Too Much To Say...

It's September 19th, 3 weeks into the new school year, and I find that I haven't written a blog post since June.  Well, this isn't entirely true.  I was writing a lot of blog posts for my graduate courses.  I just wasn't posting here.  I apologize for my neglect.  However, it's me that I feel really sorry for...  Since I haven't posted in over 3 months, I now have so much to say that it's stressing me out.  Seriously.  How do I meld together the variety of topics that I want to share without risking my credibility as an English teacher?  Biggest pet peeve with student writing:  random topics with no connection to thesis or each other for that matter.  I've decided that it's just not possible or practical to try and incorporate all that I've learned, discovered, explored, and evaluated over the summer into this one blog post.  So, where to go from here?  I guess the easiest place to start is with the present.

My focus for the last few weeks has been on library promotion.  I WANT YOU IN THE LIBRARY!  But how do I get you here?  I find myself still battling the stereotype that a library is a quiet, rule stricken room, policed by the batty old librarian.  Most students, and sadly, many educators still think of the library in these terms:

 (Photo credit to web20classroom)

Truly, this sign makes me nauseous.  What good is a media center if media isn't allowed within its 4 walls!  I've been inspired to create my own sign to be displayed at the entrance to our library.  I'm not sure what it will look like, but it will definitely welcome the use of MP3 players, phones, food and drink.  For the love of all that's good - PLEASE EAT in our library.  Just remember to be neat about it!  

I guess I'll wrap it up for now.  My mind is wandering in a million different directions thinking about all of the great resources I want to share with you.  Maybe just one for the road... check out THE FRIDAY FIND.  This is a wiki that I started in order to share resources with students and teachers.  My goal is to update The Friday Find every Friday - get it?  I will post new resources that I discover throughout each week as well as old finds that I think are simply amazing and worth mentioning again and again and again.  

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