All,

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Thanks,

--Dave / PLML

In his New York Times editorial, "Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud", Verlyn Klinkenborg astutely points out that reading aloud promotes deeper thinking about literature.  "What I would suggest", he writes, "is that our idea of reading is incomplete, impoverished, unless we are also taking the time to read aloud."

This is most definitely true, although far more is gained through reading aloud than comprehension alone.

Several years ago, when I began graduate school, there was lots of talk about the digital divide: that enormous segments (when explored by socioeconomic status) of society lacked basic access to computing and internet technologies.

Greetings all,

There's a fascinating article in The New York Times, "In One Ear and Out the Other", that describes why we do - or don't remember jokes (if you're like me, you tend to forget them immediately). From the article:

Greetings all,

Sometimes, one stumbles across a profound piece of media. The other day, we ran across a video of 3rd grade students using Boolify, produced by an educator who had written about Boolify previously.

All,

I'm pleased to write to tell you that Boolify 2.0 is in development. With input from literally hundreds of educators - librarians, designers, classroom teachers - we have compiled a list of the most pressing updates to Boolify. Fixes include:

* Multilanguage capabilities
* Better delete piece/move piece/undo/redo functionality
* Better ability to view saved searches, and reconstruct past searches