Archive for the 'READ' Category
Shopping guide: Books for the gamer in your life
December 24th, 2009From USAToday.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
August 26th, 2009Wired – “As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can’t write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into “bleak, bald, sad shorthand” (as University College of London English professor John [...]
Librarian goes through with reading incentive
August 1st, 2009Starkville Daily News – “Librarian Anna Ruhs shaved her head Friday afternoon to fulfill her end of a summer reading challenge she made with the group of teenage readers.”
EYES ON THE PRIZE 2009
May 25th, 2009a set on Flickr.
The right to read
April 24th, 2009Lebanon Daily News – “There is a soft spot in our hearts for librarians. They play such an important role in our democracy — providing us with access to information and ideas. Librarians are also on the front line when it comes to promoting and protecting our freedom to read. No person fought longer and [...]
Reading Online is Not Reading On Paper
September 22nd, 2008Weblogg-ed – “In fact, I’ve made myself take time over the last few months to read longer texts, and after plowing through three really, really engaging and challenging novels in the past month or so, I’m feeling like my brain is back in gear somehow”
Restricted Reading: A Tale of Two Bobs:
September 21st, 2008Polenth’s Quill – “It’s something parents should watch out for. You never know who might try to stop your children and teens from reading. It could be the very people who’re supposed to encourage them.”
Reading is fundamental, Gov. Palin
September 21st, 2008Leonard Pitts Jr: – “So do us all a favor: Annoy Sarah Palin. For goodness’ sake, read.”
If You’re Rich, You Still Have Time to Read
September 2nd, 2008Advertising Age – “Well-off readers say they read print publications just as much now as they did five years ago, according to the latest survey of affluent readers by Ipsos Mendelsohn.”
‘Potter’ publisher looks to promote next big thing
September 2nd, 2008AP – “On Sept. 9, the U.S. publisher of “Harry Potter” will premiere a highly ambitious series with a mystery ending for readers and a couple of puzzlers for the industry: How big is the market for a multimedia story — and can a phenomenon be conceived by a publisher rather than created by the [...]
My Morning E-mail Extravaganza
June 11th, 2008Each morning, after I get on the train, find my seat, pop open a Red Bull, shuffle the songs on my ipod, and show the train guy my ticket, I open up my laptop and download the numerous e-mails waiting for me. Half of them are news alerts, another quarter are daily e-newsletters, and the [...]
The Dumbest Generation.
May 11th, 2008Interesting gallery of quickies from Boston.com. I like this one, and this one (of course!)
Update – Ian Da Silva has some choice words for the author of the book. I’m not surprised. It’s a typical response from someone who can’t take seeing (or understanding) an opinion that’s different from them. It’s an [...]
Champion of reading
March 30th, 2008Charlotte Observer – “In this fast-and-flashy age of iPods and Kindles, Google and Amazon, Mark Herring is guardian of the not-so-flashy.”
Teachers are using comics, now called ‘graphic novels,’ to captivate reluctant readers
March 23rd, 2008Miami Herald.com – “Before anybody explodes about kids reading comic books when they’re supposed to be doing quadratic equations or studying Shakespeare, know that comic books have changed, and so has reading.” (via)
no children allowed?
March 15th, 2008Dodging Raindrops – “Is the library intended for computer use or for reading and promoting literacy? We were in the children’s section and my son was reading!”
The free-thinking reader is not dead, but found online
March 7th, 2008Stephen Page – “As most book publishers bow to bestsellers and celebrity culture, serious literature can still thrive thanks to the internet.”
Fooled again…
March 4th, 2008…but does it matter?
Author Admits Acclaimed Memoir Is Fantasy
March 3rd, 2008New York Times – “In “Love and Consequences,†a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South Central Los Angeles as a foster child who ran drugs for members of the Bloods, an infamous gang. The author’s biography on the [...]
The Geeky Good Night Reading Quilt
March 2nd, 2008Talk about reading in bed. (via Karie’s shared items in Google Reader)
Big Read or big waste?
February 25th, 2008Jim Henley – “Speeches and an $8-million program will not turn Americans into readers.” (via)
Reading and Technology
February 23rd, 2008Promoting reading, with technology.
Get Lit
February 3rd, 2008When I was in college, this meant something completely different.
Canadian Reading Habits
February 2nd, 2008Kate’s Book Blog – “Clearly the report contains disturbing news about the state of bookselling in Canada. But it also provides encouraging statistics about Canadian reading and book buying habits.”
Interesting 1st Circuit Decision
February 2nd, 2008From On Point News, a really cool site that I’m monitoring for new content (no RSS):
“1st Circuit rejects parental rights case against school district accused of indoctrinating elementary school students with books that portray families with parents of the same gender. “There is no free exercise right to be free from any reference in public [...]
On Short Books
January 30th, 2008Keir Graff – Will shorter books save reading?
The category of fun slowly being pulled from library shelves
January 20th, 2008Seattle Times – “Once considered a mainstay of the school library, this fun, engaging reading time could be in danger at some area schools, educators say.”
NOBODY reads anymore
January 19th, 2008Steve Harris – “NOBODY reads anymore”
Hooked on books
January 13th, 2008Newsday – “How to turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic ones”
No More Books?
January 10th, 2008BBC NEWS asks: With so many other ways to get information these days, do we still need books? (via)
Books to Browse or to Savor
January 3rd, 2008New York Times – “READING is part of getting away for many people, whether it’s packing a couple of paperbacks for a Caribbean vacation or browsing the bookshelf on a rainy Saturday at a friend’s country house. Indeed, built-in bookshelves and rooms called libraries are common amenities in vacation-home properties.”
