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TL 16.31.indd The Teaching Librarian volume 16, no. 3 17 Markham's Deputy Mayor, a Regional Councillor, and a School Board Trustee. Our school was just one, from over 1,500 registered locations, where over 190,000 Canadians participated. If all locations had the appropriate number of witnesses and sent the required documentation to ABC-Canada, our country will have more than doubled the existing record. Initially, planning this event was a daunting task - there was a 20-page guide listing the rules and guidelines that needed to be followed to ensure that our event could count towards the Guinness World Record™. I was thrilled to discover that finding appropriate witnesses was easy. People from the community were excited to volunteer their time to witness our event. It really promoted a sense of togetherness. We were united as a school - reading the same books - at the same time - all the while picturing the same thing happening at other locations across the country: schools, public libraries, daycare centres, and individual homes. Students aged 4-14 participated in our event - and few events captivate a group with such a wide age range. Participating in the Family Literacy Day World Record Attempt Now is the hard part - students ask me regularly "Did we break the world record?" And I have to reply that we don't know yet. Individual locations sent their documentation to ABC-Canada by the end of February. They collated the required statements and forwarded them to Guinness. In the meantime, we wait with anticipation to discover if we will get a line in the book that somehow continues to disappear from our school libraries! For more information, go to: www.abc-canada.org This Family Literacy Day World Record Attempt took place in the 24 hour period beginning at 2 pm EST January 23rd. Participating adults read aloud Pigs; Mortimer; Purple, Green and Yellow; Murmel, Murmel, Murmel; and Something Good by Robert Munsch in this order to groups of up to 35 children. ❚ Want to learn and/or share innovative usage of technology in the classroom? The Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) will be holding its 30th annual conference November 11-13, 2009, at the Sheraton Parkway North, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Deadline for presentation proposals is April 24. Conference registration begins in September and Early Bird pricing is in effect until October. For more information, please see www.ecoo.org, and click on "Conference." Educational Computing Organization of Ontario