Whew - a lot going on!

Flight was fantastic and our three trips to the Opera in Austin last year were fantastic! Had 44 people on the last group - it rocked....

Students also wrote and received a grant from ACE - using it for a field trip day to Book People (downtown) and Half Price Books (Lamar) to buy cool new books for the library. Nancy and I kicked butt and got them processed in time for summer check out - so hope they're all enjoying them!

I read through the first 12 of the Dresden Files (J Butcher) and loved the Chicago wizard and his activities. Should be great to sell to teen boys!

In addition - I finally ordered almost all of the Laura Bush Library Foundation grant monies for books. Still have to work on the magazines - that's next! TY LBF for supporting our school!

Am currently attempting the "Follett Challenge" with a movie titled Guerilla Marketing @ Your Library. I have also just completed a sxsw.org  -  interactive - proposal titled the same. Hopefully I'll get to present! Plan to bring a few students with to man the tech :)

Hot hot hot here in Texas...'tis summer after all

Get ready to FLY!

Can't wait until Thursday - April 7th - when we leave school 7th period to attend FLIGHT!

SXSW - Geeking it Up!

Yee haw! Another SXSW week of fun & learning occurred over spring break...and I loved it! Check out the pix from the DearNewOrleans crew - nice filming gang!

You can check out some of the other hashtags @ Dear New Orleans (Facebook Photo pages)

I also got a little lost in the clouds (data, cloud, it's all a bit fluffy to me!) Hence the new fluffy data blog - where I plan to geek out and write about all the amazing tech / geek stuff going on, how I feel about it - and where it may have ramifications for our happy little education community.

Mustang Library In The News!

Check out the cool news spots that have been happening in the Manor High School Library these last couple of years! Woohoo - and way to go students!

Austin American Statesman

(Metro Front Page): Manor kids grab the microphone

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/manor-kids-grab-the-microphone-315528.html?cxtype=rss_news_36716

News 8 Austin

Manor High School students: The future of TV news

http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/?SecID=278&ArID=258224

KVRX Radio Station

Manor High School Students rockin' the open mic

http://www.kvrx.org/upstream/?m=200902

Twilight hits it on the head


(or should I say “the neck” instead?)

And Percy Jackson, Lightning Thief,

Shows Gods alive – beyond belief!

And Sapphire’s life: an awesome message

In PUSH, or should I just say Precious?

The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian

Makes me laugh and want to draw again.

And Esperanza really isn’t Rising

From ranch to hovel (but she finds a life again)

And Jericho? Man he just kicks _ _ _!

But does it well with thought and class

You see, these stories have some punch

So just pick up a book at lunch

And maybe then you’ll come to see

A whole new side of the library!

Puzzle on this!

yeah - so geek that I am, I also draw in my spare time to damp down the ADD....and I created a puzzle of sorts - i once attempted to break it down in Photoshop (success) and re-assemble in Flash - so you could actually make the puzzle on line....alas, my action scripting skills not strong enough.....

Silliness!

Well, here I go trying to post a pix.....