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Today in History: Anne Frank Receives a Diary
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Today in History: Tribal Rights of the New Saturday Night
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Today in History: William Young Patents the Ice Cream Freezer
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Today in History: Grace Hoadley Dodge Is Born
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Everett Cafe Book Display: Getting In Or Getting Out: College Admissions
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Everett Cafe Book Display: Teaching About Species... and an Excerpt Concerning Scarabaeinae
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(Her) Stories: Women's Memoirs
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Everett Cafe: The Award Goes to Mis / Representation
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The Patriarchy: A New Everett Cafe Book Display
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Library Resources and Services for Students in the AEGIS Program
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Library Resources and Services for HUDK 5324, Research Practicum
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Library Resources and Services for the Urban Education Leaders Program
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Library Resources and Services for A&HA 4085, Historical Foundations of Art Education
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Be a Detective: Art, Artifacts, and Artful Historical Research
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Today in History: Summer Solstice
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Jennifer Govan
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Paul Mathew
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Kim Kefgen
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Brian Hughes
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egrunes
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August Bank Holiday - a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A fanfare of sunshades opening. A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers. A compromise of paddlers. A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons. -- Dylan Thomas. Holiday Memory, 1946 …
Have you ever wondered what the Sun looks like when it’s viewed straight on? Well here it is: Image from PK: Sun photographed through 40-inch Yerkes telescope This picture from the early 1900s was made possible by a method of observing elements in the sun using spectrology. American astronomer (and University of Chicago …
Over the last two years, I have had the great privilege of working in the newly opened Smith Learning Theater here on the 4th floor of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College Columbia University in NYC. As we pass the one-year anniversary of the opening of the space, I want to reflect on some highlights, challenges, …
Did you know that it is twenty years since Google was incorporated? On August 31st, 1998 Stanford University alumni / computer whizzes Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed Google for incorporation in the state of California. The young entrepreneurs worked from a small office in a garage in Menlo Park and went on to open their …
How exciting to see that the Benjamin Franklin Papers via the National Archives, Library of Congress are now online! The Library announced the digitization today in remembrance of the anniversary of Franklin’s death on April 17th, 1790. The Franklin collections endured a "turbulent history", having been dispersed, damaged, lost, even cut up by a tailor before being …
This Fall the Gottesman Libraries took Teachers College members to Mars via the exciting launch of The Smith Learning Theater, the newly renovated fourth floor, whose funding was made possible by the generous gift of Camilla and George Smith. An immersive 70 minute experience, the Mars Mission introduced dynamic, highly collaborative learning and problem solving, with engaging connections to space, design, and …
This year, the Strage Prize features the work of TC Professor Joey Lee and his research on games and education. Lee’s recent work includes “Greenify: real-world missions for climate change education” and “Experience points for learning: Student perceptions of game mechanics for the classroom.” His work at Teachers College intersected with others through projects supported …
Imagine a box, velvet black, Low-key lighting like beams from a lighthouse cast. Open space, no seats, silence. Just a big black box Waiting for actors, dancers, musicians. It’s a space that will be. Meaning will they make, Like blank page to written word. They perform, imprint our souls, move on. My knowledge of transitional …
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." -- Oscar Wilde
“Why do we do what we do?” asks a colleague over the cranking of coffee machines in the Everett Café. I flip through the numbers and think through the presentations: an estimated 1,500 events since the inception of the Gottesman Libraries' Education Program, enhanced by introductions at professional conferences, staff meetings, and the events themselves. …
We don’t serve mashed potatoes at high noon, but freshly baked cookies, coffee, and tea aren’t too bad an alternative. They sweeten the taste for technology – on a day when we sift through piles of weekend e-mail, as we look hungrily to the week ahead. On the second Monday of each month, experts from …
Title: Poke the Box : When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time? Author: Seth Godin Publisher: The Domino Project Call number: HF5386 .G552 2011 From the Publisher: Poke the Box is a manifesto by bestselling author Seth Godin that just might make you uncomfortable. It’s a call to action about …
Title: The Art of Possibility Authors: Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander Publisher: Harvard Business School Press, 2000 Call Number: BC199.P7 Z36 From the Publisher: The Art of Possibility offers a set of breakthrough practices for creativity in all human enterprises. This inspirational book is a synthesis of Rosamund Stone Zander's knowledge of cutting-edge psychology …
"Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become" (Reference: TedTalk …
Have you registered yet for the Department of Arts and Humanities' Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation in Education Symposium at Teachers College, April 28th-29th? The Gottesman Libraries is hosting a full calendar of events related to—and leading up to—the symposium. To spark interest in the "intrinsic value of creativity and imagination in education," we'll feature: Poetry Day, a "read …
Background MuseAmi develops iPhone apps that allow you to correct your pitch and produce music. I was interested in how these applications "level the playing" field for new music creators. MuseAmi creator, Bob Taub, has plans to continue developing the tool so it will translate what you sing into musical notation. They hope that the …
Today in History: William Young Patents the Ice Cream Freezer
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Today in History: Google Is Incorporated
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Today in History: Remembering Benjamin Franklin
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Today in History: Apollo 8 Launches to the Moon
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The Learning Theater Revealed
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Strage Prize 2013 with Joey Lee
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Learning Spaces
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Process in the Education Program
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Mashing Up: Monday Work Groups
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