In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year. That got me thinking about and looking for other back to school ideas for this fun tool.
Like all the tools at bighugelabs, this [...]
Posts under ‘Summer reading’
A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator
StoryTubes Gearing Up for Next Year
One of the projects I really enjoy being involved with is our statewide summer reading program. And that’s how I found out about the awesome StoryTubes project. Children from all over the country created short videos about their favorite books. What fun! We had 7 terrific entries from NYS this year. Let’s have more next [...]
Zoho Creator for simple, free, online signup
In something for nothing Aaron Schmidt explains how his library is using Zoho Creator for a handy and effective summer reading program sign up form that is embedded on the library’s web site. After the kids sign up, they’re taken to a page where they can download a reading log and get other info about [...]
Summer Reading Photos
The 2008 Summer Reading photo pool at flickr is growing by leaps and bounds. Tons of great photos of programs, activities, displays and more. Like this great photo from the Newport (OR) Public Library. Take a look at the pool for some fun ideas. And please add your photos too!
p.s. Don’t forget to check out [...]
Nancy Pearl was in town
Last week Nancy Pearl was in town for the 50th anniversary of the Southern Adirondack Library System and gave a delightful talk at their annual dinner. She also presented several other programs, including a session on readers advisory for children & teens. And even though I’ve never done any real RA work, the librarians I [...]
Frog & Spider – fun for summer reading web sites
Great frog eating flies:
(Source: http://abowman.com/google-modules/tree-frog/)
And Spider!
(Source: http://abowman.com/google-modules/spider/)
I’ve been having great fun working on the NYS Summer Reading web site!
