Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Cool Story Programs for the School-Age Crowd
Author: Rob Reid
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908877
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Offers eighteen offbeat literary programs featuring creepy, dirty, and stinky stories that will appeal to young readers.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908877
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Offers eighteen offbeat literary programs featuring creepy, dirty, and stinky stories that will appeal to young readers.
Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Story Programs
Author: Carolyn Sue Peterson
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Lists of picture books that work well in story programs; a collection of finger plays and action stories; verses, songs, and stories for the flannel board with fully traceable pieces and more.
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Lists of picture books that work well in story programs; a collection of finger plays and action stories; verses, songs, and stories for the flannel board with fully traceable pieces and more.
User Stories Applied
Author: Mike Cohn
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0132702649
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle. You'll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You'll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even when you can't speak with your users. Then, once you've compiled your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize them, and use them for planning, management, and testing. User role modeling: understanding what users have in common, and where they differ Gathering stories: user interviewing, questionnaires, observation, and workshops Working with managers, trainers, salespeople and other "proxies" Writing user stories for acceptance testing Using stories to prioritize, set schedules, and estimate release costs Includes end-of-chapter practice questions and exercises User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home-grown approach.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0132702649
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle. You'll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You'll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even when you can't speak with your users. Then, once you've compiled your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize them, and use them for planning, management, and testing. User role modeling: understanding what users have in common, and where they differ Gathering stories: user interviewing, questionnaires, observation, and workshops Working with managers, trainers, salespeople and other "proxies" Writing user stories for acceptance testing Using stories to prioritize, set schedules, and estimate release costs Includes end-of-chapter practice questions and exercises User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home-grown approach.
Storytelling
Author: Janice M. Del Negro
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.
Story Circle
Author: John Hartley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405180595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like Explores the boundaries of digital storytelling from China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405180595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like Explores the boundaries of digital storytelling from China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia
The Year We Left Home
Author: Jean Thompson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143917590X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A "New York Times" bestseller and a National Book Award finalist, "The Year We Left Home" chronicles the lives of the Erickson family as the children come of age in 1970's and '80's America.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143917590X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A "New York Times" bestseller and a National Book Award finalist, "The Year We Left Home" chronicles the lives of the Erickson family as the children come of age in 1970's and '80's America.
Make Me a Story
Author: Lisa C. Miller
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571107894
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In this book, Lisa Miller shows how to use digital stories to lead students through all phases of the writing process, from planning to revising and editing. She leads teachers step-by-step through the process of creating a digital story in an accessible, instructional, and entertaining way.--[book cover].
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN: 1571107894
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In this book, Lisa Miller shows how to use digital stories to lead students through all phases of the writing process, from planning to revising and editing. She leads teachers step-by-step through the process of creating a digital story in an accessible, instructional, and entertaining way.--[book cover].
To Illuminate the American Story for All
Author: United States. Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"This Final Report provides an in-depth analysis and recommendations based on the Commission's findings following outreach to communities throughout the United States."--Exec. summary.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"This Final Report provides an in-depth analysis and recommendations based on the Commission's findings following outreach to communities throughout the United States."--Exec. summary.
Listening Is an Act of Love
Author: Dave Isay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller “Each interview is a revelation.” —USA Today “As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer As heard on NPR, a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps' collection, creating a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives—to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage, and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or stereotype. We are our history, individually and collectively, and Listening Is an Act of Love touchingly reminds us of this powerful truth. Dave Isay's latest book, Callings, published in 2016 from Penguin Press.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller “Each interview is a revelation.” —USA Today “As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer As heard on NPR, a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps' collection, creating a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives—to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage, and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or stereotype. We are our history, individually and collectively, and Listening Is an Act of Love touchingly reminds us of this powerful truth. Dave Isay's latest book, Callings, published in 2016 from Penguin Press.