It seems I’ve been reading a lot about reading lately.  A recent article in the Chronicle has prompted several bloggers to consider what reading means in the 21st century.   Will Richardson reflected on his own reading practices and what educators should be doing to foster online literacy.   Sean Sharp thought about what online […]

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There’s been a theme to my reading this week: technology is neither all good nor all bad.  In the midst of all the amazing discoveries with their potential to increase human knowledge, understanding and community, there are negative consequences that we must take into consideration.
It began with an article in Forbes about Technologies That Hurt […]

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Just read this essay from Luc Sante in The Wall Street Journal about his book collection. If you read my blog, you’ll understand why it resonated with me. Here’s a taste:
Many books are screwy, a great many are dull, some are irredeemable, and there are way too many of them, probably, in the […]

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If you know me at all, you know that one of my favorite websites is LibraryThing.  So, this morning when I logged in, I was happy to see a PMOG mission devoted to books.  In case you didn’t read the last post, PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game and one of its main features […]

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I usually reserve morning blogging for my personal blog, but I have a few tidbits to share.
Netvibes Universe: Finally, Netvibes has created a way to make a public page. Here’s mine. It was fairly simple to move whole tabs between my personal and my public Netvibes.
Twitter Troubles: I follow several blogs by […]

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Just spent some time creating the header image for this wordpress template. I chose the picture of the wolf that my husband snapped along the Bow Parkway in Banff National Park last summer. We had a wonderful trip, which I documented on Google Maps.
Now, I’m working on maps of England and Wales for […]

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 I’ve been reading Native American history lately, and I have a draft of a blog post about the American West waiting for a little more work.  So, I eagerly clicked on the link in my gmail this morning that took me to this Discovery Channel article about new archaeological discoveries related to Native Americans.  It […]

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Read this after I posted this morning: Rescue reading - The Boston Globe
Here’s the NEA report that started all the discussion.
Then, I remembered the street banner I saw when I was in Scranton recently about the Scranton Reads! program.
Mostly, I’m even more confused about the definition of words “reading” and “books” and “literacy”.  Text, albeit […]

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21st Century Collaborative: The Future of Reading
Sheryl’s thoughtful posts always provide an interesting read.  Her essay on reading, in response to Amazon’s much heralded debut of the Kindle, took on a topic I’ve also been thinking about.  As she did, I’ll give you my “reading” biography: I LOVE to read anything, analog or digital, but […]

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