Apps and Kids at Your Library Presentation

I can't get the embed feature to work, so here is the link to this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/MissHayleyMac/apps-and-kids-at-your-library-for-slideshare?utm_source=slideshow02&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=iupload_share_slideshow

New Book Look Ppt

KSU Book Look 2012 from Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County

Cicada Outreach Program

Waddaleeatcha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4W2My5dVE&list=UUzw0eB9H2fJqn-rI7Id-iQg&index=2&feature=plcp

Waddaleeatcha Slap knees twice, clap twice
Waddaleeatcha Double scissor cross hands left over right, right over left
Doodleydoo Right hand touches right shoulder, nose, lands on left shoulder
Doodleydoo Left hand touches left shoulder, nose, lands on right shoulder
(Repeat)

Simplest song there isn't much to it
All ya gotta do is doodley doo it
I like the rest but the part I like the best goes
Doodley doodley doo
Quack! Quack!

Draw and Tell: "Cicada" using Singing Fingers App
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYA7N-vdZA

Listened to different Cicadas songs from The Songs of Insects by Lang Elliott; Wil Hershberger

Showed some pictures and highlighted facts from Cicadas!: Strange and Wonderful by Mr. Laurence Pringle and Meryl Henderson

Insect Parts 1 (http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/bugs.html)
(tune: Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes)
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs
And eyes and ears and antennae
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs

Point to the appropriate parts on your body for each of the insect parts. Put up index fingers and waggle them for antenna, and put three fingers out on each side for 6 legs!!

Showed a dead Cicada that I had found on my porch!  (The inspiration for the program!!!)

Transliteracy Programming

So that "multimedia tween program involving conversation, music, video, print, and games" idea actually has a name ... "TRANSLITERACY" programming.  It is reminiscent of the "multi-genre" English education model and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

Here are some resources:

Transliteracy Interest Group (LITA - Library & Information Technology Association).

Introducing Transliteracy: What Does It Mean to Academic Libraries? by Tom Ipri

Andretta, S. Transliteracy: take a walk on the wild side, 2009. In World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly,Milan, Italy,23-27 August 2009.IFLA. (Published) [Conference Paper].

Digital storytelling: creator's guide to interactive entertainment  By Carolyn Handler Miller

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/transliterate-libraries-creating-conversations-for-portable-participatory-and-personalized-learning/

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/ala-11-presentation-transforming-information-literacy-for-todays-students-libraries-as-sponsors-of-transliteracy/

http://librarianbyday.net/transliteracy/

http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/

transliteracy.com or http://nlabnetworks.typepad.com/transliteracy/

Emotional - Social Learning

"The goal for parenting should not be achieving a brittle "positive" psychology -- clinging to a state of perpetual joy in one's children -- but rather teaching a child how to return on her own to a state of contentment, whatever may happen."
-- from Daniel Goleman's Social Intelligence (183)

American Sign Language and Libraries

While at the Ontario Library Super Conference in January of 2008, I went to a session that suggested introducing American Sign Language (ASL) to young, hearing children, even during library programs.

Here are some notes:

Use ASL ...
1) with the youngest child to reduce frustration due to lack of speech and correspondingly develop the child's confidence (narrative skills)
2) to promote parent-child bonding (print motivation)
3) to increase spelling and reading comprehension. You are sharing language before the child can speak and are occasionally spelling out words. (letter knowledge, vocabulary)

(Correlation to Every Child Ready to Read's early literacy skills.)

Refer to the research of Dr. Marilyn Daniels that found that ASL helps create more brain synapses and uses both sides of the brain.

ASL also addresses different learning styles or multiple intelligences:
physical - move fingers, hands, arms
visual - see signs
verbal - eventually, say words with signs
music - add fingerplays
math - the pattern of a sign and finger space
interpersonal - sharing signs with others
intrapersonal - thinking of choice of signs/words to share

Here is the presenter's website, and here is her presentation ("Benefits of Sign Language for Children") powerpoint and resource lists.
Here is a recommended website on infant signing.

The presenter recommended that librarians can begin to include ASL in library programming by presenting one sign per page of a story or verse of a song. She also reminded the audience of the quote:

"If you tell me, I will forget. If you show me, I may remember. If you involve me, I will learn."