NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
Oct 7th, 2006 by Cathy Nelson
One of my blogs has been NOTICED!! Of course I am a user of bloglines.com and so I know there are a couple of subscribers to a few of my blogs, but they wish to remain anonymous…BUT I got some free advertising at the conference (EdTech) from one of the sessions!
On Friday, October 6th, at the EdTech Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC, a fellow media specialist (Mary Haddon of Dutch Fork Middle School)presented a session to many educators from across our GREAT state on the topic of blogging. She has a blog for her school library too. Be sure to visit it. She mentioned our school library blog (this one – “@ the Northside Library“) and let everyone know that we had three diffrent authors visit and post comments. You see, I had contacted them and told them about blogging about their books, which are on this years SC Book Award Nominee list. To help visitors find those posts Mary referenced, I am including the links below. Happy visiting! Feel free to comment!
Lee Waits, author of Seaward Born
Betty Birney, author of The World According to Humphrey
Pam Munoz Ryan, author of Becoming Naomi Leon
It was indeed very exciting to get responses from the authors. Initially I got a response from Lee Waits, with no proactive initiative of my own. She must have been googling her books, and found our blog, and posted. I was SO EXCITED. Then I just decided to find contact information for all the authors of the books I’d blogged, and see if they would visit and respond. Imagine the excitement of the kids when I showed them that the actual authors of the very books they were reading were posting to our blog. The blog thing has been an exciting activity for me and my students this year, and I am still learning all about it right along with my students.
