Children’s Literature Council of Southern California

Old Passions – New Technologies:

Children’s and Young Adult Literature in a Web 2.0 World

Greg Pincus – http://www.thehappyaccident.net

A few links of possible use:

Blogs/Bloggers

Kidlitosphere Central – http://www.kidlitosphere.org

Kidlitosphere “Sampler Set” of blogs - http://www.kidlitosphere.org/sampler/

Anastasia Suen’s Blogroll (on the right of page): http://www.asuen.com/blog/

The blog of Susan Stephenson, an amazing finder and tester of online literacy, reading and teaching tools: http://www.thebookchook.com/

Great GLBTQ children’s lit reference: http://www.leewind.org

Technical stuff:

Google Reader tutorial videos: http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_5132_use-google-reader.html

Twitter video: http://www.howcast.com/videos/149055-How-To-Use-Twitter

Basic Twitter terms: http://www.thehappyaccident.net/basic-twitter-terms/

Twitter chat info courtest of Debbie Ohi: http://bit.ly/writerchats

(chats include #kidlitchat, #yalitchat, #pblitchat, #kidlitart)

Kids, Teens, and Online:

Great research from danah boyd on how teens use the web: http://www.danah.org

Readergirlz, an online community for teen girl readers: http://www.readergirlz.com

Harper Collins site for teen writers: http://www.inkpop.com

Kenn Nesbitt’s poetry site: http://www.poetry4kids.com