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Keep Steven Witmer’s Legacy Alive: Books for Students
A Memorial that Gives Back to the Community Steven Witmer was a Teacher Librarian with the Saydel Community School District in Des Moines, Iowa, until he succumbed to Stage IV Colon Cancer on July 25, 2024. Steven had a passion for reading, exciting children about reading, teaching the students about the library, and having the…
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Book Review: A Thousand Steps Into Night
Age: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Miuko is a servant girl working in her father’s inn. Rumor said that her mother was a flighty nature spirit who abandoned Miuko and her father when she was a small girl, but the villagers mostly know her as being overly loud and clumsy for a girl. While running an…
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TikTok, the War on Ukraine, and 10 Features That Make the App Vulnerable to Misinformation
I hadn’t planned another post so soon, but this came to my attention and deserved a link because of the information literacy implications and the popularity of Tik Tok. Please give the link below a read. Here is the intro paragraph: “As Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine, the video sharing app TikTok…
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Hello World!
Welcome to Stay Curious, my foray into blogging about, as the tagline says, books, critical thinking and librarianship, and whatever else comes to mind as worthy of blogging about. Why? Well, I’d like to think that maybe, at least a few people might read this and benefit from it. And if nothing else, it gives…
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