theteachersdesk:

1. Character Astrology Signs
2. Heroes and Superheros
3. Create a Childhood for a character
4. Critique from the point of view of a specific organization
5. Social workers report
6. College application
7.  School counselor’s recommendation letter
8.  Talk show invitation
9.  Radio exchange
10.  Movie recommendations
11.  Create a home page
12.  Chat room conversations
13.  E-mail directory
14.  Title acrostic
15.  Cartoon squares
16.  Word collage
17.  Yearbook entries
18.  Letter exchange
19.  Awards
20. Talk show on issues in the novel
21.  Dream vacation
22. Scrapbook 
23. Photos or magazine pictures
24. Music
25. Poetry
26. Twenty questions
27. File a complaint 
28. Tangible or intangible gifts
29.  Talk to the author
30. Point of view column
31. Character monologues 
32. Make up a word test for the novel
33. Answering machine message
34. Found poems
35. Name analysis
36. A character’s fears
37. Current events
38. Advertisements
39. A pamphlet 
40. Draw a scene
41. New acquaintances 
42. Book choices for character
43. Community resources for characters
44. Family history
45. Detective work
46. The dating game
47.  Create a character’s room
48. CD collection
49. Photo album
50. A character alphabet 

(Source: kbkonnected, via world-shaker)

These Twitter chats cover anything and everything in education, and represent a great jumping off point for those just getting started in Twitter education chats.

1. #edchat – Talk to a variety of educators around the world through #edchat, Tuesdays at noon and 7 p.m. EST.
2. #lrnchat – Every Thursday night from 8:30-10 p.m. EST, you can connect with other educators and discuss learning.
3. #edbkchat – On Wednesdays at 4 p.m. EST, you can discuss educational books and topics in learning and pedagogy.
4. #spnchat – Find out about successful practices in education and education reform through #spnchat Tuesdays at 9 p.m..
5. #ptchat – Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST, parents and educators around the world can open the lines of communication on #ptchat.

After a short recess, the My Brother Sam is Dead Blog is back. The purpose of the blog is to provide information on using the historical fiction novel My Brother Sam is Dead in the classroom and allow for interaction between myself and those interested in this topic.

Artist Guy Laramee carves and illustrates incredible sculptures out of books!

Laramee transforms the edges of vintage books, dictionaries and encyclopedias into mountainous glacial landscapes, plateaus, and deep valleys along with detailed painted illustrations.

In the 1950’s a Redding man wrote a letter to Russia. What resulted from Bradley Kelly’s letter was/is pretty amazing. This is a Powerpoint Presentation.

NatureMapping Takes Kids — and Technology — Outside and into Active Learning

In assisting at a fire in a boarding house, the true gentleman will always save the young ladies first—making no distinction in favor of personal attractions, or social eminence, or pecuniary predominance—but taking them as they come, and firing them out with as much celerity as shall be consistent with decorum. There are exceptions, of course, to all rules; the exceptions to this one are:

Partiality, in the matter of rescue, to be shown to:

1. Fiancées.
2. Persons toward whom the operator feels a tender sentiment, but has not yet declared himself.
3. Sisters.
4. Stepsisters.
5. Nieces.
6. First cousins.
7. Cripples.
8. Second cousins.
9. Invalids.
10. Young-lady relations by marriage.
11. Third cousins, and young-lady friends of the family.
12. The Unclassified.

Other material in boarding house is to be rescued in the following order:

13. Babies.
14. Children under 10 years of age.
15. Young widows.
16. Young married females.
17. Elderly married ditto.
18. Elderly widows.
19. Clergymen.
20. Boarders in general.
21. Female domestics.
22. Male ditto.
23. Landlady.
24. Landlord.
25. Firemen.
26. Furniture.
27. Mothers-in-law

(Source: kateoplis)

Each year, the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms.  See Frequently Challenged Books for more details.

According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 46 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts.

The titles below represent banned or challenged books on that list ( see the entire list here).

Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online. A few weeks later, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in our first class, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.” …