The Blended Librarian- Social Bookmarking
- Mindmapping and Brainstorming together.
- To the Cloud...
- Welcome to the MDE conference. Using Emerging DE technologies in the K12 classrooms.
- No easy place to start...
- Beyond These Walls
- Interesting use of a blog
- Blogs and wikis for the classroom....
- Web 2.0 --- What is it anyway?
- Reading around the topic!
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen
The publication date of this volume is unclear. In its place are several copyright notices of individual works within it, ranging from 1963-1967 Checked out 6 times in 27 years Last checked out 12 years ago The prevalence of Rod … Continue reading
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Tagged Albertville, poetry, review, Rod McKuen, war poetry
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Biblical Limericks by D.R. Benson
Copyright 1986 Checked out 7 times in 24 years Last checked out 12 years ago Subtitled: Old Testament Stories Re-Versed. Who can resist having a little fun with the Bible? Not D.R. Benson, who has written more science fiction (the forward is … Continue reading
Laughter in the Walls by Bob Benson
Copyright 1969, reissued 1996 Checked out twice in 14 years (assuming it was acquired at the time of publication) Last checked out 3 years ago [A Note Many Months After Original Posting: Much to my surprise, this is one of … Continue reading
John Brown’s Body
An overlooked classic of American poetry Continue reading
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Tagged Albertville, Civil War, John Brown's Body, poetry, review, Stephen Vincent Benet
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The Outlaw & Resounding Echoes
Two books by Stella Blanchard Arancibia Continue reading
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Tagged Albertville, Arancibia, California, poetry, review
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The Song of Love by Joan Walsh Anglund
An unfavorable review Continue reading
A Maya Angelou Sampler
Maya Angelou is easy to admire. She has tremendous integrity. She’s an accomplished writer in a variety of mediums, as well as being an accomplished performer and an effective advocate for issues of social justice. One might even speculate that … Continue reading
A look at the local poetry shelves
The first libary collection I want to examine is that of my current home town of Albertville, Alabama, a town with a population upward of 20,000. It’s the largest city in Marshall County, which has a population estimated at over … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, Albertville, library, Marshall County, poetry
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The Problem with Poetry
So how is a librarian to choose which volumes of poetry, of the thousands published each year, are a decent match for their patrons? And how does one decide which volumes to cull from the collection? Continue reading
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Tagged librarian, librarians, libraries, library, poetry, review, reviews
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Poetry Log 