Joyce Valenza - New Ending Search
Joyce Valenza is a nationally recognized school library media specialist who is in the forefront of all things technology and the profession. She's been recognized throughout the library world for her school web site, wiki, blogs, her work on information literacy and curriculum and more. Her blog will be a great way to keep up to date on the newest in the field. For instance, her blog includes an announcement I had been waiting for from the summer ALA (American Library Association convention) announcing this year's 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, chosen by the American Association of School Librarians. Here's the direct link: http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25 . I have found some amazing sites since they began this annual listing a couple of years ago and have passed them on to the faculty at my high school and included some of them on my library web pages.
YA Books and More http://naomibates.blogspot.com
I'm always looking for ways to encourage reading and sharing. This is a young adult book review blog. I've been wanting to incorporate student review blogs as a way to promote word-of-mouth student-to-student recommendations that would be a way for students to find outside reading titles or as a way for my student book club to share titles and talk about books. Teacher's in ELA could establish a blog of student reviews of outside reading or of other types of reading in the classroom to promote "discussion." I think this might be a way for students who are reluctant to speak to share their views and opinions.
I love the idea of the YA Books and More blog! What a great way for students to comment on literature and get ideas of what to read next. This is a great site to direct students to for outside reading, and a great teacher tool if we ever look into new book adoption. Great find!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kelsey. So often students complain about not being able to find something they want to read. For some students they dread going to the library to search the shelves, or having to talk to a librarian! However, most kids do enjoy the convenience and privacy of an online search. This site looks great at connecting kids to what they might want to read while giving us an opportunity to achieve our goal of getting them to read. Thanks for the source, I am going to share it with our media specialist in September.
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