Good Reads

A friend at school has invited me to join "Good Reads", a sort of chat site where you share books that you have read or are reading with official "friends" on the website. I know at least two other teachers in our building who are subscribers. For people who read a lot, or at least like to read for pleasure, this is a fun new thing. Someone donated a copy of The Labyrinth to our library, and it immediately caught my eye, since I loved The DaVinci Code. The best part is that it grabbed me in the first four pages. It has a similar theme & pace. The website, however, is a convenient way to share great books and to learn what others are reading. If you're interested in becoming one of my friends on this site, just check out www.goodreads.com. You can register & put me in as one of your friends. Looks like a lot of fun!

iGoogle

I really had fun with the delicious account, and with putting it into and iGoogle page! I can see how it can really make my work life easier by organizing all my "stuff" into one page. One of the fun things I added was fun cat photos; you get a new one every time you log in. As I am looking at my iGoogle account at home, I can't get into my bookmarks when I am on the iGoogle page....any ideas? Is it because I have and OLD computer? However, this is a great tool for teachers & students alike. In the next few days, I hope to add more things that I will be using all the time, and I love being able to put a beutiful scene at the top. Thanks to Ann for helping me at class tonight!

Journal Alert

Yesterday, I got my journal alert email for an alert I set up two weeks ago. The topic I chose for this alert was " institutional racism". This has been a topic for some of our faculty in-service meetings under the umbrella of "Courageous Conversations". For the last meeting we were asked to read an article that was published in 1990. It was annoying to me to be asked to frame our conversation on something so OLD, so I am determined to find appropriate current articles to address the topic. This article was very interesting, and I have included the URL here. It doesn't really address the topic in relation to schools, so I will be going back to tweak my search terms. I can see this service being really useful for classroom teachers looking for specific or additional classroom materials, and also for keeping current on favorite topics.

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