Revisiting Judy Blume

from martin kalfatovic's flickr stream. Click here for the original.

A couple nights ago, I woke up all sorts of ideas streaming out of my head...one of those ideas was reading as many Judy Blume books as I could (I have a 12 book stack piled next to me on the reference desk right now) and then just reminisce about when I first discovered her books and what I thought of them then (hopefully I can remember) and what I think of them now.

Honestly, I started with books by Beverly Cleary (who I will revisit next) and then moved on to Judy Blume. But since my waking mind started with Judy Blume, I will start my project there. Who were your favorite authors as a wee-kid? Do you ever re-read those books just to remember and recall your younger years? or do you re-read them to introduce them to the next generation in your family?

Celebrating Earth Day

In celebration of Earth Day and to remind students to print only what they need, I was given the task of creating a short video. I took a couple of days and with some starts and stops (my work computer would freeze on me, causing me to scream in frustration). I am pretty happy with what I made. It is only about 45 seconds. Just enough to keep their attention right?

I used still images and 2 programs. I started with MS Movie Maker but then I wanted to add motion to one of the pictures and it would not let me. I then made a mini-motion movie of that one image using MS PhotoStory, which I then imported into movie maker and dropped into the timeline.

The story behind the video is that 1 - Cambria Gordon visited and 2- students tend to leave multiple copies and reams and reams of printouts. This is just our friendly reminder. I hope you like it and I hope I don't get in trouble for using about 30 seconds of Jack Johnson's song "The 3 R's." Eeek.

Here you go: