Awhile back, my friend Matthew Winner, a school librarian in Maryland (better known as THE BUSY LIBRARIAN) asked me to be on his Let's Get Busy podcast. Matthew and I met on Twitter, and most recently in real life at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in 2015. Matthew was the keynote speaker at TLA's awesome Tech Camp 2015.
We like to talk about books! And libraries!
And we've connected our students via Skype for events such as Dot Day 2014.
So when it came time to record the podcast, I said yes!
And then I realized that I don't really like the sound of my own voice.
But I did the podcast anyway. And, I had a lovely time! We talked about some of the kidlit standouts of 2015 because there wasn't enough time to talk about all of them. As we talked, my appreciation for these books grew even more.
In this 40-minute podcast, I proved something to myself about what I can do! And hopefully, I will do something like this again. I know I did a lot of critical thinking as I spoke, and I even made myself go back and reread some parts of the books AFTER the recording. Why? I think it was because I was processing the book in a different way, and asking and answering my own questions.
If you'd like to listen to the podcast, click here to go to Matthew's Let's Get Busy Blog. Go to Best Books Ever to listen to our book discussion.
And - of course - be sure to get copies of all of these books at your local library!
So when it came time to record the podcast, I said yes!
And then I realized that I don't really like the sound of my own voice.
But I did the podcast anyway. And, I had a lovely time! We talked about some of the kidlit standouts of 2015 because there wasn't enough time to talk about all of them. As we talked, my appreciation for these books grew even more.
In this 40-minute podcast, I proved something to myself about what I can do! And hopefully, I will do something like this again. I know I did a lot of critical thinking as I spoke, and I even made myself go back and reread some parts of the books AFTER the recording. Why? I think it was because I was processing the book in a different way, and asking and answering my own questions.
If you'd like to listen to the podcast, click here to go to Matthew's Let's Get Busy Blog. Go to Best Books Ever to listen to our book discussion.
And - of course - be sure to get copies of all of these books at your local library!