Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

A free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources.

this would've been so useful in the past

New York Times article by Lawrence Lessig

how many times does a word come up?

Making word clouds that the Cathedral Remix used

Interesting overview of controversies associated with mass digitization.

General ideas and links for people interested in online book discussion. Isn't the idea of a book club, though, to get people to meet each other, not just discuss literature? If you've only met someone digitally, is it really possible to consider their literature biases and personal interpretation of the books you are reading?

Good argument for the iPad in classrooms.

The 2012 topics for Elementary Education with Technology.

A simple explanation of the wisdom of crowds.

Competition for our attention spans across different varieties of media was not something I had even considered when I started my research on the publishing industry, but it is relevant now that we can be doing so much.

Kind of goofy video but its short and explains the jist of crowdsourcing quickly.

Hey this is a link to Jeff Howe's blog it has interesting ideas about some of the things that we have been talking about in class.

Several posters designed for students offering tips on how to use different services offered by Google.

I'm sure all of us have been appalled by Blogger's temporary lack of service. I found this site useful because it at least lets me know when it is my computer's fault vs. Blogger's fault.

and to think I had finally come around on Zuckerberg

This is someone's blog about doing the things that we are doing in class. She is using facebook, google docs, skype, and other social networks to connect and to collaborate on projects. Cool huh?

I thought this was interesting. It talks all about Google Docs and using apps in a classroom setting and how that is changing teaching.

contributions to the digital world from our very own campus

I thought this was so cool when I opened up google today!

An interesting blog I found that talks about the changing times and the importance of technology in learning