Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
By Will Richardson
Educators must think differently about technology's potential for strengthening students' critical thinking, writing, reflection, and interactive learning. With such goals in mind, this book demonstrates how web tools can generate exciting new learning formats, and explains how to apply these tools in the classroom to engage all students in a new world of interactive learning - with detailed but clear explanations, definitions and how-tos, critical information on Internet safety, and helpful links.
Heirloom: Notes of an American Tomato Farmer
By Tim Stark
In a “back to nature” memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life, the author started 3000 tomato seedlings in his New York City apartment, transplanted them to his parents' Pennsylvania yard, and then sold his crop at the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan. Finding increasing success, author Tim Stark quits his management consulting business and uproots himself — green thumbs and all — to his boyhood country home to become an organic farmer. Entertainingly recounting his development as a grower of culinary quality, Stark also tips his hat to the volunteers, relatives, neighbors, and migrant workers who have plowed, picked, and helped.
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