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Posts Tagged ‘Advocacy

Your media center’s web site. An essential tool for advocacy and visbility

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 23, 2009

How’s “your’ media center web site doing these days? Is it  a “Let’s stop here first” shopping center for information? Is it current? Or, has it been left behind as you move forward with nings, Twitter, blogs, wikis or other web 2.0 tools are there for us to use? Or, [...]

Show me the Numbers

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: July 24, 2009

Show me the Numbers (PDF)
Data Gathering, Why you Needs the Numbers and How to get them | Data Gathering, Part 2. Developing your Spreadsheet, Multimedia and Internet@Schools “Media Center” columns.
You gotta have the data. Administrators and school boards understand data.  The presentation and articles address examples of successful data gathering and using data to advocate for [...]

The Challenges and Opportunities of NCLB

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: May 16, 2009

NCLB_and_Media_Programs (PDF) presentation created in 2007 for  state media organization conferences in South Dakota and Kentucky.
NCLB and Media Programs.Multimedia & Internet Schools Article July/August 2004.
Love it, hate it. It doesn’t matter. NCLB is here to stay. Like many other media specialists, I am concerned that it has deprived us and the teachers we [...]

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