2007-2008 Projects
BANNED in the Bookhenge: Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, and Young Adult Literature
Young adult literature (YAL) as a genre pushes the boundaries and questions authority as much its namesake. On March 31, 2008, Frances Bradburn aka Reid Nitely, Chair of the American Library Association's first Printz Committee and a powerful advocate for YAL, met with us in Second Life to discuss how to best negotiate the tough issues in YAL surrounding intellectual freedom and censorship.
Here's an archive of the event www.bookosphere.net/banned
Poetry 2.0 Series Continues with Poetry Out Loud Web Workshop
Poetry 2.0 is a new version of poetry that is technology-powered so we can see it, hear it, and interact with it live on the Web.Our second Poetry 2.0 live webcast on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, was devoted to the performance of poetry. State Poet Laureate Kay Byer and well-known poet Michael Beadle explored the performance of poetry with high school students from Kevin Norris's class at Cherokee High School and Julie Osmon's class at Manteo High School. This program was designed to be helpful for all students interested in poetry, particularly those preparing for the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest.
This live, interactive online workshop for high school students and teachers is brought to you by the North Carolina Arts Council and the NC Department of Public Instruction.
Watch the Poetry Out Loud Web Workshop! (Nov. 20, 2007)
And don't miss the Poetry Out Loud wiki that Kay Byer has begun to share the poet's perspective as well as resources for promoting and teaching students to perform poetry.
Watch the first Poetry 2.0 Web Workshop! (April 18, 2007)
Our first Poetry 2.0 event for high school students and teachers was a poetry-writing workshop with our State Poet Laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer held on April 18th.
Kay worked with three high school English classes across the state -- Mountains, Piedmont, and Coast -- via the magic of videoconferencing, and other students and teachers were invited to watch the live web cast and interact via the Instant Message Board.
The three studio classes were from Cherokee Central High School, Cherokee (Jamie Lightfoot Underwood, Teacher), Penn-Griffin School of the Arts, High Point (John York, Teacher) and Manteo High School Manteo, Manteo (Julie Osmon, Teacher).
This live, interactive online workshop for high school students and teachers is brought to you by the North Carolina Arts Council and the NC Department of Public Instruction.
Each year we choose a well-known author to read, study, and then meet with in a live event. Past authors have included Lois Lowry, John Marsden, and Rick Riordan. Lowry joined us via videoconferencing from Boston, Marsden by phone from the Australian Bush, and Riordan was right in in Raleigh. This year we were thrilled that our author, John Green aka Seymour Sideways, who won the Printz Award 2006 first time through the gate with Looking for Alaska and then won an honor award for An Abundance of Katherines, was game to try something totally revolutionary -- meeting with adult fans in Second Life while teen fans participated via Internet Radio and chat. Here's the archived program. Watch the 2007 Percy's Project Celebration Podcast!
See the HP-TV (Hephaestus TV) Production Team!Ever feel a little different, like maybe you just don’t fit in? Percy Jackson's feelings were confirmed when he discovered that he was the son of a Greek god. Yes, the gods of Mount Olympus are alive and well in contemporary America, working out of the real penthouse on the Empire State Building.
So could you be a demigod like Percy Jackson? If Latin comes easy to you then you just might be . . .
Fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians series were invited to join the author Rick Riordan in a live videoconference/webcast on Tuesday, April 17, from 11 to noon. Riordan and the HP-TV Production Team (that's Hephaestus TV) were live from Raleigh’s Ravenscroft School with a remote site at UNC-Charlotte for our Lake Norman Charter School HP-TV Production Team members. Students prepared for the meeting by reading the first two books in the series, The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters, and joining other fans online to discuss Percy’s adventures as a hip demigod in contemporary America. Teachers also networked to find other classes with whom to collaborate on joint class discussions or class projects. Our meeting with Riordan was a great way to get ready for the publication of the third book to be published May 1: The Titans’ Curse. Be sure and check out Percy’s Party activities for the big publication party listed on Riordan’s website
Percy's Project Forum -- For Percy's fans of all ages! Join the conversation about this novel series . . .
Teachers' Networking Forum -- For teachers who would like to find other teachers with whom to collaborate on Percy Projects of their own . . .
NEW! Meet Percy Jackson -- Watch this production by Ravenscroft students to learn about Percy Jackson and his rather unusual family and friends!
Watch "Meet Percy Jackson"
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Watch "Meet Percy Jackson" Past eAuthor Studies -- We've met with Lois Lowry and John Marsden in past projects . . .
The 2008 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature
Hollywood may or may not have a big, glitzy Oscars program this year. But there are no writers involved in the Melinda Awards and we'll be here with zing and bling to tout our favorite YA novels of the year and diss those that failed to meet our expectations. The big event will be held on Monday, Feb. 11, from 4:45 to 6:00 pm ET.
Be sure and check out your Webcast accessibility here in advance . . .
2007 Melinda Awards Archived Webcast
Hollywood’s big night may have been on February 25th, but the next day was a big day for fans of young adult literature.
Join the teens from the Eva Perry Public Library and Middle Creek High School Mock Printz Award Book Clubs and teachers from NCSU’s Mock Printz Club to hear book talks, lively discussion, and the presentation of special awards for the best of the young adult books published in 2006. This was a live, interactive webcast on Monday, February 26. Visit our site to learn more about the event, read book blogs on all the winners and honor books, and see archived events.
Click here for 2007 Archived Webcast . . . See the Photo Gallery . . . Click here for the 2006 Archived Webcast . . . See the Photo Gallery . . . Contact Cris Crissman with questions.
