English Companion Ning Group

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

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

This father and daughter made reading together at night a mission.

Isabella Jones' excellent slides on social networking creative ideas for the language classroom--pertinent to Eng teachers, too.

ADICHIE review of TKAM

Many good sound effects most free, the rest inexpensive. I can think of many applications including digital story telling. Thanks to "Technology Tidbits" for the link :)

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

As the United States continues to compete in a global  economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation).

Full Text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story with text.