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A Game for Swallows and I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is such an important book because the voice of young Zeina is so authentic. She doesn’t know that life inside Beirut in the 1980s is unusual as it is as it has always been. The…
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Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I find it amazing how quickly Brian Vaughan’s characters can be developed in this short graphic novel. As usual, Vaughan’s visual aesthetic does not disappoint. However because there are about 4 pages of nudity and sexuality that are outside the limitations of…
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#UGIGnite15: the UGDSB leadership conference on Innovation
The UGDSB hosts its educators and leadership team at a 30 hour conference filled with keynotes, colleague workshops and of course, networking! This year the theme is to ignite our innovation in education. Here is the full story told in the tweets of the conference. https://storify.com/banana29/ugignite15-starting-the-school-year-with-a-blast Here is my presentation in full: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H8h6NAig92OrXF8qXG2ADG74vVAh8aFVvXZ2Q3RShHU/edit?usp=sharing …and here…
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Humble beginnings: launching #BIT15Reads
The first steps of #BIT15Reads Book Club In 2014, a bold man took on the daunting task of discussing a book at an educational technology conference. That session catapulted our quest for deeper meaning and so we bring to you the Bring IT Together book club (#BIT15Reads) The aim of the book club is to deepen…
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Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith My rating: 3 of 5 stars Andrew Smith ‘s book Grasshopper Jungle came highly recommended to me as a secondary school teacher-librarian as something that would connect with those elusive, hard-to-read teens. Scientifically it checks a number of those ‘should-I-buy-it’ boxes: involves issues of gender-identity, bullying, marginalized characters, and it’s…
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We Are Water by Wally Lamb
We Are Water by Wally Lamb My rating: 4 of 5 stars I often describe Wally Lamb as a writer who really gets in the heads of women so I was pleasantly surprised to see him prominent male characters in We Are Water. Like his other books, this novel delves into some heavy topics of…
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