ideas

i used to jot down ideas i have on pieces of paper. I still do that but hey now there's my laptop sitting right in front of me. Why don't' I use that more? Because i usually have "ideas" -- maybe even Ideas with a cap, in the early hours of the morning. I lie in bed thinking about all the things I could be doing if I just hopped up and got to work. this comes from living with someone who does get out of bed at 4:30 or 5:30 a.m. and work.

instead I think. And sometimes an idea pops into my head and I have to write it down. It ends up on scraps of paper which I often tape to my wall above my des. Or I scrawl them into the white space on a page of any journal or magazine I am reading. I had to carry issue 39 (spring 2004) of sub-terrain mag (www.subterrain.ca) cause I wrote a research idea in the blank spot beside a poem entitled "the difference between a martyr and a suicide" by maurice mierau. (published by brick books...his collection's called Ending with Music).

but i have progressed into 2007.

I just typed up that idea on the computer. and then printed it off.

and taped it to the wall.

IDEA ON THE WALL THIS WEEK: Dialogic Story Delivery in a Public Library Setting: is there a place for dialogic story delivery in the public library story hour? How do children's librarians or program leaders perceive their role in story delivery? Does a child's experience of storytime change if the program leader uses the dialogic style of delivery? If so, how? Does story delivery take longer? Is sense-making encouraged in a library storytime setting? If so, how?

What's on your wall?