[Scla-list] StoryTubes Contest Jan 20-Feb 28

[Curtis Rogers]

 StoryTubes 2010 is Around the Corner 

Make plans to build reading energy!

Begin energizing brains and camera batteries as Storytubes 2010 is
scheduled to start in January 2010.
 
Entries for the third annual contest will be accepted for the public
library sponsored "two-minute or shorter" my favorite book online
contest on January 20.  The contest is open to all, with prize awards
available to young people entering kindergarten through high school (K -
12).  
 
Storytubes won the PLA Polaris Innovation in Technology John Iliff Award
in 2009.   Alan Harkness, Director of the Piedmont Regional Library
System, chaired the PLA award jury.  He said that the StoryTubes project
was chosen for the prize because it "captured the essence of using
technology in an innovative way to tie back into a core business
function of public libraries:  sharing the joy of reading."  
 
"The StoryTubes project gave local kids a means to use technology they
were interested in to talk about stories.  The way that this project
brought the community together to vote on the videos the children made
was quite original and easily replicated in libraries everywhere." 
 
Project participants have more than doubled across the nation each year
as more young people and educators are discovering the creative magic of
matching kids' love of reading with their interest in technology.
 
Please visit www.storytubes.info
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102840793913&s=0&e=001zwH9v9xZBid8dTRSjElqdZf
5WLH3SuJjW9kZhwdDKop6AuXGGGMiQAgWO2FFXrbqMvXztoEabAikA1XIBct9HKQ5fTy0XXA
T4lxZBPf0N5hDD_QVIHceRw==>  for more information about the contest and
to watch educators talk about how Storytubes has positively impacted
education in the classroom.

 

For more info contact:

Bill Corder

Spangler Library - Children's Librarian

ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center

300 E 7th Street

Charlotte, NC 28202

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System

 (704) 416.4632

wcorder at cml.org <mailto:wcorder at cml.org> 

 

 

 

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Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D.

Communications Director

South Carolina State Library <http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/> 

POB 11469, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211

ph:803-734-8928 fax:803-734-8676

 

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needs you as an active member in 2010! Click on  
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