The Daring Librarian

I've been sharing my love for this one stop shop of graphic design goodness for five years now, you'd think they would put me on the payroll or at least fly me to New York, pick me up in a limo, and set me up in the Four Seasons - you know - a just for a casual office visit!  But, nahhh I just got some stickers & T-shirts to give away at conferences.  But hey, that's OK...because I love them anyway! Now they have amped up their Mobile App - check it out!   (**see my sponsorship & street cred pledge to you at the bottom)  The PicMonkey App - For iPhone & Android. Get Graphic! PicMonkey is a free website & App that does wonders with your digital photos in an easy peasy click it and save it kinda way.  PicMonkey is free but yes, I enjoy the Royale upgrade - and now it's better than ever! The graphic at the very top was done on the web version of the site and this one was done just on my phone. In this post I'm going to give a...

Hello Book Lovahs! I want to share with you a favorite book selection activity that the kids dig, is super silly and fun, creates a lot of excitement, and makes the books fly out of the library! I first blogged about this with you back in 2013 , added a genre twist last year in 2016, and now I've added a video and a few new tweaks.  My kids love this lesson so much they even ask me in the hallway, “When are we going to do that again?” - so next year I'm going to try and run it both in the fall and in the spring. With my middle school kids this activity is guaranteed to make them grin, giggle, and cringe a little...ok, a LOT. Give yourself permission to really ham it up. Because prepare yourselves, book lovahs, this is super cheezy!   All the resources, printables, graphics, and videos are FREE for you to take, use, & share because they're made using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.   ...