Why I Picked It Up: A lot of my “reading” is done via audiobook. I’m a multi-tasker and I like to have something to listen to when I’m doing housework or driving somewhere. Lately, I’ve been working through the 2014 Lone Star Reading List, and this was the first one I found that was available for […]
App Smash: Biography
When we say “biography,” often images of social studies classes come to mind, but there are people to learn about in all of our subjects! Biographies are also not limited to real people – this app smash applies to fictional characters very nicely as well. Whether real or fictional, people’s lives are often hard to capture […]
Teachers Rock.
Dear Teachers, For all the acronyms you deal with on a daily basis… For all the hours you put in on Pinterest searching for that perfect anchor chart… For all the early mornings and late nights grading and preparing for your students… For all the parent phone calls and conferences you’ve worded just right… For […]
Book Review: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Why I picked it up: The title. That’s all there is to it. This title called out to me like the aroma of freshly baked cookies – I HAD to have it. I love the lilting melody of the words in this title, and as a librarian, the idea of flying books was intriguing. Somewhere […]
App Smash: Vocabulary
Today’s app smash recipe is a variation on vocabulary. There are LOTS of different ways to do it, but this is one recipe I particularly like. As with any recipe, you can switch out ingredients depending on what you have and what you like. These recipes aren’t meant to be an extensive how-to manual for […]
App-Smashing
App smashing is a fancy term for something that many of you may already have been doing, but didn’t know it had a name. If you’ve ever taken a picture of something and used that picture to create something in another app, you’ve “app smashed” on a very basic level. Rarely, even with the […]
