one day. Whilst frightened for his life, he inexplicably changes into a fox. Before long, both a government agent and an ambitious young journalist are on his tail.

When twins Connor and Grace’s ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate’s ship, and he is determined to find her.

by Grace Lin!

An original tale, inspired by legends of Mulan Hua and popularized by Disney. When her sister is bitten by a poisonous spider, Mulan travels with a healer to find a flower from which the antidote can be made to save her sister’s life.

by J.K. Rowling!

As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom.

The first book in the series. A-Watch: an unlikely group of kids, are forced to work together to survive when they are marooned on an Indonesian Island. They unite their individual skills in order to keep healthy and survive. They face many dangers such as Komodo dragons, sharks, finding food and water and modern day pirates.

Fourteen-year-old Quint Verginix is the only remaining son of famous sky-pirate Wind Jackal. He and his father have journeyed to the city of Sanctaphrax – a great floating rock, bound to the ground below by a chain, its inhabitants living with their heads literally in the clouds.

But the city hides a dangerous secret: deep inside the great rock, something horrible lurks. With his father away, Quint may be the only one who can save Sanctaphrax from the dreaded curse of the gloamglozer . . .

We also have the graphic novel! One of Mrs. Romero’s favorites!!

Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for….

Presents the story of First Lieutenant Ashley White and a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battle field in Afghanistan.

Recounts the true story of Kamila Sidiqi, a woman who was forced to support herself and her five siblings after the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul and her father and brothers fled the country.

The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women’s rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in the town of Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria’s partner of the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women’s equality a reality by fighting–house by house, street by street, town by town–the men who bought and sold women . . . tells the story of the women of the Kurdish militia that improbably became part of the world’s best hope for stopping ISIS in Syria.

An autobiography of lawyer and American First Lady Michelle Obama.

Barack Obama, the forty-fourth United States President discusses his life.