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| SarahAbigailWilmoth | Love Sarah | 0 | Apr 23 2013, 5:27 PM EDT by SarahAbigailWilmoth | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 23 2013, 5:27 PM EDT
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Okay my name is Sarah Abigail Wilmoth and I am 13 years old.. I love your books!!
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| fletcka | I would love to find an author who is willing to skype chat to class | 5 | Apr 10 2013, 12:42 PM EDT by JoLinsdell | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 22 2013, 4:19 PM EST
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Would love an author to chat to our Year 4 children in Liverpool, England. I'm really trying to foster a love of reading in my class and think that this would be a way of engaging the pupils in the literature we're reading at the moment.
Many thanks, Kate
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| anthony8cat | Skype in the Classroom | 0 | Mar 8 2013, 12:22 PM EST by anthony8cat | ||||
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Hi Ken, I work as a middle school librarian. I am working with one of our language arts teachers to get a poet to Skype with one or several of her classes. Are you willing to do this? Thanks!
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| KaraMcDivitt | Meet the Author Visit | 1 | Feb 28 2013, 7:40 PM EST by SarahLamstein | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 7 2011, 11:35 AM EST
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Hello,
I am a literacy Coach at School Street Elementary School in Bradford, PA. I attended a Skype session with you at our local IU9 with Karen Maccartney. I was wondering if you would be able to do a quick 10 minute Skype session with myself for the faculty at my school? The date is March 11 and the time would be at 8:20a.m. If you would be able/willing to share your experiences with Skype and how it can be useful to the teachers here at my school please email me at KMcdivitt@bradfordareaschools.org or call me at 814-368-3183 ext.4620 Thanks, Kara McDivitt
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| olivepeart | Free Kids Publishing. | 0 | Feb 9 2013, 7:49 PM EST by olivepeart | ||||
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In the interest of promoting literacy and encouraging reading and writing, DLite Press www.dlitepress.com is offering all kids (elementary, middle or high school grades) FREE eBook publishing. We will design a cover, layout your text for eBook publishing and place it on our website. The offer does not include editing or proofreading your work.
You will have full rights to use the original artwork and/or high quality royalty-free cover image. After your book is published to our site, be sure to tell the world, plus your friends and family. You can elect to have your book available for download as a FREE eBook or if you would like to sell your book, DLite Press will set a price and as the author, you get 75% royalties on each sale. More information at http://dlitepress.com/kids_corner.html
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| natashawing | Children's Book Week | 0 | Feb 3 2013, 5:27 PM EST by natashawing | ||||
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Good way to celebrate in May!
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| afatla | Please Skype with us! | 0 | Jan 19 2013, 10:19 AM EST by afatla | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 19 2013, 10:19 AM EST
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My fourth graders loved your book Breadcrumbs. We're hoping for the opportunity to ask you some questions through Skype. Think we could set something up?
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| josiewhitehead | Martin Luther King Day - 21 January 2013 | 0 | Jan 4 2013, 5:20 AM EST by josiewhitehead | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 4 2013, 5:20 AM EST
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MLK Day will be here soon. I am a very prolific poet who has recently written my 1000th poem and last year my poems went into 188 countries of the world. You can find some of these poems by Googling JOSIE'S POEMS and you will discover, in my Spiritual/Thinking Index a poem I've written especially for this day called "I Have a Dream". Perhaps your children might like to do a class performance of this poem, and I'd gladly select a winning performance from the finalists. I would be pleased to read them a poem myself, talk a little about myself, help them with writing etc. Come to my website and you can see, on my Main Poetry Index, details for booking this visit. It's not expensive.
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| emilyhpeterson | Guys Read | 1 | Jan 4 2013, 5:16 AM EST by josiewhitehead | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 3 2013, 8:49 PM EST
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Greetings,
I'm new here. I just saw the link on twitter. I have a guys read club. It is grade 4 boys. Any recommendations on skyping authors for our audience? We have shared quite a bit of nonfiction, currently we are reading some funny business stories.
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| ,RichardDavison | LIKING THE INFORMATION HERE | 0 | Oct 6 2012, 9:47 AM EDT by ,RichardDavison | ||||
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Thread started: Oct 6 2012, 9:47 AM EDT
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Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful information here. You are helping others with experiences you have had and they are great ones. This only makes us all better and allows us to reach a much wider audience, anywhere in the world almost. Best regards and huge, appreciative thoughts.
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| ScottiCohn | Sharing desktop? | 2 | Sep 2 2012, 5:16 PM EDT by ScottiCohn | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 9 2011, 6:43 PM EST
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I have been told that I can "share" a PowerPoint screen on my desktop while using Skype. The instructions I received say to click "Share" (next to the "Video" button in the upper corner of the Skype window).
I signed into Skype but couldn't see a "Share" button or a "Video" button anywhere. So first, I'd love it if someone could help me figure that out. Second, I am looking for someone who would be willing to "test drive" this whole "share the desktop" thing with me before I try to do it during an author visit. Any takers?
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| sachauncey | Pinterest Idea | 0 | Aug 25 2012, 12:50 PM EDT by sachauncey | ||||
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Hello All,
I don't know if I'm biting off too much here -- and could probably use some help -- but had an idea that we could create Pinterest Boards by Letter to highlight your author pages... I started this one as a test: http://pinterest.com/sachauncey/skypeanauthor-a/ Sarah |
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| chloeraven.l | Looking for an Author | 0 | Aug 19 2012, 4:45 AM EDT by chloeraven.l | ||||
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Hi,
I'm in my final year of my teaching degree in Geelong, Australia on my final teaching placement. I have a Grade One class and would love to organise a Skype Meeting with an author for this inquisitive young group! If anyone is interested in a free (I am a poor uni student after all) meet the author session which could lead to a more in depth meeting if the school likes what they see it would be great if you could get in contact with me. Thanks in advance, Chloe :)
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| CarissaPeck | Fantastic and very adaptable. Thanks again Jess! | 0 | Jul 23 2012, 11:58 AM EDT by CarissaPeck | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 23 2012, 11:58 AM EDT
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Thanks again Jess for a fantastic skype date. As one of my first with someone I didn't already know Jess was very adaptable with my classes and very open to share her inspirations for the texts. It was really a pleasure to have this chance. Thanks again!
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| ESSBLibraries | Big thank you to Natasha Wing! | 0 | Jun 28 2012, 10:53 AM EDT by ESSBLibraries | ||||
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Big thank you to the author Natasha Wing who Skyped with our younger students during our Bookfest week at the end of April 2012 at Shigawake-Port Daniel School in eastern Quebec, CA! Our students and teachers really appreciated her respect of the Quebec culture. Our younger students always enjoy her holiday books. And our students’ favorite book is “How to raise a dinosaur”, a cute fun book. After her presentation, many younger students asked for “How to raise a dinosaur” in the library.
Thank you again Natasha and have a nice summer!
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| ESSBLibraries | Big thank you to Marsha Diane Arnold! | 0 | Jun 28 2012, 10:49 AM EDT by ESSBLibraries | ||||
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Big thank you to the author Marsha Diane Arnold who Skyped with our students during our Bookfest week at the end of April 2012 at Shigawake-Port Daniel School in eastern Quebec, CA! Our students and teachers really appreciated that Marsha spent her valuable time with us. Our students and teachers like her multicultural books very much especially “Heart of a tiger” which is a great book and we have learned a lot from it. The activity and discussion generated after we read the book also helped our grade 6 students prepare their provincial exam.
Thanks again Marsha and have a nice summer!
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| josiewhitehead | Free Skype Visit for Autumn Term | 0 | Jun 7 2012, 5:42 AM EDT by josiewhitehead | ||||
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Can anyone please tell me how I remove a photograph from this website - Josie
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| WJCLIBRARY | Summer Skyping | 2 | Jun 5 2012, 1:17 AM EDT by Engine44 | ||||
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Thread started: May 24 2012, 7:10 PM EDT
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How can I tell if authors are available for Skype calls during the summer. I am keeping the school library open for another month. Who is abvailable to speak with the kids? How can I find out without contacting each individual?
Frances falexander@bcbe.org
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| LisaArd | 5 part blog series on author visits | 1 | Jun 3 2012, 7:23 AM EDT by josiewhitehead | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 15 2012, 4:20 PM EDT
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I've just posted 5 articles on author visits, based on my experience. Come read about effective tools, planning content and presentation, arranging visits and whether these visits are good book promotion techniques. Read at the Adventures in Writing & Publishing www.dreamseekeradventures.com/blog
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| josiewhitehead | SKYPE VISITS - HELP | 3 | Jun 3 2012, 7:21 AM EDT by josiewhitehead | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 4 2011, 9:34 AM EDT
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I must change my message on Skype an Author. It was quite a while that I was a member on here and never asked to skype to classrooms. Now it is six years since I started writing my first poems for children in my local school and I have written my 1000th poem in November 2012. I have had many many books published with work chosen by teachers right across the area where I live in many different schools. I don't own one website now but five and you can see the first one by Googling JOSIE'S POEMS. Last year 602,000 pages of my website were read in 188 countries of the world and a company has invited me to join them to develop their internet programmes, specializing in poetry into schools. My work is 99% written with rhyme and rhythm, which not only helps the development of phonological awareness in children but is great as performance poems. So the message that I had on here initially which stated that I don't get invited into schools has quite changed, ha ha I am happy to say. Thank you all for your support and encouragement..
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