Introduction: Edith LaForge
Edith LaForge (laforge@merck.utulsa.edu)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 23:36:49 EST
I've been lurking and posting a few messages for awhile. I really
appreciate the help and info. I've received from those on this mailing list!
I'm a middle school library media specialist in Tulsa, OK at Hamilton
Middle School. We have a computer lab with Apple IIe's, some IIe's and a
few Mac LCII's in classrooms, and better equipment in the Tech. Ed.
classroom (some 286, 386, and 486's); the only Internet access is in the
Library Information Center at one dial-up station there. I monitor its use
and teach students & faculty how to search.
I've been an elementary librarian, one school and multi (3 once, 9
another time); an evening jr. college reference librarian, and have taught
career education (6th & 8th grade); 6th grade social studies; and computer
skills to 8th graders and to elementary students, grades 2-5 in IIe labs. I
currently teach staff/prof. development classes to educators about using
_PowerPoint_ and _Netscape_ and listserves & email. I am on the Scholastic
Network's Web Advisory Board for 1995-96. This is my 28th year of teaching
in OK.
If State Question 669 (sort of like CA's Prop. 13) fails next Tuesday,
my school district will attempt to get 60% "yes" votes for the third time on
a technology/facilties bond issue. It would start a WAN and also build
LAN's in our sites. We have 601 students in grades 6-8, 38 teachers at my
middle school. In Tulsa Public Schools, there are 14 middle schools; 9 high
schools; 56 elementary sites; and 16 special programs. We are the largest
district in OK.
Visit my school's home page at URL: http://222.tulsa.k12.ok.us/~hamilton/
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Ms. Edith LaForge, Library Media Specialist
Library Information Center voice: 918-641-1788
Hamilton Middle School FAX: 918-651-1791
2316 North Norwood Place
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74115
Hamilton's homepage: http://www.tulsa.k12.ok.us/~hamilton
email: laforge@merck.utulsa.ed OR Ealaforge@aol.com
OR lib540@fulton.tulsa.k12.ok.us
Quotation: If school library media specialists ruled the world,
reading and research would be varsity sports!