Archive for the ‘reading’ CategoryGoogle ebooks get “notable”Saturday, December 10th, 2011On Thursday, the Inside Google Books blog announced a couple of powerful new features for Google ebooks. You can now highlight–with a variety of marker colors–and take notes in many of the Google ebook in your Library. That includes books you’ve purchased as well as the free books you’ve grabbed. Here’s what it looks like in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (from the Google Books blog post)… Read More My first Summit reportSunday, September 25th, 2011What I loved about the past three days at the SLJ Summit in Arlington, was the blend. The discussion was reading, and we discussed reading in all its glorious traditional and emerging formats. Forward-thinking practicing librarians interacted with other reading passionate stakeholders–an array of authors, illustrators, researchers, publishers, distributors, developers, content aggregators, school administrators, and more. Looking back, here are just a few examples of what will… Read More Read it 1st! (For Nerdfighters & the world)Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Our Springfield Nerdfighters not only approve, several volunteered to help us pull it together. The Readit1st pledge page offers a variety of embeddable web and Facebook buttons (with logo designed by Hank) and… Read More Two goals, one stone, easy magicSaturday, September 17th, 2011
1) encouraging reading outside the curriculum 2) proving that learning opportunities exist outside the doors of our school and our library. Shannon Miller and I started chatted about connecting our book clubs late this summer, but the beginning of the school year hit and so did… Read More Share Story Snoops with your communityMonday, August 22nd, 2011Developed by four moms from the San Francisco Bay area a little over a year ago, Story Snoops is a rich and attractive resource you’ll want to share with your parents, teachers and kiddos–both the eager and the reluctant. These moms of a cumulative total of nine, describe themselves as passionate readers who Sync free audiobook downloadsThursday, June 9th, 2011
The program begins on June 23rd. And here’s the list: June 23 – June 29 I could get hooked on VookSaturday, May 28th, 2011Time to celebrate even more ways to remix and mashup the wonderful experience of reading! I have a feeling that the Vook and the TextVook are going to be popular reading options for many of our young readers and learners. Reading suggestion engines: Your next readTuesday, May 3rd, 2011Sometimes readers’ advisory doesn’t come easy. Sometimes we need some quick help recommending titles. A number of my students, most notably my Book Club kids, belong to book networking sites like GoodReads, LibraryThing, and Shelfari. But not everyone really wants to join and build a reading network based on tagging and rating and reviewing. I’ve been gathering and pointing to some speedier book recommendation tools that… Read More A revised manifestoFriday, December 3rd, 2010Thank you all for the kind feedback you offered for my rant a few days back. As I wrote that response, in the back of my mind I considered a few realities: 1. Some administrators have never seen a vibrant library program. 2. In tough times moving forward is more challenging. Not moving forward is not an option. 3. Some of us may have opted out… Read More Very Kind Kindle support from Buffy! (and on further celebrating our network)Saturday, November 13th, 2010I love you, Buffy J. Hamilton! And I love our network!
Earlier this fall I worked with the Special Ed Department on a Kindle roll-out, a project we’ve set up as a formal research project to explore the effect of ereaders on reading motivation. But when we unpacked our own first library Kindles yesterday, a lovely gift… Read More
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