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Heather Loy

I am a library media specialist at a small, rural high school in South Carolina, USA.

Homepage: http://hloy.edublogs.org/

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SC Midlands Summit

Today I attended the first annual (I hope!) SC Midlands Summit - a two day conference focused on Google Apps for Education (with some other tech topics thrown in the mix, too!)  I was excited to learn of this professional development “in my own backyard” (sort of!) as I am not going to be able to [...]

SCYABA Voting

I just turned in my school’s votes for this year’s SC Young Adult Book Award Nominees.  To say I was disappointed is an understatement.  We have 300 students in our school.  I sent one ballot for every student to our English classes = 300 ballots.  The ballot asks students to circle the titles they have [...]

Teacher Cadet Blogging

As you may know, the WSHS library has been sponsoring a blog for a over a year now.  Well, I was asked by our teacher cadet teacher to help her students create blogs to use for their reflections as part of their grades.  Since I am most familiar with Edublogs and because Edublogs isn’t blocked [...]