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Library Thing link: http://www.librarything.com/work/2109865
I picked Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Interest by Nancy Pearl. This book is a guide for parents, teachers, and librarians to help them find books that relate to children's interests. If you are able to find books that children are interested in, they are more likely to read the book and hopefully get interested in reading. As a future elementary school librarian, whose major topic of interest is encouraging a love for reading within all children, I feel any librarian, new or experienced, would benifit from owning this book.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Competency 4: RSS Feed: Elementary School Librarian Discussions
I added the RSS feed entitled Elementary School Librairan Discussions from the website entitled TeacherLibrarianNing at http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/group/elementaryschoollibrarians/forum. This website is a forum for school librarians to discuss issues and get soultions. I added this RSS feed to my website because I felt it would give me insite to the current issues librarians are facing and an inside look at their problem solving process, ideas, and activities they employ in their library.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Competency 3: Podcast: Enstilling a Love of Reading
Podcast: Laura Robb on Enstilling a Love of Reading
Podcast Website: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/podcast_robb_instilling.htm
I knew http://www.blogger.com/www.scholastic.com had several podcasts for teachers, librarians, parents, and children. While searching through this website, I found a podcast by Laura Robb entitled Laura Robb on Enstilling a Love of Reading. During this podcast she discusses ways parents and teachers can encourage children to read and to love to read. Some of the tips she says we should follow are reading aloud to children at least 5 to 6 times a day and showing students emotions as you read. I chose this podcast because to me it illustrates techniques all people can employ to help children become life long readers.
Podcast Website: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/podcast_robb_instilling.htm
I knew http://www.blogger.com/www.scholastic.com had several podcasts for teachers, librarians, parents, and children. While searching through this website, I found a podcast by Laura Robb entitled Laura Robb on Enstilling a Love of Reading. During this podcast she discusses ways parents and teachers can encourage children to read and to love to read. Some of the tips she says we should follow are reading aloud to children at least 5 to 6 times a day and showing students emotions as you read. I chose this podcast because to me it illustrates techniques all people can employ to help children become life long readers.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Competency 2: Blog: One Way To Engage Readers
While searching on http://blogsearch.google.com/, I found the blog entitled Cool Kids Read - Recruiting Young Readers with Book Trailers/Book Vid Lit. I felt this blog spoke directly to my topic because the excerpt below discusses how a new technology called book trailers can engage young readers and also includes a link to an article which discusses how education professionals can use book trailers to engage young readers and encourage them to read.
Blog Title: Cool Kids Read - Recruiting Young Readers with Book Trailers/Book Vid Lit
Posted by: orionwell / Written by: Sheila Clover-English
URL: http://futureperfectpublishing.com/?s=book+trailers
Book Vid Lit
According to the Pew/Internet Project findings, 3 of 4 young adults (73%) on the internet watch or download video. Half of young internet users say they watch YouTube. Many post videos to blogs and even more will forward on a link in email. They’re online socializing, researching (school and education), playing games or getting news.Publishers know that teens are online and most have outstanding website offerings that are fun, interesting and interactive. A great outreach to young people was a Blogfest that Simon & Schuster did and of course other publishers have similar offerings for young people of varied ages.
Blog Title: Cool Kids Read - Recruiting Young Readers with Book Trailers/Book Vid Lit
Posted by: orionwell / Written by: Sheila Clover-English
URL: http://futureperfectpublishing.com/?s=book+trailers
Book Vid Lit
According to the Pew/Internet Project findings, 3 of 4 young adults (73%) on the internet watch or download video. Half of young internet users say they watch YouTube. Many post videos to blogs and even more will forward on a link in email. They’re online socializing, researching (school and education), playing games or getting news.Publishers know that teens are online and most have outstanding website offerings that are fun, interesting and interactive. A great outreach to young people was a Blogfest that Simon & Schuster did and of course other publishers have similar offerings for young people of varied ages.
Lately, schools and libraries have looked to engage younger readers as well by using book trailers. Sara Kajder wrote in the Educational Leadership magazine for ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) an article entitled “The Book Trailer: Engaging Teens Through Technology.” This article is amazing and outlines how using book trailers help students who are struggling readers and helps them to be more engaged in the stories they are reading. The points the author brings up, viewed strictly from an educator’s perspective, was very enlightening.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Competency 1: Why I Want to Become a Librarian
This blog was created to satisfy the requirements of my masters level course Library Science 5013 Information Storage and Retrieval course.
The reason why I wanted to become an elementary school librarian goes back to my first year of teaching. During the spring semester I went to my school librarian and asked her to recommend a book series that I could read aloud to my students. She recommended the series Marvin Redpost by Louis Sachar and the rest was history. From the moment I introduced Marvin to my class, it was like I introduced them to Michael Jordan. Marvin Redpost was a superstar, and all of my students were glued to their seats waiting to hear what he would do next. They wanted any and everything Marvin, and when it was library day they would trample all over each other to check out any Marvin Redpost book. When those books were all checked out they would then check out books that Louis Sachar wrote as well. That's when I had an epiphany. If I repeated this formula with different stories and genres of literature, my students will continue to be excited and motivated to read. However, the more years I was in the classroom the harder it got to capture the students attention. Like never before in history children are throwing down books in favor of tv, movies, the internet , and video games. We, as librarians and future librarians, have got to find a way to get our students to turn off the video games and television and pick up a book!
For this reason, I have chosen my topic of interest to be the tools librarians can use to encouraging all students to read for pleasure.
The reason why I wanted to become an elementary school librarian goes back to my first year of teaching. During the spring semester I went to my school librarian and asked her to recommend a book series that I could read aloud to my students. She recommended the series Marvin Redpost by Louis Sachar and the rest was history. From the moment I introduced Marvin to my class, it was like I introduced them to Michael Jordan. Marvin Redpost was a superstar, and all of my students were glued to their seats waiting to hear what he would do next. They wanted any and everything Marvin, and when it was library day they would trample all over each other to check out any Marvin Redpost book. When those books were all checked out they would then check out books that Louis Sachar wrote as well. That's when I had an epiphany. If I repeated this formula with different stories and genres of literature, my students will continue to be excited and motivated to read. However, the more years I was in the classroom the harder it got to capture the students attention. Like never before in history children are throwing down books in favor of tv, movies, the internet , and video games. We, as librarians and future librarians, have got to find a way to get our students to turn off the video games and television and pick up a book!
For this reason, I have chosen my topic of interest to be the tools librarians can use to encouraging all students to read for pleasure.
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