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03 Sep 2010
Why eText Books Haven't Taken Off (Kerrie Smith bookmarked this item)
02 Sep 2010
This week's contribution to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books which is being hosted for just this week by George Kelley is BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN by Pat Barker, which I read in September 1986. It was published in 1984. Blurb (from Fantastic Fiction) A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the women who walk the streets. But [..]
Today we visit the Agatha Christie Mile In the centre of Torquay is the Agatha Christie Mile where each location associated with Agatha Christie is marked with a unique plaque. You might also like to visit this site for a Torquay tour. Make your way to the Pavilion. It is one of the only historic buildings still standing near the harbor so you cannot miss it. Recently it has been converted into a shopping mall, but during Christie's day it was a popular t[..]
Teachers who took online professional development courses improved their instruction and subject knowledge, as well as produced gains in student achievement, says a new study by e-Learning for Educators, a 10-state consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Educations Ready to Teach program. The 330 teachers in the study participated in three 30-hour online professional development [...]
Teachers who took online professional development courses improved their instruction and subject knowledge, as well as produced gains in student achievement, says a new study by e-Learning for Educators, a 10-state consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Ready to Teach program. The 330 teachers in the study participated in three 30-hour online professional development courses developed by the Education Development Center's EdTech Leaders Online, or ETLO. The teachers inc[..]
01 Sep 2010
Complete the myfuture 2010 user survey to go in the draw for a chance to win a weekly prize of a Kindle Reader. The myfuture annual survey seeks user feedback to ensure the provision of services and website information layout meets the needs of all users. The user survey covers aspects of the site such as the [...]
Complete the myfuture 2010 user survey to go in the draw for a chance to win a weekly prize of a Kindle Reader. The myfuture annual survey seeks user feedback to ensure the provision of services and website information layout meets the needs of all users. The user survey covers aspects of the site such as the quality of information and services, site usability – ease of navigation and look and feel, and user views of how the service could be improved. If you are a career practition[..]
This month, on September 15, Agatha Christie would have been 120 years old. So this month the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Carnival is hosting a blog tour. You will find the schedule for the tour on the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge site. What contains 4,032 pages, resting on a spine over a foot thick? In all, 43 murders are solved: 12 poisonings; six strangulations; two drownings; two stabbings; a burning; one blow to the head; one death by an arrow and two people pus[..]
An excellent month in which I remedied a couple of deficits I noticed in July . I read 10 books, including one on the Kindle, a couple of Australian authors (***), an Agatha Christie, a couple of New Zealand (NZ) authors, and a couple of audio books. You will see from my ratings that all ranked fairly highly. My pick of the month had to be GUNSHOT ROAD by Adrian Hyland. 5.0, GUNSHOT ROAD, Adrian Hyland (29 Aug)*** 4.8, THE WOODCUTTER, Reginald Hill (26 Aug) 4.4, TH[..]

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I live and work in Adelaide South Australia, but I love travel, and am passionate about communities and networking. I am one of those lucky people who...

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