YALSA Greetings, YALSA members and interested parties! The first month of the journey of this year’s presidential theme, Striving for Equity Using YALSA’s Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff is nearly over, and soon we will be looking at equity issues through the lens of each of the ten competencies. But before we move into August, I want to express appreciation to the many members and others who recently have taken the time to talk to me about what YALSA means to them, how YALSA could help them in their day job, and how fulfilling working with teens can be. All of this makes me full of gratitude. Diana Butler Bass writes about this subject in her book Grateful (HarperOne, ISBN: 9780062659477, 2018). Bass continues by discussing how there is a divide between personal gratitude and community gratitude. When one group is grateful that their political candidate, sports team, or prom décor has been selected, others are bound to be unhappy.
Gamifying Student Engagement In her TED talk, "Gaming Can Make a Better World," author and researcher Jane McGonigal posits that in game worlds people are "motivated to do something that matters, inspired to collaborate, to cooperate." Video games are interactive and engaging. It's no wonder they are so pervasive with both children and adults! A recent trend in the business world has been to bring game world elements into the real world. Corporations, such as Samsung, award badges internally to motivate their employees. Educators have also begun to adopt the reward structures of video games, such as badges for meaningful achievements, into their lesson planning. Badges Badges are a method for recognizing and rewarding accomplishments. The educational social media site Edmodo includes pre-made badges, as well as the availability for teachers to create or upload their own. Badges can be a student-centered, too. Leveling Up Video games frequently do not include how-to instructions for players. Modding Easter Eggs
Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard Voices in Time I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the blackboard]. This is the G-I axis: good fortune-ill fortune. This is the B-E axis. Now let me give you a marketing tip. Another is called “Boy Meets Girl,” but this needn’t be about a boy meeting a girl [begins drawing line B]. Now, I don’t mean to intimidate you, but after being a chemist as an undergraduate at Cornell, after the war I went to the University of Chicago and studied anthropology, and eventually I took a masters degree in that field. One of the most popular stories ever told starts down here [begins line C below B-E axis]. There’s to be a party at the palace. And when she shows up she’s the belle of the ball [draws line upward]. Now there’s a Franz Kafka story [begins line D toward bottom of G-I axis]. It’s a pessimistic story. His father has just died. Well, was this good news or bad news?
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Letters of Note Put multiple links into one - Oops! The bunch is either not defined or has been blocked. If you followed this bunch link from another website, you should notify the site owner. Larry Ferlazzo’s English Website | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... There are many pages on my main website, and they have nearly 8,000 categorized links appropriate for English Language Learners. The best place to start exploring is the Main English Page. You can read an overview about each section of my website on the Teacher’s Page. This page also has many links specifically useful to teachers. You can also go directly to each page of my website: English For Beginners and Early Intermediate English Themes for Beginners and Early Intermediate English For Intermediate and Advanced English Themes for Intermediate and Advanced Bilingual Exercises For English Language Learners Examples of Student Work Science For English Language Learners Geography and United States History For English Language Learners World History For English Language Learners The Best Websites (under construction) I also have a page that has links to a number of articles I’ve written that teachers might find useful: Published Articles These sections are: Science Math Social Studies
Lit For Kids Announcement: The 2011 Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge Begins September 12 Welcome! If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, increase energy levels or just generally look and feel healthier you've come to the right place. Here's where to start: Visit the Start Here and Primal Blueprint 101 pages to learn more about the Primal Lifestyle. Subscribe to my free weekly newsletter to receive 10 eBooks, a 7-Day Course of Primal Fundamentals, and more - all for free. Thanks for visiting! Who’s up for a challenge? If you are a longtime reader you know what to expect: 30 days of contests, prizes, reader-created content, feature articles and motivation to help you get and stay Primal for life. Hey, did I mention there will be Primal prizes? But first, some details: You don’t have to sign-up to take part in the challenge. How to Prepare for the Challenge 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pre-Challenge Contest Why wait until next Tuesday to start winning stuff? Only U.S. residents are eligible.
Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME Welcome to the massive, anguished, exalted undertaking that is the ALL TIME 100 books list. The parameters: English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began, which, before you ask, means that Ulysses (1922) doesn’t make the cut. In May, Time.com posted a similar list, of 100 movies picked by our film critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. This one is chosen by me, Richard Lacayo, and my colleague Lev Grossman, whom we sometimes cite as proof that you don’t need to be named Richard to be hired as a critic at TIME, though apparently it helps. For the books project, Grossman and I each began by drawing up inventories of our nominees. Even so, there are many titles we couldn’t fit here that we’re still anguishing over. This project, which got underway in January, was not just a reading effort. There were also first time discoveries. Lists like this one have two purposes. Next The Adventures of Augie March
Five close reading strategies to support the Common Core I walked in to my first college class, Political Science 101, eager to learn. For my inaugural college assignment, my professor asked the class to read the first three chapters of the textbook for the next class period. That night, I returned to my dorm room, determined to learn everything I could in those three chapters. I pulled out my textbook and highlighter. However, when I opened my textbook it was unlike anything I had read in high school. I shrugged, pulled out my highlighter and started highlighting. I quickly realized that I had no real game plan for reading this complicated textbook. Flash forward to my first few years of teaching. While this method may have been slightly more effective than what I used that first day of college, it was still too vague and ambiguous for my students. Last fall, I attended an AVID workshop about critical reading strategies. 1. The Common Core asks students to be able to cite and refer to the text. 2. 3. 4. 5. · Ask questions.
The Seasonal Family, an unrefined blog: Gluten Free Almond Flour Pie Crust Over the last few weeks I have been meaning to whip up a gluten free pie crust. Well, this past weekend I gave it a whirl and my family gave me a lot of positive feedback. Success! Just in time for Christmas. So if you are looking for a gluten free, refined flour free, refined sugar free, even vegan, pie crust, then do I have a recipe for you! With five simple ingredients, this pie crust is sure to impress. Almond Flour Pie Crust makes one 9 inch pie crust 1 1/4 cup of almond flour 3 teaspoons maple sugar or date sugar 1/4 teaspoon of salt 1/3 cup of melted either butter or coconut oil 2 teaspoons of ice water Combine almond flour, maple sugar and salt in a medium sized bowl. Add in your melted butter/shortening until well combined. Slowly add in one teaspoon of ice water until a firm ball is formed (the dough might be a bit sticky...do not worry!). Cover with wax paper and chill in the fridge for about 30 minutes. Once rolled out press firmly into a 9" pie plate. Mmm... Bon Appétit!
Kurt Vonnegut Turns Cinderella Into An Equation : Krulwich Wonders... Man is a pattern-finding animal. There are folks who look at a scene like this... And what they see...is this... Or so I'm told. All of us, even if we have no knack for science, look at the weather, at our children, at our markets, at the sky, and we see rhythms and patterns that seem to repeat, that give us the ability to predict. Do any of us live beyond pattern? I don't think so. Which he then did. Thanks to Hokumberg Goombah and Gig Thurmond for noticing this; and to Abstruse Goose, a web-based comic strip drawn by I'm not sure who (the author signs his name *******) for our bunny-eats-a-carrot illustrations.