Spring fever has hit, and summer is on the way, but don’t let your brain atrophy completely. Check out these links about education, libraries, books, writing, and the like.
- Here’s a video from the University of Texas about using Twitter in the classroom:
(H/T Snelling Center)
- Hope’s Centre-Table found another Twitter experiment in scholarship. Maybe you can kill your Facebook, but Twitter is perhaps inescapable.
- The Young Writers Project is holding a poetry slam tonight.
- The Sheck Spot is asking for help in supporting library legislation that aids in obtaining grants for technology.
- The Brooks Memorial Library is kicking off its summer reading program.
- And tangentially related, but still hilarious, not only did Oprah’s free coupons for chicken cause a run on KFC, according to librarian.net, it also caused problems for libraries.
Have a great day!
This article appears in The Home and Garden Issue 2009.

