@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-11
February 11, 2012
- The Once-Hot Textbook Rental Market Is Already Shifting to Ebooks | PandoDaily http://t.co/sBELui9o #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-10
February 10, 2012
- Did the boys-only Dallas ISD field trip to see Red Tails violate Title IX? | Dallas ISD Blog | dallasnewsDOTcom #
- Nooks Increase Student Reading | WLFI – Lafayette, Indiana http://t.co/AWnhbXOm #
- Social-Networking Experiment at Ohio State Hands Students Control of Recruiting Message – CHE http://t.co/KdLtnJMS #
- Teaching with Google+ | Edutopia http://t.co/EzVTKVLu #
- 10 Ways to Ensure No-One Will Read Your Content: – http://t.co/mCr1RI68 /via @danielscocco #
- Zotero Roundup: Zotero 3.0 and ZotPad for the iPad – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/zpDqF0W7 #
- Flip Bits Not Burgers: Google's Summer of Code | Edutopia http://t.co/v5XdY4ls #
- All Things Google: Using Google for Writing Portfolios – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/vMPzwK94 #
- Encouraging Distraction? Classroom Experiments with Mobile Media – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/8qFbntE7 #
- Be conscious of the labels & tone you use when discussing individuals & groups of people | APA Style Blog » http://t.co/0WbcxCuU #
- Evaluating Blackboard Ocho | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/oEuLFare #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-09
February 9, 2012
- Young People Are Watching TV Shows, but Less Often on TV – NYTimesDOTcom http://t.co/7k8gUfXL #
- Children's Book Authors Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time | GeekDad | WiredDOTcom http://t.co/tA6NUfXV #
- BYOD Class Takes Their Learning to YouTube — THE Journal http://t.co/dNF4j2qd –students video their problem solving in math class #
- Our Short-Term Ed-Tech Memory | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/ZgEbz2tF #
- Understanding Community College Demographics | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/a3gkZM8Z #
- A 'More Modern' LMS From Blackboard | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/KVSpz00r #
- Faculty Senates at 2 universities gird for battle over faculty power & intellectual property | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/0cJV59Vm #
- 'Behind Closed Doors': IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/gpk0JtSI #
- Gas in class? W.Va. teacher's creative solution to boys' disruption lands her $2K award | The Republic http://t.co/TQLw3zfs #
- BBC News – Tweeting the news http://t.co/LsD6FPgv #
- Stephen Fry says British judges don't understand Twitter http://t.co/UClqnb0a #
- Minnesota Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case of Student Disciplined for Facebook Comments – CHE http://t.co/t8C4a11n #
- Donald Hall: A Poet's View 'Out The Window' : NPR http://t.co/43ZPKMMK #
- Arizona State Senate to Colleges: Get Rid of Those Non-G-Rated Professors! http://t.co/86NwfrR1 #
- Copyright and Creative Commons | Common Craft http://t.co/KgufmNkt #
- The Looking-Glass vs. Mirror War: Language and Class – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/jdFfJUiq #
- Author Sandra Cisneros Discusses the Impact of Teachers on Young Writers – National Writing Project http://t.co/lO63Mnlu #
- Using Google Docs to Check In On Students' Reading – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/EWW5mwyp #
- Five Ways to Empower Students | Edutopia http://t.co/PQB45ZiQ #
- Building Programming Tutorials with Codecademy – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/QfJPt9DA #
- On Navy Warships, the Web Slows to a Crawl | Danger Room | WiredDOTcom http://t.co/MovIsbfR #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-08
February 8, 2012
- 7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better | GradHacker http://t.co/CJSHJ6pL #
- Next-gen textbooks? It's the ecosystem, not the device | ZDNet http://t.co/CZ8vLPDK #
- In Defense of Browsing – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/P6DvZr92 #
- Rethinking Testing in the Age of the iPad | Education Week: http://t.co/afdjmq6I #
- LeVar Burton Is Bringing Reading Rainbow Back … in an App http://t.co/594TgZfh #
- 7th Grader Suspended for Saying I Love You in Native Language -NativeNewsNetwork http://t.co/B27nJYsp #
- Students at U of California Have Proposed a Way to Fix Tuition by Deferring Costs Until After Graduation | Time http://t.co/nmqmP6CO #
- Panel Ponders Future of Open-Education Resources – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/9r8A81nh #
- Crowdsourcing a Compilation of Adjunct Working Conditions « Copy & Paste http://t.co/cAIOSfvs #
- The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut – NYTimesDOTcom http://t.co/N65HalTa #
- Lesson Plan | Easy Access: Creating Annotated Versions of News Articles – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/B9Ag3qdv #
- Unglue a Book: Crowdfunding to Liberate Published Works – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/vb95UO0v #
- The Teaching and Assessment of Student Writing – National Writing Project http://t.co/FaOd9luR #
- Google Tips Its Hat to Charles Dickens on His 200th Birthday | GeekDad | WiredDOTcom http://t.co/hLNpHFWg #
- Temple Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternatives – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/xSQPPrzQ #
- Possibilities in the Writing Center « UofL Writing Center http://t.co/cO8WjlyZ #
- What to Do If Your Twitter Account Is Hacked – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/ijXjBUrH #
- Wendell Berry to Give 2012 Jefferson Lecture – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/M364yoQ3 #
- Chicago Police Learn Writing Beyond Reports – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/ik7QT0V3 #
- Plot your story at random » http://t.co/9rTeghFV –Includes a link to a blurb roller that creates random narrative plots via dice rolls #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-07
February 7, 2012
- Rise in student plagiarism cases attributed to blurred lines of digital world – The Denver Post http://t.co/8ljllasN #
- The difference between good schools and effective schools – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post http://t.co/ABHauFJZ #
- Google celebrates Charles Dickens' birthday with a doodle: http://t.co/8jmmBTOk #
- Like that Chrysler Super Bowl ad with Clint Eastwood? Thank a poet – http://t.co/984D8TAv http://t.co/6VUsN4Ho #
- Living Legends: An Interview with the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni http://t.co/ZWUoZjzV #
- Back Issues: Plagiarism, Copying, and Creativity : The New Yorker http://t.co/qq4OyQgX #
- Everyday Failures, but a Narrative of Success — SchoolBook http://t.co/xgQldKDn #
- Barnes and Noble seeks nominations for 'Favorite Teacher' | http://t.co/o5rgRCsr http://t.co/TDRuFE7T #
- Reading My Way Out of the Closet: How Books Made Me Gay » HuffPost http://t.co/tKGAUi2W #
- Creative Writing Can Be Taught: Creative Writing Professors Answer More Important Questions http://t.co/fCLUVEoJ #
- English Professor Richard Elia Embraces Passion for Classics – Salem State University http://t.co/9CjBvZMJ #
- Rice gives students' writing renewed emphasis – Houston Chronicle http://t.co/Q1yfKT89 #
- Submitting Digital Art for Publication: Advice From an Art Director – Lingua Franca – Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/44i5JRfb #
- Black Men Can Succeed in College, and New Report Shows How – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/hMxzCf1F #
- Teens, Tweens, and Technology — What Are You Doing? http://t.co/pUtC8xpl #
- Do You Write with Your Students? | Edutopia http://t.co/EPN2Mi7n #
- inContests: Writing Contests from Around the Web — inReads http://t.co/KLGEJ3Fg #
- Wordle Revisited – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/AeKvtUCA #
- 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes | LitReactor http://t.co/HRXGCQ70 #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-06
February 6, 2012
- Dickens v. Lawyers – NYTimesDOTcom http://t.co/hcSW2PUd #
- Shirts, Hoodies, & more for the literature teacher » Cage Match: Poe vs. Shakespeare – Shirt.Woot http://t.co/zMhZmKUr #
- Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later : NPR http://t.co/1e71y0j8 #
- “The Future of the Book” (according to IDEO) http://t.co/EahftjB8 #
- Children lack ability for Dickens, says biographer Tomalin http://t.co/0BvhLQkJ #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-05
February 5, 2012
- 'Failure week' at top girls' school to build resilience | BBC http://t.co/eYP6bBdc #
- An Interview with Robert Tremmel » IOWA ENGLISH BULLETIN http://t.co/n10YlW51 #
- Cultivating Ecocentric Students: Teaching Environmental Literature in Iowa » IOWA ENGLISH BULLETIN http://t.co/PFK8uClr #
- The Practice of Place: Walking and Writing to Prepare Students for Culturally Responsive Civic Action » http://t.co/2Bdwf0rl #
- Voices from a Student’s Environment: Using Opinion-Editorials in the Iowa College Composition Classroom » http://t.co/nuPIWXyK #
- 4 Ways Students Can Make the Most of Linkedin | HackCollege http://t.co/jTfiUhgo #
- Notable Authors Give Snail Mail a Boost – http://t.co/Xvcmte90 http://t.co/BBNu46UQ #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-04
February 4, 2012
- The Letters William S. Burroughs Wrote at the Height of His Success – NYTimesDOTcom http://t.co/7ZZTdBL0 #
- Head in the Clouds: The Benefits of Celestial Storage | Edutopia http://t.co/tmJrWhbR #
- Anti-plagiarism software used by US universities on the rise | ZDNet http://t.co/WF1fRAH4 #
- Using Your Kindle to Proofread Your Work – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/qcakvNQh #
- Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) | Video on http://t.co/8RsnNpL5 http://t.co/ytsVlZBu #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-03
February 3, 2012
- Essay: Simmons on how professors can compose effective self-evaluations | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/qWZk0deB #
- Managing your Inbox: How to appear competent in one easy step – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/tJjCHPlT #
- What to Expect in a Second-Round Interview – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/lrd2wHdl #
- Spare the Rod, Spoil the Student – Brainstorm – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/VO6PiuWe #
- Community-College Study Asks: What Helps Students Graduate? – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/B4x8yHhW #
- Tales From The Browser Tabs | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/rt264vsH #
- 9 Academic Freedoms Of Not Having Tenure | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/37xHEtQj #
- Peer-Driven Learning: Collaboration versus Groupthink | College Ready Writing » Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/1yTer4ud #
- State Policies Threaten Remedial Education, Study Finds | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/D8qHdCDz #
- The Warmth of Book Tours: Boston University journalism professor abandons class mid-semester | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/6rMVjW04 #
- Academic support offerings go unused at community colleges. Should they be mandatory? | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/290Z9sI2 #
- UCLA rejects 52 MBA applicants for plagiarism – Fortune Management http://t.co/9Kv2GqZG #
- Turnitin will only create fear for students | The Daily Tar Heel :: http://t.co/ioOGllGF #
- Michigan hopes to set national standards for new English teachers | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/Z87Ta4tQ #
- Integrating a Digital Project Into a Class, Part 3—Final Update – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/QBrC314y #
- How Scheduled Writing Influenced Productivity in Other Areas – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/V2ojgHzt #
- How to Cite Pseudonyms | APA Style Blog: http://t.co/62sPAbwI #
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@newsfromtengrrl for 2012-02-02
February 2, 2012
- Legislating Language and Truth – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/WY7zsZ83 #
- LeVar Burton Gets Control of @ReadingRainbow In Record Time | MovieViral http://t.co/P3WMKvTr #
- W&L English Professor Thanks Rowling for Students’ Appreciation of Dickens : Washington and Lee University http://t.co/X1YYbQDA #
- Writing Project Director Explores Non-Traditional Literature – National Writing Project http://t.co/oeE9I6P1 #
- What Does Practice Look Like for You? – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/c1AipxyQ #
- New Media Consortium Names 10 Top 'Metatrends' Shaping Educational Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/jV4yTUgZ #
- Digital Learning Resource: The Burlington High School Student Help Desk | Edutopia http://t.co/lHdu3tKi #
- Seven Digital Learning Tips for Students | Edutopia http://t.co/uLceiBUL #
- Teaching Carnival 5.06 – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/sWSqNB9R (includes two of my posts!) #
- Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | Video on TED http://t.co/yvmIOvM1 (which it's also okay for education to be fun, right?) #
- Copyright: To the Batmobile! | Threat Level | WiredDOTcom http://t.co/06QgJBi7 #
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