Dana Fisher - Wed. Oct. 17 to Fri. Oct. 19, 2012

Our final guest blogger this Fall is Dana Fisher, a library media specialist at Florence Elementary School in High Point, NC.

Visit Dana's biopage for more information:
http://eduscapes . . .fisher.html

This week, Dana is in the midst of presenting lessons to her students that are required by the Children's Internet Protection Act. It's a busy week with a book fair in the library, an activity that is run entirely by PTA volunteers. That means that Dana is taking her "show on the road" to the children's classrooms.

Startup question: "What is the most important issue or activity facing you in your school library this fall?"

Dennis LeLoup - Wed. Oct. 10 to Fri. Oct. 12, 2012

Next guest up is Dennis LeLoup, the school librarian at both Avon Intermediate Schools (Grades 5-6).

Dennis is the current President of the Indiana Library Federation and was recently appointed to serve on the 2014 Caldecott Committee(ALSC). He is also serving another term on the ALA Council as a Councilor-at-large. Learn more about him at:

http://eduscapes...leloup.html

Interactions can begin as soon as Dennis posts his response to this year's lead-in query:
"What is the most important issue or activity facing you in your school library this fall?"

Jeanna Walker - Mon. Oct. 8 to Wed. Oct. 10, 2012

Our next guest is Jeanna Walker, the media specialist teacher at Portage Northern High School (MI). There she orchestrates a myriad of activities with students and teachers in the Library Learning Commons.

The library teaching program was selected to represent Michigan on Dr. Nancy Everhart’s AASL Vision Tour.

Learn more about Jeanna, her work at Portage Northern High School and a busy professional life at 
http://eduscapes.com/..walker.html

The startup question asked of all the blog-guests this year is: "What is the most important issue or activity facing you in your school library this fall?"

Pete Hildebrandt - Wed. Oct. 3 to Fri. Oct. 5, 2012

Next up for blogging with class members is Pete Hildebrandt, a 33 year veteran of public education. Pete is the Library Media Specialist at Sylvania Southview High School (OH).

He has taught grades 1,2, 4, 5 and 6, worked as a principal, and been a media specialist at the middle school / junior high as well as two high schools. An award winning educator, he has just about done it all!
Learn more about Pete:

http://. . .hildebrandt.html

Use this opportunity to 'pick his brain' and learn all you can from his work as both a teacher and a teacher librarian.

Susan Eley - Mon. Oct. 1 to Wed. Oct. 3, 2012

Joining the class as the first blog-guest this year is Susan Eley, the library media specialist at Hillside Elementary School (PreK to Grade 4) in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Susan is a relatively recent graduate of Indiana University's MLS program and has a few year's of on-the-job experience.

This past summer, she was involved with her school district's Library Media Curriculum Writing Committee as they worked to incorporate the Common Core Standards for language arts. She would be pleased to share with you ideas and insights gained in that process as well as any other issues and activities related to her school library and the work of school librarians in general.

Learn more about Susan at http://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/eley.html.

My startup question to all of our blog-guests this year is: "What is the most important issue or activity facing you in your school library this fall?"

Dana Fisher - Wed. Oct. 12 to Fri. Oct. 14, 2011

Dana Fisher, an IUPUI SLIS graduate, now lives and works in North Carolina. This year, she moved from a media specialist position at a middle school library to become the libary media specialist at Florence Elementary School in High Point, NC (Both the schools are in the same district). Prior to moving to NC, Dana held a similar position at Tuttle Middle School in Crafordsville, IN.

Dana's unique perspectives include experiences with service learning, problem-based learning, collaborations with teachers, reading promotion activities, and maintaining her personal blogsite: The Quilted Librarian.

It is great to have the participation of a former student who is now working in the school library field. Learn more about Dana:
http://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/fisher.html

I'm asking Dana the same 'kickoff' question posed to all our blog guests: "What is it that people don't get about your job?"

Robin Tanis - Tues. Oct. 11 to Thurs. Oct. 13, 2011

Robin Tanis is the Head Librarian at St. Pius X Catholic High School in Atlanta, GA. At St. Pius, Robin has worked to establish a collaborative partnership with teachers. She was an early pioneer in technology integration bringing computers, automation, and the Internet into the library and then the rest of the school. Robin was the original Webmaster for the school and is still responsible for keeping the Flannery O’Connor Library Website up to date. A new change that she instituted this year is a fan page for the library on Facebook.

Encouraging pleasure reading is a professional interest of Robin’s. Robin is also known for ASPIRE! - - a Summer Reading Enrichment program. She has presented her program at state and national conferences. ASPIRE! was featured in both Knowledge Quest (Sep/Oct 2003, Access to PDF document requires login) and School Library Journal (Jan. 2004). She has established a Teen Library Council to give interested students leadership opportunities. She also moderates the Anime Club.

Asking Robin to respond to the same 'kickoff' question: "What is it that people don't get about your job?"

Learn more about Robin at http://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/tanis.html.