Xtranormal text to movie, and kindness...

Here is a post shared on LM_NET :

"Joyce Valenza was the keynote speaker at our annual NYC librarians' conference last week. To say the least, it was inspiring to see how she uses Web 2.0 tools with her students. I am teaching a College Research class and having my students keep blogs of what they are learning in class using the write-to-learn process. The students are not always motivated to write on their blogs but today I taught them how to make blog entries with xtranormal. Here are 2 examples of what my students did. They are now highly motivated to write blog entries via xtranormal.
http://alacr.blogspot.com/
http://mhpcr.blogspot.com/

Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS Jerome Parker Campus Library Staten Island, NY USA http://csihslibrary.wikispaces.com

Have a look at the wikispace, and here is a link to xtranormal text to movie http://www.xtranormal.com/

And Patricia signs off with these great quotes about kindness :

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." - Henry James

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong....because someday in your life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it..." - Barbara Kingsolver

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind." - Henri Frederic Amiel