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Have you read the 2010 Nevada Reader, Young Adult nominated book Beastly by Alex Flinn? If not, you should! It is a great modern day Beauty and the Beast type story. What’s even better is that I just found out that a movie is in production based on the book. The star studded cast includes: Vanessa Hudgens, Mary Kate Olsen, Neil Patrick Harris, and Alex Pettyfer. Check-out this site for details and a link to the official movie site:
http://www.themovieinsider.com/m4477/1/beastly/
On September 15, 2009 I held a blog training at the Clark County Librarians Association meeting. The objective of the training was to define what a blog is and how it can be utilized in the library setting. We explored the Edublogs site so that each librarian would be equipt with the tools to start their own free blog at a later date. It was my hope that we can build a community of CCSD librarians that will use blogs to communicate with their students, staff, community and other librarians. Below you will find some tools that were utilized during that meeting.
Video- Blogs in Plain English by Common Craft http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
Getting Started with Edublogs Tutorial http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/
Handout- CCLA- Creating a Library Blog
The best blogging site to use for your CCSD library is an
_Edublog_ because the school filters allow access.
To create your FREE Edublog goto __edublogs.org__.
Cindy Baca’s Blog address _http://bacace.edublogs.org_.
6 Ideas for a Blog Post (3 Mine/ 3 Neighbor)
1. Quizzes
2. Book Recommendations
3. Links
4. Highlight New Books
5. Publicity for Bookfairs, Special Events (i.e. Teen Read Week)
6. Rules/ Procedures
Fun Blog Widgets
FREE Online Polls/Quizzes- http://www.proprofs.com/polls/
Pollydaddy- http://www.polldaddy.com
Online Forms- http:/wufoo.com
Voki- http://voki.com/
Twitter Literature- http://www.kidderlit.com/
Library Thing- http://www.librarything.com/
Visit Tracker- http://www.clustrmaps.com/
Music Playlist- http://playlist.com
List of Library Blogs- http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/07/07/100-best-blogs-for-school-librarians/
If you attended the meeting what do you think about blogs? Edublogs? Are you going to create a blog for your library? If you have one, would you like to share it with us? What training would be beneficial in the future? Thanks for your time!
Have you seen the new movie trailer for New Moon? Many people saw it during the MTV music awards on September 13, 2009. If you have not seen it or want to see it again, click the link below. It looks so good… Enjoy!
‘New Moon’ trailer: Fans are gearing up
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As you may already know, we play music in the Escobedo library. What type of music would you like to hear when you come visit the library?
( surveys)
The first person that can give me a list of 25 books that have movies made after that book, will win a prize. *Hint- one of the website links on this blog will help you locate the answer. Good luck…
