Check out reading nooks built into bookcases, suitable for children or even pets. Perhaps not practical for all but the most extravagant library budgets, but a good idea if you can persuade a skilled craftsperson to build it! Thanks to children’s librarian fusenumber8 for highlighting this nifty piece of furniture art.
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YouTube for Teachers
TeacherTube is YouTube for teachers. Current favorites include Survivor: The Middle School Classroom and Mrs. Burk (aka the Rapping Math Teacher)’s rap about perimeter. LibraryTube, anyone?
Board Game Reference List
Board games have evolved much since the days of Monopoly. Thanks to the Euro game boom of the 1990s, there is a rich variety of board games to explore. At Boardgame News, Giles Pritchard lists age-appropriate games for school children, as well as games that target math, literacy, and negotation skills. These could be interesting for both educators and librarians who plan after-school programs for youth.
A New Kind of Blog
Just when you thought you got the blogging thing down, out comes this new paradigm: Tumblr.
Tumblr allows you to piece together a blog by sharing various types of media, including photos, quotations, links, instant messaging conversations, video clips, and “traditional” textual blog posts. It’s a patchwork quilt approach to publishing a blog.
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