CyberMouse Tuesday, October 10, 2006: ** A GUEST SPEAKER IS COMING (Sagamihara Campus) ***On Tuesday, November 7th at 3rd period (Room to be announced) we will be hosting a distinguished visiting lecturer, the best-selling author of children's books, Lynne Reid Banks. The most famous of her works is the classic _The Indian in the Cupboard_, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a feature film in 1995. According to her official bio at "She was born in London in 1929 and was an actress in the early 1950’s; later she became one of the first women TV news reporters in Britain. She has written forty books – her first, _The L-Shaped Room_, was published in 1960." [Of course, Night School students are welcome to attend the lecture if they're free at the time and don't mind making the journey to the Sagamihara Campus. Some of the students in Nibu have never been to the Sagamihara Campus and might like an excuse to visit.]In anticipation of her visit, I ordered the DVD of _The Indian in the Cupboard_ and several copies of her various books, including _The Return of the Indian in the Cupboard_ and _The Mystery of the Cupboard_. You'll find them in the teachers' room (B-520). Feel free to sign them out and pass them around in class before Lynne's visit so that the students will have an idea of her work and so that Core students might be inspired to choose her works for their book reports. Ask Asuma-san if you're having trouble finding them. They should be on the "New Acquisitions" shelf. [Books from the _Indian in the Cupboard_ series would be suitable for students at the IE II and III levels, although perhaps a bit challenging for the former.] Unknown // 4:30 AM ______________________ Well as I said today three people have now entred Second Life although none of them have met me there yet. Perhaps this next weekend. The rest of you should all be giving it a try. You do not need a credit card to join, but you do need a newer computer. Good Luck.Poetry for iPods debutsLast Updated: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 | 12:20 PM ETCBC NewsA U.K. company launched a website Wednesday aimed at selling poetry to people who use iPods and other digital media devices.The "modern poetry" site iPoems initially offers 1,001 poems from 57 poets in MP3 format, Britain's 57 Productions said in a statement.Among the poets whose work is available for download are:Benjamin Zephaniah, who declined to be accepted into the Order of the British Empire in 2003, saying he gets angry at the term "empire" because it reminds him of "thousands of years of brutality."U.S.-born, London-based Whitbread Poetry Prize winner Michael Donaghy, who died suddenly in 2004.Punk-era poet John Cooper Clarke.Jamaican reggae dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.The English-language poems are available as audio for 97 cents US or in video format for $1.94.The company is offering a free, one-month trial membership, after which annual subscriptions are available for $18 US. Unknown // 4:27 AM ______________________
** A GUEST SPEAKER IS COMING (Sagamihara Campus) ***On Tuesday, November 7th at 3rd period (Room to be announced) we will be hosting a distinguished visiting lecturer, the best-selling author of children's books, Lynne Reid Banks. The most famous of her works is the classic _The Indian in the Cupboard_, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a feature film in 1995. According to her official bio at "She was born in London in 1929 and was an actress in the early 1950’s; later she became one of the first women TV news reporters in Britain. She has written forty books – her first, _The L-Shaped Room_, was published in 1960." [Of course, Night School students are welcome to attend the lecture if they're free at the time and don't mind making the journey to the Sagamihara Campus. Some of the students in Nibu have never been to the Sagamihara Campus and might like an excuse to visit.]In anticipation of her visit, I ordered the DVD of _The Indian in the Cupboard_ and several copies of her various books, including _The Return of the Indian in the Cupboard_ and _The Mystery of the Cupboard_. You'll find them in the teachers' room (B-520). Feel free to sign them out and pass them around in class before Lynne's visit so that the students will have an idea of her work and so that Core students might be inspired to choose her works for their book reports. Ask Asuma-san if you're having trouble finding them. They should be on the "New Acquisitions" shelf. [Books from the _Indian in the Cupboard_ series would be suitable for students at the IE II and III levels, although perhaps a bit challenging for the former.] Unknown // 4:30 AM
Well as I said today three people have now entred Second Life although none of them have met me there yet. Perhaps this next weekend. The rest of you should all be giving it a try. You do not need a credit card to join, but you do need a newer computer. Good Luck.Poetry for iPods debutsLast Updated: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 | 12:20 PM ETCBC NewsA U.K. company launched a website Wednesday aimed at selling poetry to people who use iPods and other digital media devices.The "modern poetry" site iPoems initially offers 1,001 poems from 57 poets in MP3 format, Britain's 57 Productions said in a statement.Among the poets whose work is available for download are:Benjamin Zephaniah, who declined to be accepted into the Order of the British Empire in 2003, saying he gets angry at the term "empire" because it reminds him of "thousands of years of brutality."U.S.-born, London-based Whitbread Poetry Prize winner Michael Donaghy, who died suddenly in 2004.Punk-era poet John Cooper Clarke.Jamaican reggae dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.The English-language poems are available as audio for 97 cents US or in video format for $1.94.The company is offering a free, one-month trial membership, after which annual subscriptions are available for $18 US. Unknown // 4:27 AM
