MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2014
Yesterday, I did another webinar for Florida Library Webinars, this time on ways that we can use technology to engage our communities – and beyond – in creative book discussion groups. Below is the presentation I put together. Unconventional Reading Groups
In case you missed it, I wrote a piece for School Library Journal on what librarians can do to help create a culture that fights against slut shaming. Some of the ideas include creating a code of conduct for your library and making sure to include sex positive YA lit titles in your collections that […]
Caller 107 by Matthew Cox Genre: young-adult, contemporary paranormal Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press Date of Publication: July 22nd, 2014 Cover Artist: Polina Sapershteyn (http://www.polinas-portfolio.com/) Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20359976-caller-107?from_search=true Description: When thirteen-year-old Natalie Rausch said she would die to meet DJ Crazy Todd, she did not mean to be literal. Two years is a long time to be […]
The Undead: Playing for Keeps, by Elsie Elmore Genre: young-adult, paranormal-romance Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press Date of Publication:September 3rd, 2014 Cover Artist: Alexandria Thompson (http://alexandriadior.deviantart.com/) Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22131059-the-undead?from_search=true Description: Incarcerated on Earth as punishment for breeding with humans, the Watchers found a way to escape. Zach is living proof of that…even though someone has cut out […]
TPiB: Bristlebots, take II (or what happens when you give teens space to be creative)
Bristlebots, Creativity, Lego Makerspace, Makerspace, Programming, Teens
|Since the SRC was science themed this year, Christie and I knew that we wanted to do a small robot program. We did a lot of research and came up with some various ideas, but ultimately we decided to do these small robots called Bristlebots or Brushbots. It turned out there were pre-made kits you […]
I have been having remarkable luck playing with technology at my library. I was a little apprehensive at first, just because of our location and the kids- would they get off the computers to actually learn about Raspberry Pis? Would they think these were as cool as I did? Would they be willing to take […]
My students come back to school a week from today! Yes, we’re on a weird schedule. For those of you unfamiliar with school employees schedules, we usually have 5 to 7 pre-service work days before the students come back. I spent the first two absorbed with technology tasks – signing out laptops, requesting network accounts, […]
I am an avid and vocal A. S. King fan and The Tween lives in my home so she is well aware of this. In fact, she recently got a chance to meet my favorite author and got some signed books of her own. But then an interesting thing happened, you see she ASKED me […]
I was speaking to someone the other day about the issue of growing poverty in the U.S. when the friend shocked me by victim blaming kids living in poverty. The most surprising part of it all was that this friend is a social work major who is going into the field to help children. She […]
Friday Finds: #SVYALit Project Edition
#SVYALit, #SVYALit Project, False Accusations, Jada, Social Media
|Two things happened this week and I really want to talk about them. Earlier this week, the news broke out that Joanie Faircloth had retracted her statement that Conor Oberst had raped her. I wasn’t really familiar with this story until news broke out about the retraction, but I want to take a moment to […]
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