Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

Probably the most interesting/ unique thing I've seen done with huck Finn so far is to turn the entire book into barcodes... Why? Who knows. But it is pretty cool, you gotta admit. 

SOmeone tweeted a picture of their original 1945 copy of Huck Finn :)

if you're like me, you were like, "who is this guy?" 

This is the info I found about hosting a free educational webinar through LearnCentral / Elluminate

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret germ to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience. To know any one thing one must not only know something of a great many others, but also, as Matthew Arnold long since pointed out, a great deal more of one's immediate subject than any partial presentation of it visibly includes

This is really cool. Google's doing some great work.

Another tool that would probably have been helpful when making an ebook

Gaiman talks about how allowing online copies of his work has directly influenced sales of his books, especially in countries where piracy is common.

"Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing," Hemingway told a reporter in 1940. "I've never forgotten them. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides with them."

An article from MediaPost reviewing another eBook for the iPad, in this case a hypertext version of Eliot's "The Wasteland."

Potential Cover for book

Talked about in class yesterday. Sounds awesome!

Really awesome teacher's blog who is doing much of the same things in his classroom as we are doing in ours... but for 5th graders!

A great website on ebooks in general and in education.

While researching blogs on James Joyce I ran across this challenge. To help our reading habits and turning back to the classics. I thought it was a great idea. By joining it makes one more accountable to what one reads.

Awesome song about The Great Gatsby

People are saying "it's about time" that something is finally being done about people who are loud and inconsiderate about technology use. I think people have finally seen how manners with cell phones, etc have spiraled out of control the past ten years.

A recent initiative to see how college students seek information in their everyday lives. Includes surveys, interviews, and research in progress.