MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2016
This Week at TLT #ARCParty: End of Summer 2016 Bash – New #YALit Releases Middle School Monday: It’s Still Summer by Julie Stivers Book Review: The Bad Decisions Playlist by Michael Rubens #MHYALit: Please Let’s Stop Telling People with Mental Health Issues to Just X, Y or Z Video Games Weekly: Terraria WiiU TPiB: Sharpie […]
If you’re library is like mine, you probably have a lot of old, nonfunctional tech laying around that you are waiting to discard. Don’t discard it – use it! One of my favorite activities to do with teens is Tech Take Apart. It’s really as simple as it seems, you give the teens some tools […]
Recently, there have been discussions on various platforms regarding whether or not libraries should charge fines. I know that they discussed this recently on Storytime Underground. In fact, I sent this post to my mentor who is in an administrative position, which resulted in an interesting discussion. Let me start by saying that I have […]
TPiB: Sharpie Art! Quick and Easy Programming and MakerSpace Ideas
Makerspace, Teen Program in a Box, Teen Programming, Teen Programming in a Box, TPIB
|I’m not sure how it happened, but I am obsessed with Sharpies. They have proven to be very popular resources in our Teen MakerSpace. Yes, really. Whenever we have an activity in the Teen MakerSpace, we try to have corresponding books in the Teen MakerSpace. Sometimes we come up with an activity and search for […]
Last September, I reviewed Terraria for the PS4. I found the controls didn’t translate well to the PS4 from the PC, and suggested circulating collections may not want to buy a copy. Well, this month Terraria came out on the Wii U, and I wanted to give it another chance because the controls would be […]
Trigger Warning: Suicidal Thoughts Mentioned On Friday, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed when I saw a headline from Jezebel: Save Your Xanax and Watch Some Calming Ink Videos Instead. I suffer from a Generalized Anxiety Disorder and there are a few periods in my life where I have been prone to panic attacks. […]
Publisher’s description Sixteen-year-old Austin is always messing up and then joking his way out of tough spots. The sudden appearance of his allegedly dead father, who happens to be the very-much-alive rock star Shane Tyler, stops him cold. Austin—a talented musician himself—is sucked into his newfound father’s alluring music-biz orbit, pulling his true love, Josephine, […]
It’s Still Summer. I truly only planned on writing one post about summer, but this topic caused discussion amongst school librarians who reached out to me—and it also caused some lingering discussion inside my own head. I can’t let this topic go, yet. Mainly because last week’s post was incomplete. I realized it as I […]
Storify by TeenLibrarianToolbox Thu, Jul 21 2016 20:10:59 Edit #ARCParty for September 2016 #YALit Releases They decided they wanted to do September as well. With duck face apparently. #ARCParty TeenLibrarianToolbox · Mon, Jul 11 2016 19:46:48 Genetic engineering leaves “The Ones” with advantages, until the script is flipped TeenLibrarianToolbox · Mon, Jul 11 2016 […]
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