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Heather Turner
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Booktalking 2.0 is here. Bring voice, choice, and real student agency into your booktalks with CYOB and BookaKucha. Dive into the full Substack for templates and ideas. 📚✨
Read here
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November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Join us for a FREE Virtual Holiday Storytelling on December 12 🎄📚✨ Sign up to get the YouTube Live link and enjoy stories, music, crafts, and surprises every 15 minutes. Be a listener and celebrate with us 🎶🎨💫
Sign up Now & Checkout the Schedule
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November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Some good news: Massachusetts Senate is working on a bill to prevent #bookbans! #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read the 11/21/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
Intellectual Freedom News 11/21/2025
ALA actively advocates and educates in defense of intellectual freedom—the rights of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Intellectual freedo...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Join us for Virtual Holiday Storytelling on December 12 🎄📚✨ Sign up to get the YouTube Live link and enjoy stories, music, crafts, and surprises every 15 minutes. Be a listener and celebrate with us 🎶🎨💫
Sign up Now

#TLSkyChat #TLSky #EduSky #EdTech #Skybrarians #Booksky #Storytelling #Booktok
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Join us Wednesday at 8pm EST for a cozy pre Thanksgiving #TLSkyChat focused on Gratitude in the Library 🍁📚 Celebrate wins, share resources, show off passive programming, and enjoy a few fun brain breaks. Bring your joy and your favorite pie recipe! 🥧✨

Check out the questions HERE

#TLSky #BookSky
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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A heartfelt graphic novel about friendship, anxiety, and finding support. Growing Pangs shows Katie’s worries with honest and relatable visuals, making it a great pick for middle grade readers and mental health conversations. 💛

Full review here
Alt text: A Bookmarked Review graphic for the graphic novel “Growing Pangs.” The background is a textured brown paper. The book cover shows a red haired girl with pigtails and a worried expression, surrounded by classmates and a buzzing bee. Five yellow stars appear below the cover. Text on the graphic highlights that the story explores friendship, anxiety, and OCD with honest visuals. A quote from the book reads, “Sometimes the buzzing gets loud… but naming it helps me find my calm again.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I just shared how I run one of my favorite events, Virtual Holiday Storytelling ❄️📚 A full day of stories, music, crafts, and winter fun streamed to classrooms. Want to join us on December 12 or see how it all comes together? Check it out 🎉

Check out the Substack Article
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November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Collaborating with @teacherpatel.bsky.social & grade 4 modern learners as we code 'About Me' interactive identity collages in Scratch 👨‍💻💡

Try it out ➡️ tinyurl.com/code-to-learn

#FutureReadyPeel
#CodeToLearn #HourOfCode
#MakerSpace #STEM #UDL
#TLsky #EdTech
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Thank you to the staff of the Chicago Public Library
@brianlies.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social
#TLsky #Skybrarian #schoollibraries #edusky #kidlit
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Canva’s newest updates are leveling up my workflow 🎉 The new newsletter tools and the upgraded video editor are perfect for classrooms, especially with Chromebooks 💻 I shared the full breakdown on my Substack. Check it out here: techielibgrl.substack.com

#TLSkyChat #TLSky #EduSky #EdTech
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November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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📚 A chilling and visually intense take on Orwell’s classic. The stark black, grey, and red palette pulls you right into the fear and control of Big Brother’s world. A powerful companion for fans of dystopian stories. A gripping companion. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Read the full review
A red graphic titled “BOOKMARKED! REVIEW” features George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel adapted and illustrated by Matyás Namai. The book cover shows a stark black, white, and red illustration of Winston reading while a large, shadowy face looms behind him. Review notes describe it as a chilling adaptation that highlights the danger of censorship and unchecked power. Additional text says, “Surveillance, censorship, and thought control are brought to life in haunting detail” and “Stark black, grey, and red artwork deepens the oppressive vibes.” A circled note reads “Chilling and Powerful Adaptation.” The rating “I’d say: 4/5” appears at the top right, with four yellow stars and one grey star displayed at the bottom. A quote from the book reads: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Cool idea I saw on TT. So often it is hard to put out all those new books and only the first class get's to select. So the.laser.libraria posted about a scavenger hunt she did for the new Dog Man release. www.tiktok.com/@the.laser.l...

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I finally had time to finalize the scavenger hunt for who gets to check out the latest Dogman book 1st! #library #librarian #librarytiktok #elementarylibrarian #books #schoollibrarian #book #dogman #...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Join us for Virtual Holiday Storytelling on December 12 🎄📚✨ Sign up to get the YouTube Live link and enjoy stories, music, crafts, and surprises every 15 minutes. Be a listener and celebrate with us 🎶🎨💫
Sign up Now

#TLSkyChat #TLSky #EduSky #EdTech #Skybrarians #Booksky #Storytelling #Booktok
Festive poster for Virtual Holiday Storytelling with cartoon children dressed as elves and holiday characters around the border. Text reads Free, Virtual Holiday Storytelling, 12 December 2025, 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM EST, via YouTube Live. Decorations include ornaments, greenery, dreidel, star, CNYSL and OCM SLS logos, and a mouse reading a book.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Hello Friends!

Any ideas for Topics for our next chat #TLSkyChat? We have not asked before and want to be responsive to community. Reply or submit to our Answer Garden: answergarden.ch/5086279 (No account needed)

#TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Edtech #Schoollibrarians #Schoollibrarian #Booksky
AnswerGarden » What topic should we do next?
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November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Bring some sparkle to our Virtual Holiday Storytelling! ❄️✨ We need readers, musicians, skits, choral magic, and fun holiday surprises. Pre recorded or live, your talents will make classrooms light up.

Want to join the fun? Sign up HERE!

#Storytelling #TLSky #TLSkyChat #EduSky #Books #Holiday
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November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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In honor of the release of a new Dog Man book, last week's This or That poll in the media center was Dog Man or Captain Underpants. There was a lot of hemming & hawing going on before votes were cast! Eventually Dog Man came out on top. #SchoolLibrary #TLSky #EduSky #kidlit
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November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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#TLSkyChat A8

Simple is better
Play in one period
No complicated rules
Let the kids generate "house" rules
Fewer players is better than taking time finding a quorum
Like market signs, sometimes homemade versions of favorites work better that fancy ones. Still regret laying out for pricey Jenga
techielibgrl.com Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 12d
Q8: It’s the final question of the night! 👏 #TLSkyChat For more information visit: tlskychat.com
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November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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#TLSkyChat A4
The students desire to play the games. I've removed students from the library if they can't coop and they return. One group organized their own tournament for a 10 minute soccer game. REWARDS.
Still working on cross-clique game play. Ran on contest on 3d print. How does it work?
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Thank you so much for joining us @lyfemathluv.bsky.social and sharing your mathiness! We love math people too!! #TLSkyChat
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November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Wow, what a chat! 🌟 Thank you all for joining today’s #TLSkyChat! We’re feeling inspired and ready to tackle gaming in our libraries! Can’t wait to see you next time in 2 weeks!!

Do you have any ideas for a topic?!?!?!?!?!?! What are we thinking??
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November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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📚 Keep the conversation going with #SlowChat and join us live every other Wednesday at 8pm EST/5pm PT. See you next time. #TLSkyChat
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Remember, y’all… everything you ever wanted to know about #TLSkyChat can be found here: tlskychat.com
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November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I am quite partial to cooperative games that did not exist when I was a wee one. #TLSkyChat
lyfemathluv.bsky.social Amanda Brenner @lyfemathluv.bsky.social · 12d
A8: look for a variety of game types when starting a collection. Games have evolved so much since I was in school, there are so many more genres now!

One of my favorite sites for the past 15 years: boardgamegeek.com

for all the ratings, reviews, search filters, and the Hotness List!

#TLSkyChat
techielibgrl.com Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 12d
Q8: It’s the final question of the night! 👏 #TLSkyChat For more information visit: tlskychat.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Ooo I love that Available to Play signs. You cannot assume anything #TLSkyChat
simplyrain.bsky.social Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social · 12d
A7: First, have a large & open choice game collection.

Second, encouraging rotation for popular games.

Third, "Available to play!" signs.

Finally, me playing with students when I can. I invite different students to play!

#TLSkyChat
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM