Edli 276
Blogs
Must Reads:
The following are some of Elizabeth Burns picks for the best blogs.
Big a little a
www.kidslitinformation.blogspot.com
Site creator Kelly Herold, reviews children’s book news, and a weekly roundup of children’s book reviews from American and English newspapers.
Book Buds
www.Dadtalk.typepad.com/book_buds_kidlit_reviews
Anne Boles Levy, a journalist, is the primary reviewer, who employs a rating scale for picture books that ranges from no buds (the book stinks0 to four buds (outstanding).
Book Moot
www.Bookmoot.blogspot.com
The word “Moot”, meaning to argue, debate, and discuss, also refers to a “meeting,” according to site host Camille Powell, a school librarian. Thus, Book Moot is a perfect place to go and discuss books.
Bookshelves of Doom
www.Bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom
Lelia Roy responds to books personally and from the gut, she does not review books critically and objectively. Roy offers SDQs (super duper quickie author interviews) and an always entertaining take on publishing and book new. What’s been banned and why? Find out here.
A chair A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
www.Yzocaet.blogspot.com
Elizabeth Burns, a former lawyer and now a public librarian, reviews and discusses books for children and teens-and the occasional movie and TV show.
Children’s Book Review Index
www.Childrensbookreviews.pbwiki.com
Reviewed by more than 20 bolgs this is a clearinghouse site of children’s and YA books. Kelly Herold has organized it by intended audience, author, and title, with links to the original reviews.
Cynsations
www.Cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com
If you have time for only one blog this is it. Cynthia Leitch Smith offers the range: interviews, reviews, boo-lists, literacy information, and news.
A Fuse #8 Production
www.Fusenumber8.blogspot.com
This blog, “Hot Men of Children’s Literature” by Elizabeth Bird is all her own and not connected with her employer NYPL.
GottaBook
www.Gottabook.blogspot.com
Gregory Pincus the originator of this blog is known for his poetry. His “Fibs” consist of a six-line, 20 syllable poem based on the Fibonacci sequence.
Jen Robinson’s Book Page
www.Jkrbooks.typepad.com
Jennifer Robinson provides a weekly literacy roundup with links to stories from around the world. She also devised the list of “Cool Girls from Children’s Literature.”
Just One More Book!
http://www.justonemorebook.com/ Andrea Ross and Mark Blevins Canadian book lovers podcast children’s titles three times a week. You can download the files to an MP3 player, but you don’t need one to hear this entertaining broadcast.
MotherReader
www.Motherreader.blogspot.com
Pam Coughlan, children’s library assistant, is the host of MotherReader, home of the “48-Hour book Challenge” (as in how many can you read in 48 hours).
A Year of Reading
www.Readingyear.blogspot.com
Two teachers, Mary Lee Hahn and Franki Sibberson, challenge themselves to think about and write about their lives as readers- of children’s books, adult fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and professional material.
February 2007 School Library Journal. Burns, Elizabeth, Curl Up with a Cup of Tea and a Good Blog. P. 40.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Cyber Library
As a member of our school’s Action Planning and Technology teams I am proposing the creation of a Cyber Library. The readings and group project for EDLI 276 have me “stoked” to get it built and up and running. We are fortunate in that we have all the components in place to tackle this task fairly easily and inexpensively. Here is the information about Cyber Libraries I presented to our tech. team at our most recent meeting. Naturally the focus is the needs of our learning community as reflected in our Action Plan.
Cyber Library
Goals:
· To enhance web presence
· Reflect research, curriculum, and recreational needs of faculty, students, and community.
· Provide a link between community, school, and home.
o Resources supplement and enhance print collection.
o Generate positive publicity.
o Provide remote access.
o Attract students, grants, awards, and personnel.
· Inform, motivate and inspire students and families, faculty and staff, and community.
o Sites chosen to enhance learning and teach critical thinking skills.
· Improve information literacy skills.
· Provide research resources.
Cyber Libraries:
· Incorporate/employ new technologies to link many resources.
· Provide users with a learning and resource-rich environment.
o Library no longer just a collection of pre-selected books.
· Provide enhanced learning experiences.
o Finding information, completing assignments, performing research are all essential to future success in any endeavor.
Rationales:
Technological:
· Internet access at home :
o Enables maximum access to research
o Enhances ability to complete homework
o Provides informational and educational PR through weekly e-letters/bulletins home.
Economic:
· Links to thousands of curriculum-related sites without having to purchase, classify, catalog, circulate, retrieve, bind, or weed.
· Abundance of professionally reviewed sites.
Educational:
· Dedication to excellence and innovation compliment on-line learning.
· Search for information requires few skills and demands no specific knowledge or organizational schemes. (Perfect for what we know about our population and their need for recreation, and their organizational challenges.)
o Learning Goals:
§ Choose appropriate data base
§ Perform Boolean search
§ Design an internet search strategy
§ Evaluate web sites
Professional:
· Evolve and change the ways we place quality electronic information and content into our students’ (and community) hands.
Craver, Kathleen W.
Creating cyber libraries: an instructional guide for school library media specialists / Kathleen W. Craver.
p. cm.—(Libraries Unlimited professional guides in school librarianship series)
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
ISBN 0-313-32080-2 (alk. Paper)
Z675.S3 C758 2002
027.8—dc21
Valarie L. Clifford
F.H.G.S.
2007
Cyber Library
Goals:
· To enhance web presence
· Reflect research, curriculum, and recreational needs of faculty, students, and community.
· Provide a link between community, school, and home.
o Resources supplement and enhance print collection.
o Generate positive publicity.
o Provide remote access.
o Attract students, grants, awards, and personnel.
· Inform, motivate and inspire students and families, faculty and staff, and community.
o Sites chosen to enhance learning and teach critical thinking skills.
· Improve information literacy skills.
· Provide research resources.
Cyber Libraries:
· Incorporate/employ new technologies to link many resources.
· Provide users with a learning and resource-rich environment.
o Library no longer just a collection of pre-selected books.
· Provide enhanced learning experiences.
o Finding information, completing assignments, performing research are all essential to future success in any endeavor.
Rationales:
Technological:
· Internet access at home :
o Enables maximum access to research
o Enhances ability to complete homework
o Provides informational and educational PR through weekly e-letters/bulletins home.
Economic:
· Links to thousands of curriculum-related sites without having to purchase, classify, catalog, circulate, retrieve, bind, or weed.
· Abundance of professionally reviewed sites.
Educational:
· Dedication to excellence and innovation compliment on-line learning.
· Search for information requires few skills and demands no specific knowledge or organizational schemes. (Perfect for what we know about our population and their need for recreation, and their organizational challenges.)
o Learning Goals:
§ Choose appropriate data base
§ Perform Boolean search
§ Design an internet search strategy
§ Evaluate web sites
Professional:
· Evolve and change the ways we place quality electronic information and content into our students’ (and community) hands.
Craver, Kathleen W.
Creating cyber libraries: an instructional guide for school library media specialists / Kathleen W. Craver.
p. cm.—(Libraries Unlimited professional guides in school librarianship series)
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
ISBN 0-313-32080-2 (alk. Paper)
Z675.S3 C758 2002
027.8—dc21
Valarie L. Clifford
F.H.G.S.
2007
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