Checking my Google Reader today I found an especially appropriate article from Tech & Learning. On this Halloween weekend, creepy, morbid and disgusting things are in order. This theme prevailed in "You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mummy! Disgusting Things You'd Rather Not Know," which is the title of an actual web book. It gives a detailed account of steps in the mummification process, the funeral, burial, etc.of an Egyptian person in a humorous way that addresses the reader as though they were the mummy, warning what is about to happen or is at the moment happening to them.
Students would enjoy learning these facts because of the satire and dark humor, along with drawings, pictorials and designs. This is one of several books by Salariya Book Company, each elaborating on grisly facts about subjects like Whaling, Gladiators, Explorers. The use of first person mixed with humor makes these free web books attractive, especially to students who prefer online reading to a traditional book.
I found the combination of technology and content learning, along with the timely, seasonal monster-like topic of dead people being mummified, an unbeatable mix for this assignment. There were a lot of other good reads in my Google Reader, but "mum"'s the word on those for now, ghouls and boys!
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