@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-01-06

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  • Take a Tour of the Book-Writing Process – Poynter Online – Writing Tools http://bit.ly/8nYd5U #
  • Tahlequah Daily Press – Say what? Please — not that! http://bit.ly/8vDoel –words a group of linguists say should be banned forever. #
  • Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English – Common Craft – http://bit.ly/7AG0aj #
  • Paperless Grading with GradeMark | ProfHacker.com http://bit.ly/4zVPjI #
  • In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/7MXrkv #
  • Mike Rose: Education Policy, 2010: Big Goals, Little Vision | Huffington Post http://bit.ly/8uxBhK #
  • There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6axiqy -Are e-books a fresh version or the latest edition? #
  • Are They Students? Or ‘Customers’? – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/5En40Y –Should students have more say in coursework and assessment? #
  • The Real Academic Calendar – Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/6kicCd –Real cal follows philosophical stages students pass thru. #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-01-05

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  • Serving the Laptopless Student – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/8uVpGc #
  • Where good old-fashioned debate still rules school | Cincinnati.Com http://bit.ly/5gROAf -Paideia schools, where Socratic method still rules #
  • Irrelevant Facebook – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/8Rw2U5 #
  • Career Advice: Evaluating Evaluations – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/7tBfKb #
  • Lake Superior State University unfriends words, phrases in 35th annual List of Banished Words http://bit.ly/7FVgCP #
  • Earful Over Cheeky University Essay – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/4LyCGn #
  • Tweetup at the MLA – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/5r9fhn –Annual party included everyone following on Twitter this year #
  • Bleak News on the Front Lines: Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/8YXldl -Already down 100s of job openings, MLA also down 100s of grad students #
  • No Entry – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/5qMfXR -Job crisis for faculty jobs (esp for new PhDs looking for tenure-track jobs) spreading. #
  • New UN Envoy’s Old Advice for Children – Read More – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6AzRiZ #
  • Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives – The Boston Phoenix http://bit.ly/5h1YM8 –podcast & article #
  • Grammar vandals awarded book deal – UPI.com http://bit.ly/8OKnge #
  • Small-Scale Assessment Makes the Grade | Edutopia http://bit.ly/5Awolk #
  • Are American Students Lazy? – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/86bGLk -on Kara Miller's comparison of US students & foreign students #
  • Homes become college project :: Post-Tribune http://bit.ly/8Wv9qL -Valparaiso students tell the stories of the homes on McIntyre Court #
  • An author's take on online books – newsjournalonline.com http://bit.ly/931PY1 #
  • Study notes rise in Latino Internet usage – San Bernardino County Sun http://bit.ly/78zLFc #
  • On Writing for the Web | ProfHacker http://bit.ly/5zLL8C #
  • 'I Still Want to Stab a Certain Someone,' and Other Ideas Not to Post on Facebook – Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/80GQ1o #
  • How to Teach With Google Wave – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/5M8PWz #
  • Writing Text-Supported Arguments About the Purpose of College – The Learning Network Blog – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/4YKkIo #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-01-03

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  • A 2009 Top Read Article: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice – Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/4t79KB #
  • I Hate Myself When I'm Teaching – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/6PpdfF #
  • How to Train the Aging Brain – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/7IGDZv -Can an old brain learn & remember what it learns? Should it be in school? #
  • Poetic license | LancasterOnline.com http://bit.ly/5hHbuf -"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me." #
  • Vanishing bookstores | The Louisville Courier-Journal http://bit.ly/4JZc9n #
  • Students admitted early to college network on Facebook – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/5TiAK3 -Within hours, Class of 2014 networking. #
  • ‘The Lexicographer’s Dilemma’ – Jack Lynch Explores English – Review – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/7nOLNS #
  • Stakeholders advise on national ed-tech plan – eClassroom News – http://bit.ly/6nn4CR #
  • Obsolete Learning Technologies – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4Ec49t #
  • The Task of the Critic – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/7BIGUZ -review of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue #
  • Economics and the MLA – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/8hSFdH #
  • News: Economic Literary Realities – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/8bcQnu -how literature about past economic crises might be renewed #
  • Don't Blame Facebook for Poor Grades | Quick Takes – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/6W9bOf #
  • MLAde Is Back — Now on Twitter – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4ubGEg -on the annual parody of the Modern Language Association #
  • News: Hybrid Education 2.0 – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/5lTYdu -What if you cd teach w/o a classroom or a professor, & lose nothing? #
  • The Lost Tribe – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/5XbG3t -Does the English Department Have a Jewish Problem? #
  • Is this teh way of the future for spelling? | The Age Australia | http://bit.ly/4wNawI #
  • 2010: 'Twenty ten' vs. 'two thousand ten' | San Francisco Chronicle http://bit.ly/6Wg2WQ #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-12-21

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  • "Yule" be seeing fewer updates from @newsfromtengrrl starting today. Less edu in the news as schools close & time for a holiday break! #
  • ‘Nerd’ and ‘Geek’ Should Be Banned, Professor Says – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/90cGfd #
  • The Buzzwords of 2009 – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/7bfhSy –Do you "Dracula sneeze"? :-) #
  • Cutting through the din of the dotcom age — latimes.com http://bit.ly/8rWpq8 –writers faced the challenge of cutting through the noise #
  • Driven to Distraction, Some Teenagers Unfriend Facebook – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6nUjrI #
  • Milorad Pavic, Unorthodox Novelist, Dies at 80 – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/5Zxsgj #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-12-17

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  • “Twitterdee, Twitterdumb”: Teaching in the Time of Technology, Tweets, and Trespassing – National Writing Project http://bit.ly/8zcG33 #
  • Taking Stock: Higher Education and Latinos | EdExcelencia.org http://bit.ly/8wKjHz #
  • Disappearing Jobs – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/6dj9pT –job picture in the humanities is going from bad to worse #
  • Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/7aWj9K #
  • Job Slump Worsens for Language and Literature Scholars – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/64AsPS (Requires Subscription) #
  • Is It Time for Class-Based Affirmative Action? – Chronicle of Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4QgfBB -Main reason stds drop out: they have to work #
  • Sledding, plus writing assignment, should create lifetime memories | The Grand Island Independent: http://bit.ly/8bbVp0 #
  • British Professors Protest Plan to Promote Socially Useful Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/8AqQnZ #
  • Writing program rewrites teachers' approach to the craft – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/7cNoWG #NWP #
  • At Many Colleges, Early Applications Rise – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6bTxSn #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-12-16

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  • U. of C Biblical Manuscript a fake :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: http://bit.ly/4ToE6P –Once fetched millions, but it's a forgery #
  • Give a Humanist a Supercomputer … – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/6G73lr #
  • Student banned from U after Facebook posts | StarTribune.com http://bit.ly/4DfZ1E #
  • When Teaching the Right Answers Is the Wrong Direction | Edutopia http://bit.ly/6Z0mPB #
  • Scholastic Names the Decade's Ten Big Ideas in Education http://bit.ly/8F1onB #
  • 'Teacher U': A New Model in Employer-Led Higher Education – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/772H6f #
  • How to Prepare Your College for an Uncertain Digital Future – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/4xKMx3 #
  • First Amendment in the Classroom – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/7q7uy8 #
  • Clean Slate – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/85RV7y –Blackboard, ends patent feud with Desire2Learn. #
  • A major reading program that gives more points to 'Breaking Dawn' than 'The Grapes of Wrath' http://bit.ly/8Vhu8P #
  • Pasadena library branch offering free after-school homework help – Pasadena Star-News http://bit.ly/8KQhjp #
  • Chinua Achebe’s Encounters With Many Hearts of Darkness – Review – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/8Jm6jA #
  • Tablet PCs Are Coming, and Magazines Aim to Be Ready – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/50k8eZ #
  • Wary Book Publishers Are Fighting the Future – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/5sDDd1 #
  • Team Bronte? 'Twilight' teaches classics | Columbus Local News: http://bit.ly/7mK53d #
  • Writing workshop helps veterans express feelings | Radio Iowa http://bit.ly/6tDwJ6 #
  • What Matters Now: Free ebook from Seth Godin – http://bit.ly/800fs5 –70+ big thinkers share an idea to think about as we head into 2010 #
  • Writing Carnival Video from SC's Celebration of National Day on Writing – National Writing Project http://bit.ly/5PEpCe #nwp #
  • Blackboard Settles Longstanding Patent Fight With Rival Desire2Learn – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/7CPVG0 #
  • UC research workers call for pay raises http://bit.ly/8TO5GX –researchers, technicians & postdoc scholars picketing for raises & benefits #
  • Sarkozy unveils €35bn 'big loan' boost for French universities and museums | World news | guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/5121Vc #
  • The All-Digital Library? Not Quite Yet – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/5OuDO8 #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-12-14

December 14, 2009 by

  • Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants | Copyblogger http://bit.ly/8H7rHM –gender bias & adopting 'male' pen names #
  • Obama's Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders | FOXNews.com – http://bit.ly/8b0pe4 #
  • Free Web Site Helps Harvard Students Cut Class – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/6hnJKb #
  • E-Textbook Publisher Strives to Make Titles More Accessible to the Blind – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/724PSq #
  • Video Highlights from NWP's 2009 Annual Meeting – National Writing Project http://bit.ly/5qOGnM #
  • Open Access Encyclopedias – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/6X6QeH #
  • Are We All Precious? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/7Vl8ur #
  • Gingerbread Has Its Strengths as a Sustainable Building Material – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/7iUXKA #
  • Because We Fight Over Poetry – New York Magazine http://bit.ly/59YDHm #
  • Oye, new Spanish grammar guidelines unveiled | The Associated Press: http://bit.ly/6qaIeE #
  • Media Cache – TV Still Has a Hold on Teenagers – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6Ff6XO #
  • Preparing Students for College: The Academic Word List (AWL) | Classroom Solutions http://bit.ly/7T3AAy #
  • Sex bias probe in colleges' selections: Panel to study whether men favored in area admissions – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/5g8zxn #

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