http://livinglit.edublogs.org Using Social Networking to Travel the World with Literature Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:33:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My mom keeps telling my sister she's not in exile. She could go home any time she wants. But what is home for a Brazilian immigrant in the US for the past ten years? If home is where your family and memories are, certainly Brazil is the place. How about ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/10/01/in-foreign-land/ I finished reading Waiting for Snow in Havana a week ago. I had to stop. I had to let it settle down. I couldn’t go into written reflection just right after. My emotions were not letting me reflect…not the way I wanted. Not the way I had imagined I would write ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/09/30/waiting-for-snow-in-havana-a-personal-review/ Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 Cuban children airlifted to the United States in 1962.  At the time, neither the parents nor the children had any inkling that their separation would last as long as it did, or that Fidel Castro would remain in power for as long as he ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/09/09/ninas-thoughts-on-waiting-for-snow/ Carlos Eire, the author, was one of some 14,000 unaccompanied children who were airlifted out of Cuba in 1962, three years after the Cuban Revolution. This is his story. I learned that he felt compelled to write this story in the Spring of 2000 while the world was witness to ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/07/16/waiting-for-snow-in-havana-by-carlos-eire/ When I left for Buenos Aires in February, our first book was to be The Tunnel (El Túnel) by Ernesto Sabato. I asked our Argentine friends to suggest an Argentine author that would not be too difficult so that I could read it in Spanish. My first week in B.A., ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/07/11/the-tunnel/ Next week the EVO's will wind down and my adrenaline will wind up as I'm off on an adventure to the southern hemisphere. Although I have visited some 60 countries in my life, this will be the first time for me to cross the equator--I'll have to see for myself ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/02/14/virtual-book-club-launch/ Here is a link for a wonderful video on Collaboration sent in by Vicky in the Blogging4Educators group: [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/9cdyej0AJaI" width="350" height="300" wmode="transparent" /] As I watched the video, I was thinking that "a gaggle of educators" sounds disorganized and chaotic with all the honking and position-changing, but they may actually be in ... http://livinglit.edublogs.org/2008/01/24/creativity-and-collaboration-through-gaggling/