About The Learning Network - NYTimes.com

The Learning Network - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com

Fiction or Nonfiction? Considering the Common Core’s Emphasis on Informational Text

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com

"What Should Children Read?" (PDF)

David Brooks - "The Other Education" and "The Power of the Particular"

COMMON CORE PRACTICE - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com

Common Core Practice Lexicography, Lab Lit and Ethical Investing - NYTimes.com

Teacher Resources New York Times Newspaper in Education

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com

What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com

TED - Ken Robinson on Education

TED-Ed

Sorge's TED Viewing Guide and TED Pitch Sheet

Profundity Scale Worksheet

Nonfiction Worksheet

AP Book Lists

Jim Burke's Digital Textbook

Jim Burke's Weekly Reader

Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week

"Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" by Wendell Berry

Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

Connections - Education @ WVIZ ideastream

DLackey's Delicious Links

Linda's Other Life

Sample Lesson Plans and Chart

And here's our WVIZ Blended Learning Workshop Brochure.

If any of this sounds good to you, we can be reached here.

Read about it here.

So I re-titled my tumblr site The Next Thirty Years - take a click to see what I've been up to.

National Poetry Month - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

Poem-a-Day by Knopf Doubleday

Poetry Everywhere Videos including Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost and The Lanyard by Billy Collins

Audio & Podcasts

Poetry Out Loud

The Libraries Didn't Burn - Poets.org

Poetry by Marianne Moore

READING FOR PLEASURE ORAL PRESENTATION

After reading a novel, nonfiction work or biography, prepare a 5-7 minute speech that includes the following:

1. Introduction – attention-getter
2. Oral reading - one or two-page reading from your book including introductory or concluding explanation of context.
3. Author background - include reference to at least one critical source or review.
4. Conflict Analysis - refer to specific examples from your novel.
5. Theme - "Sometimes in life . . ."
6. Use quotes from your book, its author and reviewers to illustrate conflict and theme.
7. Your personal reaction/opinion/response to the novel.
8. Topic outline and Works Cited – submit to Turnitin.com

PRESENTATION RUBRIC

___ Introduction of selection (5)
___ Reading - Vocal Energy/Articulation/Posture/Gestures (10)
___ Author Information (10)
___ Discussion of conflicts and themes (10)
___ Personal Reaction (10)
___ Use of quotations from book, author or reviewer (5)
___ TOTAL (50)

See also:
My Reading Life - Mrs. Lackey's Reading Blog
The Big Read
Other Book Lists
Penguin First Year and Common Reads

Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right not to read.
2. The right to skip pages.
3. The right to not finish.
4. The right to reread.
5. The right to read anything.
6. The right to escapism.
7. The right to read anywhere.
8. The right to browse.
9. The right to read out loud.
10. The right to not defend your tastes.

From Better Than Life, 1999, Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers

Stranger Than Fiction: Dustin Hoffman Interview

Stranger Than Fiction Worksheet

Kurt Vonnegut in Defense of Reading

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir

How does an obsession with a person, place, issue, object or activity express or demonstrate a particularly American ideal or belief?

Historical
Geographic
Technological
Artistic
Biographic
Societal

Information Sources:

Site visit
Interview
Print
Video
Audio
Journalistic

"Green" Publication:

Blogger, Tumblr, GoogleDocs, or website
MLA documentation with works cited linking to source material and submitted to Turnitin.com.

Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'

1984 Macintosh Computer SuperBowl Commercial

Steve Jobs Reshaped Industries
By By DAVID POGUE
Published: August 25, 2011
It’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever see another 15 years of blockbuster, culture-changing hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad — from Apple or anyone else. And that’s really, really sad.

How Steve Jobs Changed The Way We Listen
by Bob Boilen NPR
"Steve Jobs and Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, but they sure made it work."

I believe in lingering – long conversational digressions, and slow time spent hammocked on the deck. I believe in seed-time, the gradual germination of plants, personalities, ideas. I believe in starting more projects than I can finish, in the promise of unfinished business. Same goes for books. I believe in listening to the sound between the words, enjoying the view between the lines on the page. I believe in trees and dirt, and in waiting for leaves to decompose into mulch, for finches to return in spring. I believe that every word counts, makes a difference. I believe in chewing slowly, in being the last person to leave the table.

Official Woody Guthrie Website

http://www.imaginepeace.com/imaginepeace.html

Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/science/02see.html
By STEVE LOHR
Published: January 1, 2011
Computerized surveillance systems can protect hospital patients, watch
for criminals — or invade your privacy.

Global Entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02fob-consumed-t.html
By ROB WALKER
Published: December 30, 2010
How online geo-tools and their tweakers make the surveillance state fun.

Rewired
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02FOB-medium-t.html
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: December 30, 2010
The ideological implications of our new fiber-optic infrastructure.

The Tea Maker by Yoko Ono

The Inspiration - NYTimes.com by Ray Davies

John Lennon - An Appreciation

LENNONYC - PBS American Masters

PBS Arts : Remembering Lennon: The Vigil for John Lennon

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