I love the sense of community that blogs can create.  It’s brainstorming - internet style, really, with all the value that we get from the brainstorming process, as well as that personal (yuk hate the word) bonding. 

I’ve found a corollary of this process… where the brainstorming happens in person and then the results are shared on the web.  Normally, isolated pockets of people get together and share ideas and the synergy develops and the excitement builds as the whole becomes far greater than the sum of the parts and individuals are boosted - and then the whole thing disappears, evaporates from the world (although of course a few will transfer the energy out into their networks.)  But if the results of a session like this are shared on the web, then the whole community benefits.

 And this is just by preamble to a huge appreciation of the Pre Book Week Extravangaza team who shared their ideas on the internet.  Thank you so much.  From all those Teacher-Librarians particularly who are harried and hurried, and in the midst of it all, lose any creativity, and who now have the inspiration of the ideas of those people who got together and shared theirs.

Thank you.