I decided to review Brian Selznick’s “The invention of Hugo Cabret” basically because I love how he used his drawings to tell the story, here’s my review and some of my favorite images. Enjoy.
June 30, 2008
A new week!
Today begins the second week of 10 things . . . and I’m excited because I’ve not had the opportunity yet to post a book review on the staff wiki, so a new adventure . . . on the personal side i saw some most amazing blues this weekend in Monterey and am still remembering all the great music i listened to, BB King, at 82 melts your heart and his facial expressions and storytelling were so delightful! What a weekend . . .
June 26, 2008
Fun Stuff!
Today I had a different challenge!! One of our staff is Persian so when we worked through this assignment we were pleased to see that it was offered in Farsi! Of course!! Why not?? So, she opted to use her language as the default for “what language will you be mostly blogging in”.
It was exciting to see her face light up and hear her giggle as she moved through the exercise. For me?? this was challenging as I’m not yet familiar what all the buttons say in English “save” “publish” etc etc, and they are on the opposite sides of the screen. Even the scroll bar is on the left! So it was an interesting exercise for me, and I’m going to have to go back now and look to see why what she wrote, though it began in the box right to left, didn’t translate into Farsi, but instead remained in English. Updates to this to be posted later.
It’s so great to see people creating blogs and to go to the pages and learn something new about people!! BRAVO!! BRAVA!! and Haleh?? how do you say it in Farsi?
UPDATE: I found it, we need to update the language she writes in, right now it’s just what language is the interface, YEAH!!
June 23, 2008
This is me . . .
Along came a spider and sat down beside her . . . and then Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall and had a big fall . . . where were all the King’s horses? Mary had a little lamb but the lamb didn’t want to follow Mary . . . so under the haystack lay Jack fast asleep . . . wouldn’t it be fun to make up a story with just one or two lines from your favorite stories?? Here’s one of my favorite videos and singer/songwriters, remember you will need sound for it . . .
yep, okay i’m having too much fun . . .
