I just caught Rosie Perez’s “Yo Soy Boricua, Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas!” (I’m Boricua, Just So You Know!) on IFC this weekend. Actually, I DVRed it and just watched it this past weekend. I thought I knew a lot of history, but I knew none of this! Ms. Perez presents an inviting, proud, positive tour… Read More It’s Not too Late!
The F.I.L.M. Project (Finding Inspiration in Literature & Movies), a collaboration between the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) and Heartland Truly Moving Pictures, is pleased to announce a book give-a-way! Executive Books (www.executivebooks.com) has generously donated 10,000 copies of the book, The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall, to the F.I.L.M. project to be distributed to… Read More A GIFT!!
Interesting podcast over on NPR.com about Black artists who are develop a variety of themes in graphic novels. Historic themes and biographies seem to be what most of the artists are developing for adult audiences. It is interesting to hear how this genre is developing in the black community. Will my students read it? Don’t… Read More Diversity in Graphic Novels
FictionFinder is a project of OCLC Research that provides access to 2.8 million works of fiction found in the OCLC WorldCat database. With FictionFinder, you can search for books, eBooks, and audiobooks by titles, authors, ISBNs, and other information such as literary awards and book summaries. You can also browse the FictionFinder database by genre,… Read More Fiction Finder
From over at the Daily MashUp, I found this great site to support eLearning–for free!!
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