Feb. 14, 2017 Valentine's Day Update: More ways to encourage reading, with therapy dogs (via MindshiftKQED Learning) and a few "Kidlit" picks for Valentine's Day that streamed across my desk, here … [Read more...]
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Selling Reluctant Readers: 10 Marketing Tactics To Amp Up Fun
Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andew Aydin, banned books, behavioral change, book gimmicks, Boys and Reading, celebrity readers, childrens reading resources, comic books, comics in the classroom, decline in reading, digital media, digital storytelling, edu tech, education, forbidden fruit, Gamification of reading, Getting Boys to Read, graphic novels, GuysRead.com, Harry Potter Alliance, kidlit, Kids & Family Reading Report, kids choice, kids reading less, kids reading more, March, March Book Three, March Book Two, Mo Smells Pink, Nate Powell, online reading, operation teen book drop, PBS Kids, PBS Reading, pleasure reading, Read Kiddo Read, readergirlz, reading, reading games, Reading is Fundamental, reading resources, Real life heroes, Reluctant Readers, Rep. John Lewis, Room to Read, Scholastic study, Storybird, storytelling, Super Why, superheroes, SuperHeroes Documentary, SuperWhy Storybook Creator, teaching with graphic novels, teen lit, Teen Read Week, Tornado Warning, using marketing tactics, Will Smith running and reading, YA books, YALSA
Meaningful Manga: Graphic Novels and Growth
Update: May 21, 2014 Our friends at Reach and Teach have added another clever manga style illustrated book called "A is for Action" which merits an update! I love the seeding of social change in a fun … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Abby Denson, affordable gifts, Anime, cartoons, charitable giving, children, civility, comic books, Comic Con, Craig Wiesner, Derrick Kikuchi, education, Elf-Island, empowering teens, engaging youth, Gandhi, gay rights, gifting, gifts, girls are not chicks, giving, graphic novels, Great Figures in History, history, human rights, inspiration, Japanese manga, kid lit, literature, making a difference, Manga, manga makeover, Me to We, meaningful media, media that matters, mindfulness, Mohandas Gandhi, Nancy-Drew, Nelson Mandela, New-Moon-Girl-Media, oppression, peace, philanthropy, reach and teach, shounen-ai manga, social justice, teachable moments, teaching tools, Tough Love, transform the world, Virtual-Worlds, Xeko
