Webster Bible Church and Webster Christian School Library Blog

This week’s Teacher Challenge:  analyze and improve the selection/arrangement of widgets in your blog’s sidebar. According to Sue Waters, “The term widget refers to any tool or content that you add, arrange or remove from the sidebar(s) of your blog — these are the blocks that make up your sidebar.” This latest challenge came at [...]

The Webster Christian School Library Blog was originally created as a place for the students to discuss books–to proudly publish their creative work relating to books such as movie trailers, slideshows, podcasts, etc.  So far, it’s mainly populated with my book reviews. This is our first post showing student work! Each year in January the 5th-grade [...]

I have a healthy fear of the copyright laws because they are important and they should be respected. Unfortunately, I also have an unhealthy, paralyzing fear of them, too. As a school librarian, one of my main goals is to teach our students how to use information responsibly.   I have got to  wrap my head [...]

“Product Description Using the easily learned “D-I-S-C” system, Dr. Robert A. Rohm’s Positive Personality Profiles helps readers understand themselves and others. Dr. Rohm’s new book will clearly describe key differences in basic personality types, give practical insights into how people respond, provide keys for understanding your children, and explain methods for working with others. About [...]

Avatar, avatar Make me an av’ WeeWorld &  befunky What do you have? Avatar, avatar Clip, dump, shop, crop And make me a perfect mii (with apologies to Fiddler on the Roof) Well, after hours of painful labor, I produced this smiling, relaxed avatar.     The bad news:  I am neither smiling nor relaxed.  The good news:  I learned something.  Honestly, [...]

“Adelaide Proctor is hired by Gideon Westcott to serve as a governess for the child he has been left with, and as Adelaide tries to bring her young student out of her shell, she finds herself falling for Gideon, but their chance at happiness is threatened by a man intent on claiming the child and [...]

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.”  Robert Cormier*  This blog is about 18 months old.  Feels like time for a good spring cleanin’. Last month I attended a [...]

“A series of congenial letters from Screwtape, an elderly devil, advising his nephew Wormwood, an apprentice devil, how to corrupt his earthly ‘patient’.”(Follett Titlewave) I read this short book as a student at Washington Bible College, and it left a strong impression upon me. As part of the 9th-grade Bible class at Webster Christian School, [...]

This book has a futuristic setting and some interesting and scary concepts to consider.    A murder has been committed in close proximity to a biogenetics laboratory.  Is there some connection?   In reality, what is going on inside the lab? Agent Robbie Sanchez and her colleagues, members of the Florida Department of Law enforcement,  are called to the crime [...]

“Tim Porter, an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, is assigned to investigate the murder of a young man, but fears for his daughter’s safety after she agrees to participate in a “training” program run by Dr. Walter Simmons, who became popular with his New Age psychological tapes.” (Follett Titlewave) This fast-paced, action-packed [...]