Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
John Green Talks About Reading
Reading, for him, "was like a way into empathy."
"Everything that you want to do in your life will be made easier and better and more fulfilling by reading."
"It expands the map of your world."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopdxIgTH64&feature=youtu.be
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Van Gogh and Bookstores
Linda Piehl Woodard said this: But I have to admit that I had to double-check to see if he in fact did say this, and he did in a letter to his brother in 1877, but it was almost like an aside: (So often, in the past as well, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me up and reminded me that there are good things in the world.) And reading the letter was AMAZING...a lost art, indeed. Here is it in full, well the translation of it if anyone is interested, with the quote after 64: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let133/letter.html
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
The ABC's of Finding Reliable and Useful Information
The ABC's of Finding Reliable and Useful Information
B = Bias (Why did he or she write it?)
C = Coverage (What is in it? Does the information fit with what you've already learned?
D = Dates (When was it written and published? When was it last updated?)
E = Editor (How well has it been edited? Does it seem that someone cared enough to make it correct and readable?)
ABC's of Finding Reliable Sources
A = Author (Who wrote it?)B = Bias (Why did he or she write it?)
C = Coverage (What is in it? Does the information fit with what you've already learned?
D = Dates (When was it written and published? When was it last updated?)
E = Editor (How well has it been edited? Does it seem that someone cared enough to make it correct and readable?)
Is it RELIABLE?
Is it USEFUL? 
Monday, June 2, 2014
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