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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-21

January 21, 2012 by Traci Gardner

E-Testing – The Future Is Here – NYTimes http://t.co/qgRHYA38 #
iPad a Solid Education Tool, Study Reports | Gadget Lab | Wired http://t.co/9GJqjQrg #
How I Became an adjunctHuman » Profology – http://t.co/rZDx0bLJ /via @profhacker #
Students' Video Game Tests New Artificial-Intelligence Engine — at the Prom – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/6EjpiPT7 #
What Apple's Edu-Announcement Could Mean To You | Edutopia http://t.co/zmXDm1Uk #
GradeBook Pro, or One Grading App to Rule Them All – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/64ELVezf #
Blogs vs. Term Papers – NYTimes http://t.co/ssyBWnSq #
BBC News – Occupy protest movement to go into schools http://t.co/Q8Gyb8JD #
Pilot E-Textbook Program at Five Universities Focuses on Bulk Savings, not iBooks – NYTimes http://t.co/8udcf3PA #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-20

January 20, 2012 by Traci Gardner

The End of Miss America: Feminism Didn't Kill the Pageant, But Boredom Might – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/D4qwDoIE #
Company Powering Apple's Siri Introduces Education Site of Its Own – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/TAwbEpGQ #
Panel Debates How to Measure Quality in Teacher Training – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/o4IHiO27 #
Metacognition and Student Learning – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/gtK9glB5 #
Branding Yourself: Not as Painful as You Think | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/daigy2A0 #
The Missing Link in Teaching | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/I9gH6uXO #
Apple Reinvents Textbooks | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/vx6IIpnP #
Apple for the Professor? | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/U1lsJX7Q #
Colleges excited as their iTunes classes go live | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/kSyp1lpQ #
Essay: Divergent paths for research universities may require different leaders | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/GiRwBmtT #
Apple drops new iPad apps for digital textbook creation and distribution | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/ONhCDeC3 #
Why Apple Won't Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon http://t.co/e9Cxh5EC #
Turnitin Recognized for Product Innovation and Impact On Education by Leading Awards Programs – PR Newswire – http://t.co/BWHApOqN #
Times Higher Education – Use of Turnitin software does not deter cheating, study finds http://t.co/5EKmPAsQ #
Faculty Explore Innovative Teaching Methods for Engaging Students and Promoting Lifelong Learning http://t.co/8sZmw3Ua #
The Increasing Costs Of College http://t.co/mlY2xbsl #
Amid Reorganization, Harvard Library Plays Down Fears of Mass Layoffs – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/AaWKR0gb #
Totes Cray-Cray Abbrevs [e.g., Totally Crazy Abbreviations] – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/mGuDRDOo #
Reflections on the Apple Education Event – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/y1rRxtaI #
Online Course Provider, StraighterLine, to Offer Critical-Thinking Tests to Students – Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/e4WQN1SZ #
The Cure for Thinking is Work – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/NO13g8ij #
BBC News – Voltaire English letters discovered by Oxford academic http://t.co/Z9llGI0l #
APA Style Blog: That Versus Which http://t.co/vBdXC6GU #
BBC News – Apple launches e-textbook tools with new iBooks http://t.co/2Rm7Zh5A #
The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA http://t.co/WbPueFqK #
Apple Pushes To Put Textbooks On iPads : NPR http://t.co/Zoj9trDE #
Palling Around With Pootwattle – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/yLoEe54U #
Writing Desks – Shopping With Arthur Phillips – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/aL20nAHi #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-19

January 19, 2012 by Traci Gardner

Tame the Beast: Tips for Designing and Using Rubrics | Edutopia http://t.co/xhr7L2gR #
Internet Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Bills – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/of8lr8C1 #
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works | Threat Level | Wired http://t.co/LgtEcTCi #
The Things You Learn During a Poetry Project – Minivan Diaries – Web 2012 http://t.co/cDw62Wra #
The Millions : A Rare Book Collector’s Guide to the College Library Book Sale http://t.co/tRlqsDUm #
Five Strategies to Ensure Student Learning | Edutopia http://t.co/DAmPUvAc #
Good Instruction Activates Prior Knowledge and Uses Authentic Assessment | Edutopia http://t.co/I2NvCmQP #
Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea) | Video on http://t.co/8RsnNpL5 http://t.co/nbMKRZDl #
How One Higher Education Institute Is Protesting SOPA/PIPA http://t.co/4N6BHTI1 #
BBC News – Without Wikipedia, where can you get your facts? http://t.co/edC07UUa #
Hip-hop teaching, performance and culture (Jan. 18, 2012) http://t.co/AMacL4oi #
Celebrating A.A. Milne after 130 years http://t.co/TgaDEtnL #
Holly Robinson: Why I Told My Daughter to Quit Her Job http://t.co/quo9IWRm #
Of Parrots, Paras and Time — http://t.co/CYHFgMPa Kids learn in different ways but are still expected to reach goals in same time frame #
Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/IawjwEvg #
MediaShift . Self-Published Authors Still Rarely Make the Jump to Publishing Houses | PBS http://t.co/ET7NxOca #
Forget Planning. Just Teach. | GradHacker http://t.co/iFA6APO3 #
Sharing Posts or Pages across a WordPress Network – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/8fxt5eMd #
In Search of the Indian in English Indian Literature – NYTimes http://t.co/2qmCDg9l #
Read Me (Please) – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/bo7D9HJ9 (How do I get to my work read & commented on?) #
5 Colleges to Test Bulk-Purchasing of e-Textbooks – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/trCImdlz #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-18

January 18, 2012 by Traci Gardner

The literary significance of dead mules | Education | The Guardian http://t.co/0AuBLpx3 #
The Varsity » Vampire literature course offered for first-year students http://t.co/hLei4avf #
Ravitch: Problems with the big teacher evaluation study – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post http://t.co/oEq6O84P #
Normal and Formal English Grammar – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/Id6SPhpF #
AAUP Responds to Faculty Complaints About CUNY Plan to Improve Transfer – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/s9wo2uwH #
Iowa State U. Cancels Finance Course With Biblical Theme after ACLU complaint – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/JXZ7b7Z7 #
How to Write a Lot for the Sciences – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/w27T7UD2 #
From Aa to Zydeco, It's in DARE – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/a5HNOAWd #
BBC News – Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student http://t.co/DGwblcPy #
Studying Steinbeck, New Jersey Students Find Common Ground – NYTimes http://t.co/sTU7vzEN #
Marketing Emergency: Nobody's Making Content Worth Reading | Fast Company http://t.co/IURIKCM6 (mentions NCTE) #
The benefits of gaming | mndailydotcom – Serving the University of Minnesota Community Since 1900 http://t.co/NG2mVW7i #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-17

January 17, 2012 by Traci Gardner

Dear Student: I Don't Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life – Forbes http://t.co/TcI7Tezg #
Review of Profession 2011 section on "Evaluating Digital Scholarship" » Kairos: http://t.co/YvqQ9uMu #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-16

January 16, 2012 by Traci Gardner

College Prep: How Do You Pick The Right Major? http://t.co/VlVaLWxh #
Deciphering a Redlined Manuscript – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/dytLEYKP #
Is poetry dead? Or, in the age of the Internet, does it offer us what nothing else can? – The Washington Post http://t.co/cGvCkn61 #
A Look Back – Poet T.S. Eliot visits his home town in 1933 http://t.co/5blSSb93 #
Should J.K. Rowling Win The Nobel Prize? http://t.co/CCwhlOY7 #
Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' is simplistic pornography, say two Michigan parents | New York Daily News http://t.co/OoRmVa5Q #
Waterstones: O apostrophe, where art thou?… | Mail Online http://t.co/iEWYcr7F #
Waterstone's loses apostrophe: I'm a grammar fanatic. But totally to be frank, I don't give a monkeys | Mail Online http://t.co/qcqj6nv7 #
If computers can write, why not students? – CSMonitor http://t.co/sBxiJCsz #
Study this: What's college worth? | Worcester Telegram & Gazette – http://t.co/En0n5CDo #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-15

January 15, 2012 by Traci Gardner

Kaplan University: Preying On 'Pain' And 'Fears' Of Low-Income Students Is Not 'Remotely Deceptive' http://t.co/2x13OZva #
You're Not Alone: #tweetyourthesis or Academic Social Networking as Empowerment http://t.co/AVf4JEOE #
The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/H8lyiSgv #
‘Why Write Novels at All?’ – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/hZQFBH1S #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-14

January 14, 2012 by Traci Gardner

College Readiness: How to Help Students Think Abstractly | Edutopia http://t.co/eLG8SFbR #
You Can Summarize Your Thesis in a Tweet, but Should You? – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/oVVFww8x #
The Art Of Finding A Photographic Voice : The Picture Show : NPR http://t.co/lw4NYQhc #
Media Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World | Edutopia http://t.co/uo5dMbos #
Developing a Definition of Teacher Research – National Writing Project http://t.co/jQm84oo2 #
The Dissertation From Afar | GradHacker http://t.co/4fzwx18t #
Technology Is at Least 3 Years Away From Improving Student Success – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/8oppqU3D #
APA Style Blog: APA Style Interactive Learning http://t.co/AJZH1nhr #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-13

January 13, 2012 by Traci Gardner

The Big Question of 2011: Who Needs College? | From the Bell Tower http://t.co/NCoTgpVN #
Media Mix: Technology in Education http://t.co/C0T50oYg #
5 K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 — THE Journal http://t.co/DpuMlXPz #
Virtual College Counseling for $100 an Hour – Head Count – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/UDrRZsNb #
Managing Millennial Parents – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/fY9WWYU7 #
Teaching, Creativity & Interpretation; Or, What I Learned from D.W. Winnicott & Nell Irvin Painter – Tenured Radical – http://t.co/NSRGy6Mb #
Creating a Novel Experience – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/IjR2lW6L #
The IHE Kindle Lending Society | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/H86AI5Oy #
Columbia nixes course on Occupy Wall Street | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/olp3GlVJ #
JSTOR opens limited free access option for non-subscribing scholars | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/40bnwMpM #
Essay: How free speech and offensive art can exist on college campuses | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/nvXme4nD #
Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante? | Blogs | Vanity Fair http://t.co/OKL0KOyE #
Whomever Knocks on the Door – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/7gyAiYjb #
Amazon's plagiarism problem | Technolog on http://t.co/5F1pldTm » http://t.co/EyzUMbZR #
New Video: Social Networking (Facebook) | Common Craft http://t.co/smfIL89h #
Dealing with beginning-of-the-semester absences – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/R1Rr3NYT #
A modest proposal for reforming higher education in the humanities: It Starts on Day One – ProfHacker – http://t.co/6a2QCiUH #
Let the grammar debate begin: Waterstones drops its apostrophe http://t.co/t8QsvUMX BBC News #
How to focus in the Age of Distraction (Infographic) http://t.co/pQpM3j5A (Note "Writing Programs" in the Help for Addicts section) #
MUST USE if you teach body image & gender: Plus Model Magazine's cover highlights body image in fashion industry | http://t.co/FweHVqg2 #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-01-12

January 12, 2012 by Traci Gardner

Recalibrating Expectations for eTexts | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/qdgiBaKH #
Digital Humanities Resources, Part 1: Organizations and Coding | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/E2jFZSP8 #
Student Affairs Job Search: Resumes and Cover Letters | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/KH7cZ5Qa #
Contingent Confessions: Essay on the life of an instructor off the tenure track | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/m8AiEq7P #
Diss 'Like' – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/jYiqLNtz #
Men on the Tenure Track Struggle With Work-Family Balance, Too – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/WRHpnU1C #
The Value Gap: Americans Increasingly Question the Cost of Going to College – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/e9W9is0I #
Yes, Big Brother Is Watching: Campus Surveillance – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/AKshhyso #
Distrust That Particular Flavor reveals how autobiographical William Gibson's fiction is http://t.co/Id2kfPB8 #
Why Writers Should Tweet http://t.co/GXV045wB #
Has literature always been dying since the beginning? | Melville House Books » http://t.co/aQrX2avS #
Humanities Fight to Survive in Hi-Tech World | USA | English http://t.co/Wq6PsIiC #
Understanding Dyslexia: Watch Documentary Video Trailer – THE DAILY RIFF – http://t.co/G1FmbjgW #
What’s So Hard About Reading a Cover Letter? – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/WbbsHg66 #
Using Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom | Edutopia http://t.co/y0xiQD03 #
Facebook Deletes University's History Project for Violating Social Network's Rules – Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/mivJ9ZCD #
Can Rubrics Inspire? | Edutopia http://t.co/X2ag4Clb #
If Someone Else Wrote Harry Potter… http://t.co/SsSdNDZ0 #
Take A Picture, Pass It On: The Disposable Memory Project : The Picture Show : NPR http://t.co/WC7NmEQo #
Tool Roundup: Productivity Helpers for the New Year | GradHacker http://t.co/c8nliUhm #
The Value of Teachers – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/g8Z6ylwy #
In search of the perfect CMS | ZDNet http://t.co/5P9rqNqF #
BBC News – CES 2012: One Laptop per Child gets upgrade http://t.co/3OQRq4EO #
Beef Erupts Over Crossword Guru's Hip-Hop Slang Clue : The Two-Way : NPR http://t.co/pD5MyHPS #
This is a Blog Post about the Digital Humanities » Ian Bogost – http://t.co/S9jvcqld #

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