Picture Book Month

Date: Saturday October 14, 2017
Time: 9:00amPT/10:00amMT/
11:00amCT/12:00pm ET
Location: Blackboard Collaborate







​Today's webinar is a very special show for us! We have the opportunity to learn all about Picture Book Month from Tara Lazar and Katie Davis, co-founders and renowned children's authors. Picture Book Month was envisioned and founded by Dianne de Las Casas who was our special guest presenter in May, 2017 on Classroom 2.0 LIVE. Sadly, Dianne lost her life in a tragic fire recently and we wanted to honor her legacy by celebrating her life through this featured presentation about Picture Book Month. We will learn about the importance of picture books for students and Picture Book Month. They have created an outstanding Teacher's Guide for participants in Picture Book Month. Our presenters will also share some of their special memories of Dianne de Las Casas including a special visit from John Couret who began writing children’s books because of Dianne’s inspiration.

Author Tara Lazar has six picture books in print with many more to come. Her latest title is “7 Ate 9: The Untold Story” from Disney*Hyperion. Next fall look for her illustrated dictionary “500 Words to Bumfuzzle Your Teachers & Bamboozle Your Frenemies”. Tara is the founder of STORYSTORM, a writer’s brainstorming challenge formerly known as Picture Book Idea Month. She is a picture book mentor for We Need Diverse Books and the co-chair of the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature annual conference.

Katie’s secret superpower is her ability to teach non-techy and tech-fearful writers how to become better business people by building their platforms through social media, video, and creating/building mailing lists. Also known in her niche as one of the first writer entrepreneurs, Katie has created many events and courses for writers, including How to Create Your Author Platform (and Market Your Books without Being Pushy), Video Idiot Boot Camp, and Picture Book Summit (the largest and first online conference of its kind). Her podcast, Brain Burps About Books, is consistently ranked in the top 10 book-related categories. She’s appeared regularly on WTNH and The Huffington Post. She is the director of the Institute of Children’s Literature, which provides accredited writing courses for both adult and children’s books. Katie has been honored to speak everywhere from a maximum security prison, to elementary schools, to university level, including UCONN and Yale, and has keynoted conferences and fundraising galas. You can subscribe to Katie’s YouTube channel at KatieDavis.TV or the #1 podcast in iTunes in Children’s Publishing by going to KatieDavis.com/podcast. Katie Davis’s books, published by Harcourt, S&S, HarperCollins, and Diversion Books, have sold over 755,000 copies, which is why she’s published How to Promote Your Children’s Book, a marketing guide for writers that debuted at #1 on Amazon. 

Blackboard Collaborate( full recording): 
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2017-10-14.0859.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350
Tiny URL for Full Recording: 
http://tinyurl.com/PictureBookMonth-10-14-17
Recording Chat: http://wiki.classroom20.com/October14_2017
Audio Recording (mp3):

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Video Recording (mp4)
Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:  (links shared by participants during the session have been added to this list and also to the Livebinder)
Livebinder Link: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2276823
(Note: Click on tab for "Picture Book Month-Tara Lazar" in the Livebinder).
http://picturebookmonth.com/ (Picture Book web site)
https://youtu.be/6GCJ-iGhTxA (November is Picture Book Month video)
http://picturebookmonth.com/about-us/ (About Picture Book Month)
http://picturebookmonth.com/faq/ (Picture Book Month Frequently Asked Questions)
https://www.gofundme.com/4b4y0xs (GoFundMe for Dianne & First Book organization)
http://confettipark.com/remembering-louisiana-childrens-author-dianne-de-las-casas/ (Article remembering Louisiana Children’s Author: Dianne de Las Casas)
https://youtu.be/NGdrT9z8O08 (YouTube video celebrating the life of Dianne de Las Casas filled with photos of her throughout her life)
http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources/category/dianne-de-las-casas (Classroom 2.0 LIVE presentation by Dianne de Las Casas, May 20, 2017)
http://katiedavis.com/ (Katie Davis’ web site)
https://twitter.com/KatieDavisBurps (Follow Katie Davis on Twitter)
http://katiedavis.com/about-katie/press-coverage/ (About Katie Davis)
http://katiedavis.com/podcast/ (Incredible podcast by Katie Davis: Brain Burps about Books)
http://katiedavis.com/blog/ (Katie Davis’ blog)
https://www.youtube.com/user/BrainBurpsAboutBooks (YouTube channel for Brain Burps about Books by Katie Davis)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KatieDavis (Katie Davis on Google Plus)
https://youtu.be/YC7YrtzsbC0 (Video from Katie Davis played during the webinar)
https://taralazar.com/ (Tara Lazar’s web site)
https://twitter.com/taralazar (Follow Tara Lazar on Twitter)
https://taralazar.com/storystorm/ (Story Storm)
https://taralazar.com/taras-books/ (Tara Lazar’s books)
http://picturebookmonth.com/activities/ (Picture Book Month Activities)
http://picturebookmonth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Picture-Book-MonthTeachers-Guide.pdf (Picture Book Month Teacher’s Guide)
https://www.instituteforwriters.com/ (Institute for Writers)
http://picturebookmonth.com/2014/10/picture-books-begin-with-one-idea-by-tara-lazar/ (Tara Lazar: Picture Books Begin with One Idea)
http://www.thepicturebook.co/ (Picture Book Proclamation)
http://writeforkids.org/ (Write for Kids Network)
https://kidlit.tv/ (Kid Lit TV)
http://www.happybirthdayauthor.com/ (Happy Birthday Author:Creating memorable family reading experiences by celebrating author and illustrator birthdays by Eric VanRaepenbusch)
https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Deadeye-Bully-Shark-1/dp/0997947705/ref=sr_1_1 (Captain DeadEye: The Bully Shark-Volume 1)
http://picturebookmonth.com/2012/11/why-picture-books-are-important-by-tara-lazar/ (Tara Lazar: Why Picture Books are Important)
http://picturebookmonth.com/2011/11/why-picture-books-are-important-by-katie-davis/ (Katie Davis: Why Picture Books are Important)
http://picturebookmonth.com/2012/11/why-picture-books-are-important-by-peter-h-reynolds/ (Peter Reynolds: Why Picture Books are Important)
http://katiedavis.com/247/ (Brain Burps episode #247 by Katie Davis announcing the launch of Write a Kid’s Book podcast)
http://writeakidsbook.com/podcast (Write a Kid’s Book Podcast starting soon with Katie Davis)
Closing Slides:
http://learningrevolution.com  (The Learning Revolution Network created by Steve Hargadon. We now have Host Your Own Webinars again! If you would like to schedule a free public webinar on Blackboard Collaborate sign up on this site.)
http://learningrevolution.com/page/host-your-own-webinar (Host Your Own Webinar
details)
http://bit.ly/cr20liveitunesu (This link will open iTunes so you can subscribe to our video podcasts.)
http://tinyurl.com/CR20LIVEFeaturedTeacherNominat (Nominate a Featured Teacher for our shows--you can nominate yourself too if you’d like to present for us)
http://tinyurl.com/cr20livesurvey (Classroom 2.0 LIVE survey link to request PD certificates for live or recorded webinars)
Links added during chat have been added to the Livebinder:
https://taralazar.com/taras-books/the-monstore/
https://taralazar.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the-monstore-guide-1.pdf
https://nanowrimo.org/ (National Novel Writing Month)
http://www.storylineonline.net/ (Doug Henry shared this fantastic site! StoryOnline: streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Teacher guides available for each book.)
If you’d like to invite Tara Lazar to do a Skype call with your students you can contact her here! She provides them for free! [email protected]
http://www.johncouret.com/ (John Couret’s website)
https://www.instituteforwriters.com/about/institute-of-childrens-literature/ (Institute of Children’s Literature)