We had several notes over the weekend from folks who were "just now" catching up on Share a Story - Shape a Future 2012 and reading the posts. We hope you're still basking in all that great, positive energy!!
We also had a couple of other items and additions that I wanted to highlight. I'll be adding them to our Comprehensive Index of Posts and List of Contributors, but I also want to share them here.
Debbie Alvarez, who blogs at The Styling Librarian has a three-part series called International Mindedness. These are postsshare "various books [that] also cultivate deep discussion to develop International Mindedness. In addition to the book content, Debbie has links to websites and other "World Awareness Resources" on the Web.
I also wanted to share a note from Josh Ory at Reading Racehorse, LLC. There were more than 900 downloads of
Frank the Friendly Pirate, the company's eBook App which they made available for free during Share a Story. We hope you'll stay in touch with Reading Racehorse, as more titles will be released this year and available in the iTunes store. [for iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch]
Our thanks to everyone who made Share a Story - Shape a Future 2012 a wonderful, energizing event. If you are interested in being part of next year's planning group, just drop us a line! Work will begin this fall.
Is it Friday already?
In just four days we've gotten a year's worth of ideas, suggestions, and hopefully encouragement for not only connecting kids with books, but using them as a launching pad to bigger and broader things.
As we wrap up this week, we thought we would do something a bit different this year. There is no "formal agenda." We have no scheduled guests. Instead, we are opening the floor (as it were) for
- culture-of-reading topics we may not have explored,
- requests for ideas in specific areas;
- questions for our hosts and guests;
- your culture-of-reading and literacy ideas; or
- just general commentary.
If you've not been able to join us all week, we have an
Event Summary page with all of the posts and all of the
Writing @ Reading contributions.We hope you find that an easy way to jump in.
We'll be back later this morning to announce the winner of the the
2012 Multicultural Books Collection, for your school or public library. Our friends at Reading Racehorse will continue to offer
Frank the Friendly Pirate, an eBook App for free today.
As always, we thank you for joining us on our annual literacy blog tour! We appreciate you spending your time with us ... and for dedicating your passion to creating a community of readers among the kids who touch your lives.
It has been a fantastic week. Many great ideas from the community. I hope this event continues on each year! I really look forward to it!
Thanks Eric ... let me know if you'd like to be part of the planning ensemble! We're always looking for a few reading dada. ~ Terry
I'm behind this week but am so looking forward to reading through the posts I've missed. I love the theme this year and wish I could have participated. I had an idea for a post (a response to one of the prompts) but haven't had a chance to write it yet. Any chance you are still accepting submissions? If not, I will try next year :)
Kerry, when it comes to literacy, it is NEVER too late ... when you write your post, let me know and I'll make sure we get it linked and syndicated here on on the SAS blog!! Yeah!!