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Instititute of Children's Literature
Lengthy list of topics related to writing children's literature - click on a topic to see articles on the subject
Children's Writer's Marketplace
A list of magazines and publishing houses that are accepting submissions
Fiction Factor - Writing Flash Fiction
Practical tips for writing "flash fiction" - would be useful to all micro-bloggers too.
Talking About Blogging in Tenure and Application Documents - ProfHacker.com
VERY useful blog post about how one person addressed his blog in his narrative for tenure and promotion.
Prof. Jones's wiki / MLA style assignment
Simple assignment in which students use Loren Ipsum to demonstrate familiarity with citation conventions in MLA
Tom March :: Thesis Builders
Links to templates that help students generate topics and thesis statements for persuasive essays. Also includes "Tube Prompter" for students working with videos
mystorymaker.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Well-scaffolded story-maker. Students select main character, goal, setting of story, then can add emotions, interactivity, etc. Students type story at bottom of the screen. Stories are sharable.
Detailed Electronic Resources | Joseph P. Healey Library
List of research resources for the field of education
The Journals in the field of Instructional Technology
Annotated list of journals that includes title, acronym, common topics, link, refereed or not, recommended article length, and common review queues
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Theories & Applications
Very useful articles that articulate the pedagogical implications of schema theory for Chinese teaching and learning.
Postcards from the Future - 63climate13.3.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Could make a good model for FL assignments - esp. if language were paired with the images
So you think Twitter's modern? The Edwardian's were doing it 100 years ago - using postcards instead of computers | Mail Online
Postcards compared w/ Twitter - Both have limited space, cheap delivery, informal communication, open to others, non-standard grammatical forms and abbreviations, etc.
Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – The New Literacy - True/Slant
Blog post discusses a study by Andrea Lunsford from Stanford - says this generations writes more than previous ones, writes for an audience, is adept at adapting messages for different audiences, write to change the world.
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literacy revolution
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kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across
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I See Things You Don't: I Have Syn | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
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synaesthesia (which literally means "the joining of the senses"
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when your thought processes come wrapped in sensation
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