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From: Tessa Michaelson <tmichaelson>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:17:38 -0500
I listen to audio books regularly, both for travel entertainment as well as a pleasing way to "read" a book.
One of my favorite audio books is /Feed /by M. T. Anderson, produced by Listening Library. The narrator sounds both cool and compelling--the perfect voice for teenage Titus. I also appreciate the short "feed" productions with different voices and sound effects. The first time one of these commercials came on, I thought my car stereo switched from CD to the radio! These advertisements (shown in italics in the text) truly make the concepts in /Feed /come to life.
When I was a school librarian and used this book for a literature group, I played the first few tracks of the audio book for my students before we started the assigned reading. For a book that seemed too sci-fi for some, hearing the book drew them in and gave them a comfortable place to being reading on their own. As a project for the literature group, some students wrote and recorded their own "feed" advertisements in the same vein as the audio examples.
As a closing thought, I find it fascinating how quickly we are approaching the futuristic uses of technology presented in this book. Suddenly, having "feeds" is a reality of sorts....
Tessa Michaelson
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:17:38 -0500
I listen to audio books regularly, both for travel entertainment as well as a pleasing way to "read" a book.
One of my favorite audio books is /Feed /by M. T. Anderson, produced by Listening Library. The narrator sounds both cool and compelling--the perfect voice for teenage Titus. I also appreciate the short "feed" productions with different voices and sound effects. The first time one of these commercials came on, I thought my car stereo switched from CD to the radio! These advertisements (shown in italics in the text) truly make the concepts in /Feed /come to life.
When I was a school librarian and used this book for a literature group, I played the first few tracks of the audio book for my students before we started the assigned reading. For a book that seemed too sci-fi for some, hearing the book drew them in and gave them a comfortable place to being reading on their own. As a project for the literature group, some students wrote and recorded their own "feed" advertisements in the same vein as the audio examples.
As a closing thought, I find it fascinating how quickly we are approaching the futuristic uses of technology presented in this book. Suddenly, having "feeds" is a reality of sorts....
Tessa Michaelson
-- Tessa Michaelson, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-890-1332 FAX: 608-262-4933 tmichaelson at education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/Received on Mon 10 Mar 2008 11:17:38 AM CDT
