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Fakebook: Create a fake profile!
Fakebook allows you to create Facebook profiles for school projects.
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Your English Class » Blog Archive » Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
Great introduction and resources for teaching Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
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Anglotopia examines the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the UK. Gorgeous pictures and descriptions of each site.
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Importing Flip video into iMovie for iOS | Video | Creative Notes | Macworld
Macworld gives instructions for importing a Flip video into iMovie for iOS, which is particularly good for iPad 2.
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Dickens daren’t tell the truth about the real Oliver Twist workhouses | Mail Online
This article describes conditions in workhouses for the poor in Victorian England. It would be great to pair with Oliver Twist or with Blake’s two “Chimney Sweep” poems.
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Teaching ‘The Great Gatsby’ With The New York Times – NYTimes.com
The New York Times’ collection of resources for teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Can’t we just “integrate it everywhere?”
Vicki discusses how technology should be integrated, what China is doing with technology, and why removing technology classes is a bad idea.
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Langwitches Blog » Becoming Good Tutorial Designers
Silvia discusses how to help students learn to design tutorials.
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Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” with explanatory notes and references.
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“I just heard a great idea for a year-end book group meeting. Book Swap.
Encourage everyone to come to the next discussion with a favorite book they are willing to part with. Readers do book talks, giving a summary of the plot and characters, and then ask them to talk about the most appealing aspects of the book and compare it to something else.
How to fairly distribute? After the book talks, put all the books on the table in the middle, have attendees pull numbers out of a hat and choose in order. Or hearken back to your elementary school days, put all the books in a big, colorful bag, and have each person pull one out without looking. Book Grab Bag.”
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How to Use QR Codes in Student Projects – SimpleK12
Scannable bar codes may be just what you need to spark some student interest in your classroom – read on to learn how to use them to showcase your student work and give some life to your classroom’s infographics.
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How to Create Your First iPhone Application – Smashing Magazine
“This how-to guide is supposed to walk you through the steps to make your idea for an iPhone app a reality. This post presents various ideas, techniques, tips, and resources that may come in handy if you are planning on creating your first iPhone application.”
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How to Cue Up a YouTube Video to Just the Right Spot – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic
YouTube introduced a new feature that allows you to easily cue up your favorite viral video to just the spot. All you have to do is find the precise moment, pause the video, and then right click on it. A dialog box pops up offering you the option to “Copy video URL at current time.” Click that and the link that goes to your clipboard will automatically cue up the video to the correct moment.
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Build your objectives using Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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“Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We’ll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we’ll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory.”
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Great tutorial handouts from Bucks County Community College.
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The Word Exchange: Anglo Saxon Poems in Translation / Poems Out Loud
Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: willslist.
Shakespeare meets Craigslist.
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