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GLMA Affiliates AASL & ISTE

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The Georgia Library Media Association is affiliated with two professional organizations that cover every aspect of the library media specialist profession. AASL (American Association of School Librarians) and ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) encompass the range of educational challenges that each of us will encounter during the school year. Each of these organizations has a helpful web presence, so be sure to explore and use their web resources. Please make sure that as a professional you are familiar with the following standards.

The mission of the American Association of School Librarians is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library field.

Standards for the 21st Century Learner

There is a wealth of information located on the AASL Guidelines and Standards webpage.

Learning4Life: Innovative national implementation plan for AASL’s learning standards and program guidelines.

ISTE advances excellence in learning and teaching through innovative and effective uses of technology. The National Educational Technology Standards have been developed for students, teachers and administrators.

NETS•S: The skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in a digital world.
NETS•T: The skills and knowledge educators need to change the way they teach, the way they work, and the way they learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society.
NETS•A: The skills and knowledge school administrators and leaders need to lead and sustain a culture that supports digital-age learning, builds a vision for technology infusion, and transforms the instructional landscape.

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Both these organizations have excellent conferences where participants can network, collaborate, and rejuvenate. If you cannot attend, both have large conference web participation, so the resources are available online. Try to attend each of these conferences at least once in your career, though if you go once—I know you will want to attend more.

AASL 15th National Conference and Exhibition—Turning the Page, October 27-30, 2011, Minneapolis, MN

ISTE 2011 Conference—Unlocking Potential, June26-29, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.

Cawood Cornelius, Ed.D.

Library Media Specialist, NBCT

Sonoraville High School



GLMA Mable Wyche Underwood Grants 2011

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Please take a look and submit an application for a GLMA grant.

3 grants will be awarded ranging from $300 – $500 for your great ideas and needy projects.

Here is the link to the application and the deadline is May 15.

http://glma-inc.org/GLMA-Grant-2011.pdf

Jeanne Auensen, Media Specialist

Davis Elementary, Cobb County

2433 Jamerson Road

Marietta, GA 30066

678-494-7636

GLMA District Chairs Needed

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GLMA is looking for library media specialists from around the state to serve on the GLMA board.  Please consider being a district chair if you live in one of the following areas.  We need district chairs to represent the following areas:

South Metro
Counties: Henry, Butts, Spalding, Pike, Lamar, Upson, Fayette
Volunteer needed

Southeast
Counties: Coffee, Atkinson, Bacon, Ware, Pierce, Brantley, Camden,
Charlton, Glynn, Clinch
Volunteer needed

This is a great way to network, contribute to your profession, and become involved in GLMA.  (In some districts, two LMS share the position.)  This is also a great leadership opportunity and an opportunity to make a difference in our profession. What do our GLMA district chairs do?
1.  They encourage LMS in their district to apply for the Library Media
Specialist of the Year award so all districts can be represented in this
state competition.
2.  They attend GLMA board meetings and report on events in their district.
3.  They hold a meeting in their area, when possible, to discuss concerns
and encourage networking.

Please email me if interested.
Betsy Razza
BETSY_RAZZA@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us
Betsy L. Razza, M.Ln., Ed.S., NBCT
GLMA President-Elect
Teacher-Librarian and Webmaster
GA Library Media Specialist of the Year 2005
Druid Hills High School
1798 Haygood Drive
Atlanta, Ga 30307

Important GLMA Legislative Alert: Advocating for GALILEO

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The House Appropriations Education Subcommittee will be making final decisions on the FY 2011 supplemental budget as early as next week.  As you know, the GALILEO contract for K-12 is in jeopardy.
Legislators need to know how the loss of GALILEO will impact students. To save the program, we need you to send a very specific message to members of the subcommittee.  They need to know:
  • How students use GALILEO
  • What information students can find on GALILEO
  • How Google or other commercial search engines cannot replace GALILEO if K-12 no longer has access to it’s databases
Do not send messages to legislators explaining how teachers use GALILEO or how it is beneficial to your work in the school. Focus your message on how students use and benefit from GALILEO.
House Appropriations Education Subcommittee Members
Rep. Tom Dickson – Chair - EMAIL
Rep. Rick Austin – Secretary - EMAIL
Rep. Amos Amerson - EMAIL
Rep. Kathy Ashe - EMAIL
Rep. Amy Carter - EMAIL
Rep. David Casas - EMAIL
Rep. Brooks Coleman - EMAIL
Rep. Jan Jones - EMAIL
Rep. Margaret Kaiser - EMAIL
Rep. Howard Maxwell - EMAIL
Rep. Jay Neal - EMAIL

Michelle Crider
JLH Consulting
2711 Irvin Way, Suite 111
Decatur, GA 30030

Buffy Hamilton, GLMA Communications Chair

 

Only One Week Until the GLMA Summer Institute: It’s Not Too Late!

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There’s still time!

Come join us for the 2010 Summer Institute June 18-19 at The Mountain Creek Inn at Callaway Gardens in beautiful Pine Mountain, GA! The Mountain Creek Inn is a charming venue nestled among the breathtaking foliage that has made Callaway Gardens famous. To check room availability call 1.800.543.7121 and make sure to mention you are with GLMA. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn (and socialize) with your colleagues from across the state!

There is no deadline for conference registration – you can even pay on site when you arrive – but if you know you will attend, please fax your registration form to the Executive Office - 404.299.7029 - so we can plan accordingly.

Spread the word! If you’ve already signed up, remind your friends and colleagues to send in their registration as well!

FOR THE SUMMER INSTITUTE REGISTRATION FORM - CLICK HERE

We look forward to seeing you there!

Susan Grigsby and the Summer Institute Planning Committee

Friday, June 18

8:00am     Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Steering Committee Meeting
Grants Committee Meeting

9:00am     Registration Table opens

9:45am     Begin the call to order

10:00am   Opening Remarks: Icebreaker Acttivity

11:00am   Concurrent Session #1 (50 minutes)
Kathleen Disney/Buddy Quirouet: Library of Congress & Primary Sources
Betsy Razza: Wikipedia
Patrice Weaver: UnitedStreaming

12:00pm   Lunch @ Mountain Creek Inn

1:00pm    Concurrent Session #2 (50 minutes)
Linda Martin: Storytelling
Ellen Gadberry: Accelerated Reader
Patrice Weaver: United Streaming

1:00pm-4:00pm     Resume Review: 15 minute appointments

2:00pm    Whole Group Presentation: Nadine Cohen: K-16 Initiative

3:00pm    Refreshment Break and Vendor visits

3:15pm    Whole Group
Karen Minton: What’s New at GALILEO!

4:00pm    Adjourn

4:30pm    Media Mingle & Match-up: Get help with a project! Bring your own laptop and            join the fun!

TBA        Scheduled by Committee Chairpersons: Library Media Specialist of the Year judging; Mini-grants judging

Saturday, June 19

8:00am     GLMA Executive Board meeting (room TBA)

9:00am     Greet, re-group, great ideas, Post-Its

9:30am     Concurrent Session #3
Buffy Hamilton: Mindomo – The Visual Way to Get Things Done (a make-it-
and-take-it session)
Tommy Johns Presents: If they only knew…
Martha Powell & Beth Miller: Marketing Your Media Program

10:30am    Vendor Visits and refreshment break

11:00am    Whole Group
Joanne Richards of Mackin: Funds4Books & More!

12:00pm    Lunch @ Mountain Creek Inn

1:00pm      Concurrent Session #4
Buffy Hamilton: Mindomo – The Visual Way to Get Things Done (a make-it-
and-take-it session)
Linda Martin: Storytelling
Joan Abraham/Betsy Razza: Assessment

2:00pm     Whole Group
Reading Warehouse/Todd Hohensee: Book Fair in a Box

3:00pm     Final comments, prizes, tips/tricks, Post-It ideas, etc.

4:00pm     Adjourn

Summer Institute Right Around the Corner!

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GLMA’s Summer Institute is only days away! I hope to see many of my Georgia colleagues down at beautiful Callaway Gardens as we “map out” our library practice for the coming school year. It is not too late to register – simply go to http://www.glma-inc.org then scroll down on the main page until you see the link for Summer Institute Registration. It’s that easy! All of our sessions will take place at the Mountain Creek Inn. If you stay at the
facility, your room rate includes tickets to the Gardens.  Each concurrent session is scheduled to be 50 minutes long and the whole group sessions run between 45 minutes and 60 minutes. Take a look at our schedule and then make plans to be with us on June 18 and 19!
PS: If you absolutely cannot join us in person, keep your eyes out for an
announcement about some of our concurrent sessions being available as video webinars on the GLMA website! susan

Friday, June 18, 2010

8:00am    Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Steering Committee Meeting
                    Grants Committee Meeting

9:00am     Registration Table opens

9:45am     Begin the call to order

10:00am   Opening Remarks: Icebreaker Activity

11:00am   Concurrent Session #1
                        Kathleen Disney/Buddy Quirouet: Library of Congress &
                                  Primary Sources
                        Betsy Razza: Wikipedia
                        Patrice Weaver: UnitedStreaming

12:00pm   Lunch @ Mountain Creek Inn hot buffet

1:00pm    Concurrent Session #2
                       Linda Martin: Storytelling
                       Ellen Gadberry: Accelerated Reader
                       Patrice Weaver: United Streaming

1-4pm     Resume Review: 15 minute appointments (Bring your current resume and have it professionally reviewed!)

2:00pm    Whole Group Presentation: Nadine Cohen, UGA – K-16 Initiative

3:00pm    Refreshment Break and Vendor visits

3:15pm    Karen Minton: What’s New at GALILEO!

4:00pm    Adjourn

4:30pm    Media Mingle & Match-up: Get help with a project! Bring your own
laptop & join the fun!

6:00pm    Scheduled by Committee Chairpersons: Library Media Specialist of the Year judging; Mini-grants judging
Saturday, June 19

8:00am     GLMA Executive Board meeting (room TBA)

9:00am     Greet, re-group, great ideas, Post-Its

9:30am     Concurrent Session #3
                   Buffy Hamilton: Mindomo – The Visual Way to Get Things
                       Done (a make-it-and-take-it session)
                   Tommy Johns Presents: If they only knew…
                   Martha Powell & Beth Miller: Marketing Your Media Program

10:30am    Vendor Visits and refreshment break

11:00am    Whole Group
                  Joanne Richards of Mackin :  Funds4Books & More!

12:00pm    Lunch @ Mountain Creek Inn – hot buffet

1:00pm      Concurrent Session #4
                    Buffy Hamilton: Mindomo – The Visual Way to Get Things
                         Done (a make-it-and-take-it session)
                    Linda Martin: Storytelling
                    Joan Abraham/Betsy Razza: Assessment in the Library

2:00pm     Whole Group
                    Reading Warehouse  Todd Hohensee: Book Fair in a Box

3:00pm     Final comments, prizes, tips/tricks, Post-It ideas, etc.

4:00pm     Adjourn

Susan Grigsby
Summer Institute Chairperson

Connect with GLMA via Facebook and Twitter

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Have you become a fan of GLMA on Facebook or are you following our Twitter stream?  We invite you to connect with GLMA in these spaces for news, web resources, and updates that supplement information here on our blog.    Join us on the social web today!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Georgia-Library-Media-Association/94218682501?ref=ts

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http://twitter.com/glma

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2010 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Winner Announced

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On Tuesday, March 30, the 2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers were announced at Kennesaw State University Conference on Young Adult Literature.

The 2010 Winner

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The two Honor Books

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

The 2010-2011 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers Nominees are listed below:

The Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers

2010-2011 Annotated Booklist

After by Amy Efaw

In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die: and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.

Bonechiller by Graham McNamee

A soul-stealing beast of the ice attacks Danny, who enlists three friends to face off against this demon linked to disappearing teens from a small Ontario town for centuries. Two will lose themselves to the creature if they can’t understand and defeat him in time.

Brutal by Michael Harmon
Forced to leave Los Angeles for life in a quiet California wine town with a father she has never known, rebellious sixteen-year-old Poe Holly rails against a high school system that allows elite students special privileges and tolerates bullying of those who are different.

Burn by Suzanne Phillips

Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron’s anger and isolation grow, leading to violent, destructive, and even deadly consequences.

Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Carter

Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff can be incredible.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: A Novel by E. Lockhart

Smart, witty female Frankie attempts to take on or even take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics may unsettle not just the smug boys from the group but even affect her own life forever.

Dream Factory by Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler

Alternating chapters present the viewpoints of two teenagers who find summer employment as costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falling in love.

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Ida Mae Jones is a Louisiana girl who longs to be a pilot when America enters World War II. She is pretty and smart, but she has two huge strikes against her. She is black AND a woman, but if she can pass as white, she can at least fly.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

Hold Still by Nina LaCour

Caitlin wrestles with her feelings of devastation and helplessness after her friend Ingrid commits suicide, and she turns to her family and newfound friends for help while encountering love, broadening her horizons, and using Ingrid’s journal to heal.

If I Stay: A Novel by Gayle Forman

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief–or join her family in death, leaving her boyfriend and the world.

Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen

Plagued by Tourette’s syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.

King of the Screwups by K.L. Going

Liam Geller is one of the most popular boys in school but can’t seem to do anything right in the eyes of his father; so he goes to live with his homosexual, rocker uncle who helps him to understand that there is much more to him than his father will ever see.

Muchacho: a Novel by LouAnne Johnson

Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of a new Goth friend named Jacob.

The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin

Tamika, a 15-year-old hearing-impaired girl; Jimmi, an 18-year-old veteran who stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication; and 16-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York neighborhood with sometimes inspiring but potentially devastating results.

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Skinned by Robin Wasserman

Lia Kahn’s family pays for the most advanced medical technology to save her when her body is devastated in a horrible accident, but when the operations are complete, Lia remains alive but her body does not.

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend’s death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

The Year We Disappered: a Father-Daughter Memoir by Cylin Busby

Father and daughter, Cylin and John Busby, share their memories of the challenges they faced after their family was forced to go into hiding in order to protect themselves from a killer who had already shot John, a police officer, once and was determined to finish the job.

I am very excited to have been named to the Georgia Peach Award for Teen Readers Committee. Please use the information found on the GLMA Website http://www.glma-inc.org/peachaward.htm to promote these young adult books. If you have books you or your students would like considered for the 2011-2012 nominee list, please feel free to share with a committee member. Selection criteria can also be found on the website.

Happy Reading!

Cawood Cornelius, Ed.D.

Sonoraville High School

cawoodcornelius@aol.com

Join GLMA

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Join GLMA

http://www.glma-inc.org/membership.htm

If you’re a current GLMA member and sponsor a new member to GLMA you could win FREE registration to this year’s Summer Institute, June 18-19, 2010 (for both you AND your newly sponsored member). That’s worth $85 and it is courtesy of Bound-To-Stay-Bound!

This year’s program is going to be wonderful – we have Buffy Hamilton presenting on technology integration, Linda Martin (Georgia LMSOTY) presenting on storytelling, Tommy Johns presenting on his reading programs, Reading Warehouse presenting their Book Fair in a Box program AND “make-and-take” sessions where you will leave with your own wiki, web site, or other technical tool that you can use when you return to school. There’s more in the works, too…

PLUS - This year’s Summer Institute will be held at the beautiful Callaway Gardens and all registrants will enjoy free admission to the gardens for the duration of their stay. What a great way to start your summer! Sponsor a new member and your registration could be FREE!

Keep an eye on your email box for registration forms to come out very, very soon. See you at SI!