Library Ties » WEMTA09 http://carl-harvey.com/libraryties “Tie”ing together my thoughts on school library media programs, technology, and education Sun, 02 May 2010 23:36:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WEMTA 2009 http://carl-harvey.com/libraryties/2009/03/29/wemta-2009/ http://carl-harvey.com/libraryties/2009/03/29/wemta-2009/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:19:03 +0000 Carl Harvey http://carl-harvey.com/libraryties/?p=161 Lake MononaLast Sunday I flew to Madison, Wisconsin for the 2009 WEMTA conference.  Thanks to an invitation from conference chair Allison Kaplan, I was able to head north and share with the folks in Wisconsin.  The added bonus was I got a chance to learn from them and all the great speakers at their conference, too.    The Monona Terrace Convention Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is right on Lake Monona in Madison.  While I arrived the lake was frozen, but in a few short days the ice was melting.  While the rain kept me from getting too close, you can see the white lines are where the pieces of ice has crashed into each other.  Inside the convention was a collision of great ideas about library media and technology and ways to make our schools even better.  It was great fun to share about how library media specialists can be part of the school improvement process, and we also talked about how we use the Big6 research model in our school.  Thanks to the folks at WEMTA for such a great visit to Madison!

As one can imagine, when you are gone the rest of the week was spend catching up.  Not sure if I’m quite there, yet, but making progress.  There is always the week ahead to keep plugging away at it!

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In the last month or so, I’ve finished the draft of a manuscript for the next books and have sent that off to the editors to chew on for a while. Probably it is the major reason I haven’t blogged as I’ve been focusing all my writing efforts towards the book. Hopefully it will be out this fall from Linworth.

School has been busy as we got ready and then had our author visit with Louise Borden.  She was absolutely amazing with our students.  She was engaging, informing, and inspiring.  The author visit is always my favorite part of the year, and this year certainly ranks as one of our best.

The last major project has been putting together two presentations for the WEMTA conference in Wisconsin.  I leave tomorrow for a few days to share and learn from other library media professionals.  I’m excited for what the next few days have in store!

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