Well, actually it is the 15th, but hey, what can I say? I had a blast at the SCASL Conference and will be posting some of my notes in a little while.

First up for today is an item making the rounds of many of the blogs I read is the cell phone frequency that most adults cannot hear (also known as the mosquito tone). Here is a website that you can test if you can still hear the mosquito tone. Boy this made me feel young again, my results:

Next up is a Frontline program called “Secret History of the Credit Card” and you can watch the full program online. As with anything I share, be sure to watch it yourself before deciding to use it with students or in your lessons.

An last, I attended a session at SCASL on Google-Lit Trips and knew I needed to share that right away. Using Google Earth, you can create journeys for the novels you study in class. In essence, the places the characters visit or described in the book are stops along the journey in Google-Lit Trips. Some have already been created: The Grapes of Wrath, Macbeth, Night, The Odyssey, The Kite Runner, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, My Brother Sam is Dead, and more.

You can also create your own trips using Google Earth. To get started, you have to download Google Earth to your computer. Of course, for our school computers, you must submit a work order to have our Tech guy download and install the program!