QR Code: Learn about me
NetGalley Advocate
NetGalley Badge
Tech News from the Assoc. for Computing Machinery- How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition
- Bots Hyped GameStop on Major Social Media Platforms, Analysis Finds
- AI Predicts if Storms Will Cause Blackouts Many Days in Advance
- Drones Join Fight to Save New Zealand's Rarest Dolphin
- Bioinformatics Tool Accurately Tracks Synthetic DNA
- My Pinterest Food board (http://pinterest.com/kellibkelli/)
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Search Research
- SearchResearch Challenge (2/24/21): When did which colors signal gender?As endless gender recent reveal parties have shown us... ... these days, in the US at least, the colors of pink and blue have commonly-agreed upon gender meanings. Pink means female, blue means male. But as a friend asked recently, why? Or, as a way to figure out the why perhaps we can think about it this way: when did pink come to mean female and blue c […]
- Answer: Two difficult to find objects? That was fun! Last week I posed two Challenges, both of which I thought were fairly tough--but the SRS Regular Readers found it fairly straightforward. Kudos to you! (At the end I'll come back to why I found this difficult, and why I think you found them straightforward.) Here are the Challenges from last week: 1. In my reading I keep seeing refer […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (2/10/21): Two difficult to find objects?Every so often... ... in my work I'll search for something that takes a while to find. I save these for you! Here are two objects that I had to work a bit to find. In the process, I learned something about searching that I thought you'd enjoy. Can you find these as well? 1. In my reading I keep seeing references to a compilation of short stori […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (2/24/21): When did which colors signal gender?
Goodreads
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Making it on the 4th Floor | Chattanooga Public Library
Want to get really excited about ‘Maker Spaces’ in libraries? Read about what the Chattanooga Public Library has done with heretofore storage space. I can’t wait to implement some of their ideas into my next job.Not as large in scope, … Continue reading
K-12 Resource Guide: Resources by Content Area
K-12 Resource Guide: Resources by Content Area. Awesome resource list provided by UW Educational Outreach for those working with youth (children & teens) in the Puget Sound region.
What is Connected Learning?
What is Connected Learning | Connected Learning. I was fortunate enough to attend a CAYAS training (CAYAS is WA state’s youth services special interest group) on “Connected Training on Nov 1st. Although Connected Learning is applicable to all ages, the … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Learning, Information Science
Tagged CAYAS, learning methods, library services, teens
Leave a comment
New Literary NF Teen Book: “Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment”
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment by Carla Killough McClafferty; published Sept 1, 2013; 9781467710671. From this book’s very first account – in 1897 – of the death of University of Georgia college sophomore and defensive lineman,Von Gammon,this book shows how … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Non-fiction
Leave a comment
Random House acquires Teen Author site, “Figment”
A while ago, on my library’s Teen Blog, I posted an article about “Figment”, a website community of over 300,000 of authors, most between the ages of 13-18, passionate about creating, discovering, and sharing stories. How cool is it that there … Continue reading
Posted in Online Resources, Organizations
Tagged authors, online communities, teen authors
Leave a comment
October = Teen Read Month
I love that YALSA devotes an entire month to Teen Reading – it offers a great opportunity for going to schools and discussing book titles as well as some great homework help services offered by libraries (like Brainfuse’s daily one-on-one … Continue reading
