Archive for April, 2010
Creating Creatives, Part 5
Next Up by Linda Stanek Next up on Bloom’s model is Synthesis. This is where the ability to arrange, collect, compose, design, develop, organize, and plan takes place. (It’s also the place where writing takes place—important to me as a children’s author and someone who teaches writing in schools.) This is where creativity really takes [...]
Extreme Reader
Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Chrissie Pollock: When I was a child, my parents were forever telling me to hurry up in the bathroom. It wasn’t for the normal reasons. No, I was taking a long [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
This is one of six complimentary bookmark patterns from Pine Glen Designs. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the [...]
SLJ BOB results
Remember the SLJ Battle of the Kids’ Books? My Internet access has been so limited that I was unable to follow and report on the event as I would have liked, but a friend shared a thing or two along the way, and the World Wide Web is generously holding all the competition posts for [...]
The Needlework Show
Operation TBD is today! On your mark. Get set. Drop! When you’re finishing dropping a book or two or twenty, reward yourself with an hour or two or twenty of browsing The Needlework Show. It opens today. This is the online wholesale trade show that anyone can view. If you see something you just have [...]
Operation TBD
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the widget in the sidebar, the readergirlz Operation TBD is tomorrow! On April 15, publishers, YA authors, teen readers, and regular Jo’s like you and me will perpetrate random acts of reading kindness by leaving YA books in public places where teens can find them, pick them [...]
Bookmark Tips
Okay, I’m officially on a cardstock kick for finishing bookmarks. This is not the tip I planned for this week, but I’m going where my enthusiasm takes me. First it was ready-made tags for backs. Then it was stitching cards from Tokens & Trifles. This week I want to talk about making our own card [...]
Creating Creatives, Part 4
Higher-Level Thinking by Linda Stanek Next up on Bloom’s Taxonomy is the first of the “higher-order thinking” tiers—Analysis. Here, students can finally appraise, compare, contrast—and here’s what’s really important—criticize and question their work. Which gets us back to creativity and how we as a society deal with it. Pablo Picasso reportedly said, “Everyone is born [...]
Extreme Stitcher
Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. A project stitched by Maureen for the Bookmarks 101: Simple, Smart, and Swanky Finishes class. Look at that tidy finish! Our Extreme Stitcher today is Rowena from Ft. Worth, TX. About seven-and-a-half [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
One of six Easter blackwork bookmarks from Tam’s Creations. Yeah, I know Easter was last week, but it also has a flexible date, right? My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search. ~ Craig Silverstein, director of technology, Google.com You don’t [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
