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#BIT15Reads Google hangout: Making Connections
This Sunday September 20th at 7:30 ET please join our Google hangout as we talk about the connections you’re making in your reading. To join the Google Hangout on Air you need the invitation link here: https://plus.google.com/events/c04tvql6btg4nhj40peum6b0iak and you need to be in your Google + account. If you have more than one Google +…
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#BIT15Reads: Connections text-to-text
This week Martha and Stepan made a connection to each other because they’re reading the same book and then made this beautiful connection to another text via Chapter 3 of Daniel Levitin’s book The Organized Mind Do you ever have a piece of music come to mind when you’re reading? As an English teacher and…
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#BIT15Reads: Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Vikram Chandra’s final words of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, he says: “Makers tend to fetishize tools that they use successfully, and computer geeks are no exception—hackers will tell you…
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#BIT15Reads: Google hangout and making your reading visible
Today at 7:30 pm ET I’ll be hosting our second Google Hangout On Air so please join us if you’re able at: https://plus.google.com/events/cjq0v12mnjjivqrogee67tsebbo or watch the live videostream here: A few years ago now I worked with a team at my school in a Professional Learning Practice action research project where we learned how to…
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#BIT15Reads Flipboard of our reading
I want the book club to be as accessible as possible to every member. As of this moment, we have 63 members from Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and beyond to Jordan and New Zealand. This week I found an app on my iPad to replace my old aggregator Zite called Flipboard. An aggregator creates reading…
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#BIT15Reads Labour Day Weekend Google Hangout On Air
Testing testing! This is our first attempt at meeting face-to-face….online! Using Google Hangouts on Air this is supposed to let me: talk to some of my favourite #BIT15Reads members livestream our discussion record the event for later playback via YouTube Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time, because we’re going to try to…
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