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I enjoyed reading a book called Why I chose to stay by Thomas Salome-el. He tells of his life growing up and what made him pass up more lucrative offers to remain in his urban school where he coached chess. Kafi Kumasi, M.L.I.S. Doctoral Candidate Curriculum Studies Indiana University -----Original Message----- From: LM_NET automatic digest system <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:14 PM To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: LM_NET Digest - 3 Apr 2008 - Special issue (#2008-561) There are 12 messages totalling 558 lines in this issue. Topics in this special issue: 1. TAR: Biographies on Teachers 2. (oops!) AUTObiography on teachers 3. What do you have on your circulation desk? 4. HS: Personal finance videos 5. HIT: TECH Target: "Screen Show" in Library 6. AASL 7. Richie's Picks: THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY 8. Author visit 9. Copyright question: using book jackets for displays etc 10. GEN: Who said it? 11. Elem: Books about getting glasses 12. Saying no -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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AUTObiography on teachers Sorry, my last post "subject" line just said BIOGRAPHY on teachers. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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They can be found in the books The = World's Shortest Stories and The World's Shortest Stories of Love and = Death, both edited by Steve Moss. They can also be found online by = searching "55 fiction". Not all are school appropriate, and the quality = of the ones online really varies, so I've had to accumulate an assortment = that will work. I have many students who stop daily to check out the = short story. Brenda Hahn, Librarian Grades 5-12 Library Dell Rapids Public School Dell Rapids, SD 57022-1036 hahnbr@dellrapids.com "You were born an original. Don't die a copy." John Mason -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Does anyone out there have videos/DVDs that their business teachers have found to be beneficial? =20 Sue Johnston CHS Librarian Aberdeen, SD Sue.johnston@aberdeen.k12.sd.us =20 =20 =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Something to remember about those digital photo frames is that there have been several reports of them having various malware embedded into them. Create a PPT, put in on your jump drive, put the jump drive on the frame, and the virus moves to your jump drive and thence to your computer. -- David Lininger, kb0zke MS/HS Librarian Skyline MS/HS Urbana, MO 65767 (417) 993-4226 t s s 0 0 3 @ t n p dot m o r e dot net -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Vance, MSLS Chestnut Ridge HS Immediate Past PSLA President AASL 2008 Anaheim Conference Chair AASL 2008 National Summit Chair -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:26:09 EDT From: Richie Partington <BudNotBuddy@AOL.COM> Subject: Richie's Picks: THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY Richie's Picks: THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY by Siobhan Dowd, RH/David Fickling Books, February 2008, 324p. ISBN: 978-0-375-84976-3 "What goes up must come down Spinning wheel got to go 'round" --Blood, Sweat & Tears "Kat and I tracked Salim's capsule as it made its orbit. When it reached its highest point, we both said, 'NOW!' at the same time and Kat laughed and I joined in. That's how we knew we'd been tracking the right one. We saw the people bunch up as the capsule came back down, facing northeast towards the automatic camera for the souvenir photograph. They were just dark bits of jackets, legs, dresses, and sleeves. "Then the capsule landed. The doors opened and the passengers came out in twos and threes. They walked off in different directions. Their faces were smiling. Their paths never crossed again. "But Salim wasn't among them. "We waited for the next capsule and the next and the one after that. He still didn't appear. Somewhere, somehow, in the thirty minutes of riding the Eye, in his sealed capsule, he had vanished off the face of the earth. This is how having a funny brain that runs on a different operating system from other people's helped me to figure out what had happened." Twelve-year-old Ted's mind does not process like that of the typical person. He is wired in a fashion that causes him to be "very good at thinking about facts and how things work." He is a young man with an obsession with and excellent understanding of weather and weather patterns. Ted and Kat's cousin Salim and their Aunt Gloria have come visiting them in London, having given up their home in Manchester in preparation for a move to New York City. Ted hasn't seen the likeable Salim in years. When asked what he'd like to do, Salim, who loves a good view, opts for experiencing a spin on the London Eye. Then, when a random stranger offers them a free ticket, Salim snags the freebie, leaves his cousins standing in the lengthy ticket line, boards the Eye, and disappears. Ted has a "syndrome" that makes it difficult for him to recognize body language, makes it difficult to cope with others touching him, and often causes him to take what is said literally: "He and Aunt Gloria walked up to our front door through our front garden, which Mum says is the size of a postage stamp. In fact, it's three metres by five and I once worked out that it could fit 22,500 stamps." Nevertheless, Ted -- whose theories and questions are generally ignored by most of the adults around him -- uses his unusually-wired mind to examine the facts from all possible angles in his quest to solve the London Eye Mystery. "The inspector looked at me without saying anything. The corners of her lips turned up, which meant she was slightly amused. Then she tapped her nose with her interlocked fingers. 'So,' she said. 'You'd allow for a margin of error?' "'Only a small one,' I said. 'Two per cent.' "'Two per cent?' "'In every human observation,' I explained, 'there is a margin of error. This is because our senses are not foolproof. In fact, some people believe that one hundred per cent certainty is impossible to achieve.' I stopped and put my head on one side. 'As humans, we cannot even be sure that the sun will rise the next day. Our assumption that it will do so is arrived at by a process of induction. This is a process where probability based on past observation allows us to predict things like weather patterns--'" "Walking thru that door Outside we came Nowhere at all Perhaps the answers here Not there anymore" -- Moody Blues, "House of Four Doors" THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY is so much fun! Ted is such an engaging and endearing narrator, and it is so interesting to follow his lines of reasoning as we, as readers, try to catch a dropped clue that will give us an edge over the book's characters in figuring out what has actually befallen Salim. This book will surely cause readers to consider with newfound respect those classmates and friends who are wired differently -- and will certainly have some readers thinking about the weather. Richie Partington, MLIS Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.com Moderator, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/ BudNotBuddy@aol.com http://www.myspace.com/richiespicks Caldecott '09 **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Jan Jan Buchholz Media Specialist Pawnee City Schools 729 E St. Pawnee City, NE 68420 email: jbuchhol@esu6.org phone: 1.402.852.2988 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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For example, I'd like to put a picture of a book jacket on a raindrop shape for a "Spring Showers Bring Reading Hours" bulletin board in the high school library. These are all books we own, I'm promoting the book, I'm not depriving the owner of the copyrighted material on the book cover of any earnings. This is not published in any way. Reading Carrie Russell's Copyright column in School Library Journal, Feb. 1, 2008, I'm inclined to think that this is fair use. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6526709.html?q=copyright -- Anne Oelke Library Media Specialist pK-12 Cambria-Friesland School District Cambria, WI. mailto:cflibrary@cf.k12.wi.us -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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Hi all, I'm putting together a presentation for my faculty, and my sputtering brainwaves remember that recently (within the last week or so) I read this thought somewhere: (wording is NOT exact) Digital technology has affected/revolutionized every aspect of our culture (economic system?) and it's unrealistic to think that it should not revolutionize education as well. I'd really like to practice what I preach about giving credit where due, but I can't seem to locate this one. The likely places are a blog post or EdWeek or School Library Journal. I've been unsuccessful in my searches. If it rings a bell, please let me know to whom I should be giving credit! Thanks so much! Monica Williams-Mitchell Seton High School Library wmitchellm@setoncincinnati.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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Deborah Bobo Media Specialist St Andrews School of Math and Science 30 Chadwick Dr. Charleston, SC 29407 www.ccsdschools.com Excellence is our Standard deborah_bobo@charleston.k12.sc.us -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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