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Reply to the phrase you see at the end of this video: "There's nothing quite like a real book." 4 Comments Soliz' 55 Word Stories aka Flash Fiction 02/09/2012
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Links to resources from the Ranger Librarian poster session. Ranger Librarian informational brochure part 1 Ranger Librarian informational brochure part 2 Teacher Ranger Teacher Brochure from NPS A Park Mad Lib Canyon Wonderment brief article published in the OASL Interchange all documents in pdf  PowerPoint Presentation submitted October 1, 2011 at the Fall Conference of the Oregon Council for Teachers of English 
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MEDIA LINKS: Use the following as writing prompts in your classroom, 1. Popular Culture and Environmental Justice 2. Sign up for a Public Radio Exchange (PRX) account to get access to The Environment Report. Ads Use Nature to Sell SUVs. 3. Honda Civic Hybrid commercial 4. Ecomagination from GE: website 5. Keep American Beautiful Campaign Discuss PSAs (public service announcements) 6. Guide for the Use of Environmental Marketing Campaigns, from the Federal Trade Commission. Cross-curricular connection to Marketing & Economics classes. 7. Other Popular Culture images and ideas to discuss: Smokey the Bear, the recycling logo, popular films: Erin Brockovich (2000), The China Syndrome (1979), A Civil Action (1999) Best for AP Students 1. Representations of Nature in Popular Culture 2. Crude Awakening A You Tube montage of Jane Fulton Alt's photo essay, set to Hurt, by Johnny Cash. 3. Jane Fulton Alt : See Burn, Crude Awakening, Katrina, and Visitations 4. Read Apologia, by Barry Lopez. A small but powerful essay on roadkill. Resources for Teachers Action for Nature Great list of links. Nature Study Gem resources hidden among the advertising. Teacher Ranger Teacher Program, hosted by the National Park Service. Acorn Naturalists Teaching Writing Through Science. Order Books and Supplies. Smithsonian Education Introduction to the Nature Journal Sierra Club Keeping a Nature Journal. Includes template Nature Journaling Blog For Primary Grades lesson on nature journals USFWS lesson and resources Ideas for home school Peninsula Reads - Middle School (6th-8th) 09/11/2011
Okay middle school students, show the world complete sentences and thoughtful comments. Answer this (4 sentence min.): What do you like to read about, and why? Peninsula Reads - 5th grade 09/11/2011
Okay 5th graders. Show the world complete sentences and thoughtful comments. Answer this (3 sentence min.): What do you like to spend your time reading, and why? Reader's Advisory: Adult Non-Fiction 06/26/2011
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 2010. 276 pp. $26.95 hc. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. 9780393072228. Part criticism, part it-is-what-it-is, this book is a condensed cultural history of technology filled with anecdotes about the movers and shakers of info-proliferation…and exploitation. Carr begins with a historic paradigm shift, a revolutionary advancement that re-wired our neurons. Socrates’ oral culture lost out to Plato’s written one. Gutenberg then revolutionized writing by introducing an invention that made it widely accessible. While Carr dissects the backstage of the brain and the discovery of neuroplasticity, the reader never feels shut out by obscure references to physiology. Using layman’s terms however, does not reduce the elegance with which Carr relates anecdotes such as Lee de Forest’s Audion, the “church” of Google, and computerized writing test assessment of British students. The Shallows, in the end, refers both to the limits of mechanized computations and the operational capacities of our brains when strung out over a myriad of media inputs. While Carr’s prose is not as hard-boiled as, say, Jared Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, but he nonetheless spins a cautionary thread into this readable exploration of our brains on technology, from cuneiform to e-readers. Amid all our salivating and self-congratulations for the latest advancements, will we find an app for wisdom, creativity, and deep thinking? If so, where does that leave our intelligence? Ultimately, what sets us apart from HAL-like emoticons, from algorithms? Carr does not try to tackle these questions, rather, he gently challenges us to harken back to “deep reading,” that is to say, to consider our own interactions with technology and reflect how our own cognition may or may not be changing. Perhaps, ironically, one of the more objectively written accounts of how science and media studies are intermingling. Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Highly Recommended. Jenny Gapp, Librarian. |  Graphic from the Information
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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