Do Media Specialists Specialize in Media?

Do we? Are we?
There’s an awesome heartfelt discussion here , which thanks to today’s viral MEDIA and the alert of CASL Board Member Nancy White, her monitoring of Twitter, and Littleton HS’s Karl Fisch, has been brought to your attention.
As a teacher of media, will you weigh in on this discussion?
How well are we doing [...]

Technology in Education (TIE) Conference

On Behalf of Randy Stall
Conference Sessions and Descriptions
The TIE Conference is just a month away!  The session schedule and details are now available on the TIE website.  Click here to see them.  http://www.tiecolorado.org/TIE_Conference_2009/Sessions.htm   Presenters will be posting their session materials to the TIE Conference wiki (http://tieconference.wikispaces.com/).
Roundtables 2009 – Be a Part of the Dialogue!
On Tuesday [...]

2009-2010 Grants Available for Schools and Libraries

On behalf of Jean Heilig, LSTA Grant Coordinator, Colorado State Library
The Colorado State Library has announced competitive grants for fiscal year 2009-2010 through Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) program designed to distribute federal funds to publicly-funded school, public, academic or special libraries.
Approximately $300,000 will be awarded to eligible applicants recommended for funding through a competitive [...]

Changed Status of the $1M

On Behalf of Jody Howard –
Colleagues,
This week-end I put out the e-mail below indicating the positive status of money we requested for databases for the residents of Colorado. Well, there has been a definite snag in this allocation.
When we could not find the actual words that the Governor used in the veto after we were [...]

$1M to Use For Electronic Databases

On Behalf of Jody Howard –
Colleagues:
Governor Ritter did veto the amendment that cut the funding request we made. That means that we will be given the $1M to use again this year towards electronic databases. This is so great!
Many people have been involved in this process:  The CAL Legislative Committee with the constant support of [...]