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American Indians in Children’s Literature: An Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media

American Indians in Children’s Literature: An Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media. University of Illinois Community Informatics Center for Children’s Books ___ Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 PM Room 46, Library and Information Science. “American Indians are not people of color…”.

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American Indians in Children’s Literature: An Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media

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  1. American Indians in Children’s Literature: An Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media University of Illinois Community Informatics Center for Children’s Books ___ Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 PM Room 46, Library and Information Science

  2. “American Indians are not people of color…”

  3. Listservs ECENET – Harvard Education Letter, 1996 Birthday Bear (April 1997) – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2000 Anne Rinaldi’s My Heart is on the Ground, 1999/2011 2003—a website? A blog!

  4. AICL stats Launch: May, 2006 802 posts Almost 900,000 page views (Sitemeter) Over 254,000 page views since May, 2010 (Blogger) Two dissertations

  5. AICL Audience American Indian/First Nations links Profs in Children’s Literature – Education/LIS/English Librarians, parents Writers in Children’s Literature: Phillip Pullman, Sharon Creech Native writers: Simon Ortiz, Joseph Bruchac, Cynthia Leitich Smith

  6. What is on AICL? • Recommended Books, Sites, Articles • Traditional Stories • “based on” • interpretations • shelving • Classics, Bestsellers, Holidays • Little House on the Prairie • Twilight • Touching Spirit Bear • Thanksgiving • “Open Letter” posts

  7. Social Media Intersections:AICL and Twitter April 18, 2010: “What Neil Gaiman said” Kynn on LiveJournal: “Neil Gaiman Racist Fail” Gaiman tweets An internet pile on

  8. Sitemeter data:

  9. Sitemeter data:

  10. Skype • Librarians/Library Classes • Ontario, Canada • Minnesota • Illinois State • Education • University of British Columbia • Florida Illinois State

  11. The Power of Facebook

  12. What’s next? Do more with Facebook Try some podcasts An Ebook? Play! Google Search Story

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