eBook News

The news today, as for the past weeks has big focus on ebola, and not to make light of such a deadly virus, but it does seem to be mostly news scaring and commentary, versus actual information. For most schools Flu is a more deadly situation as the CDC puts the average number of annual deaths in the United States somewhere between 3,000 and 49,000. But thinking about contagions and what I experienced as a middle and high school science teacher and certified school media specialist reminded me of a few more of the reasons that I do love ebooks. As an educator in a school you do see transfer, as the number of students sick with something grows and then declines (often effecting the teachers too) as the school is a microcosm of which I would see 150 a day (not counting lunch, hallway, and bus duty) out of a population of a few thousand .  A few years ago when I was a judge in a regional science fair I found a really interesting project done my a young girl. She had done a study of sc...

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.  (Edgar Allan Poe) Just in case you need a little scary reading. I'm a strong believer in personal reading choice to encourage reading. I look back and see all the books that I read in Junior and Senior High School, and the ones that I remember most are the ones that I wanted to read. So if your students are looking for a little horror or scary reading now, then lets support them in their reading desires and guide them to some good books that they might not have noticed before. We could show them the classics that everyone may have heard of, seen the movie, but may never actually read (ie books such as  Dracula & Frankenstein), and then there are others from famous author but stories that they have never heard of  such as  Robert Louis Stevenson   "The Body Snatcher" or Robert E. Howard, who is famous for his Conan stories, but also wrote a number of...

It's been a while, but today I felt like adapting some more classic art to include ereaders.  Reading Little Women from her iPad, This is Our Corner by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-English, 1836-1912) Reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears with her Nexus, Seymour Joseph Guy's   The Story of Golden Locks (American, 1824-1910)