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From: Tessa Michaelson <tmichaelson>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0500
July is officially under way with the holiday weekend behind us. To begin our blog talk, I reviewed some of blogs I frequent to get the latest opinions and bits of news. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the blog of YA author Sara Zarr <http://www.sarazarr.com/> was "on vacation." Blogs seemingly have a life of their own, a form of virtual expostulation or cyber coffee klatch. (For those new to the blogging community, a definition of a blog is provided below.) The blogs I tend to read offer me an opportunity to find out what other people in the world of children's and young adult literature are up to. Checking in on Roger Sutton's <http://www.hbook.com/blog/> blog for the Horn Book, I got his take on the recent American Library Association's annual conference (which I also attended). I also enjoying reading the blogs of authors I like (eg. Scott Westerfield's westerblog
<http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/>) or ones I'm curious about (eg. Siobhan Vivian <http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/>). As a former school librarian, blogs were a useful format to explore in book groups. Students often found it to be an engaging assignment to read the comments left on a blog and then compose their own comments or counter-arguments (on or offline). Creating a book group blog was also a successful project and a format that inspired some students to write and reflect in a new way.
What's your opinion on blogs? I'm eager to hear about new blogs to read as well as how often readers frequent various blogs.
Tessa
Definition for /blog/ from Merriam Webster online dictionary: Pronunciation: \?blo?g, ?bl?g\ Function:/ noun/ Etymology: short for /Weblog/ Date: 1999
*:* a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer;
/also/ *:* the contents of such a site
? blog?ger /noun/
? blog?ging /noun/
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0500
July is officially under way with the holiday weekend behind us. To begin our blog talk, I reviewed some of blogs I frequent to get the latest opinions and bits of news. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the blog of YA author Sara Zarr <http://www.sarazarr.com/> was "on vacation." Blogs seemingly have a life of their own, a form of virtual expostulation or cyber coffee klatch. (For those new to the blogging community, a definition of a blog is provided below.) The blogs I tend to read offer me an opportunity to find out what other people in the world of children's and young adult literature are up to. Checking in on Roger Sutton's <http://www.hbook.com/blog/> blog for the Horn Book, I got his take on the recent American Library Association's annual conference (which I also attended). I also enjoying reading the blogs of authors I like (eg. Scott Westerfield's westerblog
<http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/>) or ones I'm curious about (eg. Siobhan Vivian <http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/>). As a former school librarian, blogs were a useful format to explore in book groups. Students often found it to be an engaging assignment to read the comments left on a blog and then compose their own comments or counter-arguments (on or offline). Creating a book group blog was also a successful project and a format that inspired some students to write and reflect in a new way.
What's your opinion on blogs? I'm eager to hear about new blogs to read as well as how often readers frequent various blogs.
Tessa
Definition for /blog/ from Merriam Webster online dictionary: Pronunciation: \?blo?g, ?bl?g\ Function:/ noun/ Etymology: short for /Weblog/ Date: 1999
*:* a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer;
/also/ *:* the contents of such a site
? blog?ger /noun/
? blog?ging /noun/
-- 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 Podcast: 712-318-9988 FAX: 608-262-4933 tmichaelson at education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/podcasts/podcasts.aspReceived on Mon 07 Jul 2008 10:00:00 AM CDT
