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May 27, 2009

March 2, 2009

Hometown:

East Topsham Vermont USA

About Me:

Librarian: always searching for greener pastures

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At 4:40am on May 27, 2009, Mike McQueen said…: Hi Mary Alice,

I'm a teacher librarian & recently started a community based blog for getting boys to read - http://GettingBoysToRead.com. Please send me a friend request if you'd like to network, share ideas, and learn more about getting boys to read.

Sincerely,
Mike McQueen

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At 8:01pm on March 2, 2009, Michelle Rinker said…: Hi Mary Alice-

I just joined this Ning yesterday and was happy to see your face in this group! You mentioned that you are leaving Shekou... which school in Saudi are you off to?

Hope your time with Margriet is going well!

Looking forward to sharing ideas!

Michelle

At 9:00am on November 26, 2008, John Crowley said…: Hi Mary Alice,
We pay $637.73 per year. Go to: http://factsonfile.infobasepublishing.com/DatabaseHome.asp?pageID=3&ISBN=1578520274
Contact a rep for a trial subscription and pricing.
Washington is a beautiful town. Did you go to Shepaug HS? If yes, Joel Barlow is similar. I'm fortunate to work here. The faculty is dedicated and the administration is supportive. I enjoy most of the kids, very much.
I'm envious of a world citizen, such as yourself. How is your Chinese?
John

At 9:22am on November 25, 2008, John Crowley said…: I like your controversial issues page. http://teacher.www92.cn4e.com/Class_pages/library/controversialissues.htm
It represents lots of thought/work. I will suggest it to our journalism class. As long as we can afford it, we will continue to subscribe to Facts.com "Issues and Controversies" We require students to give a speech every year (grades 9--12).
In sophomore year, they have to choose a controversial issue. Since "Issues and Controversies" has over 800 topics, we have students choose one they are interested in. The two teacher librarians (Nancy and I) take turns showing every sophomore English class how to navigate the site, identify key words, follow links to organizations who support either side, and use the citation tool. The serendipity for us is that our state exam, give to sophomores, often uses this data base to compose a controversial issue as the basis of persuasive essay the students must submit. Our students are familiar with how the issues are presented.

At 7:06pm on November 10, 2008, Clarissa said…: Thank you for your list, you put together some great sites!

At 7:47pm on November 3, 2008, JoAnn Langevin Titus said…: Awesome website. I checked out some of your links, nice, very comprehensive. As I am new fairly new to the high school world, it was great to see that we had some similar internet search strategies listed. Thanks for sharing your school website. I may visit it again if I'm in a pinch.

At 1:58am on September 22, 2008, Rob Rubis said…: Mary Alice - great to meet you in Shanghai and chat about possible collaborations between our kids.

I got caught up in a "Week Without Walls" tour today and didn't meet my Writers' Group, but check out our Ning to see if you've got kids that would like to join this. I'm about to invite two more students today and hope to get the group really contributing to the Ning soon. Try joining yourself and if it doesn't work, email me and I'll send an invitation out from the Ning.

http://gutenbergsintent.ning.com/

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