Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - No Spoilers

It's Sunday at midnight. I just finished reading the new Harry Potter. I loved it.

Without giving any spoilers, have any of the rest of you finished it yet? Please share your immediate gut reaction.

NEXT ALAN CHAT with LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

The ALAN book chat on Wednesday, July 18 discussed TWISTED by Laurie Halse Anderson. On June 25, Laurie will be joining us for an interview at 9:00 pm. Sign on to the ALAN website at http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php. If you haven't been to the site before, look at it today so you will be ready to join us on those Wednesdays. Membership is not required to chat!

Converting Powerpoints to Screen Savers

For those of you thinking of creating spiffy screen savers with book reviews to display on all your library (or school!) computers, try this tutorial. It's super easy, and it even works on MS 2007.

Once it's set up, it shouldn't take long at all to add more slides or delete the ones you no longer wish to use. I plan to save the folder with the slides in the staff shared folder at our school in the hopes that some of the teachers will use them as well.

Anyone up for sharing book blurbs?

Censorship

Here's a new wiki about censorship.

http://censorshipresources.pbwiki.com/

-Stephanie

Disaster Library

I've inherited a most spacious library that apparently has been the dumping ground for the whole school. Besides that it looks like it's never been weeded and to top it off the whole collection really needs to be relabeled/recataloged. I started today with some help and we've already filled all 3 or 4 of the carts. I also got rid of some framed pictures and 3-D puzzles. I'm trying to find the fine line between necessary clean-up and too much change/throw aways at once. ( I know we all remember the Providence Middle School experience). I probably should have taken a before picture.

-Stephanie

BYU Symposium

Is anyone going to the BYU Symposium for Young Readers the end of this week? I am going by myself, and I would love to meet up with someone, so I don't have to sit by myself. Gary Paulsen, David McCauley, Ann Cannon, Suzanne Staples and others are going to be the featured authors. It should be good!!!

teacherdiscovery.com is a website you can buy book bundles or cheap classroom book titles
Karen R Finley