Via Scoop.it – Reading and Books for YA
Angels are winging their way into young-adult novels. Here is a look at ‘Embrace’ by Jessica Shirvington.
Via www.usatoday.com
Matt Damon at Save our Schools (US)
Just let Matt tell his story in support of teachers in the US.
He really says it all.
Old Time Radio Network
This from Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers.
Old Time Radio Network is digital recordings of classic (US) radio shows. The website is in beta, but would be great for looking at primary historical sources.
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Thanks to Tania Sheko for the link to the poster and Jennifer LaGarde for the poster!
Great Post – Are You Reading YA Lit? You Should Be!
This is a fantastic post from Gretchen Kolderup on In the LibraryWith the Leadpipe about why YA Lit is great to read.
Thanks to Joyce Valenza for the link, via Twitter. (@joycevalenza)
Joyce Valenza at SLAV Conference
Wowsers!
What a huge day Friday was. Up early to catch the train to Melbourne (with my hubby, also a T-L). Good quick trip into the city – very easy and we got an express train.
Then into the MCG Members’ area, where we were greeted by the smiley faces of the SLAV volunteers on the registration desk. Collect our showbags, visit some vendors, get a cuppa, talk to friends, find a good spot up the front (thanks Chris!), set up computer, find wireless hotspot, get settled in. Here’s Camilla doing the housekeeping and introducing Joyce Valenza.
Yay! It’s Joyce, time to start paying attention…..
WHUMP!
Whoa! It’s 3pm already? Where did the day go?! Did anyone get the number of that truck?!
A great day. So much to think about, digest and replay. If you ever get to see Joyce Valenza speak – for goodness sake, GO!
Matt Damon at Save our Schools (US)
Just let Matt say what’s real.
Right on!
Show Me What’s Wrong
This looks like something very useful, for families and for schools.
ShowMeWhatsWrong is a free screen-casting service. You input your Name and email address and SMWW generates a URL, then send the resulting URL to whoever needs to show you a problem. This URL takes them to the ShowMeWhatsWrong website where you can record up to 5 mins of screencasting, which gets posted to you so that you can see the problem.
Thanks to Tom Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) for the link.
QR Codes – Here’s a bit more
Thanks go to Kim Yeomans (@kimyeo) for this great link to using QR codes to promote your library.
The original post is from iLibrarian.
QR Codes – Huh?
Thanks to Penny Bentley for this video today, about using QR Codes creatively.
QR CODE – Content-rich Resume from Victor petit on Vimeo.
But that leads me to the question – what are QR codes?!!!!
Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of how they are made and how they work. Interesting!
And just to see how they work here is the QR code for the Wikipedia article. Let’s see if it works!
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