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ARTICLE: The idea that we must choose between science and humanities is false.

Nice editorial from Alan Brinkley (Columbia U history prof.) in Newsweek... I bolded what I thought were some of the coolest passages... H…

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4 Jan 6, 2010
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BOOKS: Literary Classics Something To Tweet About / Parody

Heard about this book on NPR in a little 30 second spot on Morning Edition... Have you had enough of Twitter? Think it's whittled our live…

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0 Dec 31, 2009

COMICS: Kafka Metamorphosis + Comics - etc.

This post is culled from a lively series of wall posts in the Graphic Novels & Comics Group. MC Popper Margery Willis started talking…

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0 Dec 31, 2009

RADIO: Interview 'Memoir: A History' by Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda is a leading writer / teacher in the creative non-fiction genre. On NPR's "On the Media" Mr. Yagoda was interviewed about his ne…

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0 Dec 29, 2009

GRANTS: 2010 NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes

As always a great line of up Summer Seminars from the folks at NEH! I've pasted all the major program info below with a link to the website…

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1 Dec 14, 2009
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ARTICLE: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit

For those of you who haven't had students create word clouds yet (see worldle.com) I think it is one of the coolest thinking tools availabl…

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0 Nov 29, 2009

POLICY: An Open Letter about Common Core State Standards from NCTE President Kylene Beers

For those of you interested in keeping in the policy loop, you might know that the "The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a joint e…

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0 Nov 17, 2009

EVENT: NCTE New Media Gallery Friday Nov. 20, 2009 - Philadelphia, PA

For those of you who will be at Phili this year the NCTE (NCTE Commission on Media is hosting a day of interesting and innovative workshops…

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0 Nov 16, 2009

RESOURCE: Mysteries of the Ancient World

Caught an add for these stories in Smithsonian Magazine. I read their story about Vikings "Raiders or Traders?" and it was fascinating. If…

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0 Nov 5, 2009

ARTICLES+WEBTOOL: Google Lit Trips

Two articles on Google Lit Trips from Edutopia: Google Lit Trips: Bringing Travel Tales to Life Follow along for a multidimensional litera…

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2 Oct 22, 2009
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