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Which way do we go? The “e-book” dilemma

December 11th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Book recommendations

It’s Beta vs. VHS vs. Laserdisc all over again.  8-Track tape versus cassette.  We’ve all been there, standing on the precipice debating formats. The precipice which is foremost right now in my mind is what to do about e-books.  We are faced with Kindles, Nooks, Sony Ebook readers, iTouches, Follett e-books online, Netlibrary, Gale Virtual Reference Shelf, [...]

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High School Daze to Praise

April 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Book recommendations

 I’ve been tagged by a few people for the High School Daze to Praise meme so I thought I’d toss in my contribution! (thanks Diane, Susan, and Doug). The name of the game started by Paul at Quoteflections is–pick a book you’d recommend for teens, include a photo, entitle it Meme: High School Daze to Praise, [...]

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Learning with experts

November 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Book recommendations, libraries, Web 2.0

 Today the library held our first “virtual” author visit via Skype.   One of our sophomore English classes, accompanied by teacher Kristy Robins, interviewed children’s and ya author Cynthia Leitich Smith (author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name), by means of the text-based chat feature of Skype.  The engagement level of the students really illustrated the power of bringing an expert [...]

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What’s on your bookshelf?

September 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Book recommendations

Ethan Bodnar (a blogging high school senior) has a clever request for people to share photos of what’s on their bookshelves. He’s created a flickr group for readers to post a photograph of some of their books as a way to illustrate something about themselves.   What a great project for students as well! To help him get started, I’m tagging [...]

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Unbowed

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Book recommendations, Future students

  Happy Earth Day!   Wangari Maathai, who instituted one of my favorite “green” projects, the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, has a new book, Unbowed, about her experiences as a tree planting project turned into a democratic movement in her country.  I first learned about her efforts from the film, Nobelity Project, which is the inspiration of Austin author Turk Pipkin [...]

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