WinK Core: Weblogging in Kumamoto

"In this article, I first explore the pedagogical basis for dialogue writing and then explain the process for creating online dialogues" (¶1, retrieved 2011.03.30).

"Drop.io offers a simple upload widget that you can embed into your course blog or website" ( ¶2). Mr Byrne's 2010.02.25 post includes slideshow of "directions for installing the Drop.io upload widget on Blogger blogs and Edublogs blogs" (¶2).

Public discussion of plans for collective blog

New York Times article on Doug Lemov and Deborah Ball and their insights into improving teaching

Concise explanation of how and why to use serial commas

Easy to use tool for speed reading practice, with bookmarklet that automatically opens spreeder with any text you've selected in your browser

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus has launched an innovative new tool called VocabGrabber (http://vocabgrabber.com) that helps teachers and students target the key vocabulary from a text within seconds. Powered by the award-winning Visual Thesaurus software, VocabGrabber intelligently extracts words from any document and demonstrates how those words are used in context. It's a boon for language arts teachers, students of English at all levels of proficiency, or anyone who wants fresh insights into how language works. VocabGrabber is easy to use. Simply copy a passage (up to about 100 pages) into a box on the VocabGrabber web site (http://vocabgrabber.com), click the Grab Vocabulary button, and an interactive visualization of vocabulary words and phrases immediately appears. Or add a VocabGrabber button to your toolbar, and you can grab vocabulary words from a web page with one click. What makes VocabGrabber especially useful is the way in which the words are organized. VocabGrabber compares how often words appear in the text with the frequency of these words in standard written English overall. Grabbing the vocabulary from the United States Bill of Rights, for instance, highlights significant legal terms like probable cause and cruel and unusual punishment. Grabbing the opening of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, meanwhile, will quickly zero in on words like workhouse, gruel, and pauper.

Offers three major tips for peace of mind when writing for or in online environments.

Huge list of bibs by topic

Instructions and online conversion tool

Friesen, Norm. (2009). .... New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

includes narrative, genre, post-cognitivist psychology, phenomenology, and critical theory

Very interesting site for various checking of assignments

Peter M. Nardi, Skeptic's Cafe, 2012.03.22

Comparison chart for Blogger, Edublogs, and Wordpress platforms

"UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners[,] and academics" (deck, ¶1, 2011.11.11).

"Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web's usefulness and growth is universality" Universality is the Foundation, para. 1).

"By downloading an Image You agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement automatically..." (Legal information, Image license agreement, ¶1, 2010.09.21).

Apparently works on blogger

Illustrated run-down of various themes