Social Reading

I have to say, this week has definitely been my favourite so far! I've been meaning to try making a list in Vision for awhile now, but have not got around to it. You can imagine how excited I was when I found out I had to do one for this training.
I decided to make a list of banned and challenged books, as this project coincides nicely with our upcoming Freedom to Read week. My initial plan was to make one list...I now have three. That should have been predictable, really. There are (unfortunately) just too many books out there that people have filed complaints against.
It was a little jarring to find one such complaint from my home county in Ontario, coincidentally from the year I was born. And the book in question? Why, it's that always disputed, never-ending controversial ...Canadian Poetry: the Modern Era. I have to admit, I did not see that one coming. Apparently, the complainant deemed it too anti-establishment. Well, we have it in our system, so onto the list it goes!
Here are my lists:
"Banned and Challenged YA Books"
"Les livres JA censurés"
"Banned and Challenged Adult Books / Les livres adultes censurés"

The week of twitter

For this week's 23 Things, we are exploring Twitter. I once used Twitter for a university course, but found it hard to get into. It felt like information overload, but, ironically, in too short doses. It probably didn't help that I had to reset my password every week. I maintain this was due to glitches with the site (...I'm aware that the probable truth has more to do with my multitude of passwords).

So, here we go again. I'm going to try to keep it going for at least the duration of 23 Things, and we'll see where I go from there. From my past experience with social media, I have the feeling I will be much more inclined to peruse others' contributions rather than make my own, but I will endeavour to tweet for each new component of this training.

#NB23




(To clarify, I'm aware this hashtag does not serve the same purpose on my blog as on Twitter. I just wanted to put it there.)

Introduction to 23 Things

This is my first post for the 23 Things training. I'm not entirely sure what 23 Things will entail, but I will be blogging here about my experiences throughout this training.