Learn More: A Self-Paced Discovery series is intended for library staff who want to explore the social web. There are lectures on avatars, Flickr, YouTube, Delicious, Tags, Wikis, and now TWITTER! 
Check it out at http://librarystream.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/learn-more-twitter/.
Take a look at a blog book review of The Doll People written by a 10 year old. She’s looking for book recommendations. I know that many of the people whom check my blog could provide some great suggestions. I would love to see more blogs designed and maintained by elementary and middle school students.
Guest Blogger: 10 Year Old’s Review of The Doll People by Ann M. Martin « Books on the Brain
I just came across this great post written by the Woeful Librarian. Perpetuating The Librarian Stereotype « @ the Library
Howard Rhengold maintains a video blog. Check out his entry “A Slice of Life Online.”
Shoebox, a division of Hallmark, has its own blog. They post ideas that did not make it and other funny little anecdotes! Thank you, LISNEWS, for the original post!
Students 2.0 launches in two days. Here’s its description and purpose (http://students2oh.org/)
Administered, designed, edited, and written by a global mix of students of varying ages, interests, voices, and points of view, Students 2.0 will feature content written by both staff writers and guest contributors. From Hawaii and Washington, from St. Louis and Chicago, from Vermont, New York, Scotland, Korea, and other points on the globe, these writings will be united in one central aspect: quality student writing, full-voiced and engaging, about education.
The moment for a student-centered edublogosphere has come. The staff at Students 2.0 invite their adult partners in education to treat their posts as they treat all others: as serious writing, as invitations to their readers to listen, reflect, agree, disagree, extend ideas - and above all, to create new possibilities, understandings, and insights in education.
I quickly looked at the Brown Bookshelf but it looks like a good resource to learn more about adolsecent literature written by African-American authors.
If your students like Readergirlz, try introducing them to the Brown Bookshelf, a new online community devoted to promoting young adult fiction by African-American authors and illustrators.
Launched on November 1, the Web site is the brainchild of Paula Chase-Hyman and Varian Johnson—who’ve never met in person. The two YA authors kept running into each other on various message boards for children’s writers and quickly realized that the same issue kept popping up: no one really knew much about the new crop of black authors who write for kids.
“If I hear ‘There’s no YA out there for African American teens’ one more time, I’m going to scream,” says Chase-Hyman, author of the Del Rio Bay Clique(Dafina) series. “Granted, it may not be publicized like some of the flashier mainstream YA fiction, but it’s out there.”
Based on the popularity of Readergirlz, an online community created earlier this year to get girls hooked on reading, Chase-Hyman and Johnson were determined to promote the many contemporary African-American YA authors nationwide.
Along with fellow writers Carla Sarratt and Kelly Starling Lyons, and illustrator Don Tate, the group will launch its first project, 28 Days Later, in February to coincide with Black History Month. Each day during February, a different book and author will be featured on www.thebrownbookshelf.com.
The five founders are currently taking nominations from publishers and others for the best in picture books, middle school, and young adult literature. They’re also partnering with the African American Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English to ensure that the campaign reaches its intended audience of librarians and educators.
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