Information professionals, scholars, and students can collaborate on new ideas for innovative research by means of a virtual open lab as part of the Center for Information Research and Innovation (CIRI) at the nationally ranked San Jose State University School…

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From the Philippines ... cute coloured Easter Chicks

Please note that there are some other videos related to religious ceremony in this part of my YouTube channel…

The current Flat Classroom Project 12-1 is inviting classrooms from Grade 6 and above to become Sounding Boards for the student collaborative wikis. All details are on the Sounding Board information wiki. We also invite you to join the Flat Classroom Project Ning and the …

Books for young adults featuring the occult (vampires, warewolves and wizards) sell tons and tons of books. And in fairness, books that get youngsters to read, are a positive thing. Still, it's refreshing when young adult readers appreciate stories that hit a little closer to home -- a little closer to reality.

Here's an excerpt from middle school student Cynthia Edwards' book review of "Where the Sky Doesn't End."

"This book has many twists and turns. I was hooked right from…

I attended an event organised by Digital Surrey last night. The speaker was one of the original programmers behind the game M.U.D., Richard Bartle. His focus this evening was trying to predict what virtual massively multiplayer online (M.M.O.) game worlds might be like in 2022. He gave us various scenarios, some positive and others negative and it was all very interesting seeing how things might turn out,…

La Red Virtual de Estudio de las NIIF -ReVE-NIIF tiene el agrado de invitar a la comunidad contable Iberoamericana y a profesionales relacionados con el tema, al:

Conferenciantes: Reconocidos y expertos…

Rather than read his monthly musing, check out NPR affiliate's KBIA-FM radio's Janet Saidi's interview with "Where the Sky Doesn't End" author Ron Nichols at... http://kbia.org/post/interview-author-ron-nichols…

EIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries - is proud to announce the launch of 14 innovative public library services in Africa, Latin America and Europe. Funded by EIFL's Public Library Innovation Programme, (EIFL-PLIP)  the new services help meet national and local development needs in the areas of agriculture, supporting children at risk and vulnerable youth, health and employment. They all use cutting edge information and communication technology - including computers, the Internet and…

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen is one of our nation's greatest stories about courage, perseverance, sacrifice and heroism. With the release of George Lucas’ new movie, “Red Tails,” I’m hoping that young people will be inspired to learn more about these remarkable heroes.

As an avid aviation and history buff, I’ve had the privilege to hear several of the pilots from the Tuskegee Airmen talk about their shared experiences as aviators fighting AGAINST the Axis powers and as…

Vicki Davis will present a workshop entitled, “Flattening Classrooms, Expanding Minds” as part of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22 Speaker Series on Thursday January 12, 2011 at 3:00pm EST USA or Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 20:00:00 GMT […

I was a presenter at Library 2.0, and I am the author of Saving Our Public Libraries: Why We Should. How We Can, a new book that is full of contemporary (often innovative) iibrary-funding success stories.  Reviewers have called it an important book.  In late December, I launched a campaign to raise funding so I can give free copies of my book to as many US libraries as possible (using the fundraising site, kickstarter.com).



The information in my book has never been brought together…

While doing research for “Where the Sky Doesn’t End,” I learned that the segregated Tuskegee Airmen units included African American ground support personnel – those skilled individuals who kept the airplanes flying day-in and day-out, under the most difficult of circumstances. As the result of that research, I created a character named Mr. Washington, who served as one of those mechanics. He’s a hero in many ways – both in service to his country and later as a friend and mentor to the book’s…

I’m no spring chicken (and very much new to most forms of social media), so forgive me if I’m breaching any etiquette with my post, but I'm the author of a brand new novel for young adults titled “Where the Sky Doesn’t End.” I wrote it with the goal of getting more middle school and high school boys to read. As I've guest lectured at various schools, I've noticed that boys at that age are decidedly less interested in reading and writing than are girls. I hope my book, in some small way, will…