Favorite Holiday Specials & Movies | it's yaytime! Christmas Specials 2014 | it's yaytime! Joshua | 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. Leadership from the center is not new—but perhaps it is a new essential in a transitional time. At her Connected Librarian session on October 7, Judy O’Connell (@heyjudeonline), course director for the School of Information Studies at Australia’s Charles Sturt University, reminded us that 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the Web.
“The book did not take its own form until 50 years after it was invented,” O’Connell said, evoking a Gutenberg parenthesis. We, too, are smack in the middle of a paradigm shift. Leadership during this particular parenthesis, or transitional digital stage, is essential. 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. Joshua | 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. Various mysteries come together over the course of the book.
Hugo Cabret, the story of an orphan clock keeper and thief in a Paris train station, reached No. 59 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Read or Share this story: This is happening. Net Neutrality–START PAYING ATTENTION! | Creative Libraries Utah and Colorado. Joshua | 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. Before the word processor, before Whiteout, before Post It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at least that’s what Jane Austen used to make edits in one of her rare manuscripts. In 2011, the Bodleian Library acquired the manuscript of Austen’s abandoned novel, The Watsons. In announcing the acquisition, the Bodleian wrote: The Watsons is Jane Austen’s first extant draft of a novel in process of development and one of the earliest examples of an English novel to survive in its formative state.
Only seven manuscripts of fiction by Austen are known to survive.The Watsons manuscript is extensively revised and corrected throughout, with crossings out and interlinear additions. Janeausten.ac.uk (the web site where Austen’s manuscripts have been digitized) takes a deeper dive into the curious quality of The Watsons manuscript, noting: The manuscript is written and corrected throughout in brown iron-gall ink. You can find The Watsons online here: Related Content:
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: Are you just trying to get through the day/week/month? Do others drive your work or do you drive your work? Operating in a way where survival dominates your time actually changes your brain. When scarcity captures our attention, it changes how we think—whether it is at the level of milliseconds, hours, or days and weeks. Clearly, this does not support the innovation and time needed to be successful. However, all is not lost. When you invest, you spend time on long range items that will likely pay off down the line. This idea between survival and investment comes from Daniel Yoo, the founder of Goalbook, and I find it to be an incredibly helpful frame.
Let me give you an example. 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. Today, she’s regarded as a thought leader on these topics. On top of her presenting and consulting work, she’s now an educational consultant for Mackin Educational Resources, the Director of School and Library Strategy for In This Together Media and the Executive Director of Library & Educational Services for Biblionasium. Digital citizenship is a new topic at Flocab. Flocabulary: That’s true! 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.” Well, that just isn’t true anymore. Nor are many other Chromebook myths. From Photoshop to Office and beyond, here are five powerful things you might be surprised to learn you can do with a Chromebook. 1. Adobe and Google recently announced they’d be making Photoshop available as a streaming Chrome app.
Google It sounds unnecessarily complicated (and means an Internet connection is vital), but Photoshop is actually such a demanding application that this could be useful. Currently, this feature is in beta and available only to “select North America based Adobe education customers with a paid Creative Cloud membership.” 2. Microsoft likes to trumpet how Chromebooks don’t have the full desktop version of Microsoft Office, and that’s true. 3. Google is working toward allowing all Android apps to run on Chrome OS. 4. 5. Ways to be more deliberate and creative in your social media use: "10 Twitter Hacks To Help You Rethink Your Social Voice" via @TeachThought | Pinterest | To b… 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 so too will we.... As another way to connect with the story, my first graders created images of the imaginary friend that they would like to come find them. Love these... About Beekle: "This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. 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. One of the biggest factors, as Newsweek’s Elijah Wolfson points out, was the use of social media by the residents of Ferguson as well as those sympathetic to the concerns about hyper-aggressive police tactics.
Speaking about Ferguson, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes told a New York Times reporter, “this story was put on the map, driven, and followed on social media more so than any story I can remember since the Arab spring.” Amidst the surge of social media, a number of journalists reported on what they perceived to be a new phenomenon, “Black Twitter.” The use of the term can be problematic insofar as it tends to frame Black Twitter as a monolith practice. A Brief History of Black Twitter Starting around 2007, the convergence of mobile devices and social media began to upset the traditional digital divide narrative. Young African Americans drive Black Twitter. #IfTheyGunnedMeDown” 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. Actually, they’re a wildly popular, semi-secretly Christian rock band. Christianity Today regularly covers U2, not just as another Christian rock band but as one of special significance. Their break with organized religion was probably inevitable.
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--PHOTOS. 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. Much to the dismay of urban explorers, forest ravers, and kings of carousels with dreams to build German Disneylands, the abandoned Berlin amusement park Spreepark is at the end of its era. Not only does 2014 mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but with it the fall of one of Berlin's most beloved former GDR pleasure palaces. Unfortunately the Witte family then stumbled into a Monopoly-esque "Do not pass go. 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. We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs. I've done some of these. Recently. Right now, in fact. | 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. I started dating my angel, Jaime Holland. 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. It was everything bad about everything, all at once.
But instead of distancing myself from the horror, I soaked in it. It made me think about what makes terrible Facebook behavior terrible, and why other Facebook behavior isn’t annoying at all. A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it. To be unannoying, a Facebook status typically has to be one of two things: 1) Interesting/Informative 1) The Brag. Loved this marketing blurb for proto #YALIT I found in the back of a 70s paperback. | REACH ACROSS THE GENERATIONS. 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 first day I was in second grade, I came to school and noticed that there was a new, very pretty girl in the class—someone who hadn’t been there the previous two years. Her name was Alana and within an hour, she was everything to me. When you’re seven, there aren’t really any actionable steps you can take when you’re in love with someone. But for me, it became suddenly relevant a few months later, when during recess one day, one of the girls in the class started asking each of the boys, “Who do youuu want to marry?” Disaster. I was still new to being a human and didn’t realize that the only socially acceptable answer was, “No one.”
The second I answered, the heinous girl ran toward other students, telling each one, “Tim said he wants to marry Alana!” The news quickly got back to Alana herself, who stayed as far away from me as possible for days after. Part 2: Taming the Mammoth No. 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. I will evangelize the use of data-driven decision-making because my gut tells me it’s the right thing to do. I will take expense reports extremely seriously, much more seriously than the HR Code of Conduct, which does not apply to me. Because I have no life outside of work, I will expect the same of my team. I will take credit for any project I named. If an important executive disagrees with something I say, I will apologize for my choice of words and then rephrase it in a way that makes it seem like we were actually in agreement all along. I will never contradict myself. I will drop names. One of my opinions is worth three of your facts. 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.
Here's beautiful ode to the power of Minecraft by author @robinsloan. Makes me want to give it an honest playing. This wouldn’t be enough on its own. Obscure techniques have been a part of video games from the beginning; Nintendo Power surely had a dusting of secret knowledge. What’s different here is that Minecraft connects this lure to the objective not of beating the game, but making more of the game. “Game” doesn’t even do it justice. What we’re really talking about here is a generative, networked system laced throughout with secrets.
Five years in, Minecraft (the system) has bloomed into something bigger and more beautiful than any game studio — whether a tiny one like Markus Persson’s or a huge one like EA — could ever produce on its own. Turns out you can do a lot with those blocks. We’re in a new century now, and its hallmark is humans doing things together, mostly on screens, at scales unimaginable in earlier times. In the 2010s and beyond, it is not the case that every cultural product ought to be a generative, networked system. It’s made of blocks, I suppose. Granite School District Annual Report 2014 (via @graniteschools) 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. Incidental Comics: Life with A Toddler In celebration of Father’s... Joshua | Oh Mai. 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 | Granite Media. This is what it means when someone favorites your #tweet. Microsoft unveils its third-generation #Surface Pro 3 device at an event in NYC. 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. Gorilla vs. Bear SUMMER-ISH | This mix is almost 3 years old, but it popped up again in a shuffle recently and made my evening. So great. | Music | Pinterest |… 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. A hilarious archive of spurious correlations. Joshua | Costco Wholesale. Joshua | Jordan River Parkway--Winchester Entrance. 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 | The Huffington Post. 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. 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? | educating alice.
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 … Joshua | 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 | Granite Media. A Simplified Bloom's Taxonomy Poster For Students.
Quoth the raven.. whatevs. #Holdshelf: 7 Days Away. WIRED Space Photo of the Day | Mar. 23, 2014: Monkey Head Nebula NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage. Partners in Learning. Sipping the Khan Academy Kool Aid - GeekDad. ALA offers unlimited virtual seats for ALA Youth Media Awards webcast | News and Press Center. A Quick Start Guide to Participating in a Twitter Chat.pdf awesome guide from @thomascmurray #ed…