Joyce Valenza's Profile

Member since Mar 29, 2008, follows 43 people, 16 public groups, 59 public bookmarks (64 total).

More »
Recent Bookmarks and Annotations

  • Alice’s Sister « Alice's Pack of Cards on 2009-12-16
    • erhaps her sister was there while Alice was there, as there were a few times where things were moved around, such as the golden key in the beginning. Or maybe she heard Alice sleeptalking about Wonderland? What do you think the reason for Alice’s sister’s knowledge of Wonderland is?
  • Alice's Trifles on 2009-12-15
    • Even with subtle adult messages, the fact remains that this is a children’s story. Simply stated, children do not understand such messages in their innocence. Adults often seem bent on finding powerful messages within stories designed to affect the minds of their children. They just have to understand that children simply do not understand.
  • Rationality Against Irrationality « Alice's Pack of Cards on 2009-12-15

    • Jurors write with their fingers and convert dates into currency, rules are made up mid-court, and witnesses leave mid trial during all the commotion.


      During the trial, Alice begins to object to this insane behavior. For example, she counters the king’s rule forty two reasoning and makes it mean nothing.

      • Joyce Valenza

        Joyce Valenza on 2009-12-15

        Nicely points, Connor. Along those lines, here's a quote I think is interesting: "Alice looked on ... as the King ... began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him.The poor King ... at last ... panted out 'My dear! I really must get a thinner pencil. I can't manage this one a bit: it writes all manner of things that I don't intend--" All those irrational chess pieces are the silly parents and rule-makers we encounter and cannot understand, and perhaps, the Victorians encountered these rule-makers even more profoundly. But maybe Carroll is also talking about the stiff conventions of writing he faced, conventions that are about to be blown up by some of the modernist writers who will follow him in the 20th century.

  • Alice's Trifles on 2009-12-14
    • Alice becomes afraid of changing size because she does not know what her changing of size brings about. She is frustrated and confused about her size change; her size change is unknown. She becomes afraid to change size
  • http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/events/2009-12-09/distance on 2009-12-09
  • Home (World History @ West Hills) on 2009-12-09
  • sites (Google Teacher Academy Resources) on 2009-12-09
  • Welcome (Gone Google) on 2009-12-09
  • Alice's Pack of Cards on 2009-12-06
    • The fact that only the caterpillar asks for her name shows you what the other creatures in Wonderland thought of her. They never really bothered to know her. They just called her “little girl” or never addressed her at all. It is quite understandable since they probably didn’t care about some newcomer to their world.
  • Twitter / Home on 2009-11-18

More »
Bookmark Lists

More »
Groups

  • 2 to 1 Counterbalance

    46 members, 28 items

    This group is set up in connection with an blog post on TechLearning, as a place to build positive links/examples/ideas to counterbalance negative stories/events on the Internet.

  • Building Learning Communities

    53 members, 170 items

    Bookmark resources discussed/shared at the Building Learning Communities conference.

  • Cell Phones in Education

    98 members, 94 items

    This group will explore the use of cell phones in the classroom.

  • Diigo In Education

    3580 members, 2972 items

    “Diigo In Education” - Phase I just released. More to come.. Share your classroom usecase, ideas, reviews, features, and wishlists for making Diigo a great resource and platform in teaching and learning. Let's explore the full potential of Diigo as an educational tool.

  • Educational Technology Planning

    182 members, 128 items

    Here's a group for bookmarking resources related to technology planning. Specifically, I'll be collecting examples of tech plans here.

Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »

Join Diigo