Library Talk by Mrs. Vasquez

Facebook Pages: https://www.facebook.com/FalconReadersSoar/ Kirby Middle School Library in Judson ISD. The librarian uses this page to post activities that the students are participating in the library, and display boards. There were no comments on any of the post. https://www.facebook.com/Crockett-High-School-Library-395906023920920/ Crockett Highschool Library located in Austin, Texas. The librarian uses this page to post promoting author visits to the library like “Award winning YA author David and his new book, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik.” The page also includes photos of the library, promoton of events such as national poetry month. This page did not have many comments, but did have likes.   https://www.facebook.com/RayburnLibrary/ Rayburn Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. This page post videos promoting books turned into movies with catchy hashtags like #thebookwasbetter and #butthemoviewasadorbs. The page also includes links to video on ...

After viewing a few feed readers I narrowed it down to three. I download the apps to my phone in order to test them out for a few days. Feedly, NewsBlur and Panda were the three I analyzed closely. Ultimately, I chose the RSS reader Feedly. Feedly is very friendly user, I enjoyed that it was simple and easy to use. The app shows the most current articles and blogs that I chose to follow and to view the next blog or article, you only need to swipe or scroll up. NewsBlur is a great RSS feeder but lacked the simplicity as Feedly offered. Panda allows users to customize the way they view content, which is a wonderful feature but the app was not very appealing as the Feedly app. Panda only had two columns that features popular and latest articles but I had a hard time trying to figure out how to add my own blogs and articles. The blogs I chose to follow include: 1.        https://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/ -        ...