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@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-30

Apr 30

By Traci Gardnernews tornado Comments Off

• How Writers Build the Brand – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/jN0QbG #
• Memories Scattered by Southern Storms Land on Facebook – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/mbCC4s #
• The Shirley Sherrods of Academe? – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/iIjl3Q #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-29

Apr 29

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• Turnitin Debunks Myths Surrounding Plagiarism on the Web — PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — http://hoki.es/mCFilI #
• Standardized testing leads to standardized teaching, which only works if you have standardized students. One size does not fit all. #
• Diane Ravitch: Standardized Testing Undermines Teaching : NPR http://hoki.es/m0XPM7 #
• How to Create Accessible Documents – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/iqbsQ5 #
• Reader's Almanac: The poet-soldiers of the Civil War: Ambrose Bierce, John W. De Forest, Fitz-James O’Brien, & more: http://hoki.es/kjJba8 #
• Modern Language Association Adds Office of Scholarly Communication – The Ticker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/iJYBQL #
• Assignment: The Flexible Final Project | viz. http://hoki.es/iLF1co #
• Plagiarism Goes Social – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/iHRdDt #
• NWP Radio: Stronger Together: State and Regional Networks at Work – National Writing Project http://hoki.es/kCdeur #
• For Free Food on Their Campus, Hungry Students Consult 'Food-Bot' – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/mb1P5t #
• Security and the Cloud, Again – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/k0aTNP #
• Build a Better To Do List – HackCollege – Student-Powered Lifehacking http://hoki.es/iSzSTs #
• Integrating Tweets Into WordPress Blog Posts – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/kdRekf #
• Avoiding Grade Appeals – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/jbnTKD #
• 7 Simple To-do List Services for Students | Free Technology for Teachers: http://hoki.es/mU3KLK #
• Barnes & Noble College Bookstores Set Up Shop on Facebook & Hope Students Will 'Like' It – Chronicle of Higher Ed http://hoki.es/lcq7Dv #
• Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book | Video on TED.com http://hoki.es/jCLuvo #
• The 10 best American colleges for writers | USA TODAY College http://hoki.es/mIV9Dk #
• What Is a Book? The Definition Continues to Blur – BusinessWeek http://hoki.es/lWdJLg #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-28

Apr 28

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• The Case for Cursive – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/kPY1Ky #
• Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/kxZVOc #
• Straight from the DOE: Dispelling Myths About Blocked Internet Sites | MindShift http://hoki.es/knlCoM #
• Don’t Panic! U.S. Higher Education Is Still Pivotal – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/lXQWNf #
• Playbill Video’s “Jersey Shore Gone Wilde” | The Jersey Shore in the style of an Oscar Wilde comedy:http://hoki.es/kE3n2L #
• Tying High-School Diplomas to College Applications – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/kGA3JP #
• Paranoid? You Must Be a Grad Student – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/kD3fJK #
• Listserv Tattletale – University of Venus – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/mCQ6ZX #
• Buying Blackboard – Digital Tweed – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/jbunaR #
• No Room for Books: Plan to remove 80% of the volumens from U. of Denver's library – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/k9O0rO #
• High net use linked to teen risky behavior – UPI.com http://hoki.es/mHD96u #
• Court Backs Discipline of Student Over Internet Speech – The School Law Blog – Education Week http://hoki.es/lN7Ki8 #
• Confessions of a Journal Editor – Do Your Job Better – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/jeDb60 #
• Web Surveillance and the Campus ('Blown to Bits' II) – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/l37soN #
• Too Big to Fail: How 'better than nothing' defined graduate rankings – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/lDPn8C #
• How Colleges Can Ensure Quality, Not Inequality – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/kihM7C #
• Ask the Administrator: Incentives for Course Evaluations – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/lrJkFf #
• Tangled in an endless web of distractions – Boston.com http://hoki.es/iPUm8i #
• Virtual learning making real-world strides: Online classes catching on in Illinois – chicagotribune.com http://hoki.es/iGFCrq #
• Cell Phones in Schools – My Experiences and More | Free Technology for Teachers: http://hoki.es/k38mZW #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-27

Apr 27

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• Why You Should Check Your Public Dropbox Folders http://hoki.es/j8AMoi #
• Delicious Has New Owners: YouTube Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen http://hoki.es/karPB5 #
• The Cheapskate's Guide to Getting Free Dropbox Space http://hoki.es/ls5ipK #
• How Reading Fiction Can Improve Your Social Skills http://hoki.es/mhVhNn #
• The Reading Life: The United States of Poetry | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times http://hoki.es/kBXUbL #
• New Director of MIT Media Lab Talks of Encouraging Openness – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/lBqoYK #
• NWP Radio: Nurturing Student Writing by Embracing Popular Culture – National Writing Project http://hoki.es/l9ht8a #
• How To Sync Facebook Events with your Google Calendar – HackCollege – Student-Powered Lifehacking http://hoki.es/mx6FLy #
• Near and Far: Advocate from Wherever You Are | YALSA » http://hoki.es/kwEMDT #
• Lesson Plan – Teaching Poetry with Image Databases | viz. http://hoki.es/iD1GDD #
• Collaborative Writing Tools – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/mbkOMU #
• April 27, 1981: Say Hello to the First Personal Computer Mouse | This Day In Tech | Wired.com http://hoki.es/dOzoCW #
• Point of View: Students, teachers suffer from cuts to Writing Project | The Baylor Lariat http://hoki.es/hKpUtg #
• Do Adjunct Votes Count? – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/gTKgkO #
• Jeb Bush Leads Broad Push for Education Change With ‘Florida Formula’ – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/dNSLK0 #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-26

Apr 26

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• Professor Deeply Hurt by Student's Evaluation | The Onion – America's Finest News Source http://hoki.es/fPUxtG #
• Bacon-Fat Keyboard Lets Real Birds Tweet | Underwire | Wired.com http://hoki.es/hJCAue #
• Diagramly Is a Quick Online Diagram, Mind Map, and Flow Chart Creator http://hoki.es/fCEYY9 #
• The Funniest Grammar Mistakes Yet (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Books » http://hoki.es/fnrPdu #
• Southern Illinois-Carbondale Moves to Subject Tenured Professors to Layoffs – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/enrrMZ #
• Fast Food Morality | viz. http://hoki.es/gF7cI3 #
• Handling Overzealous Student Questions – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/f68WDB #
• Explore Poetry That Turns the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary — Write an Ode! | Top Teaching http://hoki.es/gp2SDq #
• Aspiring Authors Get Help Online on Book Country, an Online Site by Penguin Group – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/hQAxmR #
• Book Country, an Online Site by Penguin Group – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/hQAxmR #
• Personal Email Archive of Poet Acquired to Analyse Literary Social Network | ReadWriteWeb » http://hoki.es/gssdIS #
• Advanced Placement Isn't For Every Student : NPR http://hoki.es/eylz7j #
• The Future of Primary Texts Online is Almost Here – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/hi4im8 #
• As H.S. Course Titles Become Inflated, Test Scores Fail to Follow – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/fm9x1P #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-25

Apr 25

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• Roger Ebert wins caption contest | The New Yorker http://hoki.es/gwoEc0 /via Kathy Fitch on Facebook #
• Uploading Files to Google Docs Just Got Easier http://hoki.es/dEA1uT #
• iShakespeare: Celebrate the Bard's Anniversary Online http://hoki.es/h0yekF #
• How MyYearbook Solved The Chatroulette Porn Problem | TechCrunch » http://hoki.es/h2pdVg #
• Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/hmR9pQ #
• Nine Hot Web Tools for Students | Harvard Education Letter » http://hoki.es/dQLsiz #
• History in 140 Characters: Asking Educators to Use Twitter – Naomi Coquillon – Technology – The Atlantic http://hoki.es/h59Idm #
• Curation Tool Storify Opens To The Public | ReadWriteWeb » http://hoki.es/hTXzaD #
• Caution for Teachers Who Blog | jacksonville.com http://hoki.es/gS81VD #
• Keeping Blind Review Blind by Anonymizing Documents – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/dRPoFc #
• Glad you like Paper.li @sisypheantask. I've found it highlighted things for me I would have missed otherwise. Has some potential 4 classes. in reply to sisypheantask #
• Paper.li in the Classroom: The Basics » My review of the Twitter/Facebook newspaper tool: http://hoki.es/eAXk2z #
• Catch up on Bedford Bits Posts on narrative, peer tutoring, the middle class, & disability accomodations: http://hoki.es/dFuSUx #
• Fighting Words – Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/epBa99 » On adding certain terms to everyday emails as a political protest #
• Harold Bloom by the Numbers – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/dMwsmS #
• Social web info overload: Summify may provide balance – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/epeLwd #
• Equal Time for 'Traditional Values' – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/gz6EnV #
• 10 Years to Tenure at Michigan – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/dXmULA #
• Lesson plans & activities for April 24 to 30 from ReadWriteThink » http://hoki.es/dK5lfz #
• Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer shows new authors are reinventing US literature – The National http://hoki.es/g8XkXN #
• 100 New York Schools Try ‘Common Core’ Approach – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/exIplH #
• A lesson in Advanced mis-Placement – The Boston Globe http://hoki.es/hpN4fT #
• Exploring the Community College Stigma – The Quad News – Opinion http://hoki.es/ejMjfi #
• For Students Raised on iPods, Lessons in Bridge – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/exDabl #

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April 24 to 30 on ReadWriteThink

Apr 25

By Traci Gardnerclassroom activity, lesson plan, ReadWriteThink August Wilson, baseball, Coretta Scott King, dia, drama, Library of Congress, Lois Duncan, mystery, pat mora, poetry Comments Off

April 30 is El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day). Developed under the leadership of author Pat Mora, this celebration focuses on providing children with books in many languages and making reading an integral part of their lives.

El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros is supported by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA, an ALA affiliate that provides library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking community.

This week on ReadWriteThink, you can find activities for El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros as well as other lesson plans and resources for timely classroom activities. Have a great week!

New Resources

• Complete our 9-question survey by the end of the week to help improve our collection of resources in Spanish. The survey closes April 30.
   
• April is National Poetry Month. Find links to 30 different poetry-writing resources in the Thinkfinity Community. (For grades K–12)
   
• Read about the new National Geographic Education website and then explore the site’s features, which include activities rich with photography and video; interactive maps that can be customized for specific projects; and a growing reference library. (For grades K–12)
   
• Explore Thinkfinity’s classroom resources on baseball & spring fitness. There is something for every classroom!

From the Calendar

• April 24: Congress approved the purchase of books to start the Library of Congress in 1800. Celebrate America’s oldest cultural institution. Students practice and refine research skills by visiting the Library of Congress website and conducting a research project. (For grades 7–12)
   
• April 26: The Spanish town of Guernica was bombed on this date in 1937. After students view Picasso’s Guernica, they are provided with background information, share their impressions, and write about Picasso’s purpose in creating the painting. (For grades 3–12)
   
• April 27: Coretta Scott King was born on this day in 1927. Students complete a book report assignment based on a current or past winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award. (For grades 3–12)
   
• April 27: Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945. Students use the Timeline Tool and Drama Map to create a decade-by-decade record and play of their community’s history. (For grades 9–12)
   
• April 28: Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934. Solve and brainstorm the attributes of a good mystery. Small groups compose short mysteries using the Mystery Cube interactive. (For grades 3–12)
   
• April 29: Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947. Read and analyze the language use in Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Camouflaging the Chimera.” (For grades 8–12)
   
• April 30: Celebrate El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day)! Using the Book Cover Creator, students write and share their own multilingual stories. (For grades 3–12)
   
• Look ahead to next week for literacy activities on Get Caught Reading Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Teacher Appreciation Week, the founding of National Public Radio (NPR), and Cinco de Mayo.

Connecting with Other Teachers

• Connect with teachers across the country and around the world in our Reading & Language Arts group in the Thinkfinity Community.
   
• How do you motivate the unmotivated? Share your ideas in the Thinkfinity Community forums.
   
• Keep students at the center of learning by registering today for the Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards Virtual Conference Series.
   

If you have feedback or questions about ReadWriteThink, all you have to do is contact us. Have a great week!

—Traci Gardner

@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-24

Apr 24

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• Skyping the cultural divide – The Buffalo News http://hoki.es/hbP1Fq #
• Poor Jane’s Almanac – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/e9ddef #

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Bits Flashback for April 24

Apr 24

By Traci GardnerBedford Bits, composition, social media accomodation, CCCC2011, class, diction, disability, movies, peer tutoring, tutors, twitter, writing center 2 Comments

I have a weakness for bunny rabbits. I encourage them to visit my yard and exclaim happily when they comply. Not so for the folks at Long Beach City College. Their campus was so overrun with cute, fluffy-tailed bunnies that they embarked on a bunny-reduction campaign. The campus is now down to 70 bunnies from an all-time high of 300 rabbits, according to the head of the college’s Rabbit Population Management Task Force.

You think I’m making this all up, don’t you? That’s why I think it would make the beginning of some interesting classroom projects. How do you write about “Rabbit Population Management” persuasively? What strategies will convince readers to take your story seriously? How would you talk about the project with students, faculty, staff, and the public? This one little story from the Chronicle of Higher Ed has so many possibilities for discussing persuasion, business reports, and technical writing!

If you’re looking for other classroom activities and teaching strategies, hop on over to Bedford Bits for more on these entries, which were posted last week:

• Holly Pappas considers the many concerns teachers face when they assign the personal narrative and wonders how teachers can best respond when students write about intimate or painful topics in The Trauma Narrative.
   
• Andrea Lunsford describes the peer tutoring program at Stanford in Writing Tutors Save the World!
   
• Jack Solomon explains why educating students about the complex operations of social class is one of our most important tasks in the teaching of cultural studies in The Middle Class Goes to the Movies.
   
• Barclay Barrios discusses the difference between Ideas and Examples and shares a response worksheet and some teaching strategies.
   
• Steve Bernhardt reflects on thirty years of attending the CCCC Convention and describes the highlights of the convention in What’s up at CCCC?
   
• Traci Gardner reviews a free, online resource classes can use to share student work and discuss current events or pop culture in Paper.li in the Classroom: The Basics.
   

• Jay Dolmage explores what Disability Accommodations look like in the writing classroom with some specific examples.

A Few Extra Links

• Sign up for email updates about what we do for teachers and request our free professional resources today.
   
• How would you illustrate the “Language” section of The Everyday Writer? Submit your idea in the Idea Survey.
• Show students How to Use Dropbox as a Killer Collaborative Work Tool.
   
• He found? He stated? He argued? Demonstrate how verb choice matters with examples from Walden Writing Center’s Using Verbs Carefully
   
• How do you teach students to read critically that which has no text? Read about “Calibrating Students’ B.S. Meters“
   

Let us know what you want to know about teaching writing or about using digital tools in the composition classroom by leaving a comment. Your response will help shape upcoming posts.

[Photo: Bunny Rabbit by wwarby, on Flickr]

@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-04-23

Apr 23

By Traci Gardnernews Comments Off

• Long Beach City College Gets a Grip on Bunny Surplus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/fx2PeX (because it seems seasonal) #
• Should we care who wrote William Shakespeare's plays? | The Guardian http://hoki.es/fs6tke #
• myEdu.com Makes It Easy To Keep Track Of School http://hoki.es/e657vW #
• Essay on memorizing poetry – at the gym | San Francisco Chronicle » http://hoki.es/hLtIEK #
• Museum Webquests, Sites and Apps for Using iPods or Laptops in Your Classroom | Free Technology for Teachers: http://hoki.es/ei3IJ8 #
• It’s Love at First Kill: Warcraft Avatars Find Real-Life Love – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/gxEzFr #

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