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Modern Classics: Great Books Make Great Movies
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Great Books Make Great Movies. I've always been a huge fan of movies based on my favorite y.a. books - and traditionally, the movie's stay true to the book, but make it readily available to a wider audience. Following in the footsteps of widely popular y.a. books-turned-movies 'Harry Potter', 'The Chronicles of Narnia', and 'Stuart Little', 'Charlotte's Web' bring's E.B. White's classic story of a loveable pig to the big screen. Wednesday, December 13, 2006.
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Modern Classics: September 2006
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Sunday, September 24, 2006. Pop Fiction" vs. The Classics. True, some classics are required by school districts, but, increasingly, I see teachers making substitutions. In a time when some of my colleagues are turning away from the classics and assigning pop fiction novels, because they're easier to read and kids like them, this Steinbeck novel led me to reflect on the advantages of "plowing through" a classic work with students. Why wouldn't kids be more interested in "pop fiction"? So, when my juniors ...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Second Life
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. A recent CNN article by Grace Wong. Explored the excitement of educators stirred up by Second Life classrooms. Wong describes the birth and rapid fire of online classrooms:. Gives an even more vivid description of what this first Second Life Harvard classroom is like:. While a somewhat realistic representation of the real world in vertual space strikes many as exciting, Wong points out that,. Some are skeptical about how much of an impact "Second Life" will have on the educatio...
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Modern Classics: December 2006
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Great Books Make Great Movies. I've always been a huge fan of movies based on my favorite y.a. books - and traditionally, the movie's stay true to the book, but make it readily available to a wider audience. Following in the footsteps of widely popular y.a. books-turned-movies 'Harry Potter', 'The Chronicles of Narnia', and 'Stuart Little', 'Charlotte's Web' bring's E.B. White's classic story of a loveable pig to the big screen. Wednesday, December 13, 2006. As my daughter h...
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Modern Classics: Adults Reading YA Lit
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Adults Reading YA Lit. In a recent issue of "The Oregonian", columnist April Henry debuted her new column surrounding the young adult literature genre. As my daughter has grown older, the books I read to her every night have changed. Through her, I'm revisiting some books for teens I loved when I was her age, like Elizabeth George Speare's "The Witch of Blackbird Pond," and discovering contemporary books, such as Margaret Haddix's "Running Out of Time.". Henry is not the fir...
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Modern Classics: Taking YA Lit to New Websites...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Taking YA Lit to New Websites. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233. It was only a matter of time before publishers figured out how to meld the the appeal of internet gaming and online social networking with books. Enter. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 is about a teenage girl whose life goes from difficult to worse when her best friend becomes angry with her and her boyfriend Victor, who may not be the boy he appears to be, breaks up with her. I personally think th...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Retrospection
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. In one last tribute to David Warlick, a compliment he received. From a conference attendee really struck a chord with me:. He kept saying how right my address was, that it wasn’t about the stuff, it wasn’t about the technology, that it was about the information, that the kids figure out the technology for themselves. They need us to teach them how to work the information. November 17, 2006 at 10:58 am. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Old Man Dragonfly: Possibility Thinking
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. To the common question, "what does this actually look like in schools? Has constructed his many ideas and visions for Web 2.0 technology in public schools into the format of an entertaining story entitled, " A Day in the Life of Web 2.0. In his blog, 2 Cents Worth. He describes his article as "a miandering. Tour of a handful of applications of read/write tools in the culture of a school.". Could serve to make what happens in the classroom more public follows:. Is worthy of other...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Google for Teachers proves a disappointment so far...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Google for Teachers proves a disappointment so far. Andy Carvin's October 13th article, " What's Up With Google For Teachers? In PBS teacher sources' learning.com caught my attention today. Apparently Carvin is not the only one who thinks that Google for Educators. Some of the responce comments painted the problem in a little less sinister light. Jeremiah McNicoles, for instance, explained " I honestly think Google starts most of their Google Labs projects off in this way. Harga...
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Old Man Dragonfly: Public Student Work and Copyright Issues? Oh yeah...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. Carvin explains that before creative commons licences,. This whole issue is something I didn't really think about when I was "Posibility Thinking". Encouraging Student Creativity with Creative Commons. August 1, 2006. By Andy Carvin, 10:41AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Google Offering Novels For Free.
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