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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-20

November 20, 2009 by Traci Gardner

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 #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-19

November 19, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Is Percy Jackson's mythology too close to Harry Potter's magic? | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times http://bit.ly/3xYA41 #
Reviving the Academic Library – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/47G5AY #
Staffing Up, Part Timers Down – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/7PI8x #
Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/38z9S2 #
Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/1uuPVX #
Tweckling Twitterfolk: Chronicle Readers React to the New World of Twitter Conference Humiliation – CHE – http://bit.ly/1qKl3a #
'The Last.fm for Research Papers' Tops 100,000 Users – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/1I1cWK #
Google to Caption YouTube Videos – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/3OiV9W #
A posthumous piece of fiction – The Daily Iowan http://bit.ly/tn0yd #Nabokov #novel #TheOriginalofLaura #
Learning’s online fate | Harvard Gazette Online http://bit.ly/4jAbdS #
Teachers discover new ways to ignite love of reading – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://bit.ly/NnADb #kindle #
Teacher Goes From Cell Phone Skeptic to Classroom Evangelist | District Administrator http://bit.ly/2iaOqw #
English teacher offers students some history | APP.com | Asbury Park Press http://bit.ly/3Zz4Aw #
Class Struggle: Term papers are worth the time and trouble – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/Xp4eL #
Researchers’ Financial Interests Often Not Reported to U.S. – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/1aoP1A #
Teacher makes reading a wonderland – The News and Tribune – http://bit.ly/37v2ah #
Linguist Dad Teaches His Son Klingon Instead of English | moviefone | http://bit.ly/1ntnSg #
Report Highlights Characteristics of Colleges With High Transfer-Success Rates – Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/220vSJ #
Vampire mania: ‘Twilight’ fans thirsty for more from Edward, Bella and the gang – MariettaTimes.com | http://bit.ly/3hTCIC #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-18

November 18, 2009 by Traci Gardner

The Creator of Wikipedia Turns to Education Videos – Curriculum Matters – Education Week http://bit.ly/5Pnyr #
Career Advice: Be a Tech-Aware Adjunct – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/1W9nHf #
Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it | The Associated Press: http://bit.ly/1Mkypj #
Defining Accountability – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/DGqPd #
'The College Fear Factor' – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/1He9M6 #
‘Writing in the Digital Age’ & Former Poet Laureate Headline NWP Annual Meeting – National Writing Project http://bit.ly/1ZcCoh #
Academe and the Decline of News Media – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/1EyKdt #
New Web Site Makes Internet Time Traveling Easier – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/1mlunH #
'USA Today' Pushes Digital Editions on College Campuses – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/3kQyf6 #
The SAT, on the Mic – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/3SpGxz – SAT Rap Song #
The Unfriendliest Cut of All – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/3VoFsA – Word of the Year and those the didn't make the cut #
Conference Humiliation: They're Tweeting Behind Your Back – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/37wCCL #
Fairport battles gender gap with all-girls tech program | Democrat and Chronicle http://bit.ly/jjhVM #
Boost for Liberal Arts Technology? – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4FPTiI #
Is Facebook Getting Uncool for 18-24s? | AdWeek http://bit.ly/4B8z4c #
Elementary Students Learn To Twitter | digtriad.com | Triad, NC | http://bit.ly/3ul6Zs #
Twitter and the learning technology stream – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/eIujV #
The Part-Time Impact – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4vnpHz #
Non-Communication Association? – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2BcT14 #
Academic pushes for comics in the classroom | Vancouver Sun http://bit.ly/3DEOV0 #
What the next big thing is in adolescent lit | WashPost | http://bit.ly/3LbddA #jimblasingame #
PowerPoint Studies – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4r6Z1P #
A Win for the Stacks – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/1VvTXq #
30-Minute Chat to Tenure – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/gIcwN #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-17

November 17, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Finding the laws that govern us – Official Google Blog: http://bit.ly/44CGqh –legal opinions added to Google Scholar #
Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend : OUPblog – http://bit.ly/16SsSI #
On Web Typography – A List Apart: http://bit.ly/33ZHtU #
Library in a Pocket – Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/126oUG #
The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2G74g5 #
YouTube Direct to Link Media Companies and Consumers’ Video – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2PJwsD #
Obama backs non-censorship; Beijing, apparently, does not – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/2xmj0L #
The Secret to Teaching Literature – NCTE Inbox Blog: http://bit.ly/3zbLjX #
WRITE THIS WAY: IUS, New Albany High School start pilot writing program for teens – The News and Tribune – http://bit.ly/FB8sT #
California Student Newspaper Becomes Teaching Tool For Swiss Students – KERO Bakersfield http://bit.ly/4GySSx #
Med Schools Quizzed on Medical Ghostwriting – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/1iE5CZ #
In Praise of Push: Movie adaptation of Sapphire's 1996 novel opens this Fri but, pls read the book | Baltimore City | http://bit.ly/E6mUQ #
Life.com Chronicles the 20th Century | Edutopia http://bit.ly/3F3KBb #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-16

November 16, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Books + Online Video = Vooks: Watchable, Readable, & Very Cool http://bit.ly/1XqmqR #
Google relents with revised digital books settlement – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/1jibU8 #
The perks of having a book review – Roanoke.com http://bit.ly/PaaZl #censorship #wallflower #
Reflections on University Writing | Columbia Spectator | http://bit.ly/2aZAj5 #
Career Advice: A Writing Routine – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/1RZ8Yo #
Texting Lingo: Changing kids vocabulary? – WKOW 27: Madison, WI http://bit.ly/1hRuFj #
Teachers focus on technology at camp | Billings Gazette | http://bit.ly/32z2Df #
'Twilight' series helps 7th-grader find passions for reading, supernatural » Knoxville News Sentinel http://bit.ly/tVi7F #
Mixed messages – Educators blame students’ errors on texting lingo| Spokesman.com | Nov 15, 2009 http://bit.ly/4eetFT #
Learning in the Commons – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4wGWSW #
College-Bound Culture | Edutopia http://bit.ly/15kxb #
Getting Over the Hump: What Research Says About Teaching English Learners | Classroom Solutions | Scholastic.com http://bit.ly/4aAQdG #
Girls 'becoming Facebook addicts' | BBC NEWS | UK | Education | http://bit.ly/d9d9C #
More optimistic label for 'at-risk' kids draws skepticism – washingtonpost – http://bit.ly/4jNH71 –switching to 'at-promise' students #
Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers – Illinois Prosecutors Take Aim at the Medill Innocence Project – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2bnhTG #
A Sports Column Written Far From Print, and the Game – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/20rusZ –on writing for/on the Web #
Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/43O34c #
Universities Turn to Consultants to Trim Budgets – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/11bvSU #
The Boss – Michael Chasen Sought to Wire Education Before Dot-Com Boom – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/3VIXbG #blackboard #
Author of ‘Me and Orson Welles’ Is a Teacher in Summit – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/14bqTa #

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Does THIS Make Me a Real Blogger?

November 15, 2009 by Traci Gardner

So what makes a writer really a writer? It’s when you believe that you’re a writer. Course having a super important badge that says so also helps, especially if they look at you funny when you try to crash the writer’s parties:

Made this while playing with BigHugeLabs toys and utilities for a Bedford Bits blog entry. :)

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-14

November 14, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Novel will not be banned from Roanoke Co. school libraries – Roanoke.com http://bit.ly/33k5Ut #
School board returns banned "Wallflower" to shelves – Roanoke.com http://bit.ly/2Evzup #
A Night of Writing Dangerously held at Junior High East – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://bit.ly/4308M9 #
Students Practice Proper Handwriting | MyFoxHouston.com http://bit.ly/3N7ovR #
Teacher Sees All: Student Cheating Now Impossible? – All Tech Considered – NPR http://bit.ly/3SXHO6 #
They Don't Read! – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2IAhcr #
Teaching Through "Twilight" – CBS 7 – http://bit.ly/Ne3Bd #
Love of Charles Dickens' stories never wanes, even 140 years after his death | Arts – http://bit.ly/3Ef5ML #
Review: "The Original of Laura" – WSJ.com http://bit.ly/38w3CS –A novel posthumously constructed from 138 handwritten index cards. #
Writing Center Tutors, technology benefit Eastern Greene students – Greene County Daily World: Story: http://bit.ly/2Yz9iE #
Student skips English class, attends tutoring lab instead – The Ranger San Antonio College – http://bit.ly/1mIQWs #
Midnight classes a solution for some Bunker Hill students – The Daily Free Press – http://bit.ly/3SRelQ #
First Year Experience Program: is it effective? – UW- Eau Claire Campus News http://bit.ly/1bENsi #
Excerpts from Teaching the New Writing – National Writing Project http://bit.ly/1bBc9d #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-13

November 13, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Topics in Chronicling America | Library of Congress http://bit.ly/1yJagp — more than 1 million historic U.S. newspaper pages FREE #
Great writers 'fail' online test | BBC NEWS | UK | Education | http://bit.ly/4kw3x2 #
With Facebook as Alibi, Brooklyn Robbery Charge Is Dropped – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2H2CnL #
Two-Year Colleges, Swamped, No Longer Welcome All – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2QpXMX #
Senate hopes to improve adjunct conditions | The Marquette Tribune http://bit.ly/16QWFO #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-11

November 11, 2009 by Traci Gardner

DRAWN INTO MANGA | AARP Bulletin Today | http://bit.ly/4vMc9L #
New Web site takes the place of your professor | The Daily Illini http://bit.ly/3LzHub #
Choose Your Own Freshman Comp – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/3vpAWg #
Cloud Computing in Plain English – Common Craft – http://bit.ly/1Ljrc4 #
Maryland universities defy order to regulate pornography – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/3vNNWz #
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Asks School Paper to 'Tidy Up' Remarks – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/ui7xW #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-11-10

November 10, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Social media challenges social rules BBC NEWS | Technology | http://bit.ly/46cFAG #
The fall of the Berlin wall in digital media | Media | guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/4zyefo #
What's first, the movie or the book? | The Bismarck Tribune | http://bit.ly/2MLJlz #
The internet is killing storytelling | Times Online http://bit.ly/21GRpQ #
Technology in the classroom: What's good; what's not? | Amarillo.com http://bit.ly/48zwMz – Focus on pedagogical goals FTW #
The Old Lie: Dulce et Decorum Est – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/1n35J2 – Teaching Veterans and Veterans Day. #
Teaching for Free – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/2x7Xy0 UC-Davis faculty asked to give up stipends. #
Threat to Faculty Free Speech – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/5tEf7 #
Spoonful of Sugar – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/aPcIN – Students given input in spending decisions at UW-Madision. #
What's wrong with 'meep'? It's all in how you say it – SalemNews.com, Salem, MA http://bit.ly/3o7Elf #
Are Too Many Students Going to College? – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/3HO4Hh #
California Embraces Open Source Digital Textbooks | Edutopia http://bit.ly/3hwTZm #
Book Club Club: Mystery: the quality that keeps us reading – MinnPost – http://bit.ly/1eihqd #
A former tagger searches for a new means of expression — latimes.com http://bit.ly/44RQvV #