Welcome to my Blog!

Hi!
Welcome to my blog!
I am the media specialist at Heard County Middle School in Franklin, Georgia. Our students are in grades 6-8. I 've been media specialist here since our school opened in 2002 and we have a beautiful media center! I became a media specialist in 1993 and served two schools: Ephesus Elementary School (K-8) and Centralhatchee Elementary School (K-8). I worked at one school each morning and at the other each afternoon. Later, increased enrollment at Centralhatchee allowed me to serve that school full time before our county created the middle school from combining the middle grades from the other schools. I transferred to the new middle school, where I was able to fill the empty shelves with brand new books! It was very exciting and rewarding to be able to do this!
I have my National Board Certification Library Media/Early Childhood Through Young Adulthood (issued November 18, 2005). I have a bachelor's degree in Middle Grades Education. I have a master's degree in Media and am currently working on the Ed. S. degree in Media through the State University of West Georgia. The first degree program I completed (at WGC) was in Speech and Theatre Art with emphasis in Journalism (minor in Business Administration). I was editor of The Bowdon Bulletin for 10 years and also worked as reporter for two bi-weekly newspapers that later became the Daily Times-Georgian. I have freelanced articles and have had several published in the North Georgia Journal.
As you may guess, I love to read and write -- especially about local history. If I have free time, I like creating my own characters and putting them in their own stories. (I tease my children that my characters always do what they're told!).
My husband (Richard) and I have two children: Sabrina and Cullie. Sabrina will be a fourth grade teacher this fall and is working on her master's degree in Media. Cullie will be a sophomore. We have a farm that includes cows, chickens, ducks, guineas and turkeys. We also have a few Nubian and Boer goats, several cats and four Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs. Check out the family blog called Rocky South Acres!
You can find out about our school and media center by clicking http://www.heardmiddle.com/
I will be posting information about award-winning and favorite books on this blog. Email me at: gsouth@heard.k12.ga.us. I'd like to hear what you think. :-)
Thanks for looking!
-- Mrs. South