NCSLMA Conference November

Beth and I are presenting a session at the upcoming NCSLMA conference in Winston-Salem titled Lucy and Ethel Tackle the Overdue Blues: A Roundtable Discussion. Conference participants can download a copy of our file at our high school library website by clicking on the link that follows, scrolling down the page to NCSLMA conference, and clicking on Overdue Checklist! Enjoy and click HERE.

Want to travel--visit GeoBeats!

This is a site for students and teachers who want to travel from their chairs! I can picture these videos being used in so many classes in so many different and creative ways. I see students embedding these videos in blogs or wikis they create on different countries. The mind runs wild with possibilities!

Or, I see tired teachers just watching these videos, and dreaming of exciting places to travel! These videos are refreshments for the mind--if you don't believe me, check out the video on the chocolate shops of Paris.

Countries with videos include Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad, and the UK (London and Glasgow).

Just click on GeoBeats!

Scary Smelly Cheese Tasting

We are going to host a cheese tasting workshop for 10 students after school in the media center on October 30th, 2007. We are going to limit the workshop to the first 10 students who sign up and pay us the $2.00 cost we are charging (the library is picking up the remainder of the cost). Students will sample 3 smelly cheeses and will be introduced to information about each one. I am actually posting this to practice embedding video in my blog. I found this video on cheese tasting at http://www.geobeats.com/videoclips/france/paris/cheese-shop.

Need a lesson plan? A word search generator? A worksheet template? Try this website!

While my circulation system is down, I decided to search the Internet for ideas for retrieving overdue books. I stumbled upon an amazing website created by teachers, for teachers. It is very high school oriented--something difficult to find. It even contains some well-crafted 10th grade writing practice prompts. Also on the site under Tools are Word Search generators and other handy tools of this nature.

Go to We the Teachers! Kudos to the maker of this site!