Evolution Of The Desk - YouTube

P

​lus ça change...

​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGI00HV7Cfw

​Some

things have really changed, and we can't imagine how we would survive without them! This is a good video to show students, teachers and parents to illustrate the this evolution.

​

"Evolution of the Desk" is an initiative borne out of the Harvard Innovation Lab. The goal is to illustrate the impact that technology has had on our lives over the last 35 years. A cluttered desk, complete with a rolodex, a file cabinet, and a fax machine, transforms into a much cleaner, simpler surface consisting of only a laptop and a mobile phone. Of course, some things in life - like the sun - are everlasting, so the shades persist throughout the years.

​==========​

Reading Tip of the Day

​Add a widget to your blog​

http://www.readingrockets.org/sharing/widgets/tipoftheday

H

​ere is an easy way to add fresh content to your blog without having to remember to make a daily post. ​Reading Rockets offers a variety of widgets - I like the "reading tip of the day" which comes with some printables for teachers to try with their students.

=============

Using Crowd Annotation to Close-Read the World

​S​

park side conversations that complement the main text

https://www.middleweb.com/36692/using-crowd-annotation-to-close-read-the-world/

​"​

Crowd annotation, made possible through our digital connectivity, has the potential to alter that. The margins of an online text or piece of media can be filled with insightful conversation by a community of readers, in a public space, often sparking side conversations that are complementary to the main text.

​"​

Sometimes, these margin conversations lead readers to other documents, fulfilling in many ways the promise of the "web" of information that we share together, as a learning community.

​============​