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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment - 5 views
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Wow...hate distracting ads when you're trying to read? This website allows you to read just the text. You pick the size, then drag the icon to your browser's toolbar. Nice.
Search Engine's YouTube channel launches: Does the Internet make you dumber? Boing Boing - 4 views
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This video is funny and does a good job of questioning why we care about rote memorization. Why isn't it good enough just to go and look up information? Why must we scold ourselves if we don't have it memorized? Has some great applications to educational debate today and where technology fits.
The End of Education as We Know It - 10 views
Monitor: The net generation, unplugged | The Economist - 6 views
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Questions raised: Who actually makes up the population of digital natives? What do we really know about them? What are their behaviors actually demonstrating online?
Internet Shakespeare Editions - 9 views
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Great resource for William Shakespeare.
A Rising Tide of Web Sites That Are Born of Hate - 6 views
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NYT article about hate sites on the internet. Good resource for lessons on evaluating web sites.
Evaluating Internet information - 2 views
Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 14 views
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People tweet and text one another during plays and movies, forming judgments before seeing the arc of the entire work.
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Recent books by respected authors like Malcolm Gladwell (“Outliers”), Susan Faludi (“The Terror Dream”) and Jane Jacobs (“Dark Age Ahead”) rely far more heavily on cherry-picked anecdotes — instead of broader-based evidence and assiduous analysis — than the books that first established their reputations. And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
The Potter Games - 12 views
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This is an interactive website based on the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books/games. The characters of Harry Potter have been thrown into The Hunger Games (as tributes or mentors) by Lord Voldemort. The player chooses one of the characters and must read each passage, then makes a decision for that character, which could result in becoming the Victor...or "Reenervate" to try again. If you have students who like Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, they will have fun on this website. New characters are unlocked daily & we plan on writing more stories - one with the characters rebelling against Lord Voldemort and breaking out of the arena. It is great practice for reading skills - some characters have longer passages, some shorter. Some have up to 144 different scenarios (that's 144 pages of text). The least amount of reading for a player is 19 pages. So think about your low readers - that may be more than they read in a week by just playing one character. The writers who have/are contributing to this non-profit project include teachers, high school students, college students, professional writers, graphic artists, musicians, librarians, and so many more. We're all fans of both series, of course. :) (For grades 7 and up) I have a free download of lesson ideas for using The Potter Games in your classroom here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Potter-Games-Using-Interactive-Fiction-to-Improve-Reading
Stanford Study of Writing - Home - 15 views
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This is a great piece to have your staff discuss.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Police Blotter Shakespeare. - 15 views
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Police blotter for Shakespeare (includes R&J, Hamlet, Macbeth, MND, Winter's Tale, The Tempest, King Lear, Othello).
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Famous Authors Narrate the Funny Pages. - 10 views
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Famous authors narrate the funny pages.
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