These effects were made using eMotion, an experimental open-source software designed by Paris-based dancers / technologists Adrien M and Claire B. Read more about it at WIRED.
Hakanaï / work in progress from Adrien M / Claire B on Vimeo.
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These effects were made using eMotion, an experimental open-source software designed by Paris-based dancers / technologists Adrien M and Claire B. Read more about it at WIRED.
Hakanaï / work in progress from Adrien M / Claire B on Vimeo.
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Use this site as a starting point for finding articles, videos, and more on differing opinions.
D’Ambrosio, Dan. “You know what you’re eating?” USA Today 13 June 2013: 06B. Science In Context. Web. 11 Sept. 2013.
Philpott, Tom. “Longest-running GMO study finds tumors in rats.” Mother Earth News Apr.-May 2013: 13. Science In Context. Web. 11 Sept. 2013.
Wang, Karen. “Should we promote the widespread consumption of biotech foods?.” Young Scientists Journal July-Dec. 2012: 77. Science In Context. Web. 11 Sept. 2013.
Priesnitz, Wendy. “What are they doing to our food? And what can we do about it?” Natural Life May-June 2012: 16+. Science In Context. Web. 11 Sept. 2013.
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See what we have in the library. Some books are on display under the bulletin board. Click here to see where books on the Vietnam War are.
“Vietnam War.” Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 10 Sep. 2013.
The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of The Vietnam War. Jeff T. Hay. Charles Zappia, ed. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. 336 pp.
Search for anything related to the war in this online encyclopedia.
Tim O’Brien
Page from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, O’Brien’s publisher, in honor of the 20th anniversary reprint of the book. Has links to interviews and video from his recent book tour.
Times Topics: Tim O’Brien
Archived articles and links to info about Tim O’Brien
Vietnam : The American Experience (PBS)
Companion website to the TV series, has great background info
Some Other World
An extensive index to the novel, produced by students.
Interview with Tim O’Brien
Tim O’Brien once made the following assertion in an interview with Texas Monthly: “Good movies — and good novels, too — do not depend upon ‘accurate portrayals.’ Accuracy is irrelevant. Is the Mona Lisa an ‘accurate’ representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It’s a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape; finally makes us look inward at ourselves.” (Texas Monthly, Nov. 2002. Qtd. In http://illyria.com/tobhp.html#Newsletter )
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As the library teacher, I’m always seeking ways to support you and your students. Information literacy and reader’s advisory form the core of the library curriculum, which is delivered in traditional and non-traditional ways.
The library teacher advises readers and creates new readers through book talking and empathetic book selection. Examples include:
The library teacher teaches:
The curriculum is delivered by collaborating with you in the design and instruction of research projects including, but not limited to:
The library teacher teaches about the ethical use of information, including:
The library teacher teaches and advises on the use of emerging technologies, including “web 2.0” resources (ie., interactive, “social” and participatory media), and by field testing new devices. This includes instruction on problem-solving and project-building.
Examples:
Throughout the school day the library teacher is on-call to provide assistance to you and your students. Teachers may request a pathfinder any time. A pathfinder is a guide to research relating to a specific lesson plan. Here’s an example. Please allow a few days lead-time.
The library offers devices for individuals and classes that support this instruction, including desktop computers, Chromebooks, and video cameras.
To schedule your class visit, or help with anything related to the above, contact Kevin McGrath.
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School librarians are impresarios. We make connections between people and resources within and outside the school community. We listen to students and faculty and offer ways to scale, promote, produce, and sometimes even fund, their ideas. We organize events within and outside the library. We bring together teachers who might not even know each other. We see common threads and connect disciplines.
School librarians are curators. We select and organize material with the specific learning goals of students in mind. We teach others how to be curators too, focusing on how to ethically borrow and collect with the purpose of creating new knowledge.
School librarians are design-thinkers. The skills of human-centered design, rooted in empathy, begin with interviewing, improv, seeing multiple points-of-view, and then brainstorming and prototyping toward real-world solutions and new knowledge. These skills are central to our training and our work as connectors of people and knowledge. The school library, in its role as learning commons, is a center of innovation and creativity.
School librarians are specialists in literacies. We teach how to be critical readers. We teach that reading is fun. We also focus on the “new literacies” in their many forms, including financial, visual, cultural, spatial, scientific, mathematical, political, data, and media literacy. Assessing, comprehending, and interpreting skills are keys to any of these literacies. However, as some scholars have pointed out (1), our purpose is not simply to teach literacies in all these many new forms, but rather to foster the mindset by which to adapt to any new technology. We model how to learn.
1. Leu, D. J., & Zawilinski, L., Castek, J., Banerjee, M., Housand, B. C., Liu, Y., & O’Neil, M. (2007). What is new About the new literacies of online reading comprehension?. Secondary School Literacy: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practice, pg. 43.