eveninghawk’s links

I hope all you wonderful people out there have heard of creative commons. I am in much like with the things they are doing and the ideas behind it. In fact, I think I shall licence my site now.

Perpetual Preschool has great resources, though I find they are appropriate for my first and second grade ESL kids, since the vocabulary is more accessible for them.

Ok, I was a Johnny Cash fan, and this is the sweetest tribute I’ve seen. Hope y’all enjoy!

Today I have stumbled across Boggle’s World while trying to build an 80 minute fun Christmas oriented class. I am very excited about the resources there and the flexibility of the materials there.

I’ll be going back to them with some of the curriculum development we’re working on for next semester. Score!

Today I noticed something neat while fiddling with the configuration for this blog. There are some neat resources out there to network blog minded people, and also to show you folks who are also writing about their lives/experiences/stuff. One of them is blo.gs, and the other is weblogs.com. I think it’s worth taking a click and checking out.

In many ways reading blogs reminds me of the joy I had reading Griffin & Sabine. Do you remember that? I loved those books. The one I remember that really got me as a kid was Beverly Cleary’s Dear Mr. Henshaw. I liked it so much I read it out loud to my mom. She cried.

I read Something Positive all the time since it’s set in Boston and is pretty funny. I was reminded of days at hampshire when I saw this. I thought you might get a hoot. Mike, Davan, and Branwen are all the major characters here… Davan and Branwen date, and Mike is Branwen’s socially inept cousin who likes gaming.

Read Something Positive for December 4.

If you like coconut flavored sweets, here’s one I love. You can find the ingredients anywhere that carries Asian foods, if not anywhere else. Just remember, Sago is huge tapioca. If you like tapioca pudding and coconut, then this is definitely for you!

My one note of advice, it’s always best to soak the sago first, for about an hour. They’re very hard!

Sago Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

(1) Boil the water in a pot

(2) Put the sugar and pandan leaves into boiling water.

(3) Add in the sago and stir periodically to make sure that the sago does not stick to the bottom of the pot. (The water should always be boiling)

(4) After 30-40 minutes, the sago should be cooked (they turn transparent). Turn off the heat and stir in the coconut milk.

(5) Cool in fridge and serve with fruit

This recipe, and others can be found here.

English Banana

You’ve got to be kidding. My kids call me banana non-stop. So figures there’s a website by my nickname that provides tons of good three-levelled worksheets. I’m amused.

I’m sure you’ve all heard about Project Gutenberg. I love the idea that so many public domain books are online for everyone.

This week I was pointed to another resource I think worth mention: the World Wide School’s Library. Check it out, find some free reading, enjoy.

Here on World AIDS Day I find myself thinking about nasty diseases. Today my students talked about AIDS, and SARS. As my day is concluding, while thinking of an HIV infected friend and where he is at today, I am also thinking of folks I know living with Hepatitis C.

It’s a little crazy to me to read this Kansas City Star bit on the recent past of the disease. To back things up a bit and look at transmission methods more clearly , check out this bit from the CDC.

Diseases that you are capable of passing on to other people are things that we should all educate ourselves about.