I've been trying to think of some blogging ideas for Nat'l Poetry Month. I know that the children's depts. are always posting cute poems and haikus from their patrons. How about we have a contest and/or post the poems on the blog? Don't know if we're allowed to use pictures of kids.
Homewood has some podcasts of teens reading their own book reviews. It might interest some of our younger patrons and get them more involved if they were able to record their own poems. I really don't know how podcasting works, though. Would this be possible?
Or we might could just show pics of their poems and drawings.
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Hey Tressa,
Podcasts are fairly simple to do. It's easy to record them and then Melinda has always helped me convert the files using Audacity. After we convert them, we just upload them to the Podbean server. Let me know if I can help.
I thought that we might ask staff to read lines from their favorite poems or create their own poetry. We might ask for patron poem submissions as well.
Teen and children's poetry would be fun! Children would love having their poems and pictures displayed on the blog!
We could have contests for both areas.
Thanks, Hunter. I'd love to get some podcasts of kids reading their own creations, but we'd have to have the help of youth librarians.
Ugg, I'm going to sound as primitive as Thagg here, how exactly do the podcasts get recorded? Where do you record the podcasts you've done?
What might be fun is to have a BPL system-wide contest and have the winners record their poems and receive a gift. Either a winner from each branch or an overall winner and two runners up.
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