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For teachers using literature from around the world!

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Comment by Ryan Goble on September 16, 2009 at 9:56am: Follow up on yesterday's Mr. Duey post - Mr. Duey is now in the MC POP mix! If you like his stuff or want to know more about this work send him a shout out via the Ning! Great to have you here Mr. D!

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 11, 2009 at 1:54pm: Great article on non-fiction graphic novels including one about Katrina titled, "Journalists, Artists Tell Stories with Nonfiction Graphic Novels" can be found in the Graphic Novels group here.

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 11, 2009 at 11:33am: Hey Everyone,

Just posted the Human Rights Watch/First Look Films DVD collection info in the Moving Image group - they all have themes around race, gender, sexuality, nationality, history and politics - I would guess they're teachable in many contexts. Worth a look.

RRG:)

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 3, 2009 at 3:37pm: An article/post on the end of "Reading Rainbow" in Teach with Moving Images sure to sadden all the English teachers out there...

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 2, 2009 at 4:29pm: Yeah, I'm back commenting again. A lot of you are probably already members of the "Making Shakespeare Pop!" group - if you dig the Bard and you're interested in his relation to popular and contemporary culture you might consider joining that group.

Today I did a pretty cool post with the front page of yesterday's Chicago Tribune. The headline was about our our brilliant and extremely literate ex-governor here in Illinois Rod Blagojevich. Not only does the man have cool hair, but he has a Shakespearian vision of himself.

In the post you'll find a bundle of Shakespeare allusions plus info on how to get jpegs of newspaper front pages.

Check it out, comment, join - at the very least this post will give you (esp. if you teach English) a good laugh.

Full post here

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 2, 2009 at 3:41pm: Howdy American Lit Folks,

I know a lot of you teach with film and are very interested in finding cool (and short) non-fiction film. Today I posted a cool forum post in Teach with Moving Images on a FREE DVD from the AFT that deals with Student Activism Around The World - from Alabama to Burma - it is totally cool and at the top of that group's discussion forum.

If your interested in this kind of media please do take a hot minute to check out that post and join the Teach with Moving Images Group!

As Always - Good Vibes,

RRG:)

Comment by Ryan Goble on August 20, 2009 at 7:42am: If you rock Shakespeare - a post went out today in the Shakespeare group that needs your awesome ideas - check out Ideas on making "Julius Caesar" POP?

Comment by Ryan Goble on August 18, 2009 at 3:59pm: No Prob Kelly - I'll get more folks your way soon!

Comment by Kelly Farrow on August 18, 2009 at 3:14pm: Thx, Ryan. I did wonder about a foreign-language group! :) I started the discussion forum and e-mailed the teacher. Thanks for the ideas.

Comment by Ryan Goble on August 18, 2009 at 2:48pm: If you're not in the poetry people group but teach poetry be sure to join and check out Patsy Smith's Ninja poetry video post.