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

Quotes

I use LibraryThing but was checking out Shelfari and Goodreads which look good too...

Goodreads has some neat quotes - on the home page and at this tab http://www.goodreads.com/quotes

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis

"Book lovers never go to bed alone"

Here is a wonderful site - a blog full of photos of books - at home, in libraries... piles, shelves, walls of books... celebrating the book !
http://networkedblogs.com/1ONnY

A cute one...



and a unique shelving solution...



You can scroll through the pages, or go to Archive to see thumbnails - mostly pictures but some great quotes too...

A word a day from Wordsmith.org

I signed up for A.Word.A.Day and have enjoyed the small discoveries about words - their derivation, links, use etc and the quotes that this free daily email brings...
http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html

Here are a few recent quotes which I've enjoyed...

"Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations." -Edward Sapir, anthropologist, linguist (1884-1939)

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man." - Richard Feynman

"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Einstein

"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." - Gibbon

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Charlotte Huck

"We don't achieve literacy and then give children literature; we achieve literacy through literature."
Charlotte Huck, author and children’s literature expert.