Laurie Halse Anderson spoke at Anderson’s Bookshop last night. She’s an amazing author and an incredibly interesting person. I came across this photograph posted on her blog @ (http://halseanderson.livejournal.com/). I’m not hard to spot, as there are few other men!
Archive for the ‘Interesting’ Category
Schu was spotted on Laurie Halse Anderson’s Blog :)
Posted in Interesting, anderson's bookshop, tagged anderson's, laurie halse anderson on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ChaCha: You ask. They answer.
Posted in Interesting, web 2.0, youtube, tagged answers, chacha, reference, text on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ChaCha is like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device – from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones – to ask any question in conversational [...]
Mo Willems on NPR
Posted in Interesting, children's books, tagged all things considered, cartoons, illustrations, mo willems, npr on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cartoonist, children’s book illustrator and author Mo Willems is turning his hand to radio cartooning.
Yeah, he knows, he knows — people can’t see the cartoons on the radio. Nontheless, he and Michele Norris are giving it a go on All Things Considered. Willems will describe the cartoon, and Norris will take a stab at the [...]
Peter Rabbit on Google
Posted in Education, Interesting, children's books, tagged google, peter rabbit on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Peter Rabbit on Google, originally uploaded by Litandmore.
Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter! This may be my favorite Google logo.
Txt2pic
Posted in Interesting, websites, tagged photos, web 2.0 on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this cool photo and text manipulation site over at Lisamm’s blog. Thanks
http://www.txt2pic.com/
The State of the Web Summer 2008
Posted in Interesting, web 2.0, websites, tagged super, technology, web, web 2.0 on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out The State of the Web @ http://0at.org/summer-2008.html.
The State of the Web Summer 2008, originally uploaded by Litandmore.
Thsrs
Posted in Education, Interesting, web 2.0, websites, tagged dictionary, resource, thesaurus, tool, website on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thsrs is a thesaurus that gives you shorter words. Interesting!
http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/
Truth?
Posted in Education, Interesting, library, tagged dumb, Education, google, nicholas carr, technology on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Truth?, originally uploaded by Litandmore.
Written by Nicholas Carr
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space [...]
Jing Project
Posted in Interesting, library, youtube, tagged jing, web 2.0 on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
http://www.jingproject.com/
Jing is a neat, interactive tool!
The Black Book of Colors
Posted in Interesting, books, children's books, tagged art, black book of colors, blind, color, menena tottin, rosana faria on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Title: The Black Book of Colors
Author: Cottin, Menena and Faria, Rosana
Reading level: 3.6
Schu’s rating: Four :) out of four
Note: It was originally published in Spanish as El libro negro de los colores.
This is the perfect book to convey the power of touch. It encourages children to use other senses to experience colors, and helps them better [...]
Websites for Images
Posted in Education, Interesting, reference, websites, tagged Education, kids, teachers, websites on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Images for Kids
Using Pictures in Lessons
http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/camp/lessons.htm
Citing Images
http://fusion.babson.edu/html/library/pg.cfm?ID=52#images
Picsearch (Family friendly)
http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?color=both&anim=no&size=1p&aui=1
Kid’s Image Search Tools
http://www.kidsclick.org/psearch.html
Pics4Learning
http://pics.tech4learning.com/
Classroom Clipart
http://classroomclipart.com/
Kids Domain (icons)
http://www.kidsdomain.com/icon/
Educational Clip Art
http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
MS Clip Art
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Other Sources for Images
American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.html
Barry’s Clip Art
http://www.barrysclipart.com/
Google Images
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en
Yahoo! Picture Gallery
http://gallery.yahoo.com/
Alta Vista Images
http://www.altavista.com/image/default
Bubl Link Catalog of Images
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/types/images.htm
Ditto
http://www.ditto.com/
(Thank you, Chris Balsano, for the list.)
Spell With Flickr
Posted in Interesting, web 2.0, tagged flickr, technology, websites on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It feels strange to blog about something other than Road Trip ‘08. I suppose this is reality. I started two new classes today and have already learned about a cool website: http://metaatem.net/words/. It allows you to spell words using Flickr images. Happy exploring!
Should I make a video titled: Where the h**** is John Reading?
Posted in Interesting, road trip, youtube, tagged dancing, Funny, where the hell is matt, youtube on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matt is a 31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In [...]
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