Follow the link on this page posted by the Alaska School Library Association about a contest author James Patterson is doing on his webpage, ReadKiddoRead.  Whether you are contributing or following the results you'll be bound to get a lot out of this project.
                                                                                                                                      Katie

psst....and think about adding the AkASL page to your RSS feed                        

I just finished a webinar with Michelle Luhtula, high school librarian from New Caanan, CT and Shannon Miller, District Librarian for Van Meter, Iowa (ie. K-12 librarian in a school of 600) in the Emerging Technology series offered by EdWeb and want to share just one of many exciting collaborative projects they discussed.

Check out the Animoto video Shannon shared on the blog she co-writes  with another librarian, "Mr. Schu," 390 miles away, called Two Libraries, One Voice, about a collaborative project they did. It is a celebration of Dot Day all based around Peter Reynold's book, "The Dot."  They did a week's worth of related projects, Skyped back and forth, and had an online contest.

While you're at their blog be sure to check out some of the other exciting projects they've done together with their students!!                  Katie

Besides being an award winning library blog this Read Aloud Tuesdays program sounds like a great idea. IF you're open during recess, and have time away from maintenance chores what a fun way to reinforce the love of reading. Having an entire half hour would allow for progress through a book. Only once a week would not tie up too much time. Check out the photo of the kids listening to her read!  And while you're there look at some of her other  pages, like "Look In The Baskets!"             Katie