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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-08-04

August 4, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Death by Google? Web Giant Could Challenge Facebook College Students Sound Off – ABC News http://bit.ly/9p1Sk0 #
"The Great Typo Hunt": The irresistible allure of bad spelling – Salon.com http://bit.ly/9A5wtR #
How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia http://bit.ly/cxbJhG #
Girl Guides launch airbrush campaign at centenary camp | BBC News – http://bit.ly/aOMqu7 #
The Most ReTweetable Words Finder Tool | Dan Zarrella http://bit.ly/9MIR4U (an interesting way to talk about audience) #
No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9RtnU0 #
Human Progress Owes Itself to "Idea Sex" | Lifehacker » http://bit.ly/cQmtIF #collaboration #
For-Profit Colleges Mislead Students, Report Finds – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/92LSip #
Academics Build Blog-to-eBook Publishing Tool in One Week – The Atlantic http://bit.ly/dt3I0C #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-08-03

August 3, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Digital Humanists Unveil New Blog-to-Book Tool – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9U3UmO #
All Things Google: Using Gmail and Google Calendar Offline – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9rIzMb #
A Crowded Freshman Class at Iowa – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/b1X4RH #
Teaching ‘The Great Gatsby’ With The New York Times – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/cGC7SX #
Twitter's Wine For Literacy Almost Ready to Ship | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/aA43SA #
F.B.I. Challenges Wikipedia Over Use of Its Seal – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/aSrRyy #
Nathanael West as online muse | Reader's Almanac: http://bit.ly/b9Wx0T #
Budget Crises and Technology Could Break the Mold of the Little Red Schoolhouse | Edutopia http://bit.ly/bz4kjK #
Texas Students Could Be Required to Seek Off-Campus Learning Options – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9AhJcK #
What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity | Nielsen Wire http://bit.ly/aPnvtG #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-08-02

August 2, 2010 by Traci Gardner

The Content Producer’s Copyright Checklist | Problogger » http://bit.ly/9662LK #
Tracking What 21st Century Schools Should Teach | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/bKb2jj #
Teaching Shakespeare With The New York Times – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/ahikSg #
How to Pick the Perfect Typeface | Lifehacker » http://bit.ly/aXQRSc #
A Blended Librarian Talks Information Literacy – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/b3q22g #
Using Grading Contracts – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/aQBVEG #
BP’s Unintended Lesson on Visual Rhetoric | Tengrrl.com » http://bit.ly/aUnBBz #
15 mind blowing facts about the Internet | Jane's Pick of the Day: http://bit.ly/ap9Z9t #
Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/d4x4a8 #
Entertaining the Troops With Touring Literary Writers – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/awPSeY #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-08-01

August 1, 2010 by Traci Gardner

A Fear That Academics Are Distracted Directors – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/bv2PNI #
Pretext or just text? | UWIRE http://bit.ly/d9Z8m2 #netlingo #
ASCD offers free trial of online-only membership package – ASCD SmartBrief http://bit.ly/dzMBTQ #
Five Best Personal Project Management Tools | Lifehacker » http://bit.ly/9i1ryd #
Literature's Next Chapter | Calgary Herald » http://bit.ly/a5CqgF #
Like a kid running a candy store of literature – The Boston Globe http://bit.ly/aXPl2w #
Is the Booker a barometer of the best literature? | The Observer http://bit.ly/9sBGti #
In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/dgqM2t #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-07-31

July 31, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Things on the front page of a university website VS. Things ppl go to the site looking for. http://www.xkcd.com/773/ <3 Thx @jimkalmbach #
Lives Like Loaded Guns – Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds (Book Review) – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/bNSJWg #
Literature lover provides tech-savvy book club | DL-Online | http://bit.ly/d0Mm8s #
How to Control Your Privacy Online – WSJ.com http://bit.ly/bQwumN (an interactive that students can use to explore the issues) #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-07-30

July 30, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Ed Tech Experts Choose Top 3 Collaboration Tools — THE Journal http://bit.ly/dd7KPD #
Obama Defends Education Program – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/a7yZaL #
Zora Neale Hurston: Video of her ethnographic work in Florida in 1928 | Reader's Almanac: http://bit.ly/9Wi29S #
Library-Services Companies Sue OCLC, Alleging Anticompetitive Practices – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/dd0zAK #
I Tweet, Therefore I Am – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9sbE81 #
Rise of the Literature Machines : The New Yorker http://bit.ly/bxNY3n #
Harvard U. Institute Unveils OpenScholar Software That Helps Build Academic Sites – Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/afWvyg #
Research Confidential, an Interview with Eszter Hargittai – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/agnzuV #
Am I Preparing Students For My Age Or Theirs? – THE DAILY RIFF – Be Smarter. About Education. http://bit.ly/bK2Yh3 #
5 Lecturecasting Tools That I Can't Live Without (and Why) – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/bJHn2c #
The $139 Kindle and the Academic Library – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/aEfdPu #
Photoshop Opens Time Portals Into World War II Ghost Dimension | Gizmodo » http://bit.ly/doljzv (Photographic Mashups) #
The 100 best magazine articles ever – Boing Boing http://bit.ly/cn8zWB (with links to the articles!) #
College students may get break on textbook expenses – USATODAY.com http://bit.ly/9j1KET #
Alt Text: Library of Congress Rulings That Could Have Been | Wired.com http://bit.ly/9y5lZi (satire on DMCA decision) #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-07-29

July 29, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/99w7oS #
The Amazonian Gorilla – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/dsiofn (on Amazon.com & publishers) #
Movie Clips and Copyright – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/b0gfdb #
Dianetics for Higher Ed? – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/byqE52 #
Multimedia E-Books, Adorned With Video Extras – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/biIoLc #
Who Cares About Facebook Privacy? Students Do – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/bixsSg #
Organizing Your Teaching Materials – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/cEIBVg #
College Students Hide Hunger, Homelessness : NPR http://n.pr/aSHcIo #
English profs not amused by Canada’s immigration pop quiz – The Globe and Mail http://bit.ly/99Rago #
A Tool for Its Time (learning management systems, or LMS) — THE Journal http://bit.ly/9Ip9Z4 #
What's Wrong With the American University System – Culture – The Atlantic http://bit.ly/a9V5tU #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-07-28

July 28, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Write On Top of the Internet With New Firefox Add-On | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/bYIigQ #
E-Readers Bring The World's Library to Rural Africa | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/9b7nyx #
Readers Are Abandoning Print, Yet Don’t Trust the Web – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9o7DXI #
Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/ad5gmP #
Letting Us Rip: Our New Right to Fair Use of DVDs – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/cefb0W #
Check the Original Sources: Digital Manuscripts Online | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/bl4bqJ #
My Literary Genes | Tengrrl.com » http://bit.ly/bkain8 #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-07-27

July 27, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Assignments: Being Clear about What Matters – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/bV4wWj #
A Canadian College Where Adjuncts Go to Prosper – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/cAhP5o #
English-Testing Companies Vie for Slices of a Growing Market – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/bXwokG #
97 Colleges Recognized as Great Colleges to Work For in Chronicle Survey – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9OpwJQ #
Policing Plagiarism Abroad – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/9zk8VD #
Teaching With Blogs – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/a5P1qN #
Information on the New DMCA Exemptions – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9fxF1K #
Starting a Dissertation Writing Group (In a Writing Center) – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/dylDyJ #
I will write your college essay for cash – Life stories – Salon.com http://bit.ly/apRDZx #
Princeton U. Decides to Shut Down Online Collection of Policy Videos – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9cpWhG #
Go Ahead, Jailbreak Your Smartphone – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9aERI4 #
YouTube Better at Funny Cat Videos Than Educational Content, Professors Say – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/cuj5on #
From the Archives: On Syllabi and Course Design – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9FDMIF #
Choose Your Own Adventure Series Turns a Page – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/dgozBq #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-07-25

July 25, 2010 by Traci Gardner

Five Best Book Recommendation Services | Lifehacker » http://bit.ly/dejaYr #
How I Solved My Midlife Crisis – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/9KIdaK #
Jane Austen + Fight Club = Regency excitement! – Boing Boing http://bit.ly/as3fuX #

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