Michael Sullivan

A man of many talents.


Author of Connecting Boys With Books, Fundamentals of Children's Services.

A link for more news of Michael and his interview with Gossip Lady.

I love John Green!

If you haven't read his stuff, pick it up! Bright, funny, REAL!
Wikipedia's John Green entry - for a list of his books and more.
His YouTube videos are worth a look.
Here are two YouTube clips about Catcher in the Rye. They are followed by another couple of John's videoblogs.
Enjoy!





Catch the Rye Discussion Here



An Interesting Interview Style...a potential model for students:

Biz Wiki by Chad Boeninger

Here's a great library website! Chad is instructive, interactive, and clearly supportive of his community and those who need his services - everything a librarian should be! Lead on! And thanks for a great example!

Here's a clip from and a link to Chad's/Ohio University's website

MPAA tries to negate Fair Use

From Ars Technica "MPAA: teachers should videotape monitors, not rip DVDs" May 7, 2009.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) provides instruction for how teachers are supposed to videotape clips for classroom use. What happened to Fair Use? If MPAA keeps this up, they'll force everyone to find alternative resources and cut themselves out of the loop. We can all live without their products. What we won't do is stop learning, communicating, and creating.

And...on an unrelated matter to Fair Use...I have to wonder, does the MPAA make sure that the electricians, camera people, etc continue to profit from the products they helped create? Or is it only a small few that profit from copyright? Just asking.

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Interviews with Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Khaled Hosseini's website with more information and podcasts.

Anthropologist Wade Davis - The Value of the World's Diverse Cultures

Trying to catch up on valuable TED.com offerings. Wade Davis, with National Geographic, shares his experiences of other cultures. 6000 languages in the world. And we'll lose half of them in just one generation. Imagine...another way to experience the world! They are praying for us, and hoping we'll learn from our mistakes. I hope so too!

January 2007: Endangered Cultures. 22 minutes.



February 2008: World Beliefs and Rituals. 22 minutes.



Links to more information about Davis:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/wade_davis.html

Pandemic information from TED.com

This first piece with Dr. Larry Brilliant (2006) is an interesting 25 minutes long.
He discusses GPHIN: Global Public Health Information Network from Canada:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2004/2004_gphin-rmispbk-eng.php and gives nod to its creator, Dr. Ron St. John, Director of the Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR).



More information about this talk and Larry Brilliant can be found at:
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2006/03/can_the_interne.html

Brillant's Organization launched following his TED appearance InSTEDD: Innovative Support To Emergencies Diseases and Disasters found at http://instedd.org/

Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, at a 2007 TED conference discusses pandemics. (21 min video) Our best defense is early diagnosis, failing that, she says its local government that will make the difference.



New England Journal of Medicine H1N1 Center, with world health map:
http://h1n1.nejm.org/

Mashed up information at Flu Wiki:
http://flu.wikia.com/wiki/Flu_Wiki