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No Fighting in the Library!

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Scratch & WeDo at Tinker Group

(originally posted on the Tinker Group website) Thanks again to everyone who attended the April 9th meeting in the Schaumburg Library Teen Room. The response and enthusiasm from everyone was amazing!...

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Jay Asher Interview

We had an amazing author visit with Jay Asher (13 Reasons Why and The Future of Us). He did several great presentations at local schools and at the library–and I got to record an interview with him for...

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Summer Reading Videos!

I had a lot of fun making this promotional video for our Summer Reading Club. The footage is from Internet Archive–a bicycle safety clip and a family vacation clip. Yes, the voice-over is me doing my...

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Caldecott Green Screen Fun

For the Caldecott Exhibit Celebration we set up a green screen and I got to zap patrons into their favorite books!–see the full set here.

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Primary Time+ Part Two on Little eLit

This is a re-blog of a post that appeared on Little eLit: Primary Time+ is a weekday evening storytime for K-1 kids with caregivers offered once a month (except in the summer). We present a variety of...

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ALA2013 Makerspaces presentation

(updated 8-20-13) Here are the slides from the panel presentation I participated in this morning at ALA: I was really blown away by the amazing stuff that my co-presenters are doing! (I’m glad I got to...

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Rubber Band Race Car

I got to do a bunch of fun programs this summer, but haven’t had time to post about them–so here goes a fast series of summer program recaps… I’m proud to say that this rubber band race car is my own...

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Light Painting

This was one of my favorite programs I got to do this summer–it was extremely easy in terms of set up, and it was amazingly awesome and fun. Besides being a perfect blend of physical and digital fun,...

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John Muir’s Birds

I was reading on the train home recently: John Muir‘s The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. It’s a fabulous book, hilarious at times, deeply thoughtful, and beautifully, beautifully written. (John Muir is...

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