February 2012
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The Educator's Classroom: Tears →
drteach:
Today I had a student breakdown into tears… I don’t like to see this happen because often I start to question whether maybe I pushed too hard. It all happened after she spent time “searching” Google for her topic and couldn’t get what she wanted from the search engine. I tried providing her with…
Look, we need to be teaching students how to search. Which means that teachers need...
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ofanotherfashion:
Maybe the most stylish librarian ever - check out that fascinator! Lucille Baldwin Brown was the first Black public county librarian in Tallahassee, Florida. This photograph is part of the collection at the State Library and Archives of Florida.
“ I am sure every girl can recall, at least once as a child, coming home and...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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“And let’s be honest, any deal where libraries are giving publishers money for...”
– Annoyed Librarian on libraries and ebooks and patrons and ebooks and what are we going to do about this because I’m really hoping we gain some ground in the right direction very, very soon. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“Now, this may seem strange from someone who writes about pretty dresses (mostly)...”
– dressaday.com
Several years old, but bears repeating. Over and over again.
Study: Goats Can Have "Accents" | NBC Chicago →
murrayscheese:
Oi! Oy’m a goat frum Angland!
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
“The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you...”
– Julia Child (via splendidtable)
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Cinemagraphs of Childhood Nightmares →
photojojo:
Marcel Meyer’s cinemagraphs of childhood nightmares are spooky to say the least.
via Conscientious
Click here to see one:
“Penguin’s decision to terminate its contract with OverDrive has further...”
– From LJ’s Digital Shift, an update on Penguin’s move to pull it’s ebooks out of libraries. (via libraryjournal)
Are you a gardener who is seeing new insects on... →
newshour:
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