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Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

Best of the Best: Organization & Management Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

This week, we focus on the Organization & Management apps:

Subtext icon

 

Subtext encourages students to connect learning material to real life experiences.

Pocket icon

 

Pocket allows users to save online material so that they can view it later!

Goodreader

 

GoodReader creates a place for users to organize and annotate their various files, from PDF to PowerPoint!

instaGrok

 

instaGrok is an interactive, personalized, search engine app.

Easy Portfolio

 

Easy Portfolio provides users with a portfolio to save multiple forms of media to.

More Best of the Best Apps: STEM, Social Science, Books, and Content Creation.

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

MN Book Awards Winners Announced!

MN BAThe 27th Annual Minnesota Book Awards were presented over the weekend, at the gala in St. Paul attended by over 800 people!  Euan Kerr of Minnesota Public Radio emceed the event, where 10 awards were presented.  In addition to the 8 standard awards, the Kay Sexton Book Award was presented to Mary Francois Rockcastle, and the Book Artist Award was presented to Harriet Bart, along with Philip Gallo and Jill Jevne.  The other awards went to:

  • Sean Hill – Award for Poetry – Dangerous Goods
  • Marlon James – Award for Novel & Short Story – A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • Julie Klassen – Award for Genre Fiction – The Secret of Pembrooke Park
  • Nancy Koester – Award for General Nonfiction – Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
  • Margi Preus – Award for Young People’s Literature – West of the Moon
  • Kaethe Schwehn – Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction – Tailings: A Memoir
  • Joyce Sidman & Rick Allen – Award for Children’s Literature – Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
  • Lori Sturdevant – Minnesota – Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement

You can check out the MN Book Awards web page for more information on the winners, gala, and more!  You can also check out the MN Book Awards Facebook page to see photos from the gala.

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General, Public, School Media Specialist

YALSA’s 30 Days of Teen Programming

homepageiconYALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) is in the middle of its 30 Days of Teen Programming!  This celebration was designed to kick off the new Teen Programming Guidelines that YALSA hopes “will be a valuable tool for you…both as how-to guide and as an advocacy tool.”

Throughout the month on YALSAblog, you will see posts that relate to these ten guidelines.  One post follows two teen services librarians as they begin to partner with their local drop-in center for homeless youth.

These posts will continue through the month, so you can check them out now, later, or daily!

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

Best of the Best: Book Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

This week, we focus on the book apps:

Wonder of Life

 

Brian Cox’s Wonders of Life has 3D capabilities that engage the user as they learn about science and social studies.

A Day in the Market app icon

 

A Day in the Market teaches the user about other cultures and languages while they interact with the story’s main character!

Disney Animated

 

Disney Animated takes users behind the scenes of their favorite Disney movies!

War Horse Interactive

 

War Horse Interactive Edition pairs English and History, providing users with a richer understanding of the context of the novel.

Audubon Guides, Butterflies

 

Audubon Guides: Butterflies encourages its many users to interact with each other, and has great image quality.

More Best of the Best Apps: Social Science, STEM, Organization & Management, and Content Creation.