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The First Book team has had a busy summer, bringing books to Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Claysburg PA and the National Mall in Washington DC – with more to come.
We do lots of major books distributions, and we try to hold them across the country so that schools and programs that can’t afford the shipping costs for the free books can still get what they need for the kids that they serve.
This week? We’re in beautiful Lansing – capital of the great state of Michigan and home to the Lansing Lugnuts – and we’ve got 450,000 brand-new books that we’re distributing to schools and programs across the country.
If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by and say hello. As you can see, we’ve got quite a few books to move.
By: Jessamyn West,
on 3/17/2008
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I gave a talk this afternoon for a one day workshop given by the Michigan Library Consortium about teaching technology in libraries. It was a keynote-ish talk so more “big picture” talking and less “this is how we do it.”
To that end, I did a new-from-the-ground-up talk about technology instruction and even wrote out notes for all of my slides so people who weren’t there could maybe follow along later. As anyone who has seen me speak knows, I tend to extemporanize (sp?) quite a bit so while the bones of the talk are in the notes, I also told a lot of stories about the libraries I work in and waved my hands around a lot. You can see the notes and a mov or pdf of the slides here: Teaching Tech in Libraries: what are we doing?
I’m still trying to find a good way to put slideware talks online without having to re-give the talk and toss it into Slideshare. Big thanks to all the folks from Michigan for being such a great audience and Twitterfolks for giving me some good advice. (go be Flickr friends with Kevin to see more (admittedly, not that fascinating) photos of this event)
When someone who reads your book reaches out to say "hi" it's always a wonderful feeling. When that person writes to tell you that she and her friends are part of a summer reading contest called "Name That Book" and that she wants POND SCUM to be the first book that her club is going to read - well, then you go crazy and want to know exactly how the meeting was, etc.
Kendall asked my permission to hand out a "biography" of me at the meeting and she worked hard to write a wonderful piece. Not only did I hear that the first meeting was great (and apparently included quality pool time) But Kendall's mom served dirt cake and gummy worms to go with the book - and they sent me this picture of the whole bunch reading the book. And as a writer - these little connections matter so much and I'll tell you - it doesn't get better than this!
The Rhinestone Readers (pictured above!) have made my summer! Thanks girls!
A bonus to the whole thing: when I found out in what part of the country the girls lived I realized I am already visiting the Rhinestone Reader's school district this fall - and you know what? Whether their school is on my tour or not - I told Kendall I want to meet her - and I've been in touch with her mom and guess who's coming to dinner? Me!
And thanks to this wonderful photo - I have absolute proof that Pond Scum isn't just a "boy's book" and that it's waterproof!
I assume you’re using Powerpoint for your slides. If so, do you use the notes section. It provides you with space to put the comments you’re going to make to accompany the slide, you can read them on your PC but they won’t display on screen. (You can also print them out.) Had you thought about creating your slides and including your “notes”? That way people will get a synopsis of the remarks you made along with each slide. Just a thought.
[…] my org held a really cool special program yesterday, Teaching Technology in Libraries. Our keynote was Jessamyn West, and she was great, of course, as usual. After the talk, we went out […]