Favorite Holiday Specials & Movies. Christmas Specials 2014. Costco Gasoline. S Top 10 Tech Trends 2014. Announced in July, the American Association of School Libraries (AASL)’s new mission statement said it clearly: AASL empowers leaders to transform teaching and learning.
The trends we see this year emphasize significant opportunities and the critical importance of transformative library leadership as we rethink our platforms, collection, space, and new opportunities for instruction. Joshua Whiting’s Reading Progress for The Crossover - Nov 28, 2014 10:50PM. Meanwhile In America, Brown Girls Are Still Dreaming. FIRST LEGO League in Granite School District. Mountview Park. A new book by Brian Selznick! Yay! Few authors combine words and pictures as creatively as Brian Selznick, whose 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret won a Caldecott Medal and was adapted for film by Martin Scorsese.
Now Selznick will return with a new book, The Marvels, due Sept. 15, 2015 from Scholastic. It's his first book since 2011's Wonderstruck. Here's a first look at the jacket of The Marvels (ages 10 and up), described as a "multi-layered reading experience" that combines two "seemingly unrelated stories. " The illustrated story begins in 1766 with the lone survivor of a shipwreck named Billy Marvel, and follows the adventures of his family over five generations. The "word" story opens in 1990 and tracks a boy called Joseph who has run away from school in London.
"I'm thrilled to finally share The Marvels with readers after three years of intense work on the book, including living briefly in London and spending an entire year drawing the pictures," Selznick said in a news release. Read or Share this story: This is happening. Net Neutrality–START PAYING ATTENTION! St. Therese Catholic Church. @edutopia Here’s a professional dress video our district’s communications dept. made for us. Even monsters are Made with Code. Code your own for #Halloween at #madewithcode. Moby-Dick Marathon 2014. @Miranda_Paul @TumbleCreekDani I happened on one, also happening in November: #DigiWriMo #kidlitchat. Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Abandoned Manuscript, The Watsons.
Granite Media on Pinterest. Great stuff from @kristenswanson: Survival vs. Investment Mindset #psd70. Survival.
Just the word creates a series of emotions: fear, anxiety, stress.... And if we're striving for survival, we're not actually thriving. Instead we're searching for a solution for the next fire, or crisis, or immediate need. In schools, we often operate at the survival level. Consider these questions: Great videos here on value of twitter for professional development by @DaniKSloan @skipvia @MsVictoriaOlson Thanks! Q&A with Shannon Miller, Teacher Librarian and Digital Citizenship Expert – The Flocabulary Blog. After earning her degree in elementary education and art, Shannon Miller stayed home with her three children for thirteen years.
When a district teacher librarian position opened up, she applied, got the job, and went back to school to get a master’s in library science. As a teacher librarian, she worked with students in kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as teachers, parents, and the school community. After several years on the job, Shannon began speaking and consulting about librarianship, technology, education and connecting classrooms online with social media. 5 powerful things you didn't know Chromebooks could do.
The now-familiar knock seemingly started when the very first Googley laptop rolled off the line.
“Sure, Chromebooks are nice, but they can’t run Photoshop.” Ways to be more deliberate and creative in your social media use: "10 Twitter Hacks To Help You Rethink Your Social Voice" via @TeachThought. Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of Brown Girl Dreaming. Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of The Great Greene Heist. Schmoozing for Introverts. What would your BEEKLE Look like? @dsantat @lbschool. This week's conversation with my students centers around a character trait that I hope my students will bring to our learning community and their learning experiences: Courage.
To frame our conversation, I read The Adventures of Beekle, The Unimaginary Friend, written and illustrated by Dan Santat and published by Little Brown. Just as Beekle does the unimaginable and finds something magical. I don't think there is a valid reason not to like this. Addressing Race, Inequity Issues Through Social Media Power. The fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. began dominating the national headlines instantly.
Family Sleepover October 2014 - Natural History Museum of Utah. RT @Explorer Novelist David Mitchell on work ethic vs. the myth of the “Muse” @hkvm Have you seen this article? Do you like or ignore their religiosity? "The Church of U2" A few years ago, I was caught up in a big research project about contemporary hymns (or “hymnody,” as they say in the trade).
I listened to hundreds of hymns on Spotify; I interviewed a bunch of hymn experts. What, I asked them, was the most successful contemporary hymn—the modern successor to “Morning Has Broken” or “Amazing Grace”? Some cited recently written traditional church hymns; others mentioned songs by popular Christian musicians. But one scholar pointed in a different direction: “If you’re willing to construe the term ‘hymn’ liberally, then the most heard, most successful hymn of the last few decades could be ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,’ by U2.” Most people think of U2 as a wildly popular rock band. Christianity Today regularly covers U2, not just as another Christian rock band but as one of special significance. This book is like Anne of Green Gables meets Beavis and Butthead on the Space Mountain roller coaster in Disneyland. Inside an abandoned Berlin amusement park.
Editor’s note, Sept. 18, 2014: The original version of this post contained material and phrases sourced from an exberliner.com article without proper acknowledgment of their origin.
The original post did not meet Slate’s standards, and Slate and Atlas Obscura regret the error. The text has been revised and links have been added in order to properly credit the Exberliner writer, Rachel Glassberg. Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Addendum to the modified Maslow Hierarchy. In this 1977 video, surrealist science fiction author Philip K.
Dick suggests we are living in a computer simulation. 7 Ways To Be Insufferable On Facebook (via @waitbutwhy) The memory is vivid. New Year’s Day, 2013. I’m going about my afternoon pleasantly, when I open my email and a friend has forwarded me what she calls a particularly heinous Facebook status from her news feed, written by someone we’ll call Daniel.
It read: 2012 was a biggg year for me. I left my amazing job at NBC to move back to Chicago. By the time I finished reading, I realized that my non-phone hand was clutching tightly to my forehead, forcefully scrunching my forehead skin together. Loved this marketing blurb for proto #YALIT I found in the back of a 70s paperback. Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think. We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. Part 1: Meet Your Mammoth. The Middle Manager’s Oath - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. (To be recited by corporate managers and senior managers each morning while looking in a full-length mirror, topless, and flexing their biceps.) I will empower my team to find their own solutions to those problems, which I do not want to deal with myself.
I will be decisive in making crucial decisions that I do not trust my team enough to make themselves. Edutopia parents guide 21st century learning. The Pretend Librarian's Guide to Socially Awkward Media - NEW UPDATES! Book Release Calendar. What would be your reasoning NOT to connect your students to the world? (via @LauraGilchrist4 @mcleod) #granitedtech. "I'm the reason you shouldn't come here on Saturday." Foursquare Tip @ Costco. [Poster] Which Creative Commons License is Right for me? Creative Commons makes it easy for content creators to define a set of rules under which they would like the public to use their creative work. For instance, if you upload a photograph on the Internet, you can apply a Creative Commons license that would allow others to embed that photograph in a website or use in a presentation but not sell it commercially. The important thing to note about CC licenses is that they are irrevocable. Thus, if you release your images under a particular CC license, others will always have the right to use them under that license even if you later decide to stop distributing the images under Creative Commons.
If you have been trying to understand the terms of the various Creative Commons licenses, this comic poster from CC Poland is a good resource to start with. There are 6 types of licenses with separate conditions attached to each of them and you got to understand them well before picking a license for your work. The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning. Here's beautiful ode to the power of Minecraft by author @robinsloan. Makes me want to give it an honest playing. Granite School District Annual Report 2014 (via @graniteschools) Eilon Paz photographs record collectors in his book, Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting. If you’re functionally equivalent to a YouTube video…from @mcleod quoting @ddmeyer. And of course the dinosaurs are awesome. Architecture and design is awesome. Everything is awesome.
Captivating Portraits of Total Strangers Embracing Right After Meeting. This cool tool lets you test your personality based on your Facebook posts. When you post to Facebook, you’re not just sharing news of your most recent meal or weekend trip with your friends. You may unwittingly reveal a bit of your personality, too. A startup called Five Labs has made a new online tool that it claims can analyze your Facebook posts in order to assess your personality. The site, which is based on a University of Pennsylvania study, looks at the language you use in order to determine different aspects of your personality. Specifically, the page looks at what are called the “Big Five” personality traits: extraversion, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness. Incidental Comics: Life with A Toddler In celebration of Father’s...
Joshua. How to Make a Book Trailer. Behind the List. And help them find a path from their passions to opportunities in the real world,” 2/2. A new #SharpSchu challenge. Book List: Summer 2014 Reading for Young Adults. This is what it means when someone favorites your #tweet. Microsoft unveils its third-generation #Surface Pro 3 device at an event in NYC. Microsoft unveiled its third-generation Surface Pro 3 device at an event in New York City on Tuesday, with a larger surface area than its previous model but weighing even lighter than a MacBook Air.
The launch of the 12-inch Surface Pro 3 comes less than a year after Microsoft unveiled the Surface Pro 2, which received positive reviews for being a powerful PC inside a tablet form factor but has struggled to gain traction in the market. Image: Christina Ascani, Mashable The Surface Pro 3, which comes with a multi-position kickstand, isn't aiming to take on other tablets, but rather the MacBook Air. Microsoft has its eyes set on getting business professionals on board with its new design. I am trying to avoid being too formulaic with my tweets, but still. "What's YOUR Twitter Formula?" The Sixth Annual Book-a-Day Challenge. Why You Should Redesign Your Office For Introverts. IBM Lab Accidentally Makes New Type of Super-Strong, Recyclable Polymer. This mix is almost 3 years old, but it popped up again in a shuffle recently and made my evening. So great. Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of Blue Sea Burning.
I laughed, and then I realized this wasn’t a joke. RT @mashable UN considers whether to ban killer robots. The real world is quickly catching up to science fiction as elements that make up movies like Terminator and Robocop have officially become matters of international concern. The United Nations is holding a meeting at its location in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the legality of autonomous killer robots from Tuesday to Friday. Semi-autonomous machines — in this case, mostly drones — have already killed thousands of humans, and world leaders believe that lethal, fully autonomous machines could follow soon enough to make them worth discussing.
The group will try to come to a consensus on the definition of an autonomous weapon, which can presumably refer to anything from an autonomous humanoid robot to a fully autonomous drone, then discuss legal and ethical questions behind the use of such weapons. The meeting is expected to last all day on Tuesday and continue well into Friday, and speakers range from experts on intelligent weaponry to representatives of various nations.
A hilarious archive of spurious correlations. Costco Wholesale. Jordan River Parkway. Here's What 13 Different School Lunches From All Over The World Look Like #edc… Right on #twilightconcertseries #SLCTwilight ! Summer is set! See the full line up. 9th-grader ignored by school board takes things into her own hands…runs for school board. The 'Pie-Scraper' Burger Has 30,000 Calories, Which Is Important. Largest vinyl record pressing plant in the US is expanding by @MeganGeuss. Cover Reveal: Ally Condie's 'Atlantia' World Book Night: Taking a Stand for the Banned.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system. Mercury Venus Earth. Why Even the Worst Bloggers Are Making Us Smarter. Daft Punk feat. Panda Bear - Doin' it Right (Official Audio) Mighty Machines is probably my favorite TV show - and I don't think I feel this way just because of my 3 yr old son. Untitled. Star Wars, Spiderwick, Wonder, A Tale Dark and Grimm, and Orgami Yoda Together? 2014 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees. Here's a rundown of when you should watch tonight's total lunar eclipse. Fun-loving, Photoshopping dad replaces celebrities on album covers with his young sons [15 pics] I used to DM people this after they followed me to warn them. now they have to figure it out on their … Murray High School. Future Windows 8.1 update will finally bring back the Start menu by @AndrewWrites. NaPoWriMo. How to Bake Scientifically Accurate Cake Planets. Is Flipped Learning Really that Effective? You Might Be Surprised - Getting Smart by Dave Guymon -
Book List: 2014 New Release Titles — Elementary. A Simplified Bloom's Taxonomy Poster For Students. Quoth the raven.. whatevs. This is a generic brand video. #Holdshelf: 7 Days Away.