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Volume 38, Number 1

4 President's Messageby Lou Greco

5 Students show how"smart" they are in theResearch Process by Sarah Van Gemert andChristina Johnston

6 Common CoreStandards and theLibrary Program by Nancy Teger and Sybil Farwell

7 Enhance Your TwitterExperience by Shannon Miller

FAME Conference Notes

9 FAME KeynoteSpeaker by Lou Greco

9 Baskets Helping FAMERally the Troops

10 Stay at the HiltonBonnett Creek by Lou Greco

11 Powered by Edmodo by Jesse Gates

12 Hunger Games by Lou Greco and Jesse Gates

14 Jim Harbin StudentWinners by Karen Robinson

15 A Question ofCopyright by Gary Becker

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Welcome back to school! I am so excited about this upcoming year. I believe

the transition to Common Core standards are an opportunity we should not

miss. When you study the components of the Common Core standards there is

no one in our schools ready to assist more than the school librarian! We

understand the complexity of all types of print and non print resources, text

complexity, and of course assisting our students in doing meaningful research.

We must seize this opportunity to show the importance of school libraries and

school librarians.

The 2012 FAME Conference on Nov. 1, 2, and 3 at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in

Orlando will be an excellent place to find many ways that you can be the

catalyst in your school for assisting with the implementation of the Common

Core Standards. We didn’t make our room count last year so in order to reduce

our room nights we had to change our dates in order not to owe the Hilton

Bonnet Creek any money, but we actually think the change will give us some

new opportunities and excitement. For the first time ever FAME will have a full

slate of concurrent sessions and workshops on Saturday for those of you who

find it difficult to get permission to leave your schools during the school week.

We will start our conference with our opening keynote session with Shannon

McClintock Miller from Iowa who won the national Best Producers of Short

Content On Social Media Award. You can learn more about Shannon by visiting

her website at http://shannonmmiller.com/. This event will be followed up by an

Energize Your Evening With the Authors Reception on Thursday evening at

6:00 PM. We have many exciting workshops and concurrent sessions. The

Exhibit Hall will be open all day Friday and Saturday. We will be running a

creating eBooks using iBook Authoring software that I can’t wait to attend. A

mobile digital devices playground will be available and you will also be able to

talk to school librarians one on one at our Exploratorium Poster Sessions. Of

course, as always you will have the opportunity to listen to many wonderful

children and young adult authors. Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian from

Georgia will be speaking at our closing session on Saturday afternoon at 4:00

PM. If you want to learn more about Buffy you can visit her website at

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com. Please plan on attending and

encouraging your colleagues in your district and around the state to attend.

You will shortly be seeing a list of FREE virtual professional development

opportunities that FAME will be offering this fall to FAME members. By the

way, we are now beginning a major FAME membership campaign and each of

you can assist. Our goal is to get back to 1,000 members in Florida. Please

encourage your colleagues to join this fall.

It has been a pleasure serving as your president this year and I look forward to

seeing many of you at our FAME conference in November.

Lou Greco

FAME MissionStatementFAME advocates for every student

in Florida to be involved in and

have open access to a quality

school library media program

administered by a highly

competent, certified library media

specialist. FAME is a collaborative,

responsive, dynamic network for

Florida library media

professionals.

Lou GrecoPresident, FAME

Director for Instructional

Technology

& Media Services

St. Johns County School District

[email protected]

[email protected]

How are students at BarronCollier High School in Naples,Florida doing their research?

They use their smart phones!

By scanning QR codes and following

the instructions that are sent to their

smart phones, students are physically

moving through the Collier County

Public Schools Research Process in the

Media Center. The QR Code

Scavenger Hunt provides an

opportunity for the students to learn

their way around the Media Center

and also engage in a research

activity at the same time! After the

students scan their first QR code,

they are given their topic and in

what area of the Media Center they

can look to find information on

that particular topic. Once they

find a resource, they are

instructed to take brief notes on their topic.

The next QR code sends thestudents

to the computer lab where

they have the opportunity to properly cite the

resources they find for their topic. After they

have cited their resource, the students scan

the next QR code which sends them to find

an additional resource in another area of the

Media Center. Once again, the students find a

resource and take brief notes on their topic.

Finally, their last QR code sends them back

to the computer lab where they cite their

second resource and also draw a conclusion

about their topic. It’s a fun way for the

students to actively participate in the research

process and use their smart phones as an

educational tool!

Sarah VanGemertMedia Specialist

ChristinaJohnstonEnglish Teacher

Barron Collier High School

Naples, FL

Students show how“Smart” they are in the Research Process


As the new school year begins, school librarians in Florida are seekinganswers to multiple questions: What impact will the Common Core StateStandards have on my work and library program? How can I use

technology to engage students and maximize the impact of the library programon the school community? How can I gain the skills I need to increase students’usage of Web 2.0 tools?

For some Florida home-grown perspectives on these current topics, FAME will sponsor a

second year of online inservice sessions. The Professional Development Committee is

busy preparing the agenda of once-a-month online sessions that our state professional

organization will offer free (to FAME members) or for a small charge to nonmembers.

Each of the one-hour sessions will focus on topics such as standards implementation

(e.g., Common Core or AASL), instructional strategies, or technology applications.

Specifically, this year, several sessions will repeat technology applications offered last

year; however, additional presentations will be added on newer Web 2.0 tools. Each

session will include a “how-to” segment, as well as strategies for integrating the tools

into the school library instructional program.

Our first session, held on September 27th, was an introduction to the Common Core State

Standards. The session offered background information on the standards, implementation

strategies for integrating them into the school library instructional program, and

additional online resources. A certificate of completion was presented to each participant

following the session.

Input from FAME’s membership on the topics to be covered is very important to the

committee as they continue to plan for the year; consequently, the committee will be

distributing a survey to collect ideas from you. When you see this announcement in your

email, please take a moment to complete the survey and make your informational needs

known so that sessions on these critical topics will be included in this year’s offerings.

We hope that you will join us for these short, but information-packed sessions. Stay tuned

for updates as sessions are finalized and registration begins!


Nancy Teger andSybil Farwell

Common Core Standards and the Library Program

Ihave been encouraging teachers, students, andothers to join Twitter and build their personallearning networks (PLNs) ever since I delved into

this great social networking site last fall. Investingthe time in Twitter has paid off in a number ofwonderful ways. If it weren’t for Twitter, RuggeroDomenichini from New Zealand would not havetaught my seventh grade Technology andInformation Literacy class about his Web 2.0 tool,YouTellYou; Mark Moran, founder and CEO of finding Dulcinea, wouldn’t havetaught my students and other teachers about his unbelievable online resource;our junior high students would not have participated in the award-winningGreeting-FromTheWorld wiki; and I wouldn’t be excited to go to ISTE in 2010 tosee all of the amazing people I have come to know through their tweets.

Once you start using Twitter, you’ll start reaping the benefits such as these. For those

who have opened up an account and dabbled a bit but still don’t see the point, I’d like to

offer a few other tools and tips that can improve your Twitter experience.

Use a Twitter OrganizerAdd a Twitter organizer or manager to your desktop such as TweetDeck

(www.tweetdeck.com) or HootSuite (http://hootsuite.com). I prefer TweetDeck because I

find it easier to use. Both of these tools organize your Twitter stream into columns, such

as All Friends, Mentions, Direct Messages, or any special lists or searches you follow.

You can open as many columns as you want, and you can delete them at any time. I often

have several columns open for my favorite lists.

Twitter users create discussion forums using a hashtag (#) followed by the topic. This

allows you to search all of the tweets containing that hashtag, even if you aren’t

following the person who sent the tweet. For example, when I compose a tweet and

include my school’s hashtag, anyone searching for #vanmeter will see this tweet. It is a

great way to share and connect within a certain group and to connect with others

interested in the same things you are.

I have met a lot of my Twitter friends by searching for hashtags such as #followfriday

(giving shout-outs to fellow Twitter friends on Friday), #followalibrarian, and #edchat

(seeL&L, May 2010, “Exchange Ideas on Edchat,” page 33).

You can also create and follow personalized lists of people through your Twitter account.

These lists might be your own PLN, a list of all of the Twitter users within your school,

or all the authors you follow on Twitter. You can also follow other users’ lists by adding

them to your TweetDeck or Twitter page.


Enhance Your Twitter ExperienceUsing a few tips and tools, you can transformyour teaching and become a wise owl.

Shannon Miller

Shannon McClintock Miller

is the teacher librarian and

technology coordinator at

Van Meter School in Van

Meter, Iowa. She loves Web

2.0, creativity, learning,

sharing, and noise in the

library and school. Follow

her on Twitter at

@shannonmiller


If you are new to TweetDeck, you might not have noticed how easily you can send replies,

retweets, and direct messages simply by hovering over someone’s profile picture. Click the

retweet button next to a tweet that you like, and the message automatically appears in the

update box. You can also send replies and direct message this way.

Another advantage of using an organizer, as opposed to the actual Twitter site, is the increased

functionality. You can compose updates, add a column, send a picture, shorten your tweet to

140 characters using TweetShrink, and translate a tweet from a foreign language. These

organizational applications also allow you to manage Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and

MySpace all from one place. You can even send an update from multiple places at once.

Manage Tweets with a BookmarkletIn the past when I would find a resource to share, I would send out an e-mail. If my recipients

wanted to share the information, they would, in turn, forward the e-mail. Now when find a

resource to share, I use the bookmarklet Hootlet, a tool within HootSuite, and send a tweet.

Merely drag Hootlet to your bookmark bar or your favorites list, and it will allow you to easily

send tweets to any of the accounts (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) you have linked to your HootSuite

account.

Say for example, that I find an online elementary book site that I would like to share with my

Twitter friends. When I am at that site,I click on Hootlet in my bookmark bar. It brings down a

box with a tweet already created. It also shows the different accounts I have tagged within my

HootSuite. I can send the tweet out like that, add to it, or edit it before I send it to my

followers. I can add a hashtag or even mention another user within a tweet.

Be StrategicOnce you start tweeting on a daily basis, it’s good to take stock of what you are tweeting. I love

using the formula that Angela Maiers posted on her blog Putting Learner and Learning First.

In the post “Twitter Engagement Formula,” she writes, “70% of Twitter time should be spent

sharing other voices, opinions, and tools; 20% of tweets should be directly responding,

connecting, collaborating, and cocreating with Twitter colleagues; and 10% is chit-chatting

trivial details about your life as a human being.”

Don’t assume that this Twitter business made sense to me at first. I gathered some strong

resources about Twitter, added several key friends I found by networking through Twitter and

other social networking tools, and jumped right in! I love how this tool has helped me build my

PLN and make connections with others all over the world.

ResourcesHootSuite: www.hootsuite.com

Putting Learner and Learning First, “My Twitter EngagementFormula”: www.angelamaiers.com/208/09/my-twitter-enga.html

Shannon Miller’s Diigo list of Twitter resources:www.diigo.com/list/shannonmiller/twitter-resources

TweetDeck: www.Tweetdeck.com

Enhance your Twitter Experience continued from 11


Lou GrecoPresident, FAME

Director for Instructional

Technology

& Media Services

St. Johns County School

District

[email protected]

Shannon McClintock Miller Opens FAME 2012 Conference

2012 Conference Notes

FAME is excited to have ShannonMcClintock Miller give the FAME2012 Conference keynote

address at our opening session at4:00 PM on Thursday, November 1,2012 at the Hilton Bonnett CreekHotel in Orlando.

Shannon McClintock Miller is the district

teacher librarian and technology

specialist at Van Meter Community

School in Van Meter, Iowa. She

encourages her students to have a voice

while learning, creating, collaborating,

and connecting to others within their

school and around the world. Shannon is

the author of the award winning Van

Meter Library Voice blog and enjoys

writing for ISTE's Leading & Learning journal, various blogs, and in other forums. She

has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy,

technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others.

Shannon serves on the School Library Monthly advisory board and is a teacher advocate

for StudyBlue. In March 2011, Shannon was awarded the Connecting People Shorty

Award for Twitter. Shannon can be found at @shannonmmiller on Twitter and online at

shannonmmiller.com. Take some time and visit her interactive website at

http://shannonmmiller.com before the conference to hear the exciting things

happening in her library in Iowa.

Baskets Helping FAMEIf you have been attending the FAME conference the past few years I am sure you have noticed the beautifulhuge baskets that have been displayed. FAME local associations and many other friends of FAME have beencreating these masterpieces each year. The revenue generated by these baskets earned FAME approximately$1400 last year. These baskets have been very popular with our attendees and I often heard people askingabout what was in a basket designed by a particular group so they could find it to bid on the basket. Weencourage anyone interested in creating a basket this year to bring your basket to the FAME Registration boothwhen you arrive at the conference. This is a very tangible way you can assist FAME by your generosity increating baskets and by bidding on baskets to take home with you.

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Why FAME needs you to stay at the Hilton Bonnett Creek HotelI have been hearing concerns for the past two years regarding staying at the

Hilton Bonnet Creek Hotel. I share your concerns and have stayed at less

expensive locations myself to attend FAME and FETC conferences in the past.

What I didn’t understand before I was in leadership in FAME was the way

hotel conference contracts are written. The hotel rooms our participants

occupy, pay for our session and exhibit space. These hotel room nights allow

us to have a professional venue for the one time each year where we have the

opportunity for face-to-face collaboration and learning.

At last year’s conference, FAME missed the room night requirements. That alone resulted in a $62,000 shortfall.

Fortunately, we were able to renegotiate the room nights requirement for this year. However, we are locked into

contracts with the Hilton Bonnet Creek for the next several years. If we fill the hotel this year the Hilton will drop

the $62,000 shortfall. We really need everyone to stay at the Hilton and share rooms with colleagues. Sharing rooms

can help defray the personal cost to each of you. This year if you stay at the Hilton you will not have to pay for

parking. If you stay off property that will be a $15 a day charge, please take that into consideration if you are

thinking of staying off property.

If we can fill our rooms this year, FAME will be in much better financial standing than we have been during the past

year. We have an exciting program for you with national library leaders and authors such as Shannon Miller, Sharon

Draper, and Buffy Hamilton. Our annual conference is where we make money to run our organization throughout the

following year. Thank you each so much for being FAME members and attending the 2012 FAME Conference!


Conference Notes continued from 9

We are locked intocontracts with the HiltonBonnet Creek for the nextseveral years. If we fill thehotel this year the Hilton willdrop the $62,000 shortfall.

Jesse GatesInstructional Technology

Program Specialist

St. Johns County


We are very excited about this year’s FAME conference and will once again beharnessing the power of Edmodo to enhance your experience. All attendees to theconference are encouraged to bring their laptops, smartphones, and tablets to takeadvantage of the online resources that will be available in Edmodo. Edmodo is afree and secure social learning platform for teachers, students, schools anddistricts. It has become a favorite online community for our teachers to use withtheir students here in St. Johns County because of how easy it is to share all typesof digital content. Many conferences are beginning to realize how much morepowerful they can be when they are “powered by edmodo,” and so it’s becomingmore common to see Edmodo used in professional development as well.

Before you come to this year’s conference,

you can go to www.edmodo.com and

register for a free account if you don’t

already have one. Once at the conference,

look in your FAME conference program and

you will see the group codes for each

session. We are asking our presenters to

become a part of the edmodo community by

sharing digital content from their

presentations and continuing the learning

after the conference with their concurrent

session participants. Not only will you have

access to this content, you’ll also have the

ability to share your expertise with others

here at FAME by uploading your thoughts,

comments, and even content you’d like to

share. It is this type of collaboration that we

feel will make our conference so

worthwhile.

There will be help desk available at the

“digital hub” during the conference if you

have any questions at all about Edmodo. We

are looking forward to seeing you all in

Orlando and online in Edmodo for the 2012

FAME Conference!

Make the most of your 2012FAME Conference…Join Edmodo.

Conference Notes continued from 10

Last January, Kristen Mullins a teacher at Pedro Menendez High School,Jesse Gates, me, and a class of Intensive Reading High School studentsembarked on an adventure that turned out better than any of us could

have imagined. Where are the intrinsic successes our intensive readingstudents need? Yes, many around the state are able to get some of thesestudents through passing the necessary exams and courses to get a highschool diploma. However, do we really build a desire for learning and a love ofreading that will last a lifetime? Are we showing them their strengths or justthrowing their weaknesses in their faces day after day.

and Edmodo


Lou Greco and Jesse Gates

Here was the challenge to our students.

We told them if they would truly engage

in their learning during this novel study,

we would use every tool we could think

of to help, listen to them, change direction

if we needed to, and to make them

successful for this quarter and also for the

rest of their lives. We expected them to

give it their best and if they did the

reward at the end of the quarter would be

a field trip to the IMAX Theater to see the

Hunger Games movie the first week it

came out.

Ms. Mullins was teaching AVID, IB,

Honors English and Intensive Reading.

This wide range of students proved to

make all of us think differently about

what was occurring in this classroom on a

daily basis. There was constant reflection

about what strategies were and weren’t

working.

Students were given the opportunity to

listen to an audio version of the book and

a few times it was read aloud. Everyone

had a print copy of Hunger Games. There

were a few students who preferred not to

listen but just read.

We used the Edmodo social networking

tool using iPads and laptops for student

responses everyday. It was an enormous

success. Previously, when studying a

novel, the teacher would have students

take down written notes on paper on the

chapter they were reading. These notes

would consist of questions, vocabulary, or

basic comprehension issues. With

Edmodo, the students were able to post

these questions, comments, or thoughts

straight onto the class Edmodo site where

the other students and teachers could see.

Some things we found during our course:

• Many of the students displayed higher-

level thought processes on Edmodo than

they typically would on their notepaper.

• Students analyzed the text and asked

many poignant questions throughout the

course.

• Many students who previously

contributed very little to classroom

discussions were more active on

Edmodo. Especially our two ELL

students who were verbally unsure of

themselves but their written English was

well written.

Hunger Games,Audio Books, CraniumCore,

To The Rescue


To the Rescue continued from 12

• Many students enjoyed the ability to get text messages

through the Edmodo mobile app when Ms. Mullins sent

out an alert message to their cell phones to remind them

of assignments or assessments.

• It was far easier for us as teachers to monitor the

learning of the students. We could see who was posting

and what they were posting.

• There’s an accountability factor that is hard to

understate. When a student writes their thoughts down

on a sheet of paper, they know this paper is only going

to be seen by the teacher. In Edmodo, they are writing

for the entire class to see, and we believe we saw better

writing because of this. We did need to crack down on

some casual texting style writing that a few students

were using, but for the most part saw better writing out

of all the students.

Ms. Mullins decided to incorporate the Socratic Seminar

strategy she used with her IB students. Many teachers

equate Socratic Seminar with students in advanced

studies. However, during these sessions it was amazing

the depth of understanding these students were pulling

from the text. Yes they were listening while reading, but

they were truly learning a tremendous amount from this

novel.

On Fridays we used the Cranium Core video game

clickers to review the chapters we had read. The higher

order thinking questions used in this method are a

springboard for thematic conversation leading to improved

comprehension skills. The goal is to have students think

independently. It is also a goal to show them how to be

interdependent, collaborative learners. The teams stayed

consistent throughout the quarter and the students from

each team had to prove their answers by directing the

class back to the specific text, which would answer the

question by page and paragraph. This method encourages

lively debate to prove which team is actually correct.

After the competition each week the winning team was

given a Hunger Games trophy. The winning team at the

end of the book kept the trophy.

Ms. Mullins taught this novel simultaneously to two other

classes including her English Honors class. At the end of

the quarter she gave the same exact exam to all three

classes. After grading she placed the three class averages

on the board and the Intensive Reading students were

amazed they had achieved the highest class average. They

truly understood the depth and intricacies of this title.

Several of the boys in the class said it was the first book

they actually ever read from cover to cover. They were

thrilled with themselves and indicated they would read

other books in the future. Many days when the period was

almost over they would beg to read more, that doesn’t

happen very often or at all in Intensive Reading

classrooms. For fourth quarter they were given permission

to read the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire.

There was not only reading comprehension, vocabulary,

and writing academic success; there was a change of

heart!

We’d love to hear from you!Have you completed a research project you want to share with other media specialists? Have you justreturned from a trip where you witnessed exciting innovations for media specialists? Have you learned anew technique, found a new product or service, or just have information that you want to share?

The FMQ can be your forum. See page 16 for details and submit your articles today.


Congratulations!The 2011-2012 Jim Harbin Student Media Festival was again a success. Thousands

of entries were submitted and many advanced from the local level all the way to the

state level. The five regional directors were instrumental in setting up virtual

judging venues in order to assure that each entry was judged fairly and equally.

The entries that were awarded first, second and third place at the state level are now

listed on the F.A.M.E. website.

(http://www.floridamedia.org/?page=JH_2012_Winners) Winners will learn their

actual award at the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival Awards Ceremony on

Saturday, November 3 during the F.A.M.E. Annual Conference.

Changes are about to take place in the procedures for entering the 2012-2013 Jim

Harbin Student Media Festival. Please do not plan to submit any entries until

AFTER the November Awards Ceremony.

Again, congratulations to the students, teachers, sponsors and media specialists who

made the media festival a success. Please be sure you renew your F.A.M.E.

membership so your school can continue to participate in this outstanding event.

Karen Robinson

Jim Harbin Student Winners

http://www.floridamedia.org/?page=JH_2012_Winners


A “Question of Copyright” is anongoing column authored by Gary H. Becker, nationalCopyright law consultant andretired, public school system,technology administrator. If youhave a question, please send it to [email protected] will receive an individualresponse and your question mayappear in a future edition of FMQ.Requests to withhold names willbe honored.

Gary H. BeckerNational Copyright Law

Consultant

[email protected]

QOur county has purchased andimplemented an English/Lang. Arts

Curriculum.

Complementing the curriculum andrelevant literature titles are accompanyingDVDs featuring full-length movies. Whileit has never been the intent to show thefull-length movies, clips of each moviehave been extracted to support discussionand stimulate inquiry.

The company has forwarded a documentthat reflects information on “the use ofthese clips to support education.” Pleasenote, however, the clips in question areNOT online and are derived from the full-length feature films.

If the district were to purchase a set ofthese DVDs, does it fall within “fair use”to create a CD with the accompanying clipfor each classroom teacher? To whatdegree does “fair use” apply in thissituation?

AIn the document provided by thecompany, Section 110 of the

Copyright Law is being used to justify theuse of film clips. However, Section 110only pertains to the use of copyrightedmaterial for education, more specifically,instruction. It doesn't address the legalityof using clips taken from copyrightedworks. The use of a portion of a work fallsunder Fair Use and in order to make suchclips, one has to meet the criteria for FairUse.

If the intended clips are going to be usedas part of a distance learning activity, suchuse would be governed by the privilegesand limitations granted in the Teach Act.Where the Teach Act is ambiguous as tothe amount that may be used from acopyrighted work, then Fair Use wouldstill apply.

An individual teacher, taking clips andusing for instruction, especially if such useis “transformative” in nature, maypossibly qualify for Fair Use. However,

the organized capturing of clips from full-length videos and then reproducing anddistributing these clips, violates the rightsof the copyright owners, whether or notthere is a charge for the clips. Suchactivity requires prior permission from thecopyright owners of the works from whichyou wish to create clips.

The use of the clips, even if created by theindividual teacher for their own use,assumes that the original source videosweren’t governed by a license or useragreement. If, in fact, these videos arelicensed or governed by a user agreement,then any reproduction, in whole or in part,along with any transmissions, especiallyfor distance learning, would only belegally possible if the license/agreementgranted such privileges.

QI would like to use the lyrics fromthe Dave Matthews Band song

“Don’t Drink the Water” in a lesson onNative Americans. Can the lyrics be givento students to analyze or is that acopyright violation?

AIn general, it is not permissible toreproduce the lyrics to copyrighted

music, without prior permission. However,some recent interpretations of Fair Use, inregard to using media in a transformativemanner (Transformative – using for apurpose other than originally designed)appear to apply to teachers of medialiteracy and the regular classroom.

I would recommend your visiting thefollowing website,http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education, where you will find the “Codeof Best Practices for Fair Use in MediaLiteracy” which I think you will findhelpful in answering the question youhave posed.

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Florida Media Quarterly (FMQ) is the Florida Associationof Media in Education (FAME) electronic magazine published quarterly.Each issue includes articles of interest to all media specialists. Specialcolumns focusing on technology, copyright, and book reviews, as well asfeature articles on topical issues are written by colleagues and specialiststo keep media specialists on the cutting edge. FMQ is available online inPDF format from the FAME website at http://www.floridamedia.org




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