Share a Story - Shape a Future, A Blog Tour for Literacy (Updated: 1 Mar)
Voila! Share a Story - Shape a Future is just that event. This is an ensemble effort not only to celebrate reading among those of us who already love books, but to encourage each other to reach beyond ourselves and do it in a way that we are neither judging nor instructing others. This is a venue for communicating practical, useable, everyday ideas.
The event begins March 9, 2009 and lasts one week. Each day we will have a group of bloggers sharing ideas around a specific theme. There are a number of book giveaways and free downloads that will be announced by the various hosts as we get closer to the kickoff.
hosted by Terry Doherty at Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, the Reading Tub blog
- Finding Time at Home - Tricia Stohr-Hunt @ The Miss Rumphius Effect
- Making Time in the Classroom - Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- Helping a Reader in Need (remedial readers) - Sandra Stiles guest post on Scrub-a-Dub-Tub
- It's Bigger than the Book: Building Strong Readers at any Age with a Daily Dose of Read Aloud - Cathy Miller interview on the Share a Story - Shape a Future blog
- Keeping Gifted Readers Engaged - Donalyn Miller @ The Book Whisperer
hosted by Sarah Mulhern at The Reading Zone
- The ABCs of Reading: Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers - Valerie Baartz on The Almost Librarian
- How to Help Emerging Readers - Anastasia Suen @5 Great Books NEW LOCATION!
- Helping Middle Grade Readers - Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- Booklists and Read Alikes - Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- Using Non-fiction - Mary Lee Hahn of A Year of Reading, hosted by the Stenhouse blog
hosted by Susan Stephenson at the Book Chook blog
- Ten Terrific Tips from Read-aloud Queen, Mem Fox - on the Book Chook blog
- Conquering Stage Fright - Interview with Sarah Mulhern/The Reading Zone @ the Book Chook
- Reading Aloud With Kids: A Dad's Perspective - hosted by Steven and Brian at Book Dads: Fathers that Read
- Using Technology for Read Alouds - Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
- What to Do When the Reading is Done - Aimee Buckner, hosted by the Stenhouse blog
- Reading Aloud with Independent Readers - Donalyn Miller @ The Book Whisperer
hosted by Eva Mitnick at Eva's Book Addiction blog
- From Cozy to Cool - Library Spaces for Everyone - Eva @ Eva's Book Addiction
- Lions and Marble and Books, Oh My - Betsy Bird at A Fuse #8 Production
- How to Make the Library Work for YOU - an interview with Adrienne of What Adrienne Thinks About That conducted by Jules at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- The World Beyond the Library's Walls - Melissa @ Librarian by Day
- ABC Storytimes: Taking the Library Home - Pam Coughlan @ MotherReader
is hosted by Elizabeth O. Dulemba at Dulemba.com
- Audiobooks with Bruce Coville of Full Cast Audio and Mary Burkey of Audiobooker
- E-books with Harold Underdown of The Purple Crayon and Sheila Ruth of Wands and Worlds
- Podcasts with Andrea Ross of Just One More Book! and Cheryl Rainfield of cherylrainfield.com
- A resource of links to audiobooks, e-books, podcasts and webcasts @ Dulemba.com.
In the meantime, we'd love for you to start spreading the word.
Huge thank yous to Elizabeth O. Dulemba and Susan Stephenson for creating images we can use to promote Share a Story - Shape a Future!
18 comments:
I'm so excited about all the possibilities for my own learning during Share a Story week.
Hi! This is Melissa from Librarian by Day. I'm really excited to be participating in this event--I think it's going to be a great experience for everyone, both bloggers and readers!
I do have one tiny request: you have my blog address wrong. I'm at http://librarianbyday.blogspot.com, not at WordPress. Could you please fix this? Thank you!!!
Should we have a Facebook page for this event?
I can probably set that up.
Thanks Susan - I think I'm losing my voice with all the *squee-ing*.
No problem Melissa, I think I have them all fixed.
Steven - That would be fabulous. I created group, but have NO idea about how to create a page.
I don't know if a page, group or cause was most appropriate, but I created a page on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Share-a-Story-Shape-a-Future-A-Blog-Tour-for-Literacy/131699340646
The group is a much better idea than the page, now that I look at it. So I deleted it.
What a terrific idea, folks -- even just the schedule is exciting, so I can't wait to see that actual posts!
This looks great! Can't wait to see all the posts.
This is going to be a wonderful event, I know it - and I hope it becomes annual, if not even more regular than that! :)
Please email me and let me know if you have an official press release I may post or if I should simply cut and paste your post. Let me know! :)
Thanks for all the good Karma y'all! Like you, I am very excited to see the posts.
Little Willow - Thanks to the never-ending generosity of the Kidlitosphere, we have a press release AND a flier in our news section, but feel free to post. Funny you should mention annual ... the thought has crossed our minds!
I'm really excited about this, I will be posting reminders on my forums (mostly moms) each day of the various posts on offer. Thanks so much!
How do we know about the times for each event each day?
I can't wait for all these! I am spreading the word in my blog! Thanks for this incredible idea!
For those of us that found out about this throught the blogosphere, are we able to comment or simply enjoy the ride?
OOPS, I really posted the previous question. My wife had logged in on my computer.
Wow! This is a fantastic schedule! Looking forward to following along.
Anonymous - Most of the hosts are launching their welcome post in the wee hours of the morning, so they'll be ready when you grab that first cup of coffee. I come back regularly to add links as posts go live
Kim and Randy - please jump in whenever you like. We'd love comments, and as you can see, we have a "more great posts" list for anyone who writes a post related to the day. We're happy to link to those.
Vivian - Thank you! It has been a great week (so far)!
What a fantastic idea! Being new to the kidlitosphere myself I obviously have a lot to learn and I understand I am a little late to the party, but I will do my best to catch up. Thanks for all these wonderful links. I have a lot of reading to do ahead of me...
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