YA Book Club Overview
I needed a distraction from arguing with our online course management software yesterday so I took the afternoon to visually represent our YA Book Club. I’d looked up a number to confirm the accuracy of a speaker’s bio I wrote. The next thing I knew I was tumbling down the rabbit hole of stats about [...]
YA Reading Round Robin
Want to do something creative and outside the box with your readers? Here’s what we’re doing for the summer. This year marks the inaugural summer reading program at my library. We’re calling it the YA Reading Round Robin. Last year some of the YA Book Club members wanted to meet over the summer, but logistically that was [...]
Prezi beyond its intended use: exploiting the potential
I presented this with my sister Mandy at the 2012 Library Technology Conference at Macalester College. Our goal was to discuss the different ways you can use Prezi beyond the presenter standing in the front of the classroom technique. Mandy works in a small public library. I work in a small academic library. We tried to [...]
Speed dating book club event
I’ve been playing around with a few crazy instruction ideas for a while. Sometimes I come up with the content I want to teach first and then and idea how to execute it comes quickly after. Other times I start with some crazy idea and then see if I can find a way to fit [...]