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Jessica Pressman on Electronic Literature | FiveBooks | The Browser - 4 views

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literature E-Books electronicliterature

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Describes examples of features of EL books

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AP Classes Are a Scam - John Tierney - The Atlantic - 12 views

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inequality wealth schools

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How AP courses enhance stratification within schools between AP versus non-AP courses.

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New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia - Wikimedia blog - 4 views

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Create e-pub books from Wikipedia articles for mobile devices

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Back to school means back to testing | StarTribune.com - 1 views

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testing school teachers standardization

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This critique of excessive testing posits the need to recognize that we're not just "testing to the test," we're "teaching human beings."

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Testing mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 7 views

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testing NCLB textbook policy schooling

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Smagorinsky nails the real origins of NCLB testing as a $20 billion cost to states that profit the testing/textbook companies.

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Cowbird · A witness to life - 9 views

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storytelling digitalstorytelling

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Corbird: contributors share their stories about everyday life, organized by topics and themes.

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Teaching Publishing is a 21st Century Literacy | DMLcentral - 11 views

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publishing literacy

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Posit the value of publishing students' writing as a 21st Century literacy

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Mixel lets you create and share iPad art | Macworld - 6 views

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art ipad

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Mixel, iPad app for collecting and remixing images for collages.

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Moglue - Create Play Share - 13 views

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ebook reading ebooks

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Tool for creating interactive ebooks

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Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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twitter reading edchat

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NYTimes article on Edchat Twitter groups to share and acquire information, for example, #Engchat

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Mobile Learning: Creating an ePublication | CEHD | U of M - 9 views

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ebook Pages

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Create ePub ebooks using Word and Pages

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How to Collect Student Files with Dropbox | K-5 Computer Lab - 8 views

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dropbox web2.0 files filestork

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Useful tools for uploading and storing students' files on DropBox

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Learning From YouTube: YOUTUBE IS ... - 7 views

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youtube learning ebook

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This "videobook" describes different uses of YouTube in the classrom.

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The Future of the Book. on Vimeo - 3 views

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book ideo ebooks design literacy

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IDEO's Nelson, Coupland, and Alice for responding to and connecting with books and readers

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A Manifesto for Media Education - 6 views

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media education manifesto literacy

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media educators voice their idea about the need for media literacy education

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Turn the entire Web into a Learning Environment with Apture | Kirsten Winkler - 10 views

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information search Apture

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Use Apture to mark words and then find out more about those words.

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Digital Is | Digital Is ... - 11 views

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NWP writing digital

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The new National Writing Project site: Lots of resources

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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: How New Media is Transforming Storytelling: A New ... - 6 views

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storytelling digital narratives

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video series on digital storytelling

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jmle.org » Blog Archive » D'Angelo - 7 views

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power control media

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Activities for studying social control and power through films and graphic novels.

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Kindle for Mac - 1 views

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mac kindle

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Free Kindle for Mac to access Kindle books: requires OS 10.5 or above.

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