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Google News Timeline by GoogleLabs - 13 views

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journalism research e405 writing

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    Visual timeline of current events.
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RESTREPO - A Film by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington - 7 views

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war afghanistan literature

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    Great connection to The Things They Carried.
Adam Babcock

The Associated Press: Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens - 5 views

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texting cellphones culture teens

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  • aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior
  • It found that about one in five students were hyper-texters and about one in nine are hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites.About one in 25 fall into both categories.
  • Hyper-texting and hyper-networking were more common among girls, minorities, kids whose parents have less education and students from a single-mother household, the study found.
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  • a legitimate question to explore
  • tudy found those who text at least 120 times a day are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have had sex than their peers who don't text that much
  • Talking on the phone just isn't appealing to some teens, said her classmate, Ivanna Storms-Thompson."Your arm gets tired, your ear gets sweaty," said Ivanna, who also doesn't like the awkward silences.
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The Texting Revolution Is Here - WSJ.com - 2 views

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writing edtech mobile research

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  • We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact.
  • has named "micro-coordination"—"I'll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt."
  • it steals from quiet reflection. "When people have a mobile device and have even the smallest increment of extra time, they will communicate with someone in their life,"
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  • If I were to call someone, it would have to be urgent," she says. "Otherwise, it's sort of rude and invasive.
  • "American Idol put texting on the map," says AT&T's Mr. Collins.
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College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • “They want you so they can reject you,” says Mr. Stewart, a senior in Burnsville, Minn., who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored a 27 (out of 36) on the ACT. Those numbers are well below the freshman averages at some of the big-name colleges that sent him applications along with brochures.
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GLADINET - Cloud Storage Access Platform & Solutions - 0 views

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    Create a Gladinet Drive to seamlessly access multiple cloud storage services using the familiar Windows® Explorer interface. Drag and drop folders or an entire drive to quickly transfer thousands of files. Access and manipulate cloud files with local applications. 
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On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack - ReadWriteThink - 9 views

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literature reading music

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    Students begin by analyzing how specific songs might fit with a familiar story. Students then create their own soundtracks for the movie version of a novel they have read. They select songs that match the text and fit specific events in the story.
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Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir - CNN.com - 2 views

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    Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.
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