by Leah Langby | Mar 13, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
More follow-up from Devorah Heitner’s webinar Strategies for Using Digital Technologies at Home from the Erikson Institute. I’m taking a few of her points and making individual blog posts out of them, but I highly recommend checking out...
by Leah Langby | Mar 11, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Child with tablet, courtesy of The Commons Getty Collection I just attended an outstanding webinar from The Erikson Institute, Strategies for Using Digital Technologies at Home. It was presented by Devorah Heitner. I can’t recommend listening to the recording...
by Leah Langby | Mar 6, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
RA wordle from https://ragenrestudy.wordpress.com/ In a recent discussion on an ALSC listserv, several people shared their favorite readers advisory websites for kids. I thought I’d share them with you! 8 Readers’ Advisory Sites post on the INALJ...
by Leah Langby | Mar 3, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had a more manageable list this month so I have included some comments from submitters.We were reading Realistic Fiction in February. In March, we’re reading Humorous Books–March is a month when I could use some humor…If you read a...
by Leah Langby | Feb 26, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Lately I’ve been reading some fascinating blogs and threads about diversity, and how to embrace and respect diverse voices as librarians (here’s one, which has an incredible bunch of comments). In the midst of this, I came across a reference to a...
by Leah Langby | Feb 23, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to the inquiring mind of Ted in Menomonie, and the input of several librarians in our area, IFLS is putting together a project to try out using Badges with teens. We are dabbling our toes in the waters, and we invite you to participate!Every year through...