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Overdue quick flicks

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GoAnimate.com: Return your books on time by squib

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MSET 2010

I'm sitting in a conference session with Tony Bollino and our own Lynda Baker presenting. They're talking about safe blogging and I have to admit that I'm learning my way around this blog framework from them. Sometimes it is so much easier learning from others than to figure it out yourself.

Something new for something old

It has always bothered me that our users need to enter a login sequence and a password to remotely login to our databases. Well, there's a really obvious, simple solution for at least one of them. For our Gale products, all that needs to be done is add the login sequence to the URL on your web page. So, using your school's initials, you would need to add fcps*** (with the asterisks being the initials) to the URL for your link! Then your students would only need to know your school's password.

If you try it and it works, please let me know!

Learn Something New Every Day

I'm really beginning to get around to many of our schools. I'm so impressed at each school with some of the things that people do to make their school unique. For instance, I just read a book from one of our middle schools and the inside of the book had a "Guys Read Approved" sticker. I didn't even know you could get those stickers. The best thing about these stickers is that they are free and can be printed from here: http://guysread.com/more/. This page has bookmarks and spine labels too that you can use.

Another school lets parents donate money for the purchase of a birthday book. I know many of you do this, and while I was standing there, three students brought money into the media center. She indicated that this revenue source generates up to $1500.00 a year. It's not a big school, either.

At an elementary school I saw a carpet sample with an oversized question mark on it. Students who had questions stood on the carpet. This avoided the pied piper syndrome!