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Neil Gaiman has a great little piece on NPR about his love of audio books. I love them too. I couldn't still be in my book club and be working on a graduate degree if it weren't for the occasional audio book to get me through. "But you can read them faster than you can listen to them," my ...
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Thanks, Mom, for taking this picture of me being there to catch Harper as she took her first big leap off the diving board this summer. I'm taking a big leap myself (hence the sporadic-at-best posting). I'm in the final four or five month push on my graduate program to be that coolest of all ...
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Over at The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast, the host, neurologist Dr. Steven Novella has done a special report with three other medical experts giving you 47 minutes of education on what you really need to know about the H1N1 flu pandemic. These guys know what they're talking about, ...
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The Arrival as a stage play!?! Now playing Down Under . I certainly hope someone brings it here to the United States. It sounds magical. It would make a great animated film as well, but I'm sure Mr. Tan has had enough of it--it took him over four years to produce this fantastic book. A film ...
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My Wonderful World is a fantastic site put out by National Geographic to give us parents and teachers better geography resources. Pass it on. The Book Whisperer has a post on a great use on a Ning in a classroom . Ironically, Ning.com is blocked in my district. Oh, well. Maybe you can try ...
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This week's Booking Through Thursday question is asking what authors you think will stand the test of time and what books you think will still be read in a hundred years. To last that long, a book really needs to be timeless. One interesting thing I've noticed is that while not wildly ...
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Today's NYT has an article, Library In Your Pocket , about some people preferring to read their ebooks on their smart phones rather than buying a separate device for the purpose. Of course, I don't really care as long as they're reading but it is interesting to watch how this plays out. I'm ...
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This was written for the Georgia Library Media Association . Empowering Learners encourages us to become early adopters of digital sources of information to better serve our stakeholders. I’ve never considered myself a “tech” person but have always liked to stay relatively current and aware ...
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In response to this article in USA Today, " NSSE changes how colleges judge success, weakness ," Priscilla Gutierrez has this to say: "How ironic that the five keys to learning identified as critical to college-level learning (i.e. academic challenge, active/collaborative learning, ...
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Here's the official site . Fitting that it's during the International Year of Astronomy . I loved the guy. He wrote one of my favorite books . You've probably heard the following speech, but that's ok. It won't hurt to hear it again. Enjoy.
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Booking Through Thursday's question this week is about biography/autobiography. If you really like biographies or autobiographies than you might want to avoid this treasure of a novel. The full title is Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffry Cartwright ...
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Sesame Street Sesame Street/PBS Kids SesameWorkshop.org Yes, I've grown up with these guys and can still, every once in a while, convince my daughter to watch it with me. When she gives up on it I'll have to find another excuse...
