Last month the TOK (Theory of Knowledge) department ran a day on "beauty" - where various teachers offered up their ideals and examples of beauty to the Grade 11 students.
I was inspired by one of my favorite poems - by Wallace Stevens - to offer up the beauty of the perfect metaphor -- made apparent by offering up some examples of bad metaphors.
Here are some books in our East campus library that explore the power of metaphors, similes, and analogies.
Friday 30 November 2012
The dangers of Book Clubs
I think book clubs don't really become a hazard until you've left academia. While growing up within the school environment, "book clubs" are presented in the form of literature circles and the like. But they're enforced. Not voluntary.
It's only when you're out in the real world that you are confronted with "book club behavior" -- which this video demonstrates all too humorously.
The good news is the monthly GoodReads @ UWCSEA Parents book group is nothing like this. We come together casually to share books we've read, want to read, have read about, etc. Here's a bookshelf of all the titles our wide-ranging conversation touched upon this past week.
It's only when you're out in the real world that you are confronted with "book club behavior" -- which this video demonstrates all too humorously.
The good news is the monthly GoodReads @ UWCSEA Parents book group is nothing like this. We come together casually to share books we've read, want to read, have read about, etc. Here's a bookshelf of all the titles our wide-ranging conversation touched upon this past week.
Thursday 22 November 2012
Want to buy or price-check some books?
Two new online book vendor sites that have
quickly become as important to me as Book Depository and OpenTrolley.
It's a book price comparison site for Singapore, which opened on August 24 of this year.
Forget about switching between Internet browser tabs - you can now shop on just one tab with oo.sg, a website that consolidates the best deals from 9 websites. With literary offerings from power e-retailers such as Amazon, Kinokuniya, Popular, Betterworldbooks, Bookdepository, Fishpond, Noqstore, and Opentrolley.
Yes, you type in a title or ISBN and it tells you the cheapest cost - including shipping costs.
One of the book sources it uses is
a free worldwide-shipping book supplier, very similar to Book Depository. In fact, I'm noticing that they're coming in slightly cheaper than Book Depository most of the time.
I also like how they provide the Kinokuniya costs, where possible.
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