• Create a Mobile App for your Class Today! – Tips 4 Blended Learning: Tools, Resources, and Apps

  Create Ipad app using Hot Potatoes software and Phonegap http://t.co/uIqw4FeY

• Shakespeare Webquest – Resources – TES: via grea

  Shakespeare Webquest – Resources – TES: http://t.co/e2nF9naV via @AddThis great intro #engchat #vceeng

  tags: engchat vceeng

• Mr. Palmer Discusses His Fellow Minor Characters « Jane Austen’s World

  This blog post would be fun to turn into a writing assignment: Have minor characters in a novel your students are studying discuss the other minor characters in the manner of Mr. Palmer.

  tags: minor characters character jane austen janeausten austen writing writers composition

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 11 Lies Social Media Hides

  A great post to share with students. Vicki uncovers 11 myths we believe about social media.

  tags: cool cat teacher blog social media social media advice safety technology

• The Professor’s Assassin (Short Story) by Matthew Pearl – eBook – Random House

  I hope you’ll read “The Professor’s Assassin,” the prequel to my latest novel http://t.co/tWbDh0pG

• 11 years ago today I got married to . She is an as

  11 years ago today I got married to @danamhuff. She is an astonishing woman for putting up with me still & I love her more than anything.

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• Writer Unboxed » 11 Frequently Asked Questions About Book Royalties, Advances and Money

  11 Frequently Asked Questions About Book Royalties, Advances and Money (plus a giveaway of the 2012 GLA) http://t.co/Dw7ounOO

• 3quarksdaily: Reading Shakespeare helps doctors understand patients’ mental state

  Reading Shakespeare helps doctors understand patients’ mental state http://t.co/ZuQbiYWt #engchat cc @teacherc

  tags: engchat

• Finding Good Apps for Children With Autism – NYTimes.com

  Ipad apps for Autism http://t.co/JwZfN8jA

• 11iLearn Technology1 16 » Blog Archive 1 5e » An advent calendar for everyone including my Web 2.0 calendar and app-a-day calendar!36

  An advent calendar for everyone including my Web 2.0 calendar and app-a-day calendar! http://t.co/mIOKWkfZ via @Ktenkely

• The 90 Top Secrets of Bestselling Authors | WritersDigest.com

  We can always use advice from the great (or at least successful!).

  tags: authors writing writers advice

• plpconnectu – New Literacies

  New Literacies http://t.co/IhzL5N8Y #plpconnectu

  tags: plpconnectu

• iLearn: 100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School

  100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School http://t.co/h6wq5lAb via @zite

• Put Poor Students to Work – Brainstorm – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with “A Modest Proposal.”

  tags: poor students chronicle higher education modest proposal swift satire

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• I'm Teaching English | And trying to get better each day. Thanks for your comments!

  More cool #NCTE11 blog posts! @RAndersonFHS – http://t.co/f71tbGcP @msstewart – http://t.co/1ysSw4xX @danamhuff – http://t.co/ShHoOAX6

  tags: NCTE11

• The Future of the Book as Depicted in Science Fiction | Tor.com

  The Future of the Book as Depicted in Science Fiction: http://t.co/V0uG2Cai

• Books of the year 2011 | Books | The Guardian

  The @Guardian’s best books list: http://t.co/A5Ej6pEC Lots of wonderful titles you may not have heard much about here in the USA.

• What’s In Your Tech-Toolbox? –

  What’s In Your Tech-Toolbox? – http://t.co/xdi02Lvg

• Free Technology for Teachers: Embed Plus – Clip & Annotate YouTube Videos

  Embed Plus – Clip & Annotate YouTube Videos http://t.co/AyHTuf3m via @AddThis

• » Scrivener Keyboard Shortcuts Learning to Write

  Thank you @ivan007 for posting our Scrivener for Mac keyboard shortcuts http://t.co/auHe1ciS 🙂

• Handwriting Recognition (in Hebrew, Too!) | Teq Blog

  Wow! This is very exciting! RT @Torahskills: Hebrew Handwriting Recognition comes to Smart Notebook 10.8 http://t.co/yb5pydgv #jed21

  tags: jed21

• Do Parents of Children With Autism File More Lawsuits? – On Special Education – Education Week

  Are children with autism denied services they’re entitled to more often than children with other disabilities? http://t.co/4iOXyCcX

• Resources for Implementing Common Core – LiveBinder

  Common Core livebinder – ELA curriculum maps – concept based – included. http://t.co/DZiUYvLT #IACOPI #spcatholic

  tags: IACOPI spcatholic

• NCTE Session G.41 Teaching the Hero’s Journey: Understanding Our Past, Creating Our Future

  NCTE Session G.41 Teaching the Hero’s Journey: Understanding Our Past, Creating Our Future http://t.co/1xNYcidN #ncte11 #ncte

  tags: ncte11 ncte

• Cogitations of Mr. Cockrum: Why has the Flipped Classroom evaded English Classrooms?

  Why has #flipclass not made it into more English classrooms? My blog on some experiences at #ncte11 and #ncte10 http://t.co/wkU0WcYa

  tags: flipclass ncte11 ncte10

• Hunger Games Lessons: The Hunger Games Movie Trailer Teaching Moment

  Hunger Games Lessons: The Hunger Games Movie Trailer Teaching Moment http://t.co/UyF9wJYV #edchat #engchat #ncte11

  tags: edchat engchat ncte11

• as nice departure from other Hero’s Journey texts

  tags: HungerGames NCTE11 teaching myth storystructure

  #HungerGames as nice departure from other Hero’s Journey texts in that the hero is female. #NCTE11 G.41 #teaching #myth #storystructure

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• W/ Tim O'Brien #ncte on Twitpic

  W/ Tim O’Brien #ncte http://t.co/ZkFXeWjw

  tags: ncte

• The Hero’s Journey – YouTube

  Great introduction to the Hero’s Journey.

  tags: monomyth campbell hero matrix

• The Matrix – Joseph Campbell Monomyth – YouTube

  Great introduction to the Hero’s Journey using The Matrix.

  tags: matrix monomyth campbell hero

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• Write Better, Get Published, Be Creative | WritersDigest.com

  Free NaNoWriMo Ebooks | http://t.co/5jKxG7oo http://t.co/eJaw693g

• Official Google Blog: Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about

  I made a Google+ Page for Free Technology for Teachers tonight. http://t.co/NEm0UiUW

• 100 iPad Apps Perfect For Middle School | Edudemic

  100 iPad Apps Perfect For Middle School http://t.co/sZvA7N9s

• How Much Would An iPad Lab Cost Your School? | Edudemic

  How Much Would An iPad Lab Cost Your School? http://t.co/N1rxWxWG

• Ezra Chapter 4 Verses 1-7: The Enemies of Judah – YouTube

  My next #FlippedClassroom video on Ezra Chapter 4 Verses 1-7: The Enemies of Judah http://t.co/cFFJHRBl #jedchat #jed21

  tags: FlippedClassroom jedchat jed21

• Plagiarism Differences in High School and College Students | MindShift

  Plagiarism Differences in High School and College Students | MindShift http://t.co/SWCDgUL9

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• Flavorwire » Helpful Advice from History’s Fastest, Most Prolific Authors

  Yesterday marked the kickoff of National Novel-Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), the online project that challenges participants to write a 50,000-word book in the 30 days of November. To those scribbling hurriedly to meet its deadline, we wish you a book deal by December. And to cheer you on, we’ve rounded up a treasure trove of advice and encouragement from the great writers who best embody, in their own work, NaNoWriMo’s goals of writing much and writing fast. Below the jump, read through our favorite words from the wise, speedy, and prolific.

  tags: nanowrimo writing composition

• five great things about bad first drafts | Intrepid Media

  After 4 days of #nanowrimo, not loving your draft? 5 reasons a bad first draft is good news: http://t.co/2yqDuQWx

  tags: nanowrimo

• 93 years ago today, at about 11am Nov 4 1918, Capt

  tags: history

  93 years ago today, at about 11am Nov 4 1918, Capt Wilfred Owen MC was killed whilst shepherding his men across a canal in France #history

• OS X Lion has a hidden 'drop box' for easy file syncing between Macs | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

  OS X Lion has a hidden ‘drop box’ for easy file syncing between Macs http://t.co/hbq0jSwO [post]

• The Inspirational Rita Melamed – YouTube

  Check out my short doc, “The Inspirational Rita Melamed”. Feedback&Constructive Criticism are appreciated: http://t.co/gR2yFVMk via @youtube

• Star Trek Quiet Book | BlogHer

  WOW! RT @rsknitting Possibly the most amazing thing I’ve seen: this mom made a Star Trek quiet book! http://t.co/Tw8PlEZG

• word count: 2678 words. Current status: forcing my

  tags: NaNoWriMo

  #NaNoWriMo word count: 2678 words. Current status: forcing myself to not go delete them all and start again from scratch.

• Brit Lit Gallery: Chaucer's "Prologue" Updated – The Fremd High School English Ning

  Seniors are having fun with this –> “Brit Lit Gallery: Chaucer’s Prologue Updated” on The FHS English Ning: http://t.co/qfAKEM0j

• Writing a novel this month. Th

  Writing a novel this month. This will be interesting…

• Learning Through Digital Media » Copy Your Homework: Free Culture and Fair Use with Wikimedia Commons

  Teach image making? Fair use? Copyright? Read this for assignment ideas. http://t.co/aBkELezM

• I’m going to lobby the FCC to

  I’m going to lobby the FCC to require The History Channel to put quotation marks around ˝History˝.

• Friday Video: Silent Screen Actresses Model Flapper Fashions, 1928

  This would be great for pairing with The Great Gatsby.

  tags: literature english gatsby fitzgerald flappers 1920’s

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• Jane Austen’s House Museum

  The website for Jane Austen’s House Museum has information about Chawton House and Jane Austen, and it includes supporting materials for teachers.

  tags: austen british literature english

• Flavorwire » Literary Mixtape: Lady Macbeth

  Playlist for Lady Macbeth

  tags: macbeth mixtape playlist literature shakespeare

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• Incredibly Useful Google Apps Correlated to Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy #bloomstaxonomy

  Vicki shares some infographics that organize Google apps via Bloom’s Taxonomy and issues a challenge to discuss higher order critical thinking.

  tags: bloom bloomstaxonomy blooms taxonomy education

• Son (10): I bet you DaVinci never took a multiple

  Son (10): I bet you DaVinci never took a multiple choice test.
  Son (11): He made stuff that was ‘all of the above’

• We are Blogging…Now What? Stepping it Up! | Langwitches Blog

  Silvia Tolisano discusses blogging and next steps.

  tags: blogging langwitches education edblogs

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• Ransom Riggs: 9 Creepy Photos That Appear In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’

  A blog about how I picked the photos for Miss Peregrine — plus a creepy slideshow! — for the @HuffingtonPost. http://t.co/7IdzoWAc

• Become A Google Apps Ninja

  Jeff Utecht describes how he created a program to help teachers, students, and parents become Google Apps ninjas.

• THE BOOK OF ILLUSION | More Intelligent Life

  RT @brainpicker: How Gatsby provides a portrait of contemporary America’s economic and social fabric http://j.mp/pT9a42 #engchat

  tags: engchat

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• How to Combat Plagiarism | Edutopia

  Blame the Internet? Or blame the assignment? My latest @edutopia story is about students and plagiarism http://t.co/v0nYemsl

• The Myth of Online Predators – The Daily Beast

  Sent this to a concerned parent this week: The Myth of Online Predators: http://t.co/j8IY3kGH #safety

  tags: safety

• The Steve Jobs I Knew – Walt Mossberg – Mossblog – AllThingsD

  The Steve Jobs I Knew — Some of my remembrances of a great man: http://t.co/3biPrA9D

• ‘This Stuff Doesn’t Change the World’: Disability and Steve Jobs’ Legacy | Epicenter | Wired.com

  ‘This Stuff Doesn’t Change the World’: Disability and Steve Jobs’ Legacy http://t.co/3iJJsFTE by @tcarmody

• Good on you, Steve. Thank you for remembering that

  Good on you, Steve. Thank you for remembering that liberal arts and engineering are better together.

• Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 – YouTube

  RIP Steve Jobs. His classic Stanford 2005 Commencement speech http://t.co/glMRPSoB

• Steve Jobs was better than Santa Claus, because he

  Steve Jobs was better than Santa Claus, because he’d show up once a year and offer us toys that we’d ever even imagined could exist.

• TechLearning: Finding Heroines: Ada Lovelace Day

  Finding Heroines: Ada Lovelace Day http://ow.ly/6NXsF

• Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | Video on TED.com

  (via TED.com) A most inspiring talk. Steve Jobs believed this. A good share for class tomorrow morning. http://t.co/NaX4ZrGD

• 91% Of Hiring Mangers Use Social Networking To Screen

  Students need to be aware of the digital footprint they are creating on social networks and how their use of social networks can impact them in a future job search.

  tags: social networking social networking facebook twitter career job education

• BOOK RIOT | News, reviews and commentary on books and reading, except, you know, fun

  Book Riot is dedicated to the idea that writing about books and reading should be just as diverse as books and readers are. So sometimes we are serious and sometimes silly. Some of our writers are pros. Many of them aren’t. We like a good list just as much as we like a good review. We think you can like both J.K. Rowling and J.M Coetzee and that there are smart, funny, and informative things to say about both and that you shouldn’t have to choose.

  tags: book news books reading literature

• The History of England

  A weekly podcast and blog on the history of England from the Arrival of the West Saxons in 516 to the death of Victoria in 1901.

  tags: history england english

• Bless thee! Thou art Translated! « Folger SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

  What happens when we rely on translations instead of Shakespeare’s language? I completely agree with this article.

  tags: shakespeare teaching literature language english

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