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Teaching for Tomorrow:Flipped Learning (by GOODMagazine)

Rosetta Project — Largest(?) online collection of vintage illustrated children’s books — all pages available as jpgs

Rosetta Project — Largest(?) online collection of vintage illustrated children’s books — all pages available as jpgs

Library Journal Aug. 2012 Blatant Berry - visionaries

Library Journal Aug. 2012 Blatant Berry - visionaries

Paint Chip Bookmark Variations

Made with stamps

http://designbynight.blogspot.com/2012/01/paint-chip-bookmarks.html

Punched - image from Pinterest

Super Fancy with Rub-ons

http://www.littleloveliesbyallison.com/2011/10/paint-chip-bookmarks.html

With Hand-Colored Stamps glued on

http://doodlecraft.blogspot.com/2012/06/paintchip-bookmarks.html

Elegant with backing, a stamped quote and art

http://jos2ndact.blogspot.com/2011/07/bookmark-paint-chip-style.html

Punched and flowered

http://www.jingeradams.com/2012/03/paint-chip-bookmarks.html

Plus, surely you can find a use for all those little things you punched out.

At St. Francis Woods, Frankfort, Ill.

At St. Francis Woods, Frankfort, Ill.

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The Playground Called Life by The Flickerees

The Playground Called Life by The Flickerees

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Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete

“I have this rather freakish gift of seeing letters in color,” novelist Vladimir Nabokov told a BBC interviewer in 1962. “It’s called color hearing. Perhaps one in a thousand has that.”

The Russian-born author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and other exuberantly witty books claimed that when he was a child, he saw the number 5 as red, and that he had continued to perceive numbers and letters as having their own distinctive hues. 

500 Words before 8am

Start Every Day as a Producer, Not a Consumer

Start Every Day as a Producer, Not a ConsumerWhat’s the first thing you do when you get to your computer in the morning? Check your favorite Intertainment? Our pal Clay Johnson discusses why this is the last thing you should do.

The Future of Tech According to Kids: Immersive, Intuitive and Surprisingly Down-to-Earth

If we were to ask you to name one thing you wish your computer (or another Web-enabled device) could do, but doesn’t now, what would you say? How about the ability to “touch the things that are in the screen, to feel and move them.” That’s what 7-year-old Daniela* wants. Matthew, 6, wishes he could play 3D games on his computer, and Jenna, 7, would like a solar-powered laptop. Cristina, 12, thinks it’d be great to travel more - to experience new, far-away places with the help of virtual reality.

Understanding that kids are excellent innovators, Latitude Research in conjunction with ReadWriteWeb recently conducted a study asking children to ideate concepts for new computer and Web technologies - and the results are in.