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In a message dated 5/13/2009 11:14:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU writes: There are 10 messages totalling 626 lines in this issue. Topics in this special issue: 1. McDewey 2. Gen: What are your new favorite free online tools? 3. TECH: Destiny and Aeries daily update 4. new booktrailer: love you hate you miss you by elizabeth scott 5. New Book Trailer for PEACE LOVE AND BABY DUCKS by Lauren Myracle 6. TEACHER TUBE GROUP IS WORKING!!! 7. Laura Bush Foundation Grants 8. HIT: Information Literacy Models 9. Book jackets that need to be laminated? 10. URGENY action needed by 10am, May 14 to get senators to support the Improving Literacy through Libraries funding -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, you send a message to: li stserv@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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:34:11 +0000 From: PATTY MOLM <molmpt1447@MSN.COM> Subject: McDewey I have been doing the Dewey Diner (Chez Dewey) activity with my fourth grad= ers. I had a shortened period this week where I would not have time to do = the full dining experience. I entered the class and told the students we w= ouldn't be doing Dewey Diner=2C and they all groaned. I have never had tha= t response about a missed Dewey lesson before! So I told them sometimes=2C= when my family is really busy we don't have time for a full sit down dinne= r. The kids caught on immediately and yelled out fast food. One girl even= yelled out McDewey (which is what I had already named it). I made bookmar= k sized menus with McDewey on the top and the 10 classes with a brief descr= iption. Students paired up and could order 2 items from the menu. Since a= t fast food places you bus your own tables=2C the customer had to reshelve = the books before it was their turn to be the McDewey clerk. It filled the = time I had available perfectly=2C the kids loved it=2C and they had practic= e shelving non-fiction books. =20 Patty Molm=20 Librarian Oak Grove Lutheran Elementary Fargo=2C ND molmpt1447@msn.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, you send a message 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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:38:52 -0500 From: Kelly Stern <sternk@CEDAR-FALLS.K12.IA.US> Subject: Gen: What are your new favorite free online tools? What are your favorite free online tools this year? Someone starts this topic each year around this time, and although I keep up with my journal reading, there are always cool tools I manage to miss somehow. Please reply to me and I will compile and post a hit. As for my favorite...although I started using Shelfari (online bookshelf and social networking site for readers) in Feb. of 2008, it has become a part of my morning routine to log in so that when students ask for book recommendations, I can browse my shelf quickly for reminders about what I've read recently that they would like. Two classes at my school have Shelfari groups so that students can get recommendations from their classmates and so that students' reviews are written for a real audience. (I'm the lucky person who gets to introduce them to Shelfari in the library.) Available at www.shelfari.com. Thanks, everyone for a great year of sharing and discussion! ------------------------------------- Kelly Stern Teacher Librarian Cedar Falls High School Cedar Falls, Iowa sternk@cedar-falls.k12.ia.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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I want to know if this is something unique to our situation = or is there an inherent incompatibility between the systems. Thanks, Tony -------------------------------------------------- Anthony Doyle, Teacher Librarian Livingston High School Livingston, CA tdoyle@muhsd.k12.ca.us<mailto:tdoyle@muhsd.k12.ca.us> What am I reading now? http://lhsblog.edublogs.org/whats-he-reading-now/ "When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I = can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itse= lf." (Isaac Asimov, from his autobiography I Asimov) The contents of this message are private and are intended for the recipient= s named in the To and CC fields. You may not forward this message without = the expressed permission of the author. The contents of this message are t= he work of the author and do not represent the opinions or policies of the = Merced Union High School District or Livingston High School. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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The full screen downloadable version will be available after summer..please be patient : ) www.naomibates.blogspot.com Naomi Bates Northwest High School Library -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Camille and I have been assured by the head tech guy that they are working fast and furiously to get our group up and running. We already have 181 members signed up and ready to go. We'll keep you posted on our progress...keep joining, so when the kinks are gone, we'll be rockin'! Below are two links. The first is to my new book trailer, the second is to the TT group. Trailer: http://pettushs.blogspot.com TT Group: http://teachertube.com/members/groupHome.php?group_id=booktrailersforall -- Teresa Schauer District Librarian/Pettus ISD Pettus, Texas tschauer@pettusisd.esc2.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. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message 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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:30:38 -0500 From: Teresa Schauer <pettushs@GMAIL.COM> Subject: TEACHER TUBE GROUP IS WORKING!!! I can't believe my eyes, but the Teacher Tube group is now functional!! When you go to the group, you should now be able to view the videos. Right now there are only two, but HOPEFULLY people will start posting them. With 181 members, surely SOME of you are ready!! I'm giddy with the feeling of accomplishment, and I know my partner Camille (who took the biggest jump on getting us help) shares in my joy. PLEASE remember--if you post a trailer to the group, be sure you have given proper attribution for all images and music used in it's creation. We have to lead by example. If a video is posted without attributions, it will be removed. I am aware that the "download" feature doesn't appear to be working, but rest assured, it will be! Here's the link to the group, if you haven't joined yet: http://teachertube.com/members/groupHome.php?group_id=booktrailersforall -- Teresa Schauer District Librarian/Pettus ISD Pettus, Texas tschauer@pettusisd.esc2.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. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message 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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 23:25:19 +0000 From: Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET> Subject: Laura Bush Foundation Grants Not sure how many of you know but even thought Laura Bush is no longer t= he the first Lady=2C her grant program continues=2E = THE LAURA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA=92S LIBRARIES GULF COAST SCHOOL LIBRARY RECOVERY INITIATIVE APPLICATION FOR FUNDS = = LBF Gulf Coast School Library Recovery Initiative grants are available t= o schools that (1) were damaged by the 2005 storms or (2) were created i= n response to these storms=2E Other schools are encouraged to apply for= a regular Laura Bush Foundation for America=92s Libraries grant=2E Fun= ds are available for library books and magazine subscriptions only=2E Th= e Laura Bush Foundation is unable to honor requests for shelving=2C furn= iture=2C equipment=2C staffing=2C software=2C videos=2C guides=2C tests = or exams=2C classroom book sets or other similar items=2E = The application deadline for this round of grants is Tuesday=2C Septembe= r 8=2C 2009=2E http=3A//www=2Elaurabushfoundation=2Eorg/ Josephine Dervan=2C MLS -Adjunct Instructor = School of Communication=2C Information and Library Studies = Rutgers University = dervan at optonline=2Enet = He who has a library and a garden=2C wants for nothing- Cicero -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, you send a message 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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:04:42 +1000 From: Barbara Braxton <barbara.288@BIGPOND.COM> Subject: HIT: Information Literacy Models Thank you to all those who took the time to reply to my request for information literacy models that are not Big 6. Here is the list that can be added to those in my original request ... >>> In NYC, we have developed an Information Fluency Continuum framed around an inquiry model developed by our director, Barbara Stripling. Go to: http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/LibraryServices/StandardsandCurriculum/defa ult.htm and click on Information Fluency Continuum. It is quite long (54 pages), but the inquiry framework is summarized in the first few pages. <<< >>> Take a look at FLIP it! -- see http://www.aliceinfo.org/flipit/ I developed it with a group of 7th graders, who then taught it to 4th graders. (Several sent me this!) <<< >>> What about the I-search model? http://virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/isearch.htm <<< >>> The Florida Research Model is called FINDS (Focus, Investigate, Note, Develop, Score). http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/finds/ <<< >>> http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/questions.html Essential Questions developed by Jamie McKenzie http://questioning.org/ is often used here in the United States <<< I will send al lthese to the person I am mentoring so she can assess which one will meet her needs. Barbara Barbara Braxton Teacher Librarian COOMA NSW 2630 AUSTRALIA E. barbara.288@bigpond.com Together we learn from each other -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, you send a message 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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:59:39 -0500 From: Carol Van Brocklin <carolannvan@MOTIMAIL.COM> Subject: Book jackets that need to be laminated? Good morning everyone: I know this may sound like a random question, but I couldn't find anything in the archives on it. How many of you still laminate the jacket covers for hardback books that have the same design on the cover? In other words, if it is just a plain cover on the hardback, then I have no problem covering the jacket, but what about some of the others? I am especially thinking of picture books for the kids where no one bothers to read the "description" inside anyway--they simply grab the book with the pretty cover and out the door they go. Do others still take the time to cover those jacket covers and then tape them onto the book or do you just shove them into a drawer somewhere and use them for other projects? I have no assistant, so the covering is all done by me. We have no laminating machine at the school so I use some plastic covering that I have purchased from Demco or someone, but now I am wondering if I need to bother anymore. I really don't see that they are "protecting" the books all that much and sometimes it just gets more frustrating since they have a tendency to stick together on the shelves in this humid climate. What say you oh wise ones? Thanks! Carol Van Brocklin Librarian Faith Academy-Mindanao Davao City, Philippines carolannvan@motimail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, you send a message 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 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:13:54 -0700 From: Sara Kelly Johns <sarakellyjohns@YAHOO.COM> Subject: URGENY action needed by 10am, May 14 to get senators to support the Improving Literacy through Libraries funding To take action that has a 10am Nov. 14 deadline, call your se= =0A=0A=0A=0ATo=0Atake action that has a 10am Nov. 14 deadline, call your se= nators asking=0Afor their signature on this Dear Colleague letter or click = on the "Take=0AAction" link below. If your senator has signed already, call= to thank=0Ahim/her and ask him/her to=A0 encourage their colleagues to sig= n on. =0A=0A Your voice matters, Sara =0A=0A =0A=0AFrom: Kristin Murphy,=0AAmerican Library Association [mailto:kmurphy@= alawash.org]=20 =0ASent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:05 PM =0ASubject: URGENT! LSTA in danger! Call NOW to protect library funding!=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A=0A =0A =0A =20 =0A =0A =0A =20 =0A=0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A URGENT! ILTSL andLSTA in dang= er! Call NOW to=0A protect library funding! =0A =0A =0A =0A = URGENT!!! DEADLINE TOMORROW TO PROTECT ILTSL LSTA=0A FUNDING!!!= =0A =0A =0A =0A Take=A0Action!=0A =0A =0A = =0A =0A Call your Senators now!!!=0A =0A =0A =0A = =0A =A0=0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A Please co= ntact your Senators and ask them to sign the=0A "Dear Colleague" lette= r being circulated by Senators Jack Reed=0A (D-RI) and Olympia Snowe (= R-ME) in support of funding for the Library=0A Services and Technology= Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through=0A School Libraries Pro= gram.=0A =0A =0A The deadline has been extended to 10am on M= ay=0A 14, 2009!!!!!!!=0A =0A =0A =20 =0A This is a tough budget year. After passing the stimulus package, o= nly a=0A select few programs will receive an increase in FY 2010. LSTA= and the=0A Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program are in= serious danger=0A of receiving level funding, or possibly even a cuts= , if we don't have 60=0A signatures on the letter. Please contact your= Senator NOW!=20 =0A =20 =0A The letter is addressed to the Senate Labor, Health and Human Serv= ices=0A and Education Appropriation Subcommittee and requests that the= Senate=0A include $300 million for the Library Services and Technolog= y Act (LSTA)=0A and $100 million for the Improving Literary Through Sc= hool Libraries=0A program for FY 2010.=A0 It has come to our attention= that Senate=0A offices have been told this request is considered an e= armark. We have=0A been assured by Appropriations Committee staff this= is not the case.=0A =0A =0A =20 =0A Please CALL your Senators and let them know that this letter is an= =0A absolute priority.=A0 Click on the "take action" link in the=0A = upper left hand corner and enter your zip code.=A0 It will provide you= =0A with both talking points and the contact information for your elec= ted=0A official.=A0 When you convince your Senators to sign onto the D= ear=0A Colleague, you must ask him or her to call Andrew Odgren with S= enator=0A Reed at 202-224-4642 or Mathew Hussey with Senator Snowe at = 202-224-5344. =0A =20 =0A The following Senators have signed onto this letter.=A0 If your=0A= Senator is not on this list, but has committed to signing the Dear Co= lleague,=0A please call them IMMEDIATELY:=0A =0A =0A Re= ed =0A Snowe =0A Kohl =0A Lautenberg =0A Cardin =0A Gillibrand =0A Lieberman =0A Wyden =0A Boxer =0A Lincoln =0A Kennedy =0A Menendez =0A Levin =0A Whitehouse =0A Bingaman =0A Sanders =0A Schumer =0A Rockefeller =0A Conrad =0A Johnson =0A Burris =0A Tester =0A Casey =0A Dodd =0A Baucus =0A Burr =0A Leahy =0A Bunning =0A Merkley =0A Brown =0A =0A =0A =A0=0A =0A =0A =0A = =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =0A =20 =0A=0A=0A =0A * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * =0ASara Kelly Johns =0AImmediate Past President, AASL =0AAssociate Editor for AASL Community, Knowledge Quest =0ALake Placid Middle/High School LMC =0A34 School Street =0ALake Placid, NY 12946 =0A518-523-2474, ext. 4132 =0AFAX: 518-523-4861 =0Ajohns@northnet.org =0ASaraKJohns@aol.com =0A=20 =0A =0A"Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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