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I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

Below is Instructify's list of the five best bibliography and citation applications out there. Pass these on to your students and spare them the agony of building bibliographies the hard way.

i think a great way to use twitter is to go to twitter search - see what people are saying about a topic. i know i've used it in the last week to get up to date info on internet safety restrictions and how to break through some of the barriers keeping us from good educational web activities.

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10 tools for searching your old tweets. Includes reviews of each and suggestions for use.

I'm on page 199 of 349 of Let the Great World Spin: "there's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere, Its about begin connected, access, gateways, like a whispering games where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning."   quote from a teen hacker in the novel--it captures adolescence, hacking, learning, delight, beauty, everything: I want to remember this when I meet my new students in September

An online reference for expressing in more descriptive ways.

Held annually during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of intellectual freedom and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools. Here are ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week -- with your students, your children and anyone who believes in having "the freedom to read."

BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.

Tips for backing up your computer content and online information.

great ways to start class right--even when the bell does not ring

Search game, find Kermit's picture. Here's a way to teach essential search skills is a game environment. Great for a lab class activity.

Another way to aggregate feeds, manage online learning from news, blogs and magazines

Fun ways to teach literary devices.

Scroll all the way to the end for a list of authors and categories.