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Come see Joyce Carol Oates with CMLE!

CMLE members, we are so excited about this event! We hope you can join us on Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 7pm to attend “An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates” at St. Ben’s!

We’re getting together a group of members to attend the event together because library people at an author event is a guaranteed great time!

In fact, we even have THREE EXTRA TICKETS to give to the first three members that RSVP! We’ll be sitting together and are looking forward to a great evening. (RSVP at the bottom of this post).

Get more information and purchase your own tickets from the St. Ben’s website:

“Joyce Carol Oates is the author of multiple best-selling novels and critically-acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, and a memoir.  Writing in The Nation, critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, “A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America.”

She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  In 2010, President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal.”

We hope you can join us at this event! RSVP below:

Interested in a free ticket?

Check out the CIRCL Educators’ Book Club!

This sounds just great! We love books, and encourage people to participate in book groups – it makes finding good books so much easier.

Their first book is Coding as a Playground by Marina Umaschi Bers.

Coding as a Playground by Marina Umaschi Bers is the first book to focus on how young children (ages 7 and under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer programmers, a process that can increase both their cognitive and social-emotional skills. Readers will learn how coding can engage children as producers-and not merely consumers of technology in a playful way.

You will come away from this groundbreaking work with an understanding of how coding promotes developmentally appropriate experiences such as problem-solving, imagination, cognitive challenges, social interactions, motor skills, development, emotional exploration, and making different choices. You will also learn how to integrate coding into different curricular areas to promote literacy, math, science, engineering, and the arts through a project-based approach.”

Check out this excerpt from their blog:

Get ready for the
CIRCL Educators’ Book Club!

“CIRCL Educators’ Blog is written by a small group of educators from across the nation who collaborate and think together about issues related to learning and technology. We share research, resources, and best practices. We have so much fun as we learn together that we decided we should open up the space and see who else would like to participate in the learning fun.

Our goal is to discuss a few books as a book club in 2019. Our first book will be Coding as a Playground, inspired by the Infosys Pathfinders Institute. The book club will start on 1/13/12019. To discuss our first book, we will use Flipgrid. Flipgrid is a video discussion platform that is used in classrooms and universities. If you haven’t used Flipgrid, we’ll help! It’s a platform used by a lot of teachers in their classrooms and most find it pretty easy to use. When you visit the CIRCL Educators’ bookclub site on January 13th, you will be able to click a green “+” to add a Flipgrid response. After you click the green “+” you will be prompted to share your reflection. Flipgrid will walk you through how to make your response post. There is no password or code needed!

We will also use Twitter to discuss conversations! Follow our Twitter account @CIRCLEducators and use the hashtag #circledu to share your thoughts!”

Coming in February: Teen Writing Workshop!

If you work in a school library or with teens, you should definitely know about this event! It sounds like a great workshop and they do offer scholarships for those unable to pay. Also, they are available to conduct in-person workshops at your school! Read on for more information: 

Teen Novel Writing Workshop to take place Feb. 23 & 24, 2019 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins

Know a teen who loves to write and dreams of one day becoming a published author? If so, here’s a workshop he or she may want to attend: “Novel Writing for Teens,” led by Sigma’s Bookshelf co-founder Rachel M. Anderson.

Sigma’s Bookshelf, based in Minnetonka, MN, is believed to be the first and only free book publishing company exclusively for teen writers. Check out their 12 published titles at www.sigmasbookshelf.com/books. The company is grant supported and all services are 100% free for teens whose books are selected for publication. Authors are also paid royalties for books that sell online, at stores, and at events.

The next scheduled two day workshop takes place on Sat., and Sun., Feb. 23 and 24, 2019, at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Thanks to a grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council (MRAC), cost is just $50 per student, and scholarships are available upon request.

More information can be found at the bottom of the front page of www.SigmasBookshelf.com  or at EventBrite.

Note: Rachel is also available to lead an in-person workshop at your school. Send her an email if this is of interest.”

Rachel M. Anderson

Co-founder
SIGMA’S BOOKSHELF
952-240-2513

 

Join CMLE for dinner at Old Chicago!

Let’s get together! (See photo above as evidence of past enjoyment at CMLE dinner events!)

Join CMLE and other library people at 5:30 pm on Monday, Feb 11th at Old Chicago in St. Cloud. We’ll have dinner and chat about all things libraries. What does that mean? Maybe you just pulled off an exciting program or had a big problem you were able to solve. Maybe you’re looking ahead to a project you’re putting together for the spring. Or maybe you just want to hear about what it’s like working in a library setting that is different from yours!

We’ll do all those things! It’s always fun and useful to chat with others in the library community, to share tips or ideas or to commiserate about problems.

So we hope you can join us! Please RSVP below, we really hope you can make it!

 

High School Reading Challenge

New year, new reading challenge!

CMLE has set up a High School Reading Challenge for you to share with your high school students! On Goodreads, we have set up a challenge to read ten books (one for each month of the school year, and a bonus book). You can share this with your high school students, encouraging people to read for the fun of it or have a contest in your library to encourage the idea of competition. Feel free to give away little prizes for people who finish all ten, or giveaways for people who finish each of the ten categories!

You can use our flyer What are You reading__ CMLE High School reading challenge, or design one of your own to promote it.

Reading!

Books!

Having library fun!!

These are all good things!!!

One of your basic tasks is to promote reading, and the fun (or value) of reading books you enjoy. This is a chance for people to try out some books they will have fun reading, or books that they can try reading for their classes, or that will be useful to something they want to learn or to try.

Let’s go read!!!