More New-to-me Links and Facts!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love teaching and I ENJOY GRADING STUDENTS' WORK! This was even true back in the old days when I taught junior high kids, mostly reading and English. The key is to craft assignments that I know ahead of time I will enjoy grading. I can remember actually being very eager to read what students would write in response to certain assignments back then. It was fun to see their creativity emerge. So here I am at the end of a semester and finishing up grading for the term. I just got started today, and already am stopping to record something new to me, a blog I had not visited before, and really really like! So here goes with my list of new info as of today:

• Blog with emphasis on librarianship and web 2.0...what's not to like about that? This blog is called LibraryCrunch ad is the work of Michael Casey, public librarian and web aficionado. If you look soon, there is a cool picture of Santa getting his caffeine fix at Starbucks. He sprinkles cool pics throughout his blog, another thing to like. And there are sound files too! Here is the address: http://www.librarycrunch.com/

• Here is another great blog (obviously I am grading an assignment where students must locate and explore a blog): http://www.techsavvyed.net/ by Ben Rimes. Today's posting has a cool site where you can create virtual dice to study probability at which, for the heck of it, I created an imaginary Magic 8 Ball with choices like no, yes, never, maybe, etc.: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/maths/dice/

• Here is the tinyurl for the dice: http://tinyurl.com/nvoy5