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KinderTown and VPL
I’ve been continuing my search for resources and guidance on collection development for apps in libraries. Tess Prendergast, a PhD student at UBC and a Children’s librarian at VPL pointed me to the...
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Children’s Librarians Curating Apps
Children’s Librarians! We need to build a mechanism by which we can work together to evaluate and recommend apps for kids on a large scale, and I know how we can do it. Yesterday I spoke with Carisa...
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SPLAMBA Workshop at the Watsonville Library with Carisa Kluver @iPad_storytime
Carisa Kluver and I did our first tag-team workshop on Friday at the Watsonville Library with a group of SPLAMBA members who were interested in learning about using apps in storytime, but had never...
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eBook vs Tree Book: A technology terminology metadiscussion that ends with...
There’s been a lot of new media meta discussion recently; I wrote a post for the ALSC blog called “Screen Time” is Bad, which discusses the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad phrase “screen time”...
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A to Zoo for Apps Conversation Starter Video Uploaded
A special thanks to everyone who came to our A to Zoo for Apps Conversation Starter at ALA in Chicago last weekend! Here’s the video of what transpired for those of you who were unable to make it. We...
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California State Library: Early Learning with Families 2.0
I’ve been a little AWOL from the Little eLit blog recently. Many thanks to Amy for keeping content fresh while I’ve been elsewhere! Here’s one of the projects I’m going to be working on, and the...
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Reblog: Librarians in the Digital Age – Part 2, by Carisa Kluver
Are you looking for more information about what went down at ALA Annual with regard to new media and children? Carisa Kluver, founder of digital-storytime.com and a contributor here at the Little eLit...
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Farmer Brown Had 5 Green Apples Felt Board
Carisa Kluver and I were doing a New Media in Storytime workshop for the children’s services staff at the Mission Viejo Library last month. Before our participants arrived I was running through some of...
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How do I find apps for free? by Carisa Kluver and Claudia Haines
Here at Little eLit, we get asked about free apps a lot. While we consider an app’s content, design, technical features, and age appropriateness before we look at price, the reality is that, just like...
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