Sandra Carswell's Page

Greetings Sandra,

 

I'm Mike McQueen, teacher librarian and founder of http://www.GettingBoysToRead.com. Like many school districts, we are in a financial crises. Our school board recently proposed to eliminate ALL 20+ middle school teacher librarians and also cut all 90+ elementary schools to half time. Since we are the biggest district in all of Colorado, we worry this will cause other districts to follow suit.

We launched an online movement and are going to do our best to put up a good fight. If possible, please visit our Facebook page and "Like" us http://www.facebook.com/SupportSchoolLibraries . Adding a positive comment and sharing with your friends would help our morale as well. The board finalizes the budget soon so your timely support would be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Mike McQueen
Teacher Librarian at McLain HS
Lakewood, CO

Hi Sandra,
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

LET'S NETWORK HERE TOO (request me as a friend):
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Hi Sandra. I didn't have any luck getting to your webpage. I googled S. C. Lee school and found :
S C Lee Junior High School
1205 Courtney Ln
Copperas Cove, TX 76522
Coryell County

Is that you? I didn't see a library link on the page though.

Hosting vendor displays is a great idea. Nice to be in touch with the other district librarians at the beginning of the year. And helping teachers create their own webpages is an excellent way to hook them into the library. I'm hoping your years is the best so far. Keep in touch.

Oh, del.icio.us allows you to get to your bookmarks from both school and home. Or say, you are in a teacher's classroom and they want to see something you've discovered, but you don't remember how to get there. You open del.icio.us and your bookmarks are all there. I had trouble figuring it out when I took an online class this summer. It was my introduction to "tagging" which was difficult for me to grasp, but once I got it, and understood the beauty of del.icio.us, I can see lots of value in it.

I've been real busy helping to set up our new web-based AR. Does your school use accelerated reader? When do your students start? Ours come Aug. 27th, but tomorrow night is the 6th grade orientation and we check out textbooks that night. Then the seventh and eighth graders get theirs the first two days of school. We take one day to clear away the textbooks and then open the library on Thursday. I'm ready for another fun year.

Keep in touch. I'd like to hear more about the voice thing you are learning. And how you will use it.

Hi Sandra. Have you gone back to school yet? Made any collaboration contacts this early in the year?

I learned about wikkis and del.icio.us this summer, so i started a librarians' wikki for the five librarians in our district to work together to plan our trip to our state conference in November and then hopefully use it to plan our big Board Presentation the second semester. I also shared del.icio.us with our computer lab teacher. She was impressed with its potential and appreciated being introduced to something new that can make her professional work easier and more efficient. So I feel really good about the beginning of the year.

I hope you are feeling positive, too, and that you reach out to a department or some colleagues who haven't been avid library users before. Let me know how it's going.

Thanks, Sandra. This is my first Ning, or any online social group, so I'm not sure how it all works. But I do not like seeing that my page says I do not have any friends. Will you also be my friend? Maybe you can coach me a little on this whole Ning thing! Also, how do I remove my age from under my picture?