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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: Henry Louis Gates; a long over-due post
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Henry Louis Gates; a long over-due post. Certainly not current news, but still bouncing around in my mind, is the Academic Lecture on September 14 th. Which Henry Louis Gates gave. I have to admit, the lecture was not what I expected. In preparation for hearing him speak, my classmates and I read the 2 nd. And 3rd chapters ("Barriers to Equity" by Kathleen Fulton and Robert Sibley, and "Factors of the Divide by Karin M. Wiburg. Toward Digital Equity ed. Gwen Solomon and others.
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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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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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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: Semantic Web
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Sunday, November 19, 2006. Has anyone else started to notice words underlined in blue popping up all over the place? Call it tagging, call it tangent provoking, call it Semantic Webbing, whatever you call it, it brings exciting prospects. As Andy Carvin writes,. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who developed the web 17 years ago as a way of sharing knowledge with his colleagues. The Semantic Web and the Online Educational Experience. November 3, 2006. By Andy Carvin, 11:12AM. 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...
