Nothing like a bit of heat!!

Well, summer has arrived full swing with the solstice!! As transformers pop off like old fashioned flash bulbs, I am reminded of the 1965 Blackout that affected 25 million people.  I was studying for an American History test when my desk lamp began to flicker.  Fairly soon all the lights were gone in the whole city.  Even Manhattan can become eerily quiet when there is no power. My dad, college brother and I went outside and walked to Broadway from our Riverside Drive apartment building.  It was one of those moments in your life you never forget.  No street lights, no ambient light and no noise all the way down the long avenue.  Typical of New Yorkers, loads of people were outside as well.  Everyone was friendly and talking softly but there was no panic. I wonder if that same reaction would be possible today?

The LTC - rz doorz iz alwyze oppnz

So about those inventories!? We have 22,000 barcoded items in our LTC. The last time I did a complete inventory there might have been a few less and no I will not say when that was exactly. Let me just inform you that we had less than 1% loss that we could not account for such as a the dog ate it, I left it on the plane, it's at my dad's house, the maid puts them weird places, my little brother is reading it talk to him, etc. Now that I have a "Pocket Circ" that actually runs (thank you JH, you know who you are) maybe I will do another one...in sections!

Is LTC LOL? You tell me!!

Well, over the weekend I had a chance to tell my son that a certain teacher's blog really had me hooked because she made me laugh.  I told him she had those goofy cat and dog posters with the broken English scattered here and there but the captions were about teaching!! As an insider I found them hilarious.  He ( for those of you not aware this is a college 19 year old we are talking about here) told me all about LOLCats and how to connect with that part of the web.  So a bunch of things happened here all because of getting going with a PLN!

1. Connected with the teenager (never easy and often tricky) while we both laughed.

2. Got instructed in a part of web 2.0 I did not know about.

3. Going to try my hand at infusing some LOLs into my blog world.

Great Reading Resource

I just have to mention this great site again.  Thanks to iLearnTechnology for getting me to ReadKiddoRead.com. So often readers advisory sites are mostly opinion and not a lot of substance but not this one.  Started by James Patterson (famous author) and a crack team of childrens' publishing experts this user friendly site can be used and enjoyed by everyone (librarians, teachers, parents). It is definitely worth a look.  I subscribed  to the Ning of course but that makes sense, right?!

Tuesday Discovery

Hey I just found a terrific blog through Twitter.  It is Kelly Tenkely's Ilearntechnology.com. Two posts caught my attention: Read Kiddo Read and Ten Alternatives to Book Reports but there was a great science one called The Why File and several on math.  Take a look!! This is a great TLT (will from now on replace Teacher/Librarian/Technology people) blog. 

http://ilearntechnology.com/

Monday Musings

Got to work at 9:00 with an iced grande latte. Didn't come up for air until about 3:00. Saw Jeff H. and Jennifer H. both hard at work as well. Speaking of air, I would strongly recommend wearing a mask at school these days. The dust is so thick in the air, including in the main office, that it looks like your eyes are having trouble focusing.

Start of a new chapter at school

Hey everybody...this is really going to be great!