Mary Pope Osborne's Shadow of the Shark was published in 2015 as part of the best-selling Magic Tree House series. Osborne's Thanksgiving on Thursday did not fare well, here, at American Indians in Children's literature. Her Shadow of the Shark is just as bad. I tweeted as I read it, on September 15, 2016, made the tweets into a Storify (inserting comments between the tweets), and used the copy/paste function to paste the Storify here.
- Her name... doesn't it call to mind Disney's Pocahontas?!
- These goofy hyphenated Indian-sounding names (oh dang, I used a hyphen, too) are dreadful. So many writers come up with names like these for characters. But heck. A little research, please! Osborne could have looked for someone who speaks one of the Mayan languages, and found out what their word is for jaguar, and used that, right? Or a translation of it, from that language into English? Maybe Osborne thinks there's no Mayan people around? Surely, though.... doesn't she listen to, or read, national news? Like this story?
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By: AlanaP,
on 4/14/2016
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JacketFlap tags: History, Videos, american history, historians, America, academia, scholarship, *Featured, oxford journals, organization of american historians, storify, Journal of American History, JAH, academic scholarship, life in academia, OAH, Add a tagIn addition to catching up with authors and discovering new research, the annual Organization of American Historians conference is a productive and inspiring time to check-in on the state of the field. This OAH in Providence, we had one burning question on our mind: What is one important word that all historians should have on their minds?
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By: Debbie Reese,
on 3/20/2016
Blog: American Indians in Children's Literature (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: not recommended, Storify, Pub year 2016, Emily Henry, The Love that Split the World, Add a tagBack in January, a reader wrote to ask me about Emily Henry's The Love that Split the World. I've now gotten a copy, read it, and am working on an in-depth review of it.
However! Last week I learned it was being picked up by Lionsgate. If all goes according to plan, it will be a movie. That troubled me deeply because of the errors I found in the book.I started tweeting about it, and got some pretty fierce pushback from people who are friends of the writer.
If you're interested in the tweets and my response to the pushback, I created two Storify's about them (Storify is a way to capture a series of tweets in a single place.) I've also got them available as pdf's--let me know by email if you want a copy of the pdf.
Here's the first one:
What Emily Henry got wrong in THE LOVE THAT SPLIT THE WORLD
And here's the second one:
Derailing Native Critique of THE LOVE THAT SPLIT THE WORLD
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By: DanP,
on 2/19/2015
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JacketFlap tags: *Featured, fairy tales, little red riding hood, Hansel and Gretel, twitter, sleeping beauty, once upon a time, Marina Warner, storify, social media campaign, fairy stories, daniel parker, Books, Literature, Cinderella, Multimedia, Add a tagWhat are the strange undercurrents to fairy tales like 'Hansel and Gretel' or 'Little Red Riding Hood'? In November 2014, we launched a #fairytalesexplainedbadly hashtag campaign that tied in to the release of Marina Warner’s Once Upon a Time: A Short History of the Fairy Tale. Hundreds of people engaged with the #fairytalesexplainedbadly hashtag on Twitter, sparking a fun conversation on the different ways in which fairy tale stories could be perceived.
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By: Alice,
on 10/17/2014
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JacketFlap tags: Oral History Review, OHR, OHA2014, History, Oral History, oral history association, Andrew Shaffer, *Featured, oxford journals, storify, Add a tagLast weekend we were thrilled to see so many of you at the 2014 Oral History Association (OHA) Annual Meeting, “Oral History in Motion: Movements, Transformations, and the Power of Story.” The panels and roundtables were full of lively discussions, and the social gatherings provided a great chance to meet fellow oral historians. You can read a recap from Margo Shea, or browse through the Storify below, prepared by Jaycie Vos, to get a sense of the excitement at the meeting. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing some more in depth blog posts from the meeting, so make sure to check back often.
We look forward to seeing you all next year at the Annual Meeting in Florida. And special thanks to Margo Shea for sending in her reflections on the meeting and to Jaycie Vos (@jaycie_v) for putting together the Storify.
Headline image credit: Madison, Wisconsin cityscape at night, looking across Lake Monona from Olin Park. Photo by Richard Hurd. CC BY 2.0 via rahimageworks Flickr.
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By: Stacey Shubitz,
on 8/16/2013
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JacketFlap tags: writing, technology, professional development, tcrwp, Storify, Add a tagI’ve been wanting to try out Storify for awhile, but haven’t head a reason to use it. Until now. I decided to put together Storify some of my tweets and pictures from last… Read More
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By: Nicola,
on 1/23/2013
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JacketFlap tags: podcast, Philosophy, competition, twitter, favourite, nigel warburton, philosopher, Humanities, david edmonds, philosophy bites, warburton, bites, twitter competition, *Featured, storify, #philobites, philosophy bites back, your favourite, philosophybites, #philosophybites, second philosophy, Add a tagTo celebrate the publication of our second Philosophy Bites book, Philosophy Bites Back, authors Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds released a 39 minute podcast episode of a wide range of philosophers answering the question ‘Who’s Your Favourite Philosopher?’
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We also asked you to let us know on Twitter who your favourite philosopher is and why. The competition is now closed and we received over 150 entries, which you can view on Storify. We can now reveal the winning entries, as chosen by Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds!View the story “Philosophy Bites Back: The Winning Tweets” on Storify
David Edmonds is an award-winning documentary maker for the BBC World Service and a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University. Nigel Warburton is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. They are co-authors of Philosophy Bites (OUP, 2010) and Philosophy Bites Back (OUP, 2012), which are based on their highly successful series of podcasts. You can also follow @philosophybites on Twitter.
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By: Beth,
on 11/22/2011
Blog: YALSA - Young Adult Library Services Association (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Prof. Development, Teen Services, Content Curation, LibGuides, LiveBinders, Pearltrees, Scoop.it, Storify, Technology, Research, Add a tagA couple of weeks ago YALSABlog readers may have noticed that the weekly Tweets of the Week had a new format. A few days after that revision there was a Blog post that used Storify (The tool also used for the Tweets of the Week) to highlight findings in a new Pew Internet and American Life report on teens and social networking. Some may wonder, “what’s going on here?” Well, what’s going on is that curation has come to the YALSABlog and curation is probably something that you are or will be thinking about for the work you do with teens.
There has been a lot of buzz about curation over the past several months. What people are talking about when they buzz about content curation is the organization of information, usually using web-based tools, on a particular topic. For example, Storify enables users to search a variety of sources, including Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook, to uncover and organize topic content. With Storify it’s possible to integrate text in-between curated resources to provide context and flow to the curated content. For example, the Storify below is all about the Austin Teen Book Festival.
View the story “Austin Teen Book Festival 2011″ on Storify]Storify isn’t the only curation game in town. Scoop.it is another popular tool for organizing content on a particular topic. With Scoop.it the focus isn’t on telling a story but more on gathering resources on a topic in order to display them visually. When an item is added to a Scoop.it a portion of that content is displayed and Scoop.it curators can annotate items in order to focus on specific aspects of a resource. You can see an example of a Scoop.it I’ve started on resources that help teen librarians to be successful curators.
You can organize the resources on a Scoop.it page by moving content from place to place. For example, I’ve organized the curation and teen librarians Scoop.it with content related to curation tools on the top left and information about libraries and curation and about best practices in content curation in the bottom left and the right column.
Along with Storify and Scoop.it there are several other curation tools including Pearltrees (which was a YALSA app of the week a few weeks ago) LiveBinders, LibGuides, and BagTheWeb. As a librarian working with teens it’s possible that each of these tools will come in handy at different times in the work that you do. It all depends on the needs and interest of the teens and the community. For example, Storify is perfect for adding context to content as its curated. Scoop.it is perfect for gathering and annotating resources on a topic. Pearltrees is good for showing connections between content in the form of a mindmap.
As I’ve been thinking about content curation and teen library services it’s been clear that we’ve always curated content for those we serve. However, in the world of the web and social media curation takes on new and exciting forms. Current content curation tools make it possible to collaborate on curation. It’s alsop possible to inform teens about resources in ways that are interesting and appealing. Some curation tools make it possible to embed lists into blog posts, Facebook pages, and so on. That’s definitely better than the paper pathfinder that a teen in the past needed to pick up at the librar
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