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#BIT15Reads: Where do we go from here?
Welcome to all new members of #BIT15Reads! Hello to all of you who’ve been with us since the beginning. We gained almost 30 new members since November 4th bringing our total membership to 92 members. Fantastic. I’d like to propose a few ideas for moving forward: a) we keep the name #BIT15Reads until Dec. 31,…
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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: 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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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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CanConnectEd2015: Transliteracy and the teacher-librarian
This week I’ve been attending the Connect conference in Niagara Falls for the first time and as a representative of the Ontario School Library Association Council. It also gives me a chance to speak about my M.Ed. capping paper on how teacher-librarians are in the ideal position to facilitate transliteracy. I mean, we really do…
threadbare beauty 