Reflecting on the blogging process. Half of your grade for Assignment 2 will be based on the 1000-word reflection that you write in relation to your blogging experience.

Ideas for Teaching the Hunger Games. Enter Marjun Ghara, the creator of a website called. How did the developer start. Who might use it? This community is best suited to the under 13 year age group. It is a great way to help students fall in love with reading.

Popular Culture Resources for Teacher Librarians. What has the public library ever done for teens? October 12, 2013. A look at what public libraries can offer to teenagers. For those of you who are fans of Monty Python. As public libraries aim to service all members of our community, it would be great to see a little more specialisation for this group .

Youth, Popular Culture and Texts. Using Popular Culture in the Classroom. The following video shows how popular culture can be used to engage students in understanding the use of literary devices within texts. E-readers in the School Library.

CLN647 Youth, Popular Culture and Texts Assignment 2. Popular Culure in the Classroom. By keeping the unit current it was allowing the teachers to keep up to date with what the students enjoyed and with the invention of the iPads it had made this unit highly engaging with the students as well. This teacher in particular was also the technology teacher and knew his way around the current technology. Is popular culture cyclic? .

This is a great TED talk about how authors are using Twitter as a new way to create stories. I thought this idea could be easily used in the classroom, either for individuals or in small groups. I loved the idea of creating a bunch of Twitter accounts to tell the story from the perspective of different people. Does popular equal bad? October 20, 2013. For more reading on what is really popular at the moment s.