Books vs Electronic Readers

I am a book lover, have always been.  I want to thank my parents for my passion.  I was read to on a nightly basis and believe that was what made the reader I am today.  I can only hope to instill this onto our son as he grows.

 My dilemma is this: I kinda want a Kindle, but feel like I am committing treason toward my books. I then find this video of a baby not much older than my son now can work and IPad like there is no tomorrow, but does not know how to turn the pages of a magazine.  The author poses the question of wondering if books and magazine will be  extinct by the time our children are adults.  My answer is, I hope not. Sure our sonknows that our laptop is where he can watch Elmo and Cookie Monster on YouTube, but he also loves his books and knows how to turn the pages of a book.  Maybe when Jack is older he will prefere to read off of an electronic reader, but he will know what the books his mom and dad still read are.

Baby and IPad

Useful Blog

As I was browsing the web, looking for some useful information to use for our wiki project, I came across a a blog that will be useful to my teaching.  I believe that using picture books can be a powerful tool to teach difficult concepts. 

If you get a moment check out Teach with Picture Books

Pat on the back

So I have to give myself a little pat on the back.  If you haven't read my previous post What to Write? please click the link.  So I commented about how I would like to jazz up my blog and make it less cookie cutter.  One feature that I saw was adding a music player to your blog.  I went down to the bottom of the blogs that had this features and thus preceded to figure out how to add to my own.  So please turn up the volume of your computer and enjoy. :)  I am very proud of myself for this technological  accomplish. I even added a hyperlink to this post!!