#BIT15Reads
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#BIT15Reads: your Top 12 books and conference update
Tonight we announce: your Top 12 books our event at BIT15 and what it will look like I’m joined by Jim Pedrech and Tim King as we discuss these things and more. Watch us here:
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#BIT15Reads: Passionate disagreement
“….ideas that inspire passionate disagreement can lead to success” (Clive Veroni, Spin, p. 27) At last I’ve found a common thread between three #BIT15Reads books (two books is easy). Veroni says that modern marketing has finally understood that being really disagreeable, can also make you memorable and he goes on to say that politicians have…
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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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