AARP NH Speakers Bureau Programs
Libraries Role in Making a Better World
Low Literacy Rates in the US and how improving them would improve our economy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/#124cfd3c4c90
Bitmoji Library – You can build one!
Librarians are joining the online learning environment and using a Bitmoji Library to share their online content in a fun visual way. Read more about it in SLJ: https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=virtual-libraries-bitmoji-classrooms-bring-new-kind-book-browsing-covid-19-coronavirus
My Bitmoji office (located at the top of my blog https://nhlibraries.org/youthservices) was fun and quick to create. I will be adding more to it in the near future. If you just need a quick stress reliever and are into cats, click on the orange cat for a video of some funny felines.
The Facebook page Bitmoji Craze for Educators was highly recommended
Choose Love Movement
Courage Toolkit access here
National Runaway Prevention Month – November
I wanted to share some resources for you to help support the youth in your community during National Runaway Prevention Month.
The National Runaway Safeline has some great resources, including:
-Free Educational and Outreach Materials:
-Presentations about the National Runaway Prevention Month for the community, social media posts and more. https://www.1800runaway.org/nrpm/
-Runaway Prevention Curriculum. “a free, evidence-based, interactive, 14 module curriculum intended to educate young people about alternatives to running away as well as to build life skills so that youth can resolve problems without resorting to running away or unsafe behavior.”
-They also have prevention specialists that will lead a virtual youth group discussion:
Also there is an excellent article on Webjunction: https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/serving-homeless-youth.html This is a great opportunity to network with social service agencies and homeless prevention programs.
Remember:
1 in 10 young adults (age 18 to 25) and 1 in 30 minors (age 13-17) experienced unaccompanied homelessness in a one-year period. This translates to approximately 3.5 million young adults and 700,000 minors (Morton et al, 2017)
Family Storytime Kits
For some inspiration in developing your own Family Storytime Kits–visit The Orland Park Public Library. They advertise them, “Missing Storytime at the Library? Now you can have Family Storytime from the comfort of your home with our new Family Storytime Kits. You can read, create, dance, and explore with these themed kits using links to ebooks, online music, crafts, and age-appropriate informational resources!”
Choose Your Own Adventure Read-Aloud Book Club
Free Storywalk and Home-Learning & Play Resources
Kirsten Cappy, Curious CIty works closely with educators and librarians to develop children’s book engagement tools. Curious CIty has teamed up with Child’s Play to create free storywalk sign files for libraries (and others) to display in their communities. The current free storywalk is Cat’s Colors by Airlie Anderson. Cat’s Colors Picture Book Play Activity Sheet.
Check out all the Home-Learning & Play Resources too!
Children’s Book Week – November 9-15, 2020
Children’s Book Week enjoys two dedicated weeks of celebration in 2020. To participate in the Fall 2020 celebration, Every Child a Reader has some new resources to help you connect kids with books and reading at home. Check out all the fun stuff HERE
Using Media Literacy to Combat Election Disinformation: Librarian Train-the-Trainer Workshop Resources
If you would like to catch up on past live workshops and panels that Pen America has presented to the public, view the recordings on their project page, Knowing the News.
How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation – PEN America
PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation
PEN America Reports:
Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for Truth
Truth on the Ballot: Fraudulent News, the Midterm Elections, and Prospects for 2020
Fact-checking resources:
Politifact.com by the Poynter Institute or Washington Post’s Factchecker both fact-check political content.
RevEye Reverse Image Search is a Chrome extension to perform an inverse image search.
FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centerand is non-partisan and monitors for political accuracy.
All Sides offers perspectives on topical news stories from the left, center, and from the right, plus a ‘media bias rating.’
Snopes.com has been around since 1994 and fact-checks internet content.
Duke Reporters’ Lab is a database of both national and global fact-checking resources.
NewsGuard Coronavirus Misinformation Tracker for COVID-19-specific tracking.
A short news article from Buzzfeed on the various hoaxes and misleading content surrounding the protests.
News Literacy Project’s How News Literate Are You? quiz