Joshua Whiting

Digital librarianish person in a school district. Dad. Husband. Tweets on libraries, #kidlit, #edtech, poetry, other nerdy things. Even more awkward in person.

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

@DeborahGatrell1 the checkouts and holds for the graphic novel adaptation of Bomb are "blowing up" on Sora right now in my district - we just bought more copies today. #UTEdChat

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

@tfenton84 I saw this on the AAPI display at the Holladay Library a day after you mentioned it, so I snagged it and added it to my pile.

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

A2: Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be (anthology)- my interest here might be more personal than professional, tbh, thinking about writing kidlit or studying the fringes #UTedChat

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

A1: I'm hoping to convince my son to read this one with me next - A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger. I have a stack of compulsive library checkouts and purchases I need to get to myself. #UTedChat

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

Hi #UTedChat I'm Josh Whiting, a librarianish person in Granite School District. I just finished reading aloud LOTR: The Return of the King with my son last night. Also just finished The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers personally. Deciding what to start next.

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

Here are some of the things I’m working on and thinking about now…

[ read more of 'Now (January 2, 2023)' : https://t.co/Z6tqI6nsth ] https://t.co/Z6tqI6nsth

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

It has only been two days since I started posting on my site again and also syndicating the posts to various places, and I’m finally ready to admit:

it is in fact a huge pain in the ass to use Hugo as a microblog (at least the way I have mine set up)

[… https://t.co/pVFKDrkQbi

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

Finished reading Kwame Alexander’s The Door of No Return last night, and then started on Christina Soontornvat’s The Last Mapmaker. (I’m only at ~8% on Mapmaker so I’m breaking my self-imposed “only post an update if you are at least 20% of the way throu… https://t.co/eJfd7lAhJ9

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

Finished reading Windswept by Margi Preus last night, and then started in on The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander [~35%].

Getting into an active reading mode with books of my own choosing. It has been awhile.

[ read more of 'Reading Update - Novemb… https://t.co/RCjIte6wcO

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

It feels like the last days of social media, looting, anarchy, the scattering of peoples and the confounding of languages, so I feel like I can post again with abandon now. Posts no longer feeling chiseled in stone, but wandering snowflakes that might me… https://t.co/CFPtdCGvBK

[Granite Educational Technology @GraniteEdTech]

Students and teachers in Granite schools can use Minecraft: Education Edition in the classroom, even on Chromebooks!

Our latest blog post shows you how to access it and why Minecraft can be such a powerful platform for learning.

https://t.co/Kvc8RONoi3

#GSDEdTech #GSDTeachers

[Granite Educational Technology @GraniteEdTech]

Are you passionate about enhancing instruction and student learning by integrating technology into your classroom? Come work with us! We are hiring elementary school technology specialists for next year.

#GSDEdTech #GSDTeachers

https://t.co/d91dnN8jbY

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

Wish I had taken a photo of this dish, because the picture on their website doesn’t do justice to the masterpiece of fresh take-out I received today.

https://t.co/cEs7YC98wc

[Joshua Whiting @jdwhiting]

Coming out of social media retirement today to tell you about the Tandoori Chicken Tin I had for lunch today from O’Falafel Etc. https://t.co/mP1wGA467V

[Granite Media - Granite Libraries @GraniteLibrary]

Check out these 100 ideas for low-or-no-prep interactive read alouds!

https://t.co/8ObhfsICCR

Thanks to our Elementary Library Specialist, Marci Bishop, for creating and sharing this list and presentation.
#GSDLibraries #GSDEdTech

[Jen Roberts, NBCT @JenRoberts1]

Student privacy matters, 6 Apps for sharing classroom pics, while obscuring student faces. https://t.co/qC5hdWDahK #caedchat #teachersofinstagram

[Dana Raidt @dana_darko]

🧵 On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, just a reminder that much of the “classic” rock we love has roots not just in Black America, but in Indigenous cultures and musicians. Highly recommend these few points of entry if you want to learn more about Native American/Indigenous musicians:

[Alex Kapitan (Radical Copyeditor) @ZrAlexKapitan]

In honor of #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020, I wrote the post I've always wanted to write about everyday racist phrases toward #IndigenousPeoples, from "let's have a powwow" to "off the reservation." #ConsciousLanguage is one key way to unlearn oppression.

https://t.co/ztuMZyqGvs

[Granite Media - Granite Libraries @GraniteLibrary]

We just updated our Hispanic Heritage & Latinx Stories collection in Sora with new titles!

Browse and borrow from the collection: https://t.co/63XLYiyUZ5

Download or print posters: https://t.co/qVD6Vj3bLN

#GSDLibraries #GSDEdTech

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

13-year-old Ruth Bader (not-yet-Ginsburg) on prejudice, its antidote, and the 5 documents that shaped humanity https://t.co/iLdisHvzTl