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Category Archives: YouTube
Youth Media Award Recipients React
I’m sure that you all saw this, but the ALA has created a YouTube site for winners and honorees of the 2012 Youth Media Awards. You can find many of your favorite authors as they react to the announcements. A … Continue reading
Posted in ALA Midwinter 2012, YouTube
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The Social Media Word of Mouth
*chirp* *chirp* Silence in the library…it is rare but it does happen. The worst is when you put weeks into planning a great program, but no one comes. The reason…they didn’t know about it. We are great when it comes … Continue reading
Check out the ALSC/YALSA video contest!
Is your New Year’s resolution to make a name for yourself in the library world? Enter the ALSC/YALSA video contest! The 2012 Presidents’ Program at ALA in Anaheim be a joint affair between ALSC and YALSA! We will be talking … Continue reading
Book Trailers in the Library
Colby Sharp, an enthusiastic fourth-grade teacher, calls me the Book Trailer Jedi. I’m wild about book trailers. Truly. I think book trailers are an effective way to connect young readers with books. I include book trailers in almost every booktalking … Continue reading
Hi, My Name is Melvil Dewey. Nice to Meet You, How You Doin’?
I am the media specialist in an urban middle school, and I often have to ask myself, “How do I get/keep the kids’ attention long enough to teach them what they need to know?” Sometimes the answer is make it … Continue reading
Video from 2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Were you at the 2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture in St. Louis? If you were, you heard a great speech by featured presenter, Lois Lowry. We put together some highlights. Thought you’d enjoy seeing it:
Posted in Author Spotlight, YouTube
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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high!
Okay, a show of hands, please… How many of you read the title of this post and immediately found yourself singing “take a look, it’s in a book, it’s reading rainbow?” And doesn’t an image of LeVar Burton sharing his weekly … Continue reading
Posted in Blogger Mary R. Voors, News of Interest, YouTube
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Children’s Books into Movies
I am always intrigued when I hear about a children’s book that is being made into a movie. Will the film capture the spirit of the story as I remember it? Will the actors effectively and accurately portray the book … Continue reading
