Monthly Archives: May 2009

Service learning on the south trip

By mitcheet | Published: May 29, 2009

On Thursday the Social Stratification course started our 3 day service project with the Southern Mutual Help Association. The day of work was punctuated with a great lunch at Rita’s Cafe (one of the work-sites), a discussion on the value of Zydeco music, and a great dinner at Bon Creole – the most recommended restaurant [...]

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On being a videobrarian

By mitcheet | Published: May 26, 2009

Today I watched in amazement as our own Susan Smith taped, edited, and posted videos from our Social Stratification course to our Facebook course page. Susan and I spent the last few days recording video and have over 70 GB of data and, as we should have expected, it brought our machines to a crawl. [...]

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ZSR library feeds, learns from teachers for DigitalForsyth project

By mitcheet | Published: May 16, 2009

Many many thanks go out to the attendees of today’s workshop, LearnNC, East Carolina University, Forsyth County Public Library, and our own ZSR and Coy C. Carpenter libraries for the tremendously successful DigitalForsyth education workshop that was held today at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
In total, we worked with 26 teachers to create lesson plans [...]

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Serendipity hill circa 1966

By mitcheet | Published: May 12, 2009

Serendipity hill circa 1966
Originally uploaded by wakelibrarian

After over 40 years in a shoebox, another picture of the cabin surfaced today. This one shows the Fansler family with Craig pictured on the right in front of a newly sided cabin. Craig said that the cabin’s first coat of paint was green.

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