Monthly Archives: December 2008
7 things
Jenny Luca tagged me to participate in a meme. The idea of this meme is to share seven things that your readers might not know about you. Here are my seven things: 1. My grandmother’s cousin was the well known … Continue reading
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Teens reading critically
I often wonder if I’m suited to my role as teacher librarian. From the point of view of my own taste in particular. My library ‘superior’ (who will remain nameless in case what I’m about to say will incriminate her … Continue reading
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Playful, seductive, digressive, literate…
More on the differences between reading a book and reading on the internet… I was reflecting about what it is I like about reading blogs. Something I hadn’t thought of before – a blog post is like a sketch – … Continue reading
Filed under reading, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, writing
Doorways around the world
I’ve always loved doors and doorways. Imagine my delight when I came across this blog, Doorways around the world. Here are a couple of my favourite doorways: The Art Nouveau entrance to a jeweler’s shop in Montblanc, a medieval walled … Continue reading
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Do you turn to Twitter when you’ve escaped death?
Photo from The Guardian UK Interesting to read this article in The Guardian news blog. Plane crash survivor texts Twitter updates What’s the first thing you’d do after narrowly avoiding disaster The first thing Mike Wilson did after surviving the … Continue reading
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Santa camp
The holiday period seems to be lightening me up at long last. Humour is slowly creeping back into my life. I found this video on The Britannica blog.
Guggenheim 2.0
The Guggenheim Museum in NY has a great little online event going which encourages interaction and collective thought around some of its collection. Catherine Opie is an American artist specialising in issues around documentary photography. For this exhibition, Catherine Opie has … Continue reading
Filed under 21st century learning, art, creativity, Web 2.0
Which cereal did you eat?
Drawn has plunged me into childhood nostalgia by compiling an archive of cereal boxes. There are 100 of them on this site. I don’t think we had a lot of these in Australia. There’s something smile-worthy about the cheery, colourful graphics … Continue reading
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Embellish the interior passageways
I know that you would have seen these before – these strangely reworded Christmas carol titles or, as described on the site, obfuscated Christmas carol titles, but I thought I’d pull them out – as one pulls out of a … Continue reading
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Newsmap – attractive news
What is Newsmap? Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations … Continue reading
