Well okay, it is time that you all begin to embrace the inner tech geek inside of you and start to have some fun in the course! We have survived oddly operating scanners and waded through TaskStream. . .and even begun a classroom newsletter. There is nothing you can't do now, right?
You should be finishing your newsletters and maybe even be halfway through the first round of journal entries. I will show everyone how to save the Newsletter as a PDF so it can be submitted on Moodle/Cougar Courses.
This week: I want to discuss social bookmarking using Delicious.com and introduce you to the Technology Self-Assessment assignment. We will also take a look at Google Docs and Spreadsheets and discuss the power of this amazing set of collaborative tools.
Journal 3: This article comes from the September/October 2010 issue of L&L. "Bring the World into Your Classroom," by Linda McDermon.
This Week's Question: What is the best book you ever had to read for school and/or what is your all-time or current favorite book? From school: I am a huge fan of Catcher in the Rye (it is also my favorite book I have taught!) and probably Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for outside of school (although I did write my Master's Thesis on the book, I read it a few times before graduate school).
I don't remember too much from my High School reading, however I really enjoyed the different works we read in my World Lit classes at Palomar. Among my favorites were Madame Bovary and Jasmine. For my outside reading I love anything written by Stephen King, Lord of the Rings and a fantasy series, The Farseer (9 books) by Robin Hobb. I highly recomment the Hobb series.
ReplyDeleteI never enjoyed reading for school. I still have a hard time sitting quietly and still enough to get through a book. Outside of school I love the Jodie Picoult books. They are all similar heartbreaking stories but they keep me interested long enough to finish them. I also want to read the new one that everyone is talking about, the girl with the dragon tattoo. Maybe when I get out of college and have time to read I'll expand my reading horizons and find more time.
ReplyDeleteI've never really like reading the books that teachers assign when I was in high school. I thought they were all really boring. I like to read as much as I can, and my favorite book of all time has to be Rain Of Gold by Victor Villasenor. I love books that are base on true facts or events. Sci-fi, fiction not a big fan.
ReplyDeleteTo be quite honest, I hate reading. I don't read just for fun. With all these movies out, my friends always say the book is way better. Or I should first read the book before watching the movie. I don't think so. Well, in High School we did do a lot of reading. The only reading book I can recall is to Kill a Mockingbird. I like this book because it was probably the only one I actually read from beginning to end. Now that I have kids, I enjoy their books. I most especillay like a book called Tickle Monster.
ReplyDeleteThe best book I have read for school is “Bless Me Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya. I really liked the story and found it very interesting. My all-time favorite book is still to be found.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading books that are autobiographies. Although very depressing, I really enjoy Dave Pelzer's controversial books, A Child Called It, and The Lost Boy. I haven't read his third book yet, I think it's called A Man Named Dave.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember liking any books that have been assigned to me in any class. I basically just read books for school, so I dont have a favorite book. I like reading about sports online and a few magazines about beer and brewing, but that about it!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book that i had to read for school was "Kite Runner" its a really good book and i couldnt get my nose out of it. ima a book worm and i love reading i usually try to read as many books as i can but being a college student doesnt let me get any books in unless its summer and im not taking summer classes. my most recent read and favorite book would have to be "The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao" writen by Junot Diaz.
ReplyDeleteI have two all time favorite books, one bring from school that I fell in love with the other being for the subject material that I am a huge fan of. The first and my all time favorite book is The Great Gatsby, to me that is the life. I am infatuated with New York so after reading this story of their lives I cannot put it down, I read it every year on my way to NY. The other book is Del Mar Racetrack and the history behind it. I am a huge race horse fanatic and this book with the pictures and experiences makes it come alive for me, this is how I get prepared for opening day!!!
ReplyDeleteI read "The Grapes of Wrath" for a history class and it was really good. It was really a depressing story, but it shed light on the struggles for the "American immigrant", for lack of a better word, and it taught me things I never knew existed. And I have yet to find a book that I have loved to "leisurely read" I'm so consumed with homework I never have the time!
ReplyDeleteLately I am stuck on Chelsea Handler's books, currently reading "My Horizontal Life." Not only is she hilarious and witty, she is a brilliant writer. I enjoy reading uplifting/spiritual books as well.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book ever in High School was Macbeth from Shakespeare. I don't really have favorite books because I am not a reader so I don't read unless there is assigned reading fro my courses.
ReplyDeleteI would say that the best book that I had to read for school was "where the red fern grows" classic right there. And I would have to say that the best book I have read to date is "The Shack". Wow its a good one.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book that I read in school would have to be "The Great Gatsby." Also, my best book that I have read recently would be, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" By Kahlid Hosseni. I could not put down the book. It took me only 2-3 days to finish it. I would have to say that this book had such of a powerful meaning and message that I cried a little while reading one of the chapters.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, something happened in junior high that made me stop reading altogether! As a child I enjoyed reading... and I think that having the choice of what to read ruined my outlook on it altogether. But, if I had to choose a book, I think that "A Child Called It" was my favorite book to read! It captured every part of me.
ReplyDeleteId have to say my favorite book was back in Junior High and we read The Giver for english...I enjoy reading books and id have to say my favorite author would be James Patterson and favorite book is The Big Bad Wolf.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book from school is Brave New World, and my all time favorite book would have to be the entire trilogy of Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials.
ReplyDeleteI love to read, and I read frequently on my own time; however when I was in grade school, I never read any of the books they gave to me. In college a few semesters back I took a literature class that I loved. We read On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I loved the book and kept it for my collection of classics.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book that I read in school was "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Once you got passed the parts about the very detailed description of the river, it not so bad. I remember really liking the themes in the novel, but I only remember liking it. I have no recollection of what the themes are.
ReplyDeleteI never liked to read the books that teachers assign; until an English 100 class when we read "Play It As It Lays". It was easy reading but very interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy all time favorite book has to be Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor, and The Secret Life of the Bees is my second favorite. I don't really remember any school favorites.
ReplyDeleteThe best book I've ever read for a college course was called 'Once Upon a Town'. It wasn't a sophisticated academic textbook but was half personal journey and half collection of interviews, it told the story of a small town during World War 2 and how they would bake food for soldiers who would pass by their town on the trains. Favorite book I just finished reading: Sarah's Key and The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
ReplyDeleteALL TIME BEST BOOK SERIES IS HARRY POTTER!!! anyone who disagrees is simply brain dead.... duh! hahhaha
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a favorite book from school, but there was an assignment where we got to pick our own novel for a book report. I picked one of the Harry Potter books and have been hooked ever since. (As much as I enjoy the movies, the books really are better!) I suppose the 7th book in the HP series would be my favorite book, since it's the most important!
ReplyDeleteThe best book that I had to read for school was Dave Pelzer's first book, "A Child Called It." I read that at the beginning of this month for the 364 class and it was a wonderful insight into the life of an abused child. I plan to read the other two books of Dave's three book autobiography to learn more about his life story. My favorite book of my own choosing is one that I read when I was a senior in high school "A Fine Balance" by Rohniton Mistry It's a really long book, I think over seven hundred pages, but I was still able to power through it in six weeks. The topic is the social caste system in India which is interesting enough and the writing is very descriptive of several different perspectives of that societal system in place. It not only describes the different perspectives, but it also goes into great detail about the lives of the people behind each perspective. I encourage any one who is interested in different perspectives of societal constructions to read this book.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book ever from school or home would be dante's inferno because it was the only book I wanted to read more than once
ReplyDeleteI really don’t like to read, so I don’t have any favorite book. However, one of the best book I had it to read for college was a WMST book, it was called Full Frontal Feminism. It was a great book and I enjoyed reading it because it changed my thoughts. It was interesting to read about topics that not only affects women but also affects everybody.
ReplyDeleteOf the best assigned readings; it would be A Tempest by Aime Cesaire. All time best Sun Tzu's, The Art of War.
ReplyDeleteI am not a very big reader, but the best books that I have read is Oliver's Twist, and Of Mice and Men, because both were entertaining and had good movies to follow them.
ReplyDeleteMy current favorite books are Pillars of the Earth, which I read a few years back and during the summer I read World Without End. Both books were written by Ken Follett. They are amazing stories and as soon as I picked the novels up, I could not put them down at all. Now I hear that there is a series of Pillars of the Earth, but I don't think I'll watch it, I'm afraid it will ruin the stories if I put an image to them. I highly recommend these novels to anyone =)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book I have read is Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. This play is about how a commander mistreated the villagers, who got together and kill him.
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