Exciting New Flip Video Camera

We just received shipment yesterday on two Flip video cameras the school purchased. What a fun tool/toy. So easy to use. Today was our annual Christmas concert. We were able to video each class's performance, load the video through the USB plug into the library computer, email the video to the homeroom teacher, who in turn sent an email copy of the video to all his students' parents. Can see many, many uses.

Problem I will need to work on is there is not enough storage on my computer to download the videos. The tech people are just going to have to unlock my C drive if I am to be able to save any. (though you can burn them to a CD)

Book Reports

Wanted to share a video of some of our students with their bookreports.

New Learning

I have just finished two videos using Animoto which is available free for educators. Now I am experimenting with the blog. I have already emailed one of the videos, posted one on Facebook, tried but failed to post it on the school library website, so the blog is next. Hope it works.

Canada Package Has Arrived

Posters Completed

Our 4th and 5th graders completed their ISLM posters today. Fourth graders responsible for Canada and fifth graders Hong Kong. Take a look at their great work!

Mailed our bookmarks

Our 1,500 plus bookmarks were mailed on Wednesday. Heard from the Hong Kong librarian, Helen Chan, and she put ours in the mail the same day. There is no longer a "slow boat to China" so postage is rather pricey......$41 and some change. Managed to cram them all in one of those boxes they advertise on TV...one price no matter the weight. But that one price to China is high. Only $25 for the Canada ones.

Students are looking forward to receiving the ones sent to us.

International School Library Month

October is International School Library Month. Our school is participating in the bookmark project for the 4th year. Previously we have been paired with Nigeria, India, Hong Kong, and 2 schools in Canada---one in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and one Worsley, Alberta. Our partner schools this year are Ecole Richard Secord in Edmonton, Alberta, and Lam Tin Methodist Primary School in Hong Kong.

Our students are busy learning about the other countries, making posters, and getting their bookmarks ready to mail. We have already mailed packages containg a map of Alabama, tourist information brochures, an Alabama poster, and a copy of the book Y is for Yellowhammer, an ABC book of our state.

We have such a massive number of bookmarks to complete this year that not only have our students been making them, but we have called on the art classes at our high school, several area church youth groups, and one former student of mine who is in his 30s. These bookmarks are being laminated and my 88 year old mother is cutting them all out for us.

This is a wonderful project each year that I would urge other libraries to

participate in. The website for International School Library Month is

www.iasl-online.org/events/islm/


Our partner schools web addresses are

Hong Kong http://www.ltmps.edu.hk/

Canada http://rsecord.epsb.ca/