April 2012

I read this on Nathan Bransford’s blog as part of his regular feature, This Week in Books Meanwhile, publishing industry sage Mike Shatzkin has some very helpful context on why publishers are so reluctant to let libraries lend e-books. [Keep Reading]

Recently, The Word is Bond redesigned their entire website to help bring you the best in underground hip-hop. There are daily news articles, album reviews, music videos, interviews, editorials, and much, much more. It really is an excellent online [Keep Reading]

Here’s an old school hip-hop mix for you to enjoy. Download it for free, play it straight through, or skip through the tracks. This mix really bumps. Every song is mixed and blended together. It features music from Run-DMC, K-Solo, O.C., Nice [Keep Reading]

For the first few years of its existence, hip-hop was something that you had to experience live. There were no commercial recordings, no rap albums, no 12-inch singles, no rap music on the radio. You had to go out to a block party or a club to see a [Keep Reading]

I’d like to share with you a game that I designed for the Smartboard. I’ve played it with several classes over the past two years and it has always been a hit. I got the idea of it from this electronic game that I saw in the toy [Keep Reading]

I’m still working on making a “Best Of” post for every single month I’ve blogged. To that end, I thought I would serve you up a second edition of Chasing Content this month. This way we can look back at what I was doing five [Keep Reading]

I am continuing to document everything I read over the course of this year. So far, I have grouped my posts by theme; Hip-Hop Memoirs, Graphic Novels, and now here are the novels I have read in addition to The Hunger Games . . . School of Essential [Keep Reading]

Look what I found for $10 at the Giant Tiger! It’s DJ Hero for the Nintendo Wii. I really like how much it looks and feels like a turntable a scratch deejay would use. And I love that it was on sale for a fraction of the original cost. Here is [Keep Reading]

A Smartboard is a great tool to have in the classroom. It lets us do much more than a regular blackboard or whiteboard. Today, I am going to show you how to use the built-in picture library. Say you wanted to get an image of a soccer player for a [Keep Reading]

Did you hear the story about the father who was upset with a Facebook update that his daughter posted? It was basically just a complaint about the amount of chores she has to do. Her dad responded to her Facebook message by filming himself shooting [Keep Reading]