{"id":18220,"date":"2018-05-11T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=18220"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:59:21","slug":"postmodern-picturebooks-changing-minds-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/postmodern-picturebooks-changing-minds-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmodern Picturebooks: Changing Minds for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Did you know we recently began offering this new course: Postmodern Picturebooks: Changing Minds for Life?<\/h3>\n<p>Reading practices may limit reader potential and significantly impact life choices. Wait&#8230; What?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/elearning\/courses\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9789 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ALSC_OnlineLearning_Logo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"ALSC online education logo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ALSC_OnlineLearning_Logo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ALSC_OnlineLearning_Logo.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0As a librarian or educator working with young readers, you are in a position to <em>change minds for life<\/em> through guiding reader engagement with postmodern picturebooks. In this five week online course, you will explore the potential of several postmodern picturebooks to draw children in and excite their imaginations. You will develop practical resources for using these books with young readers by examining specific features of the books, generating storytime plans, and preparing parent guides for several exciting postmodern picturebooks.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/postmodern-picturebooks-changing-minds-life\">Registration<\/a> is open!<\/h3>\n<p>According to our evaluations, students have mentioned that they learn\u00a0better when there are more participants in the course. Register today and tell a friend or colleague!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/postmodern-picturebooks-changing-minds-life\">Learn more<\/a> about this course\/instructor and take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/sites\/ala.org.alsc\/files\/content\/Course%20Syllabus%20Postmodern%20Picturebooks%20Spring%202018.pdf\">course syllabus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/elearning\/courses\">Check out<\/a> other courses being offered this summer! There are<strong> A LOT<\/strong> of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know we recently began offering this new course: Postmodern Picturebooks: Changing Minds for Life? Reading practices may limit reader potential and significantly impact life choices. Wait&#8230; What?\u00a0As a librarian or educator working with young readers, you are in a position to change minds for life through guiding reader engagement with postmodern picturebooks. In this five week online course, you will explore the potential of several postmodern picturebooks to draw children in and excite their imaginations. You will develop practical resources for using these books with young readers by examining specific features of the books, generating storytime plans, and preparing parent guides for several exciting postmodern picturebooks. Registration is open! According to our evaluations, students have mentioned that they learn\u00a0better when there are more participants in the course. Register today and tell a friend or colleague! Learn more about this course\/instructor and take a look at the course syllabus&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":18221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[88,1260],"tags":[1503,1502,535,1501],"class_list":["post-18220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alsc-online-courses","category-blogger-elizabeth-serrano","tag-courses","tag-online","tag-online-learning","tag-picturebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}