@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-20

Nov 20

By Traci Gardnerjournal, news Comments Off

Friends and Colleagues Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/5ShaJV #
Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer, and what motivates them? : Cognitive Daily http://bit.ly/7vlzqg #
Should Teachers Sell Their Class Materials? – Teacher Magazine: http://bit.ly/7Tf6mV #
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Sold Out for the Holidays – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/4BL6aq #
Book Review: Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley – Wash Post http://bit.ly/7IYVmd #
School libraries key in teaching information skills | eSchoolNews http://bit.ly/6ZGHuM #
The Art of the Paragraph | Copyblogger http://bit.ly/4okhqC #
E-mail Is Not a Tool for Revision – Profhacker.com | http://bit.ly/371Ulm #GoogleDocs #
The Supreme Court Database http://bit.ly/2ll1nO (via The Scout Report) –decisions from 1958-2008 & supporting info #
As far as the eye/I can see – Caribbean Art and Visual Culture | http://bit.ly/kVOBD -(via The Scout Report) #
Challenges and Opportunities of the Small Screen – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/xW1MD #
A Defense of the Lecture – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2eIIPK –Is small-group discussion best? #
Doctorate Production Ebbs – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2tvnrm #
A Different Kind of Test – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/dzSSf –Students not able to graduate because they were obese as freshmen #
MCC students tell stories of veterans – TimesRepublican.com | http://bit.ly/4jHv1r #
Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories – Review – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/3qSobV #
BookJam Bash at NCTE Convention Features 16-year-old Poet Laureate and Award-winning Authors – Yahoo! News http://bit.ly/sJmHE #
Students write novels – AuburnPub.com – http://bit.ly/3qPI88 #
Judge Grants Preliminary Approval to Revised Google Book Settlement – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/1Hn24Y #
Children social network in secret says Prof Byron – BBC News – http://bit.ly/3K6BUE #
Is a $26,000 UC education still a deal? | Los Angeles Times http://bit.ly/11W6pJ #
University of California, Crown Jewel of Education, Struggles With Cuts – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/1X5GPM #
Lawsuit Alleges Plagiarism by Hartford Courant – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2ZW15V #