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Another great poetry idea....have a channel for your poetry club at You Tube!

The Rooftop Poetry Club is based at E. H. Butler Library, at Buffalo State College, in Buffalo, NY. Named after our first meeting place--the library's rooftop garden--we provide a venue for local writers to perform their work, and promote library resources.

SweetSearch (http://www.sweetsearch.com/), A Search Engine for Students, is a free custom search engine that searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our team of Web research experts. It excludes unreliable sites that often rank high in other search engines and waste students' time. \n\nWith only credible results to evaluate, students can focus their energy on determining which results are most relevant to their research. \n\nHere are but two examples where SweetSearch's results are far superior to those of Google or Bing:\n\n"Shakespeare" http://bit.ly/7Reg7p vs. http://bit.ly/6lUphg vs. http://bit.ly/6ycRcZ\n\n"War of 1812" http://bit.ly/87HMYn vs. http://bit.ly/57hoOO vs. http://bit.ly/5L7xiz\n\nIt's not just that we exclude obvious spam sites; we also usually exclude marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor, and thus are not citable.\n\nAs importantly, many of the best academic resources on the Web, such as university or other .edu web sites, make little effort to optimize their search rankings and thus often don't appear till the 3rd or 4th page of Google results. Because SweetSearch searches a smaller, more qualified pool of sites, these academic sites often appear on the 1st page of SweetSearch results. And to most students, the 1st page is the only one that exists.\n\nTo place a SweetSearch search box on your own Web site, copy the code for our widget onto your site: http://www.sweetsearch.com/widget.html\n

SweetSearch Biographies offers profiles and outstanding search results for thousands of famous-or infamous-people from many walks of life, professions and countries, spanning many centuries.\n\nOur nifty filters help you choose the intriguing people you want to learn more about. Looking for female African American authors, for example? Choose Women from the categories on the left, then select African American and Author as your filters.\n\nThe names in bold link to profiles on our sister site, findingDulcinea. The rest link to the search results for that person on SweetSearch, a Search Engine for Students, which searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our research experts.

Young Adult Books in Series and Sequels: Click on the letters below to browse alphabetical lists of authors or series names. Or use the search boxes at right to find authors, series names or individual book titles. Dates following titles are date of publication as near as we can determine.

A new genre, this will be important in the discussions of transliteracy.

Foundation article on the emerging genre of electronic literature. Important in discussions of transliteracy.

A public statement and collection of studies showing work in a WiFi environment to be safe.

Scripts for TV shows and Movies--all in pdf format. Not sure about copyright, but these are useful for student scenes and monologues.

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This is the website of Chloe Saunders, the main character in Kelley Armstrong's books The Awakening and The Summoning.

This is a reading/discussion guide for City of Bones, the first in The Mortal instruments series by Cassandra Clare.

Breaking news from around the world in 49 languages

Shared copy works a bit like Diigo in that you can annotate web pages and apparently database pages as well.

"The Visual Way To Get Your Things Done! See your actions in context, and prioritize the things that really"

Catch up with the new volume in a YA series by reading the recap of the previous book here.