October 18, 2009 • 11:31 pm
Creekview High School LibGuides – Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees and Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl 2009-10 – Home via kwout
We are kicking off Teen Read Week 2009 with a brand new research pathfinder for some of the most popular authors and books at The Unquiet Library! Check out our new Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees and Reading Bowl research pathfinder page! I have created a landing “home” page with general resources and information as well as book widgets for the Georgia Peach Award nominees and the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl.
I am also in the process of adding tabs for each nominated author that will include:
- RSS feeds for each author’s blog (if available)
- RSS feeds for each authors’ Twitter account (if available)
- YouTube videos featuring the author and/or his or her works
- Websites related to the author and his/her books
- The “Books from Our Catalog” feature spotlighting some of the books by each author; there is also a link to the Destiny catalog so you can search on your own
- Other links of interest, such as interview with the author or official websites for a book or for a series by the author
- Book widgets with previews of the author’s books when available
This is a work in progress, so please check back often!
Filed under: Author News, Books and Reading, Children's and YA Literature, Web 2.0, YA Lit and Books , Georgia Peach Book Award, Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl, LibGuides, research pathfinder, research pathfinder 2.0, YA lit, YA Lit 2.0
October 16, 2009 • 5:44 am
As I began a short story project this week with Ms. Frost, 9th grade English teacher, some students gravitated to the print books available for finding their short stories, and others preferred e-copies on the web or through Google Books.
Some, though, turned to their iPods to access and read their texts. Some students read e-copies through their Safari browser while others downloaded free or inexpensive apps from iTunes to get their stories.
A quick search for Poe and short stories in the iTunes store reveals a wonderful menu of inexpensive or free apps for iPods and iPhones as well as podcasts that can be played on a computer or any number of devices.
Some librarians and educators are in real denial about the reality of eBooks and Reading 2.0 as it exists now and what may be to come. Others, understandably, are still making sense of this new reading landscape: what counts as literacy and how that definition is rapidly evolving. Some feel it is an “either/or” proposition and see the issue in black and white terms rather than realizing that different forms of reading, in whatever containers they may exist, CAN happily co-exist as depicted in the photo above.
The kids know this—what part of this don’t the adults get? At the end of the day, our focus needs to be about meeting their needs, not ours.
Filed under: Books and Reading, Learning 2.0, Librarian Stuff, Library 2.0, Reading 2.0, Web 2.0 , ebooks, iPods, iTunes, literacy, reading, reading 2.0, students
April 22, 2009 • 10:44 pm
Check out the list of 2008’s most challenged books and authors by visiting http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm .
Filed under: ALA Links, ALA News, Books and Reading, Issues , authors, banned books, book challenges, books, Censorship, intellectual freedom
March 15, 2009 • 12:44 am
I’ve just posted some new entries that might be of interest to those of you interested in YA Lit:
You can subscribe to my library blog via RSS or get updates via Twitter by following my library Twitter account at http://twitter.com/unquietlibrary .
Filed under: Author News, Books and Reading, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 , Twitter, Unquiet Library, YAlit, YAlit2.0
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