I was invited to bring greetings from SCASL to the Old English Consortium Conference on Monday October 12th. It was a nice group of media specialists gathered for some great concurrent sessions. I presented along with my partner "Shaking up your Fiction Collection" which delt with reorganizing the Fiction collection by Genre. I ended up doign two sessions because of a cancelation. Hopefully I'll present it at SCASL in the future but right now conference stuff is keeping me busy.

Don't forget, SCASL is a supporting sponsor to SC EdTech, which is October 14-26, 2009. Session information is now posted, and you will recognize many names well known to SCASL. Don't miss this opportunity to network with colleagues and SCASL members! SCASL even runs the volunteer booth, organizing volunteers to collect data for re-certification credits at this annual event -->Anne Lemieux is our liaison this year. Come out and s… Continue

A middle school teacher's commentary in the current issue of Education Week urges his fellow educators (and test producers) to consider the kinds of texts young people attend to today. "Reading video, images and other multimodal texts," he says, "demands just as much critical thinking and analysis as a challenging excerpt from Moby Dick."

We've extended the deadline on the Call for Presentations!. The deadline is September 18, 2009. Go to http://www.scasl.net to use the online application or send it as an email attachment to joemyers1961@yahoo.com. We also are encouraging presenters to submit the Virtual Tour and Virtual Exploratorium. That deadline is October 15, 2009. It's not too late to present!