Competency 9: Internet

TumbleBook Library is a password protected website that school libraries may purchase. The link I have chosen provides an opportunity for teachers and librarians to take a tour of the program which helps demonstrate all the learning tools available. TumbleBooks offers students a chance to select audio books with animation. Once the story is complete the student may take a quiz, play vocabulary games, put puzzles together and many more activities focusing on the book. TumbleBooks provides AR books which is especially effective for kindergarten students who are not quite ready to read independently before taking an AR quiz. I chose to share this website because I have found it successful in my classroom and library. My students are excited to read books and play games on TumbleBooks. One of my topics of interest is encouraging children to read and providing an environment that fosters a love of reading. This website provides an alternate and fun form of reading for students. I found TumbleBook Library through the Lycos Internet Search Engine. I searched tumble books and the first result was the website I needed.
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp

Competency 8: Research Visual/Multimedia

Image retrieved from: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6633729.html and http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/fearing-backlash-many-librarians-censors-themselves/

Last semester while taking Information Professions, I was introduced to the world of library censorship. As a future school librarian I am aware of the fact that parents, administrators, and students may challenge books selected for the library. Through a Google Images search: Texas School Library Graph, I found a blog Blogging Censorship with a post that addresses the censorship topic in schools. I have posted one graph from the blog which is dedicated to censorship. The information on the blog orginated from an article from School Library Journal: SLJ School Censorship Survey by Debra Whelan. She provides background data on how the survey was conducted. She also presents additional graphs with survey results. I found her survey very informative as I am a student still gaining knowledge of how to be the most effective school librarian.

Whelan, Debra. (2009). Slj self-censorship survey. School Library Journal Online, http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6633729.html.

Competency 7: Image

http://blog.firstbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/IMG_2204_crop.JPG

I chose to share this image because I feel it is important that children not only read books but that they also have the opportunity to meet authors. The author in this picture is Laura Numeroff. She has written circular stories such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin. She is one of my favorite children's authors who I would love to meet one day. I found this picture intriguing because Ms. Numeroff is in her pajamas in an effort to encourage parents to read to their children at bedtime. Her pajamas incorporate the mouse from her story. I also like the look on her face, she is concentrating and showing an interest in what the child is telling her. It is so important for children to see and hear first hand how an author came to write stories. Who knows which children will be inspired to read or even write stories to publish. I found the picture by searching "Laura Numeroff" in Google Images. This picture is part of the First Book blog.

Citation: Bookmark: the first book blog. (2006). http://blog.firstbook.org/2007/11/30/author-laura-numeroff-celebrates-books-at-bedtime/ Retrieved April 18, 2010.