tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73787138580006539892024-03-05T05:31:39.755-08:00Miss ChristineThe musings of a school librarianMiss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-63765034383149198542012-11-24T10:00:00.002-08:002012-11-24T10:05:34.467-08:00Cultural literacy<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Apparently, I've never gone to a movie on the day after Thanksgiving, or else I'd forgotten that it is really busy then. At any rate, I went to go see <em>Lincoln</em> with my mom yesterday. We got there just as the show was supposed to start, and then there was a big line outside the theater, plus it wound around a few times inside. We did get in just as the show was starting, but it was completely packed and we had to sit separately. Oh well, going to the movies with someone is really the two of you doing something by yourself at the same time, right? It's not like we would be sitting there discussing it as we went along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anyway, I was wishing my son, Jesse, was with me because he is such a history buff. I'll take him to see it at Christmas if he hasn't seen it by then (he went with two siblings to see <em>Red Dawn - </em>obviously not as good, but they'd been waiting for it).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At one point, if I <em>were </em>with Jesse, I would have said, "Is that Thaddeus Stevens?" He would have been impressed with my historical prowess (although, ahem, it <em>did </em>say on the wall, "The office of Thaddeus Stevens," but maybe he would have missed that).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But! People! In one of the final scenes of the movie, there's a view of a courthouse building, with the words, "Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865" on the bottom of the screen. Here comes a man atop a white horse, dressed in Rebel Gray, who has a white moustache and beard. Here, he looks remarkably like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And two adults within earshot, in different parties, said, "Is that Lee?" I mean, my god, who else would it be? Do the filmmakers have to tell us exactly who every.single.person in the film is? Can we not expect that people who are educated enough to want to go to a historical movie like <em>Lincoln </em>would know by sight the greatest military mind ever born in the U.S., especially when given context clue after context clue after stinking context clue? SHEESH!!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, that brings me to the idea of cultural literacy. Even in this age of Wikipedia (which I love, donate to, and use every single day), when you can look every date and name that you come across, let's have a foundation of knowledge that does in fact include recognizing some characters of history. There simply are things that one must know to be an informed citizen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have the <em>What Your ____ Grader Needs to Know </em>series in the library, thanks to my years as a homeschooling mom. I need to figure out a methodical way of working my way through the most important tidbits in those books with classes as they come to the library. Do you have any ideas?</span>Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-56005492519564322702012-11-15T17:59:00.000-08:002012-11-15T17:59:00.868-08:00Things I love Thursday<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5. </span><a href="http://www.michaelbuble.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Michael Bublé</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">4. My dog, Buster</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He (and my sons) aren't so happy with me as I'm making him wear a sweater these days. But wait until I get him one of </span><a href="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Business/gty_dog_holiday_sweater_nt_111207_wg.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">these</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. Cardigan sweaters</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yes, I love me some sweaters. I'm not sure if you'd say I'm an afficianado or a hoarder (I have at least 15). I put the above sweater on my "Yes, I want!" Pinterest board, but I <em>also </em>hate to spend more than $10 on a sweater! So we'll see. (Have I had Goodwill on my "Things I love Thursday" list yet? I should!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. </span><a href="http://en.akinator.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Akinator</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Maybe this is the thing I love to hate. Have you played this? It's crazy. So you think of a character - real or fictional - and answer questions with yes, no, don't know, probably, or probably not. Obviously he gets easy ones like </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DkfVsfOSbJY0&ei=3ZmlUIymMebm2AXXv4GoCg&usg=AFQjCNEO0hEzS9Od0aZqp5JUMHb6UzjFZA&sig2=6A53dXoWzX1X65GpsCMI_w" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rebecca Black</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (12 questions) or </span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">President Obama</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (10 questions), but even </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm60397568/ch0012490" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tony</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> from Saturday Night Fever (25 questions) or the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sALU_hveA" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Stay Puft Marshmallow Man</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> from Ghostbusters (14 questions), Akinator knows all. It's a little freaky!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. Seeing my folks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm going to spend Saturday with my mom, while my daughter takes my dad to a Panthers football game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My parents have always been my biggest fans. I love to spend time with them!</span>Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-16049294414480555262012-11-11T18:59:00.004-08:002012-11-11T19:01:50.807-08:00Book party<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was a good week for books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On Friday, I went to the Friends of the Fort Dodge Public Library's book sale and bought several books for $1 for hardcover, 50 cents for paperback. Then I went back on Saturday and got books for $1 a bag. (I would have bought a 2006 set of <em>World Book</em> encyclopedias except they were missing the U-V volume!) On Friday, I bought books that I didn't want to miss, and on Saturday, I bought lots of books for our Literacy Night book exchange (this Tuesday). We have some to start at the library that we're weeding, but if they were any good we'd be keeping those, so I wanted to get some nice ones to begin the night. Then we went to Goodwill and I was able to pick up a few more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So check these out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These are for the book exchange:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some of my favorites from there:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is from <em>The Zoom Trilogy </em>by <span class="med reg" style="font-weight: normal;">Tim Wynne-Jones and Eric Beddows:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I really like that <em>What do you know?</em> book. It was published in 1990, but I'm particularly fond of its quizzes - so far, I've only taken one, but I was scored 90/100, "having an uncommonly good grasp of common knowledge." I didn't know who Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Waldheim, Virginia Woolf, Ray Kroc, Timothy Leary, or Norman Mailer were (or at least not specific enough to count). I didn't know in what countries Alamogordo, Managua, or Gdansk were (I know my college son is embarrassed for me). I didn't know who wrote <em>The Color Purple </em>(I'm embarrassed for me). I'll have to see if there is a new edition - so I didn't know Kurt Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the UN in the 1970s and president of Austria in the 1980s. I know all about </span><a href="http://thehonesttoddler.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Honest</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/HonestToddler" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Toddler</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here's an image from the inside (obviously that is Ernest Hemingway and Amelia Earhardt, which of course you knew as you also have an uncommonly good grasp of common knowledge, right?):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used to have "international night" dinner parties, and I loved to use cookbooks from the "Cooking the _____ way" series. If you want the basic, definitive recipes of a culture, these are the way to go. I'm going to be on the lookout for more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And here are a few I got for the library:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And finally, not sure if this one is for the take a book table, the library, or for my future grandchildren - <em>The Important Book </em>by Margaret Wise Brown:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">All in all, an <em>excellent </em>book haul. I got 29 books for (drum roll please . . . ) $8.50!</span></div>
Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-13712320445769378442012-11-10T21:38:00.000-08:002012-11-11T17:14:02.436-08:00On electionsIt's been quite a couple of weeks. There was ITEC, then the regional STEM council meeting, then Edcamp Sioux City. I was busy volunteering with the presidential campaign (and sure as heck wasn't <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83330.html" target="_blank">getting paid</a> to do so!) and busy cooking up new projects at school. I was reading more (I've discovered <a href="http://www.michaelconnelly.com/" target="_blank">Michael Connelly</a> - he's a can't-put-down type of writer) and still trying to exercise after my 15 pound weight loss this summer. Then I got an email, asking members of the Iowa Association of School Librarians to consider nominating themselves or someone else to run for office. <br />
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I had kept that email around for awhile, mulling it over whenever I cleaned up my email enough to see it again. I think I was approached via email, that someone else had suggested that I run. <i>Really, me??</i> I decided to run for the secretary/treasurer position, but then in another week, there was <i>another</i> email looking for people to run. I emailed again and said I'd run for either secretary/treasurer or vice president/president-elect. If I won, I would be VP for 2 years, then president, and that would give me enough time to know what I was doing. That worked out well as they already had two others who would run for secretary/treasurer and just one for VP.<br />
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Anyway, on the morning of the last day of voting, I wrote <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-vision-for-school-libraries.html" target="_blank">a blog post</a>. I told myself I'd be fine no matter the result (in any other year, I would have voted for my competition, as I know and like her), but my mind hearkened back a couple of years when someone else asked me to run for office . . . <br />
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A school board election was coming up and the person in my area was stepping down, and no one in my precinct had made it on the ballot in time. So the previous school board president approached me and asked me if I would run. <i>Really, me??</i> I was honored, but told her I wasn't going to campaign. I'd put an ad in the paper, but I wasn't going door-to-door, trolling for votes. She assured me that since no one was on the ballot, putting my name in the paper would be enough - no one else was running a write-in that she knew of, and she'd get the word out too. I did reach out to a few neighbors and ask for their votes - completely out of my comfort zone, but I did it anyway.<br />
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I didn't know the results that night, and the next morning, it wasn't on the auditor's website as it was a write-in election. I didn't know for several DAYS when I finally called the previous school board president who figured I already knew that I'd lost, even though it still wasn't on the website and no one had called me (by the time I called her, I knew I must have lost). She said, "Well, you can run again next time." HA! <i>That</i> wasn't going to happen. (There was another write-in candidate who didn't put an ad in the paper but who told all his friends and family, and vote they did.) At any rate, I wanted to put the whole embarrassing event behind me and didn't check the auditor's website again. <br />
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So all of this was on my mind as I was running for IASL office. Again I didn't actively campaign, but I did talk to a few librarian friends, and honest-to-goodness, when I sat down at lunch at ITEC and the table of ladies happened to be librarians (complete coincidence!), I asked them for their votes. I put something on Twitter. I may love to talk politics, but I'm not going to be a politician. That was enough campaigning for me.<br />
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<a blank="blank" href="http://www.iasl-ia.org/2012/10/thanks-for-all-who-voted-and-those-who.html" target="_">And I won!</a><br />
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And then today, looking something up, I found <a href="http://old.woodburyiowa.com/minutesagenda/minutespage.asp?ID=737" target="_blank">this</a>.<br />
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I know in my heart of hearts, it's a good thing that I lost that, because I never would have moved and taken the great job that I have now. But I know now it's a good thing that I never knew the exact vote tally, or I never would have run for IASL, and I'm really excited to serve there. <br />
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So why am I so embarrassed <em>three years later</em>? And I'm thinking back - did I ever use "ran for school board" as a bullet point on a résumé or interview? Good Lord, I hope no one else has ever Googled me and found this! <br />
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Or, that is, found what I found, and read as quickly and incompletely as I did . . . if you go down some, you see I <em>did</em> get more than 3 votes. That was just someone in the wrong precinct writing me in. I ended up getting 50 write-in votes in my precinct, plus my 18-year-old daughter got one too! (We often are mistaken in looks - until I quit dyeing my hair, anyway - apparently by name, too.) At any rate, it is good I didn't see this before I ran for IASL - because I <i>would</i> have read this quickly and incompletely and thought all these years I had only gotten three votes.<br />
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But still, they don't know what they missed!Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-75306335322938764892012-11-04T13:38:00.000-08:002012-11-04T13:48:22.878-08:00#edcampsiouxcity wrap-upI went to EdCamp yesterday in Sioux City - a good 2 hour drive, but it was so worth it. (I wasn't the furthest traveler, either, that goes to <a href="https://twitter.com/hklenke" tartget="_blank">@hklenke</a> from way up in northeast Iowa - a six hour drive!)<br />
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When I go to conferences, I used to write notes by hand, or take notes on the computer. (I type 120 wpm, so I can type without thinking, basically. I actually get a lot more out of notes if I hand-write them than by typing.) But now, I tweet them. This accomplishes a few things. 1., I know where I put my notes! When I took notes by hand or type, I would <i>never look at them again</i>. That doesn't happen anymore. 2., I'm able to share a resource or idea with someone right away when I hear about it, rather than waiting later and then forgetting. 3., It shows my PLN that I am a lifelong learner, and willing to share. It's a win-win-win!<br />
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So here are some tweets from yesterday (I did 37!):<br />
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Good morning!Excited for <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a> today!</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264687818104795136" data-datetime="2012-11-03T11:17:48+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/kathyperret">kathyperret</a> welcomes us to <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a> <a href="http://t.co/XcgMYRUH" title="http://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264730034206552064/photo/1">twitter.com/c_sturgeon/sta…</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264730034206552064" data-datetime="2012-11-03T14:05:33+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/scsdmedia">scsdmedia</a> I haven't even thought of a session I could teach???</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264732339312148483" data-datetime="2012-11-03T14:14:42+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23iowatl">#iowatl</a>, my <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a> session:Copyright - why should I care? (Using AEA resources, Creative Conmons, etc.) see if anyone shows!</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264733396654239744" data-datetime="2012-11-03T14:18:54+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>In the collaborative blogging session at <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a>.Love to see the different grade levels represented here.</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264737413572747264" data-datetime="2012-11-03T14:34:52+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Love to hear connections @<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a> made during the Global Read Aloud.Maybe next year!</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264742433672265729" data-datetime="2012-11-03T14:54:49+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I'll look in to Aviary for digital storytelling with students on the Chromebooks.@<a href="https://twitter.com/jandersonmnw">jandersonmnw</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/jdaggett11">jdaggett11</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264742926817566720" data-datetime="2012-11-03T14:56:47+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/techytweecher">techytweecher</a>:"Blogging time is not <a href="http://t.co/33GRb23b" title="http://Match.com">Match.com</a> time." <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264744565930594305" data-datetime="2012-11-03T15:03:17+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/huebner1">huebner1</a> is a very cool teacher - mystery Skyping on Monday.</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264746475978907648" data-datetime="2012-11-03T15:10:53+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>So sad.:(Just me and @<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a> for the Copyright?Who cares! class.(Guess I got my answer.)<a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264754000920981506" data-datetime="2012-11-03T15:40:47+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Bouncy balls used as a noise monitor:<a href="http://t.co/Cr9ZDmqm" title="http://neave.com/bouncy-balls/">neave.com/bouncy-balls/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23mnwcougars">#mnwcougars</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264759427062697984" data-datetime="2012-11-03T16:02:21+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Found it!My favorite story making site:<a href="http://t.co/BOOoBFne" title="http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/embed.cfm">carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymake…</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264766884979830784" data-datetime="2012-11-03T16:31:59+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a> going to talk about passion based learning at <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a>.Genius hour!</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264783343567110145" data-datetime="2012-11-03T17:37:23+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Who comes to a Saturday PD like <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a>?Passionate educators!@<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264784132238876673" data-datetime="2012-11-03T17:40:31+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>For genius hour, give students autonomy, mastery, and purpose.@<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264784349034082304" data-datetime="2012-11-03T17:41:22+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/jdaggett11">jdaggett11</a> let's discuss holding Genius Hour at <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23mnwcougars">#mnwcougars</a> with students.</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264785130709741568" data-datetime="2012-11-03T17:44:29+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>21st century, literacy skills standards fulfilled through Genius Hour for kids. @<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264785902960779264" data-datetime="2012-11-03T17:47:33+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Let's discuss again the idea of doing <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23mnwpln">#mnwpln</a> as a Genius Hour class.@<a href="https://twitter.com/kandiceroethler">kandiceroethler</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264786218947076097" data-datetime="2012-11-03T17:48:48+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/slapshot99">slapshot99</a> talking about the flipped classroom."There is no 1 single way to flip your classroom." <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264801666895851521" data-datetime="2012-11-03T18:50:11+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-left" width="350"><p>Layered curriculum model for flipping classrooms by Dr. Kathy Nunley is what @<a href="https://twitter.com/slapshot99">slapshot99</a> uses. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264802095465627648" data-datetime="2012-11-03T18:51:54+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Screen recording and video conferencing using <a href="http://t.co/uWIMRya9" title="http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html">techsmith.com/camtasia.html</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/slapshot99">slapshot99</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264803559827189760" data-datetime="2012-11-03T18:57:43+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I won version 8 of the Camtasia Studio at <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a>.</p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264817274026852352" data-datetime="2012-11-03T19:52:12+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-left" width="350"><p>A great day of learning w/ @<a href="https://twitter.com/mrsdkrebs">mrsdkrebs</a>, @<a href="https://twitter.com/slapshot99">slapshot99</a>, @<a href="https://twitter.com/huebner1">huebner1</a>, @<a href="https://twitter.com/kathyperret">kathyperret</a> & lots more. Thanks for your work, Kathy!! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23edcampsiouxcity">#edcampsiouxcity</a></p>— Christine Sturgeon (@c_sturgeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/c_sturgeon/status/264818124648505346" data-datetime="2012-11-03T19:55:35+00:00">November 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I believe that school libraries should be the center - symbolic, if not physical - of the school. Schools are places of learning, and libraries are repositories of the learning of all mankind. Of course, access to that learning has changed tremendously in the decades since I graduated from high school (Dike High School, Class of 1988). And yet, libraries still serve an important function in our schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One thing that I've done in my time at Manson Northwest Webster Schools is to work to create Learning Commons environments at both the elementary and secondary centers. This week at the Barnum center, third graders came into the library and used the space as an extension of their classroom as they did their Daily Five literacy stations. Also this week, students brought their parents into the library after their conferences were done, to proudly show them the many changes that we made this summer. Our guidance counselor, Pam Bleam, said, "The changes to the library make me ask, 'Why didn't we do this twenty years ago?' It's hard to believe what paint, talent, rearranging, and fresh new energy can do to a familiar space." It really is true. We're not done yet, either - my associate, Donna, and I are looking at genrefying the fiction, and bookstore-modeling the nonfiction. Next summer! (Granted, we are blessed with a generous gift from a benefactor, and a tremendously supportive administration.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Changes at the high school are no less exciting. In fact, it was the library in Manson that was first tackled. What has happened since, though, is more exciting - students come in to the library each period to study, to collaborate, to relax, to talk about the latest game or current events. That reminds me - I need to count students! I'm sure, though, that we've gone from about fifteen students a day at the beginning of last year to over a hundred these days. Mondays often find students coming in, checking out new books or magazines. There will be even bigger changes soon as the FCCLA makes the finishing touches on - what used to be my office - a coffee bar, once a week serving not just flavored coffees, but breakfast pizza, cinnamon rolls, smoothies, and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another thing I think we need to do as teacher librarians is to reach out to new teachers. If elected as IASL vice-president/president-elect, I will reach out to our teacher education programs across the state and seek to put teacher librarians on their radar. When I was in <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni.edu%2F2%2B2%2F&ei=_rOLUMqICYnOyAHz2YDgAg&usg=AFQjCNEJP00fx2oGcVp-NRTbUURDn_zkTw&sig2=XGig63SYVvO_1x2Nxbc_cw" target="_blank">UNI's 2+2 program</a> not too long ago (I was a non-traditional student), there were many opportunities for collaboration with teacher librarians, although it seemed I was the one, as a student, who repeatedly mentioned that. I had several professors who, when pressed, sort of romanticized teacher librarians, as if we belong to some idealized past. Perhaps we are part of their memories - which is great! - but we must be part of their realities, too. Teacher education programs have a lot to focus on, yes, but I believe teacher librarians can help. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At any rate, one thing that I've done at MNW is to hold "Lunch 'n Learns" (last year) and now "Teacher Investigations," both dedicated time in the library for new and seasoned teachers to learn about new technology, to share what is working in their rooms, and to help each other in educating the children at our school. This is exactly the vision I have for Iowa's teacher librarians. I know I already do this through Twitter, through reading librarians' blogs, through the IASL convention - learn about new technology and ideas, share what is working at my library, and, with other teacher librarians, work together to educate the children of Iowa's schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I humbly ask for your vote as IASL vice president/president- <strike> at large</strike> elect (that's what you get for blogging at 5 a.m).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">#itec2012 was held this week and what a fantastic experience it was! It began for me on Monday, October 15, with so many good choices of conference sessions to choose from, it was a difficult decision. Sessions were plentiful and varied, with options for teachers at all grade levels, technology coaches, technology directors, and administrators. Sessions ran the gamut, from things for the most novice to very advanced, and for both the PC and Apple crowd. <b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This week it's top ten authors in <i>x </i>genre. I'm actually not a big genre reader. I'll read any - after I took a Readers Advisory class and had to read a novel a week in different ones, from romance to horror to literary nonfiction (that was an amazing experience) - but I can't pick any genre in which I have ten favorite authors. Realistic fiction comes the closest, I suppose, but that seems sort of lame. So picture books it is!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Normally, I wouldn't call Brian Selznick's <i>The Invention of Hugo Cabret </i>and <i>Wonderstruck </i>picture books, but the <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/2008caldecottmedalhonors" target="_blank">Caledecott Committee</a> did, so that's good enough for me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #303030; line-height: normal;">David Wisniewski</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #303030;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #303030;">I just discovered </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #303030; line-height: normal;">Wisniewski's work when I was reshelving picture books. His work, <i>Golem, </i>for which he won the <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/1997caldecott" target="_blank">1997 Caldecott</a>, is an artistic wonder of paper craft. It's a little dark for my picture book readers, though, so I added this title, <i>Tough Cookie</i>, to my fall book order.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know that Henkes has done a lot of other more popular work, like <i>Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse </i>and <i>Kitten's First Full Moon, </i>but <i>A Good Day </i>is my favorite. If there's any book that I'd like to go cut up and make into gift wrap or <a href="http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2544" target="_blank">posters</a>, this is it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jan Brett's books are an intricate delight, and truly a must-have for any children's library. I especially love that Brett has created signs for libraries and distributes <a href="http://www.janbrett.com/library_signs/library_signs_main.htm" target="_blank">these free on her website</a>: "Print as many as you wish." How cool is that! (Smart too - get the librarians on your side, and they'll buy all your books.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although I'm featuring picture book <i>authors</i>, I have to include Quentin Blake here, just for his illustrations. I wasn't aware that he's author/illustrator of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Blake#Selected_works" target="_blank">many books</a> in his own right. I'll have to check those out. Blake, of course, illustrated many of Roald Dahl's books, including most famously, <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.</i> Check out his Rights of the Reader poster (with Daniel Pennac) - free for download <a href="http://www.walker.co.uk/UserFiles/file/Rights%20of%20the%20reader/NYOR_ROTR.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Van Allsburg's portfolio is very deep - <i>Jumanji, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, </i>and <i>The Mysteries of Harris Burdock. </i>The one above, though, is my favorite, for its almost ethereal images that evoke the exact emotions of the story.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Truth be told, I've never read one of Tad Hills books - they are always checked out! But after hearing of his generosity to a great cause - creating an <a href="http://www.yesgracerocks.org/Photo-Gallery.html" target="_blank">original Christmas card</a> for free - he has to be included on this list. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a favorite book of mine to read out loud. And how could it not be? <i>Know what I do when you're asleep? / Eat your trash, that's what.</i> I will say, though, they get to the near top of my list also for the reminder of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Im-Dirty-Kate-McMullan/dp/0060092939/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350361848&sr=1-1&keywords=i%27m+dirty" target="_blank">another of their books</a> popping up in my Amazon feed, with me just seeing the title. I wondered what sort of book Amazon was suggesting I buy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">9. <em>Speak </em>by Laurie Halse Anderson - This made me think, "Being teenager isn't always great."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">8. <em>My Life in Dog Years</em> by Gary Paulsen - This made me ask myself, "If I named a handful of events to symbolize my life, what would they be?" Also, how absolutely great it is to share your life <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox" target="_blank">with dogs</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">7. <em>Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter </em>by Seth Grahame-Smith - Even if I'm mad at Grahame-Smith for how he ruined this book for <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/06/movie-review-abraham-lincoln-vampire.html" target="_blank">the big screen</a> (with that said, I've already pre-ordered the DVD), his book definitely made me think, "What if it's true?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6. <em>The Glass Castle</em> by Jeannette Walls - This made me think, "I have no idea what my students' lives are like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m233QKFTE79AHO" target="_blank">at home</a>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5. <em>The House of the Scorpion</em> by Nancy Farmer - This made me think, "Are we already on the road to El Patrón's world?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">4. <em>Night </em>by Elie Wiesel - This made me think, "How can man do this to man?" Also, "How did a generation live through these horrors?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. <em>Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America </em>by Barbara Ehrenreich - This made me think, "I really have no idea what life is like for those around me." And it made me a better tipper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. <em>The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates </em>by Wes Moore (obviously) - This makes me think, "What one decision have I made that changed everything in my life?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. <em>The Giver</em> by Lois Lowry - I refused to finish this book the first time I tried, it made me so angry. I finished it eventually, and it makes me think, "Be careful what you wish for." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been busy reading this week - I finished <em>The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry </em>(I was really surprised by the book, in a good but sad way), but most of my reading has been for my Coursera class. I've suspended reading <em>Tomatoland </em>until my Kindle reappears as it's gone missing in our house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Book orders at elementary & high school - I did half the order at the elementary, and have the HS one ready to go the next time I'm in the building (the office puts it through). This week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Wednesday teacher exploration meeting - We had that which went pretty well, even if the projector was had a funky TV from 1978 vibe (the display was purple for some inexplicable reason!). The elementary principal asked me to go to the SAI meeting this week about integrating technology, and we're going to decide how to proceed with these meetings after that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Year-end report infographic - Chirp, chirp, chirp (cricket sounds). That would be a no.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Create ebook information page on website - I did this - can't link to it because whenever I seem to blog (at night), the site is under maintenance. TLC - <i>it doesn't need maintenance every stinking night.</i> FYI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh! And I got the greatest email from a bestie who said, "I love teaching but no one I know has a passion for their job like you do. You're awesome." How cool is that?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Order video camera for Technology Club. We're making a news program video for Literacy Night next month. We don't need to start filming yet - still in the planning stages - but need to do so ASAP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Meet with Reading Coach about reading incentive program. My para and I did a fun program last year, Read Around the World, but it was soooooo heavy on our end with work. We're going to change things up so the record keeping is more on the kids. Students have been asking us what we're doing this year, and how soon we're starting. They really liked the competition aspect of it. I think it's a balance to encourage reading for reading's sake with putting in prizes and such. Things to consider.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Make a list of magazines available online. An English teacher wanted this, and for now, I was able to placate her by giving her a bunch of magazines (like a 3' high pile!) that we got over the summer. But I would like to expand that a bit with an online presence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Portfolio. I'm in my second year of teaching, and so my portfolio is due in February. I have my portfolio <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sturg2011" target="_blank">online</a> right now and expect to expand on that. I bought myself a domain and hope to put it there, using Iowa Core standards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Keep up with my <a href="http://www.coursera.org/" target="_blank">Coursera</a> course in <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/mythology" target="_blank">Greek and Roman Mythology</a>. I was done a day early last week, but am reverting to my old habits and finished this week's work twenty minutes early. (And only because I did the quiz before I watched all the videos . . . )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I came upon this Twitter feed when someone online said Honest Toddler was their form of birth control. I had to see what that was and my goodness, is it hilarious! Here are his tweets from a trip to the library:</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #c0deed; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #c0deed; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When my brain is this hungry it can't keep the knowledge.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I read this when I was trying to read all the books on the National Endowment of the Humanities </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdHVyZzIwMTF8Z3g6NWVjZDhhNDM0NWRiZGVhYg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Summertime Favorites book list</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. The thing is, they have a </span><a href="http://www.neh.gov/news/summertime-favorites" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">new</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> list - with some fun new books like <em>Ivy + Bean, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie</em>, etc. But to take out one like this? I'm going to go through the lists later today and see what else they took out. So disappointing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With that said, I am struggling on where to put this book. The copy we have is a large one, more like a picture book, but it's obviously not a picture book. But put it in fiction, and who will read it? Perhaps my juvenile fiction for early chapter book readers. (Go to </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdHVyZzIwMTF8Z3g6NWVjZDhhNDM0NWRiZGVhYg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> link to see what the earlier - about 2001? list looked like.)</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A few years ago, I asked my kids to suggest the one book they would have me read, above all others. My oldest daughter suggested this one, which she had read when it first came out several years before. After reading it, I said, "Why didn't you tell me to read this years ago???" It really is a great book. I try to book talk it to students and succeed about half the time - the other half, kids say, "Well, I already saw the movie." For some books that wouldn't make a difference, but this one, it probably would.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I talked about this book in last week's list (</span><a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/09/top-ten-series-i-havent-finished.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Top <strike>Ten</strike> eight series I haven't finished</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">). This and <em>Summer of My German Soldier</em> are the only books I remember reading as a kid - and yes, I was always reading! (I do remember a lot of Jackie Collins as a teenager . . . that's so sad, I know!) I'm in the midst of doing my fall book order at the elementary; I need to order this as it's not in my collection. How can I really mean that I don't want people to forget this book if it isn't even in my library?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the book my oldest son said that I needed to read, and boy, am I glad I did! I'm not a sci-fi aficionado by any means, but this is a great book. It's one of the few that I remember audibly gasping at a scene (the other is Sandra Dallas' </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Persian-Pickle-Club-Sandra-Dallas/dp/0312147015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349185659&sr=8-1&keywords=persian+pickle+club" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Persian Pickle Club</span></em></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>). </em>I'll have to check if this is in both elementary and secondary libraries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I read this from the NEH list - thankfully, it still makes the cut. What amazes me about this book is that the setting is really not that long ago in American history - about 1900. By then, most small towns in Iowa were formed, and we were certainly on the way to progress. But in Florida, it was still very much a backwoods sort of place. It's amazing how fast the state progressed in the 20th century! I love the colloquialisms in this book, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I was a nontrad student a decade ago, I had to write a paper comparing two of the works that we had read in American Lit. I chose this one and <em>The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass</em>. I said that they both had served time in servitude, both were American heroes that many still looked up to, and that both were quotable. My favorite one for Franklin? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know, I know, it's Thursday. So much for my goal of blogging regularly this week . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The top ten series I haven't finished . . . this is a tough one! I don't read a lot of series, and the ones I have read, I generally finish (the Mitford series, the Harmony series, and a few that are decidedly not religious). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But for what it's worth, here's <strike>ten</strike> eight book series that I started and haven't finished, in no particular order:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. </span><a href="http://www.wimpykid.com/" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Diary of a Wimpy Kid</span></em></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've read the first Wimpy Kid book, and liked it fine enough, but just haven't found the desire to go back to it. <em>Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers </em>is all the humorous cartoon books I need, I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Really, don't get me started on <em>Twilight</em>. Okay, since you asked. I was taking a class in Young Adult Librarianship and we had to read this book. In our discussion, all the other ladies loved the book, as well as my professor. I just kept thinking of a girl in my high school who was abused by her boyfriend, if this book had been out then. She might have thought, "Wow, this is <em>exactly </em>how my boyfriend treats me!" - with Edward's stalking, bullying behavior. But then she realizes that not only her classmates, but her mother, her teachers, her librarian think it's <em>romantic</em>. I was told in class that I was being silly, but the next day I heard on NPR of a government report that some crazy percentage of high school girls are in abusive relationships. So there. (Though I think it would be an excellent book to read with high school girls to discuss. But I won't be reading anymore of her work.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I read the first, but just didn't like how <em>unfortunate</em> everything is! Should I try again?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is a fun quirky book. And although I was at first disappointed that there is a second book - why can't authors just finish the story in one? It was a fun one and I should get the second for the library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I actually read <em>The Hobbit</em>, which technically isn't part of LOTR, but in my mind it is. I really enjoyed <em>Farmer Giles of Ham</em>, but this heavy of fantasy just isn't for me. Too dense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I read a lot as a kid and this is one of the few that I remember reading. Actually, that's not true - when I read it as an adult, I realized that I'd read it as a child. What fun! I did go back and read several of them, but not all. Fun reads, I wish they were still popular for kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> This should have been done a month ago. Sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> This is a new initiative - an optional, after-school meeting for teachers to explore some aspect of technology. We just had the Google Chromebook roll-out at our school (look for a quote from me in <a href="http://messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/551229/Using-tech-to-the-max.html" target="_blank">this</a> article!), and teachers are eager to learn about using these effectively in their classrooms.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*Make infographic for year-end report</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> We have some new ebook initiatives this year and with our AEA, so I need to put all the resources in one spot for teachers and students.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*Start <a href="https://www.coursera.org/#course/mythology" target="_blank">Coursera</a> class on Greek and Roman Mythology</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> This will be the third one I've started - let's see if I'll stick with it. I got an email that says, "We'll be engaging in something the likes of which has never quite been seen. You have joined over 50,000 people from around the world." <em>Does that mean there's fifty thousand students in this Greek Mythology course???</em></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*My son's dermatologist appointment</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*Start up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shangri-Diet-Hunger-Anything-Weight-Loss/dp/B0014E92NC" target="_blank">Shangri-la diet</a> again, in preparation for starting the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jillian-Michaels-30-Day-Shred/dp/B00127RAJY" target="_blank">30 Day Shred </a>program</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I've lost 14 pounds so far - not weighing myself for a few days after eating a big dinner at my mom's today! - but have a long ways to go. It feels good, though, that people are starting to notice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong> </strong>Last weekend, DD and I went on a 12-mile ride. It's starting to get cooler, but as long as the wind dies down, I'd like to ride a couple days this week, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've been listening to PHC for fifteen years or more. My favorite part is the </span><a href="http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2012/06/23/scripts/catchup.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ketchup bits</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and the Powder Milk Biscuit song, but lately, I love hearing the <em>Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian</em> skits. My husband and I went in January </span><a href="http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2012/01/28/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">to see PHC live</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> at the Fitzgerald Theater and it was amazing - Josh Bell on the violin was the headliner. I wish I could go to the October show in Indiana to see </span><a href="http://www.crowmedicine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Old Crow Medicine Show</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">!</span></div>
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Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com1Rockwell City, IA 50579, USA42.3958333 -94.633055642.372380299999996 -94.672537600000013 42.4192863 -94.5935736tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-46720258375510857722012-09-18T14:14:00.000-07:002012-09-18T14:27:05.292-07:00Top Ten Bookish People I'd Like to Meet<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm getting into this daily blogging . . . we'll see if it holds!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'd tell John Grisham how his books are the only ones that I've ever stayed up literally all night long reading. I'd also say how his books for children, like <em>Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer</em>, have helped me connect with reluctant readers at my elementary school library. And I'd finally mention that it wasn't my fault that <em><a href="http://www.nbc.com/the-firm/" target="_blank">The Firm</a> </em>was cancelled on NBC - I was a loyal viewer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I would tell Rick Bragg that, despite all the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51506-2003May28?language=printer" target="_blank">bad press</a> he's gotten the past few years, I still think he has the most authentic voice I've ever read. I thought <em>All Over But the Shoutin' </em>was a perfect book, that it needed nothing more. Then I read <em>Ava's Man</em>, which completed the story I had thought was finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I would tell Seth Graham-Smith that I hate vampire books. Seriously, I hate them. <em>Dracula </em>scared me, and <em>Twilight</em>, well, let's not talk about that. With that said, I loved, loved, LOVED <em>Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. </em>So why did he ruin a great book? </span><a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/06/movie-review-abraham-lincoln-vampire.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here's</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> my review of the movie - which, all in all, I admit isn't that bad. But I'm still mad at him about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I would tell Dav Pilkey how I love to share Captain Underpants with students. I love to see their face when I tell them that I love Captain Underpants myself. I remember working at the <a href="http://www.siouxcitylibrary.org/" target="_blank">Sioux City Public Library</a> and a woman and a boy sitting at a table, laughing uproariously. I had to see what was so funny, and I wasn't surprised that it was Captain Underpants. Dav Pilkey is genius. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Have you ever seen a more beautiful book than <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWQO3QGwU0&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Flotsam</a></em> by David Wiesner? I know I haven't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I'd love to talk to J.K. Rowling and ask her how she got motivated to write. I want to want to write, if that makes sense. This will be my third year at </span><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">NaNoWriMo</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. Will the third time be the charm? I'd also love to see my kids have a conversation with her. They are much bigger Harry Potter <strike>fans</strike> nerds than I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have a lot of favorites when it comes to books, but my all-time favorite book is <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_in_Dog_Years" target="_blank">My Life in Dog Years</a></em>. I read this last year with a few classes of elementary students. It's the perfect book for that, as you can read a chapter in about fifteen minutes and then not pick it up again for months and months. My favorite story is about Ike, and I could read it a hundred times and it would still make me cry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the one bookish person on my list that I've already met! I went to a book reading a signing at Davis Kidd Bookstore in Nashville in 2000 to support DiCamillo's first book, <em>Because of Winn Dixie.</em> I've read all her books, but the most special one to me is <em>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, </em>the story of a special china rabbit doll<em>. </em>I talked about why in my successful application to be a book giver for last year's <a href="http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/" target="_blank">World Book Night</a>.<em></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My favorite author, bar none, is Carl Hiaasen. His books for adults are saucy fun, and his books for children? I love that they have the same setting - modern day Florida - and theme - stick it to the man. (Okay, perhaps not exactly, unless the man is some egotistical environment-hating man.) I love how he puts "Easter eggs" into his books for children for people like me who read both. His books are always checked out my school library. What can I say? I love to book talk them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">1. </span><a href="http://www.library.nashville.org/locations/loc_edmondson.asp" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Tori Ross</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And finally, my favorite bookish person, Tori Ross - or <em>Miss Tori, </em>as she's better known - the children's librarian at the Edmondson Pike branch of the Nashville Public Library. She is my role model, my mentor, my hero, my friend. (And had I known, I could have met both Carl Hiaasen and seen Tori for the first time in ten years! In March, not sure how I could have convinced my superintendent that I needed to go to the national </span><a href="http://www.placonference.org/specialevents/audio" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Public Library Association conference</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, but . . . )</span>Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-63622210168264333672012-09-17T14:26:00.002-07:002012-09-17T14:28:41.461-07:00It's Monday! What are you reading?<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm going to try to blog more this year, as a journaling exercise if nothing else. So I'm going to join into the librarian meme hosted by Sheila at </span><a href="http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Book Journey</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. I love to read what other people are reading, so here's my go at it. I'm hoping it will inspire to read more books and </span><a href="http://washingtonpost.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">fewer</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="http://huffingtonpost.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">articles</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I already blogged about the books I read for storytime </span><a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/09/libraries-and-books-storytime.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (libraries and books theme). I can't wait to read the books about books I've picked out for older students - <em>Biblioburro </em>and <em>Ron's Big Mission </em>and <em>That Book Woman</em>. Two of my favorites. (An aside: Have you ever noticed how many books are out there about traveling librarians? But it's always geography-specific. I wish there was a category for traveling librarians, not only traveling librarians from Columbia or Appalachia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This book was given to me by a great friend who is a children's librarian in the Nashville Public Library system. It even has a personalized inscription for me from the author! It's very suspenseful and I am trying to rush through it to get to the end, without rushing through it and missing all the great details of life in Music City. (We lived there for twelve years, moving back to the Midwest eight years ago.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And the greatest, <em>Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers</em>. I love all the press that Dav Pilkey has gotten lately. One of my favorite things to do when I was substitute teaching was when I'd see a student - inevitably a boy - who had a Captain Underpants book in his hands. I'd say, "What are you reading?" in a somewhat grumpy teacher voice - and then when they sheepishly admitted to having a Captain Underpants book, I'd exclaim, "Oh my gosh! I love Captain Underpants!" Sadly, you could tell for a lot of them, this was not the reaction they usually got. One of my prized possessions is my Captain Underpants blow-up doll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are students at my elementary school who didn't like reading until we introduced graphic novels in the library last year. It's so great to get to introduce them to some great books, and I love to tell them about the </span><a href="http://www.parents-choice.org/article.cfm?art_id=140&the_page=reading_list" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">research</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> that shows graphic novels can make you smarter.</span></div>
Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-76943797540075366592012-09-17T13:52:00.001-07:002012-09-17T13:52:55.067-07:00Libraries and books storytime<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Preschool storytime started again at MNW today. What a great way to start the week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We started with </span><a href="http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/cedarmont-kids/album/100-singalong-songs-for-kids/track/the-more-we-get-together" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"The More We Get Together" by Cedarmont Kids</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. I think I should try to find a new song, but it's so easy for the kids to learn it and if I forget my iPhone, it's easy enough for me to sing a capella. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I introduced myself and explained that later in the year, they'll come down and visit the library. I'm going to do storytime every Monday for the four-year-olds (a morning and an afternoon class) and the Friday three-year-olds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I first read <em>Library Mouse</em> by Daniel Kirk:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I ended up winging it halfway through - it's pretty long in parts for new preschoolers - but what a fun book! I see there's others with this character; I'll have to check them out. I wish I had brought little blank paper booklets like Sam the Mouse used to create his books. I don't think I'm ready for crafts in storytime, though . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Next I read <em>Baby Bear's Books </em>by Jane Yolen:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then we did a fingerplay from </span><a href="http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/babies-toddlers/finger-plays.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">this RIF site</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/babies-toddlers/finger-plays/open_shut_them.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Open Shut Them"</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (I reworked it a bit so it was about books). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then I read <em>Book! Book! Book! </em>by Deborah Bruss. I love this book - and it's fun to show the students the first word in the title, and then have them read the title themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then we sang a song, also from the RIF site, "Ten Little Children" (reading a book). I think I worried the preschool teacher that I was going to sing the original song that has this tune . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then I showed the book, <em>Librarians</em> by Dee Ready and talked about what librarians do:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then I read <em>The Wonderful Book</em> by Leonid Gore. The kids did a great job remembering what it was that the rabbit, bear, mice, fox, and worm thought the book was (a house, a hat, a table, a bed, and a snack, respectively). What good listeners!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then we sang "The More We Get Together." I did this rundown again for the TK class and will use it again during the week. I also have <em>Biblioburro </em>by Jeanette Winters, <em>A Book</em> by Mordicai Gerstein, <em>That Book Woman </em>by </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Heather Henson, and <em>Ron's Big Mission </em>by Rose Blue and Corinne Naden to share with older students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm looking into a program for preschoolers, 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, that </span><a href="http://brycedontplay.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-1000-books-before-kindergarten.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I read about</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> when I got caught up on my RSS this weekend. If you're like me and have innumerable posts to read, just keep at it - don't delete! You might miss something great like I would have, had I deleted them. Of course, they are piling up again, and I found some <em>new </em>blogs to follow, too . . .</span>Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-47888214266931927252012-09-15T14:22:00.001-07:002012-09-15T14:44:44.272-07:00Finally ready for business!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, that is if you ignore that I still need to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">inventory holiday books that are in the cupboard</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">get new books from the summer on the shelf</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">place the big fall order for books</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">get bulletin board put up</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">place ebook page on website</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">write newsletter piece (by next week)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">do the 2011-2012 year-end report (as an infographic?)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, I intend to ignore all the things I haven't done yet. Not forever, but for now, I won't let that dissuade me from writing this blog post, celebrating the fact that I finally (mostly) have the elementary library in the state I wanted it to be for the first day of school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">In case you're new here, the elementary library received a generous donation from a former librarian who passed away. I thought for a long time about what to do, what I would want done if I gave money to a library. I <em>wouldn't</em> want it to go for books - I see what happens to books and the school should be buying them anyway. I wanted to do something substantial, something that would let the family say, "Look what we did." Read <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/05/summers-here.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/07/elementary-update.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/08/shedding.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/08/rethinking-dewey.html" target="_blank">here</a> for other posts about the progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's not entirely my fault., taking this long to get it in opening day condition. The shelves didn't get put in until the day before school started (everyone was super busy this summer), and we (being my husband and adult daughter - how is that "we"?) still had to put a polyurethene stain on them (or more like five coats, with sanding in-between). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I had to weed them still, and put any that I thought appropriate into our beginning reader section <em>(Hop on Pop</em> type of books)<em>.</em> I decided to create another section for the reader that has mastered those but aren't quite ready for juvenile fiction books. So this is the <em>Henry and Mudge</em> type of book, but I don't yet know what I'll call this section, or if I need to buy yet another sticker to differentiate those from everything else. Those books tend to be all the same size, but I suppose a special sticker is the way to go. Perhaps I can just get gold stars from the teacher supply store?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anyway, here are pictures! I can see that I should improve my picture-taking habits. Not <em>skills</em> so much - I mean, I'd like to do that, but to do that, I need to first improve my <em>habits</em>. I don't have any pictures of Josh Anderson painting the sun or the well, of the shelves without any books, or me moving books and books and books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here's my first layout of the library. This time, I used a tape measure <a href="http://kidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/09/pictures-take-two.html" target="_blank">instead of a ruler</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Like <a href="http://www.beacon.lib.ia.us:8080/?config=821#section=resource&resourceid=172578542&currentIndex=0" target="_blank">that</a> one, and <a href="http://www.beacon.lib.ia.us:8080/?config=821#section=resource&resourceid=3937379&currentIndex=0" target="_blank">that</a> one, and <a href="http://www.beacon.lib.ia.us:8080/?config=821#section=resource&resourceid=108349271&currentIndex=0" target="_blank">that</a> one:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Oh well. I can now cross off #20, and the others can wait until Monday.</span></div>
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Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378713858000653989.post-6626369373949385422012-09-12T20:09:00.000-07:002012-09-12T20:15:38.961-07:00Flatter Iowa<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No, not <i>fatter </i>Iowa. This is not a post about the new nutrition guidelines at state schools! (Which I think are fantastic, by the way.) You know, <i>The World is Flat </i>and all that . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was named to Governor Brandstad's <a href="http://governor.iowa.gov/2012/08/branstad-reynolds-allen-announce-governor%E2%80%99s-stem-regional-advisory-boards-appointments/" target="_blank">STEM Advisory Council</a> for the North Central Region. I applied on a whim, really. I'd gotten an email from the IASL encouraging school librarians to apply, so I did. I said that as a K-12 teacher librarian, I have the opportunity to work with all students and staff in a district. I talked about the grant that I helped spearhead with which we are this year studying the Manson Impact Crater using GIS technology. (<i>Helped </i>is the operative word. I was in wayyyyy over my head!) But most importantly, I said that I'm a mother of five children, from 8th grade to a senior in college, and I know the importance of challenging our children academically in school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The part I didn't say was that I thought I had something to add because I'm <i>not</i> a scientist. I barely based Advanced Biology in high school, I shouldn't have passed Astronomy in college. (I dropped it because I was getting 50% on the tests and still passing with a C - the Bell Curve - and I said to myself, "That ain't right." Not an English major either!) I took Astronomy again years later with one of my children who needed challenge. The dean had to approve her taking it since she was in 8th grade, and she told me, "Now, you know, your daughter has to do her own work." HA HA HA. As if B. was the one she needed to worry about!!! (Okay, okay. I did my own work, but got some liberal tutoring from my 13 year old daughter.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have a degree in Elementary Education, and one of my endorsements is in TAG. In my ed classes, I often heard this sentiment: "I'll have the gifted kids help those who struggle in the subject." At first, I tried to be nice, but eventually, all my classmates hated me for saying over and over again:<i> It's not their job to teach. What are you doing to challenge the gifted kids??? </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which brings me back to STEM. What are we doing to challenge our brightest kids in science, in technology, in engineering, in math - especially in our rural schools? I don't think we're doing enough. We do have to encourage <i>all </i>students in STEM, but I believe, most importantly, appropriate challenge for our best and brightest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So at our meeting today, we heard about some <a href="http://www.iowastem.gov/educators-stem-scale-application#overlay-context=node" target="_blank">great opportunities</a> that our regional council will be funding. There was a bit of confusion (deadlines for applications is Friday - as in the day after tomorrow), but even so, this is a great opportunity for Iowa students. One fellow council member questioned how are we going to help <i>all </i>students - I mean, this is great, she said, but we're still not helping very many students. She's right. But I do think it's a great start.</span></div>
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<i>What are you doing to challenge our rural students in STEM?</i> you may ask. Well, I did help with our successful grant as I said before. I am the site coordinator for two students taking <a href="http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/Students/ioapa/" target="_blank">AP Chemistry</a>, a first for our school. And at the elementary, I'm starting a Technology Club, with our first meeting on Friday. I don't know yet what we'll do, but I know where to turn for some ideas!Miss Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18146784840802852821noreply@blogger.com1