Happy Friday, smart friends. We’re excited to launch a new series that will happen most Fridays called Friday Five. Each post will cover happenings from the week, where our team’s been traveling, what we’re working on and where you can contribute!

Terry Elliott Very promising filter here. I learned about Seedbank, tensorworkflow, the Collaboratory at Google, and Building 21 network. All worth knowing about.

Poetry Society of America

Travis Nichols: Let’s start with Audre Lorde. What’s the difference between poetry and rhetoric? Matthew Zapruder: You’re referring to the discussion in Why Poetry of Audre Lorde’s poem ‘Power,’ which begins, ‘The difference between poetry and…

Terry Elliott Aaaaaaaack, I hate reading stuff like this because it makes me feel like I need to change EVERYTHING about how I teach poetry. I’m just going to read his book anyway and despair and then get back up and add something from this to my syllabus. Tres kewl.

BookTube may sound like a root vegetable, but it’s actually an incredibly vibrant community of people who vlog (that’s video blog for those of you who are unfamiliar with the lingo) about books on YouTube. There’s something for everyone on…

Terry Elliott What a marvelous set of channels and I just didn’t know. Start with Ariel Bissett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35EA8XlZUcI

The best way to get your kids into Legos is to hand them a tub of Lego bricks and say, “Here, go wild.” But eventually, they may want to think even bigger and work with more bricks than they own. This free tool lets them build virtual…

Terry Elliott Introduce your students to CAD with this…or just go wild and make that working Lego version of an antikythera. Also, learn about the beauties of prototyping.