 Attention: All Jim Harbin State Winners
FAME cordially invites all state winners to the annual Jim Harbin Student Media Festival Awards Ceremony at the FAME Conference.
Where:
Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
6000 W. Osceola Parkway
Kissimmee, Florida
Ballroom Sun A/B
When:
Friday, September 26, 2008
9:30 AM Elementary Awards Ceremony
11:30 AM Middle and High School Awards Ceremony
Students should arrive at least 30 minutes before for registration.
For questions contact:
Lou Greco, grecol@stjohns.k12.fl.us or call 904-547-3947.
State judging occured in June with judges representing all five regions of Florida in attendance. Winners will soon be receiving an invitation to attend the Jim Harbin Awards ceremony at the 2008 FAME conference at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in September. First place winning entries will be viewable on the Jim Harbin webpage within the next few weeks.
Download the list of winners in all categories and grade level ranges [.pdf, 4 pages, 48K]
Read Florida Media Quarterly Online!
Ready for a Web 2.0 technology that lets you read Summer 2008 FMQ? You control the size, turn the pages, or view an index of all pages. (It may be necessary to refresh your browser on the full size page site.)
Thank you to Dr. Donna Baumbach for sharing the Web 2.0 tool that makes this possible. Be sure to read her article: "Getting Started with Web Tools in Your Library Media Center: Five to Test Drive" in this Summer 2008 issue.
Go to the Current Issue page (under the Florida Media Quarterly menu item to the left) to read FMQ online, find a list of current articles, and the link to download a .pdf version of FMQ, if that's your preference.
Message From Your FAME President
The Board of Directors of the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME) has been closely monitoring the budget making processes of school districts in the State of Florida because we know that almost every district must make harmful cuts to their programs in order to bring their budgets in line with the recently established Legislative Budget for 2008-2009. We believe that additional cuts to district budgets are being planned because of two recent events. 1) The Commissioner of Education sent a memo to each district superintendent requiring them to create a contingency budget should an additional 2% of total potential be withheld by the Governor. 2) Several utility companies just received on Monday, June 30, permission to dramatically increase utility rates in ways that were not included in most district's budgets prior to this week. We are asking for updates about how your district is addressing budget cuts to protect students from losing valuable library media programs.
Please send any updates to Bob Cerra at bobcerra@comcast.net. The FAME Board is proud to serve the needs of our members in this difficult time. We will bind together as an organization to move public education forward.
Regards,
Miriam W. Needham
FAME President
mneedham4@cox.net
Membership Drive
The FAME member year runs from July 1 to June 30. Download the 2008-2009 membership renewal form [.pdf format, 1 page, 268K] now and show your support for FAME and school library media programs in Florida. New members, please use the new members application [.pdf, 1 page, 396K].
Pay your membership dues between July 1 - September 1 and have a chance for one of the following: hotel upgrade for Wednesday and Thursday nights during Conference; free one night stay during Conference; free Wednesday Workshop; Conference Registration paid for 2009 Conference; free spa treatment.
Flyer with promotional July-Sept membership information to download and share with colleagues [.pdf, 1 page, 60K]
Membership bookmark to downloand, print, and share at district back-to-school media planning meetings. [.pdf, 1 page, 872K]
FAME's goal is to have all library media specialists across the state as members. Share these promotional materials with others and encourage membership. The memberhip drive starts July 1 and ends September 1. Take a look at the resources linked here and share with library media specialists. We want to have 100% of our library media specialists as members of our professional association.
Membership Matters: join your professional organization PowerPoint presentation [.ppt, 182K]
2008 Conference Update
Register now for the 36th Annual FAME Conference "Intellectual fREADom." The registration form can be found on the registration fly out under the conference tab to the left.
We have many awesome half day workshops scheduled for Wednesday, September 24th. Check out the workshop descriptions under the under the Conference menu at the left to decide which ones you will attend! All FAME workshops are half day workshops and run from either 9:00 – 12:00 or 1:00 – 4:00. Sign-up early the workshops fill up quickly and do have limited seating!
Conference session summaries may be found under the Conference menu at the left. These are in alphabetical order, sessions titled A-N are on page 1, sessions O-Z on page 2. Note that these are not listing days and times, those will be posted in the future as the preliminary program is available.
Authors who have confirmed that they will attend the Conference are: Marc Aronson, Ann Bausum, Chris Crutcher, Priscilla Cummings, Michael Dahl, Lisa Ernst, Alane Ferguson, Pete Hautman, Cynthia Lord, Lois Lowry, David Lubar, Laurie Myers, Sara Pennypacker, Susan Pfeffer, Rick Riordan, Greg Tang, Jean Van Leeuwen, Andrea White and Lisa Willever.
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