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"Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter - short story in tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting - or, even better, how you'll create a new one," says the call for ideas. "How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our five-day festival - but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour."

I have a lot of questions about this approach to teaching. Though she says she doesn't lecture, she in fact does later through modeling (semantics). In regards to the projects listed, while they're compelling social activism, I'm curious about their emphasis on the skills demanded by our standards.

This is an interesting blog post from an 8th grade English teacher about using Diigo to support creative writing on a blog. He has some basic guidelines and assessments too.

A way kids/teachers could make money from their writing...more info at the site A new initiative from Amazon called Kindle Worlds, introduced yesterday, is offering fanfic authors a cut of the sales when their works are published through the program. Amazon's first partner in this project is Alloy Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros TV Group, which is providing the licenses to the franchises Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries. (All three are book series that have been turned into TV shows.) Amazon promises that more licensed worlds are on the way, from "movies, comics, music, and games" as well as books and TV shows

This is Skype's attempt to get classroom's collaborating around the world.  Some people are looking for teachers to help them with specific lessons (i.e. Spanish teacher)  Please take a look through the Skype Lessons link for more details.

Becky's blog summarizes many young adult novels and categorizes them by genre and interest.

Thanks, Jackie. Becky's Blog has a great reference to a Classic book reading project I plan to use.