Fourth Graders in our school study the state of Florida and “Explorers”. Traditionally they would research and create a written book report.

THIS YEAR…
The social studies teachers assigned one explorer to a group of 3 students. They did their research in the Media Center from a wide variety of sources.

The teacher created an account with [...]

Most of my reading these days comes from the web, blogs, wikis, twitter, etc. I am reading mostly in a media where authors read, write and interact with the same tools as I do. When I read "traditional" media, such as a book or magazine, I need to remind myself that I am in a [...]

As a result of my post “Books I Read Around the World “, where I added a Google Map of books with settings in countries around the world I had read, I stumbled upon an amazing blog:
Book Around the World
I have been diving deeper and deeper in this great resource of book recommendations that has [...]

Sometimes, when you arrange information in a different order or through a different media, patterns become apparent that were not visible before to you. Those a some of the benefits I so enjoy of Web 2.0 tools.
I have always made it a point to read books in Spanish and German. That is one of the [...]

I must say that I am enjoying updating my own and looking at other bloggers’ “What am I reading” widgets. The issue I am facing is deciding which tool to use? There is no reason in maintaining your book shelf on more than one site. This blog post is about helping me decide which of [...]