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Social Networking @ Twitter It is my intent with this post to share my experiences with the social networking platform of Twitter.  I've documented the posts that were interesting and significant to me, and have shared my reflections on how these posts are relevant in my pursuit to best serve my current students, colleagues, and future library patrons.  I chose to organize the information in this manner, as it closely matched the previous ways I have posted information.  I began participating in Twitter at the end of May. Using Social Media as a Librarian Where to start, I have learned so much in these 3 months, as I have dabbled in Twitter.  I've laughed, cried, learned, heard the perspective of others, and have seen the true benefits of participating in the social learning community. As technology is constantly changing, using social media is one way for a librarian or teacher to assure that they are aware of these changes.  They can also...

Scythe Shusterman, N. (2016). Scythe . New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division. Somewhere in the future, mankind has found the secret to long life and the end to all diseases that could take a life.  To control the potential of overpopulation, a group of people, the Scythe, are called on to take the lives of a quota of people annually. Citra and Rowan, are two teenagers who are completely unaware of one another until they both happen to have chance encounters with scythe in separate death missions.  Neither of them wanting to be near the scythe, and disgusted by the concept of taking lives.  Their mutual disgust of taking lives, finds them both in the apprenticeship of the scythe. Shusterman is able to capture the rebellious and questioning spirit that occurs in adolescence.  He also shows Kohlberg's conventional and post-conventional theory with his characters.  Citra and Rowan follow some of the rules and while also finding t...