by Leah Langby | May 6, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I Image credit: Pixabay If you are like me, you totally get the importance and excitement about coding, but are a little intimidated at the idea of rolling out a coding program in your library. There are a couple of resources created in Wisconsin to help you with...
by Leah Langby | Mar 2, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Anne Hamland, the youth services consultant for Wisconsin Valley Library Service, now works in the same office as me. I can’t tell you how exciting it is for me to work in the same building with someone else who is thinking about services to youth! ...
by Leah Langby | Nov 28, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you haven’t had a chance to peek at the new super awesome toolkit that is part of the Wisconsin Libraries Coding Initiative, I highly recommend taking some time to do that. Created by our inimitable statewide youth services consultant Tessa Michaelson...
by Leah Langby | Dec 21, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids are happy to be codingThanks to Kay Fitzgerald from Osceola for this guest post!At Osceola Public Library we ran a program called Coding and Cookies that introduced middle through high schoolers to computer coding. We had never run a program like this before...
by Leah Langby | Nov 17, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here are three things to help you feel informed about early literacy and technology:1. A FREE WEBINAR this week: Every Kid Ready to Read: Tech Tools for Early LiteracyWednesday, November 1911:00AM-12:00 PM (Pacific Time)What’s the best way to bring...