“Summer Slide is the loss of skills during the time students are not in school.†Reading during the summer can help prevent the summer slide. For more information about summer reading, reading aloud, reading books […]
Category: Summer reading
NYS Summer Reading – YA Books Widget
One of the many fun projects that I have the privilege of working on is the New York State Summer Reading program website. We’ve been working on some redesigning, which is always a work in […]
New York State Performers and Programs Database
An email query about how the New York State Performers and Programs project was built sent my memory banks into overdrive today trying to remember what tools we used to create the project back in […]
Smithsonian Museum Day Live, Summer Reading, Science, NYLA
What do they all have in common? The Smithsonian Museum Day Live event is Saturday September 28. The NYLA annual conference in Niagara Falls ends that day. There’s a small science museum in Niagara Falls. […]
New York State Summer Reading
Summer reading programs are well underway at this point. For me, that  means most of the work that I do for the NYS 2013 summer reading site is done. This year I took advantage of […]
Summer Reading Glogster Poster
Jan Tunison, who is the Head of Library Services at the Scotia-Glenville (NY) High School forwarded this wonderful summer reading poster that she created with Glogster. Additionally, she’s in the process of creating ones for […]
Kids Create Library Promo Videos
A couple of great videos created by the kids at the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library in Milton, NY. In the first one the kids tell why they like the library: books, computers, hanging out […]
“A Book for Every Mood” – teen video
Isn’t this video great? Part of the summer reading video project at the Higland (NY) Public Library. Thanks to Theresa Zacek for sending these on to me. A Book for Every Mood written, performed and […]
Fun READ posters from the “If the light’s on, we’re home…” library
The kids and teens at the Stillwater (NY) Free Library have a created a great set of READ posters as part of their summer reading program. Great example of a fun, creative project on a […]
A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator
In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year. That got me […]
StoryTubes Gearing Up for Next Year
One of the projects I really enjoy being involved with is our statewide summer reading program. And that’s how I found out about the awesome StoryTubes project. Children from all over the country created short […]
Zoho Creator for simple, free, online signup
In something for nothing Aaron Schmidt explains how his library is using Zoho Creator for a handy and effective summer reading program sign up form that is embedded on the library’s web site. After the […]