I want to recommend a book today.
Curriculum 21
Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Contributing authors: Stephen Wilmarth, Vivien Stewart, Tim Tyson, Frank W. Baker, David Niguidula, Jamie P. Cloud, Alan November, Bill Sheskey, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick.
I am usually a fast reader, but I have been taking my time with this book. [...]
Technology is not about “replacing” learning nor teaching. Technology is a tool to make learning and teaching possible in ways that it never was before nor that we had ever imagined (Well, maybe Gene Roddenberry from Star Trek had).
I would like to share a small examples of how technology tools can enhance a learning experience [...]
So, what about books?
How do YOU read, buy, store and (maybe even) write books?
Are you opposed to reading digital books? Are you clinging to the smell and feel of the hard cover? Are you a hybrid? Have you completely abandoned paper reading and writing or holding on to it? How do YOU purchase and store [...]
While scanning my RSS Reader, the words book and meme, struck me.
Chris Craft from Crucial Thought posted a fast and easy book meme, that you can participate in.
Here are the rules:
Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
Go to page 56.
Find the 5th sentence.
Write this sentence – either here or on your blog.
Copy these [...]
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 [...]
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