Athenæum Playground: More Video

"Cool Cat Teacher" Vicki Davis shares about how to use proofreading marks via YouTube:

Thanks to the Brighton High School English teachers who shared this video with me!

At least one of my students is a big Jessie fan on the Disney Channel. Check out this endorsement of reading by star Debby Ryan:

Books Can Transport You! on Disney Video

Discovered Geek Gurl Diaries through the Wolfram Alpha newsflash (posted 11/21/13, see link) that they'd be including the Wolfram Langauge and Mathematica free on all new Rasperry Pi system software bundles; that naturally led to the Rasperry Pi blog and their post about Carrie Anne Philbin's new book (due out this month in the UK, next month in the US) called Adventures in Raspberry Pi.

Particularly liked her short video about how to program music using Sonic Pi. She points out good practices like commenting code and indenting loops:

Not that surprising, really, how important our microbiomes are to our health. Video credit to Benjamin Arthur for NPR, among others -- the video put me in mind of L'Engle's farandolae.

Inspiration to value a teacher:

Atoms for Peace performed in NYC on 27 September 2013. Here's video of their song "Default" recorded on The Daily Show the day before:

There's a public library marketing think tank on LinkedIn -- really. An Aurora, Ontario public library has a YouTube channel, including this quick gem:

Love this video!

Found this, about the logic of Prisoner's Dilemma, after watching one about sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (AKA ice-cream headache) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfx19-KACsI )

I made this!! [ ugly link: http://animoto.com/play/4UYN9Xn09pa0DeqgYlzNWg ]