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Dana Huff

Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit Nine | Literary Device Bag Resources - 12 views

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    Fun ways to teach literary devices.
Dana Huff

BBC - Drama - 60 Second Shakespeare - Shakespeare's plays, themes and characters - 18 views

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    BBC's 60 Second Shakespeare: Shakespeare newspapers with quick summaries of the plot and characters of fourteen major Shakespeare plays.
Jeff See

"Thinkbook" Reading Journals - English Companion Ning - 21 views

  • How might Archer take advantage of his marriage?
    • Jeff See
       
      Calls for analysis of his character.
  • Without May's perception, the reader has no reason to believe May is betraying their marriage by any means.
    • Jeff See
       
      Key Point. Perspective can play a large role in our understanding of a situation.
  • because of her value to society.
    • Jeff See
       
      This seems to point to a lack of "love" on his part. Good insight.
Dana Huff

Folger Podcasts -Folger Shakespeare Library - 6 views

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    Folger podcasts.
Todd Finley

Share More! Wiki | Anthology / Diigo the Web for Education - From TeleGatherer to TeleP... - 5 views

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    "# Supporting Diigo-based fine-grained discussions connected to a specific part of a webpage - which opens up the possibility for more meaningful exchanges where teachers can embed all kinds of scaffolding into web-based materials with Diigo: * sharing questions for discussion (either online, or to prepare students for an in-class discussion); * highlighting critical features; asking students to define words, terms, or concepts in their own words/language; providing definitions of difficult/new terms (in various media, such as embedding an image in the sticky note); * providing models of interpreting materials. * using the highlighting/sticky note feature to "mark up" our "textbook" (blog) with comments, observations and corrections to specific words, phrases or paragraphs of each post. * Aggregating bookmarks the students make of websites valuable to their learning, and use the highlighting feature and sticky notes as if they were like the Track Changes feature in MS Word which lends itself more towards collaboration and the iterative process. "
Dana Huff

AudioOwl - Free Audio Books - Download mp3 and iPod format today! - 4 views

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    Lots of free audio books (via Tech Chicks podcast).
Mary Worrell

BBC News - Phone texting 'helps pupils to spell' - 6 views

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    A new report suggests that texting might help student spell. *gasp!*
Dana Huff

The Romantic poets | Books | guardian.co.uk - 10 views

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    The Guardian's series on the great Romantic poets with poems, excerpts from their letters, discussions, and podcasts.
Karen Chichester

OttoBib - Free Automatic Easy Bibliography Generator. Fast! MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - 3 views

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    For Books only using ISBNS. Citations in MLA, APA, Chicago/Truabian, BibTeX and Wikipedia formats.
Joseph Alvarado

Free Audio Books - Download an audio book in mp3 or iPod format today! - 7 views

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    Source of free audio books that can be downloaded in mp3, Ipod, and Itunes format.
Dana Huff

APA Style Blog: How Do I Cite a Kindle? - 3 views

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    A new conundrum for researchers. How do you cite a book on a Kindle? This APA blog has some suggestions for APA style users.
Dana Huff

EasyBib: How do I cite a book from the Kindle or another e-book reader? - 3 views

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    EasyBib has recommendations for how to create Works Cited entries in MLA, APA, and CMS.
Melody Velasco

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal - 20 views

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    Interesting visual to explain the appropriate usage of the apostrophe.
Dana Huff

The Shakespeare Standard >> William Shakespeare News From Pages to Stages - 1 views

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    The Shakespeare Standard is a news, feature, and blog hub for Shakespeare-related news on the web. They publish news items from around the world on a regular basis while featuring reports, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts from our editorial staff and community contributors.
andrew bendelow

Online Writing Teacher - 6 views

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    the expert from Drexel, letting us know how to teach writing online--the same amount of work, but perhaps better results (more and better student writing)
Dana Huff

10 Ways to Promote Writing For an Authentic Audience - The Learning Network Blog - NYTi... - 11 views

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    Participating in an online discussion on events and issues in the news not only gives students a forum, but it also helps them build critical thinking, writing and news literacy skills and provides an opportunity to write for an authentic audience.
Karen Chichester

WIDE PATHS 2009 - 7 views

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    Writing in Digital Environments: Pedagogies and Theories - hosted by the Red Cedar Writing Project
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