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A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.

Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model for current and future writing assignments.

This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.

Play this game and throw Chinese stars while learning parts of speech; includes a free downloadable version of the game.

If you want to review grammar, enjoy!

YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize their YouTube for Schools experience, adding videos that are only viewable within their school network.

Abstract: This paper examines how teens understand privacy in highly public networked environments like Facebook and Twitter. We describe both teens' practices, their privacy strategies, and the structural conditions in which they are embedded, highlighting the ways in which privacy, as it plays out in everyday life, is related more to agency and the ability to control a social situation than particular properties of information. Finally, we discuss the implications of teens' practices and strategies, revealing the importance of social norms as a regulatory force. (This paper was presented at Oxford Internet Institute's "A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society" on September 22, 2011.) Number of Pages in PDF File: 29 Keywords: Facebook, privacy, youth, teens, social media, ethnography, cultural studies Accepted Paper Series

Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments, too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos, and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in five ways: using voice (with mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

According to Wesch, "This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively."

From author Cara Pring: "We all love statistics, specially when they are about social media. I've made life so much easier by compiling all the statistics I could find over the past month or so in one handy bulleted article..."

"It has taken me just one month to collate another 100 social media statistics from countless (reputable) websites and articles (some of which are listed at the bottom of this article)..."

A concise "how to" from Howcast.

The tools included below are among the best web services you can find online to help with the integration of bibliography and citations into documents. They cover different style formats including APA, MLA, and Chicago.

Use these tools to help with citations.

Not familiar with LTI? Basically it's like Facebook apps or Google widgets, but interoperable between lots of edu tools. The tutorials page shows how to configure LTI tools in supported systems. There's also some handy extensions to LTI that you can learn more about on the extensions page. Tools with a gray label under their configuration xml support LTI extensions that won't work in all systems. Currently LTI extensions are only supported by Canvas.

From the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 2012, in Las Vegas, many of the the nation's best language arts minds shared material from their presentations. Use the searchable program (given to you through Diigo as well), find the sessions you're interested in, and come back to this page to see if the session's materials are available. 

If choosing fiction (even historical fiction) to supplement your site, evaluate the ethos of the company, director, etc. Lincoln, from my perspective, is solid: "As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves..."

Recommended by Jim Burke, #engchat serves as a Twitter-wired community of progressive educators sharing ideas.

To follow up on last week, here's an example how creating a simple blog can connect great ideas.

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