Jean Darnell: Awaken Librarian

Today is National " The Day the Crayons Quit Day " Here are some great lesson ideas and our experience with it below: The Crayons will not Quit! #CrayonsDontQuit Take a look here for some great resources & work from my library kids: http://t.co/2hjqiUfiRa — awakenlibrarian (@awakenlibrarian) September 30, 2014 And...because I miss Mister Rogers so much--- Yes, I'm a kid from the 1980s --here's a "how-to-video" of how crayons are made! Enjoy!

This week, we're having our Book Fair...see the pictures below! Because of the dreaded ROTATION SCHEDULE I must balance entertaining the students while, governing the book fair and finding books. Nevertheless, being the warrior that I am, I did find this cute video (including interesting facts) on YouTube by M Demaio :

Here's what we're doing this week in the library... Make Belief Comix Strips!! The students are having a blast and it's a wonderfully engaging app! @DigitalFBISD @GoodmanOwls Students mastering the app, Make Belief Comix, in the library all week! #edtech #edchat pic.twitter.com/bxe8c8kJWK — awakenlibrarian (@awakenlibrarian) September 22, 2014 LESSON PLAN: The basic premise of the lesson was as follows: 1. Create a 3 panel comic strip. 2. The strip must have a BME. (beginning, middle and end) 3. Include a SSS. ( Someone talking somewhere in someplace . Also known as character, dialogue and setting)

I love Ted Talks and especially those by kids. Therefore, when I came across Ted's blog with "Impressive Kid Ted Talks," I immediately had to share with you! One of my favorite talks are listed embedded below. Those of my students that follow my blog, be INSPIRED for you can have your own Ted Talk one day soon! Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer Perhaps you have used Thomas Suarez’s most famous iPhone app, the whack-a-mole game “Bustin Jeiber”? While most kids his age were playing online games, Suarez was learning how to make them. At TEDxManhattanBeach, he shares how he is sharing his knowledge and teaching other kids to develop apps too. Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids Childish thinking is worthy of real attention, says 12-year-old short story scribe and blogger Adora Svitak at TED2010. Instead of looking just to teach kids, Svitak urges grown-ups to try to learn from them too. Sirena Huang: An 11-year-old’s magical violin Sirena H...

And so we're starting another school year... I've added a literary workspace for my library. Please check it out here : And because it took a diligent effort and was down to the last wire, here's my bulletin board/wall. Yes...for those of you who know me personally, it's not up to par, but I'm working on several masterpieces, so give a girl a break! CHECK OUT THIS "AMAZING" SPIDER-MAN BONUS! This is for you, Julian! :)

So this year, I want to begin a behavioral series with the catchphrase "Find Your Character in a Book!" Within their time in the library, we'd analyze characters in books, and subversively, I'd help the students analyze themselves! We'd focus on the following characteristics: 1. Body Language 2. Refinement Skills (social interactions, mannerisms and speech dialect) 3. Likability 4. Perception (visual & digital) I got this grand idea from working with my former librarian, THE AMAZING AND TALENT DR. ROGER LESLIE on his textbook about character development titled, Teaching S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and Strong Character with Children’s Award-winning Chapter Books (Bayou Publishing). I was a contributing researcher, who analyzed popular children's books looking for characteristics like s elf-awareness, u ndeterred, c reativity, c ourage, e galitarian and s anguine (i.e. S.U.C.C.E.S.S)! And on a side-note, he's the best mentor I could ever have as a ...

I must admit, I'm in the midst of my last 6 hrs of graduate school, taking statistics! Let that sunken feeling drop in your belly! But I did find this slide share simple enough to understand and save-face for discussions: Statistics for Librarians: How to Use and Evaluate Statistical Evidence from John McDonald Statistics for Librarians, Session 4: Statistics best practices from Karen Harker