The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 240,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 10 days for that many people to see [...]
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Doodling: an antidote for digital distraction? tags: visual literacy visuallearning article Page 1 | How to Write about Africa | Granta 92: The View from Africa | Magazine | Granta Magazine tags: africa racism things fall apart Art Explication tags: renaissance visual literacy art lesson pdf Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the [...]
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Reap the rewards of letting your employees run free – Telegraph tags: freeformfriday innovation creativity autonomy motivation British Museum – A History of the World in 100 objects tags: worldhistory art visual literacy Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet – YouTube tags: shakespeare romeo and juliet Shakespeare: Iambic Pentameter, the Beat of the 16th Century – YouTube [...]
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Last Friday a colleague and I took some time for professional development at a high school in northern NJ that has a program similar to ours. I was very excited to meet Erin Colfax, co-author of the upcoming Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science: A Teacher’s Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response. (We [...]
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Cagle Post- Cartoons & Commentary Great website full of political cartoons! tags: socialstudies politics comics PoliticalCartoons humor history worldhistory John Green’s Gatsby – YouTube tags: greatgatsby Adolescent Literacy Research & Reports | AdLit.org tags: literacy curriculum adolescent Education Week Teacher: Confessions of a New NBCT tags: nationalboardcertification The-Essays-of-Arthur-Schopenhauer.docx Great to use with Hamlet! tags: hamlet [...]
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Described as “Garden State meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”, Wintertown is a book I have been looking forward to reading. I am probably the world’s biggest “Garden State” fan, so it sounded perfect. Fortunately, I was not disappointed! First, the structure of the book is unexpected. There are illustrations throughout the book, so upon [...]
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Some of you may have noticed that the blog has been quieter than normal lately. I mean quieter than the normal “November silence because I have a million Cybils nominees to read and it’s the end of the marking period and NCTE and NaNoWriMo”. :) The reason for the extra silence is that I am [...]
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3quarksdaily: Reading Shakespeare helps doctors understand patients’ mental state tags: shakespeare reading TEDTalks as of 11.13.11 – Google Docs Spreadsheet listing TEDTalks tags: tedtalks The Quick 10: 10 Ways Shakespeare Changed Everything – Mental Floss tags: shakespeare romeo and juliet In the Footsteps of Marco Polo tags: Marco_Polo world_history socialstudies resources worldhistory humanities Why I [...]
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