Jenny, one of the most insightful classroom teacher bloggers you'll ever read at Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It generously opened up her classroom for this series of short videos on how she is using VoiceThread with her first graders! Wow.
When I used to run the children's section at a big box bookstore I would often have parents come in and actually consider dropping eighty to a hundred bucks on nonfiction books on like Lewis and Clark for a report their kid had to do over the weekend. I'd ask, um, what about the public library? Often they would smack themselves on the forehead V-8 style. I don't know what it is about people forgetting about the public library, but Linda Homes over at NPRs Monkey See blog has a great post up about rediscovering the joys of the library.
Roger Ebert has really found his writing voice since losing his physical one. Here's a TED talk that was just released about his experiences. He "talks" about how social media has saved his sanity because it's a kind of conversation he can still participate in. He has even "met" many other disabled people who connect this way. He mentions one blog in particular that if you can laugh with a politically incorrect disabled person that calls his blog Smart Ass Cripple, than you'll love it. Enjoy!
And did you see that if you don't mind ads on your screensavers, you can now get a Kindle for $114!? I read a theory online (sorry, didn't keep the link) that if their price decreases keep going the way they have since the Kindle first debuted that it'll be basically free with some bundled package of ebooks or Amazon Prime by November. Nothing surprises me anymore.
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