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"LitReactor has three goals. To become:
* A destination for writers to improve their craft.
* A haven for readers to geek out about books.
* And a platform to kickstart your writing goals."
(<a href="http://litreactor.com/about">About LitReactor</a>)
The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (numbers of essays in parentheses, as of 2012.03.01):
Abstracts (1)
Character (15)
Cliche (2)
Dialogue (9)
Grammar (10)
Literary Devices (8)
Live Reading (3)
Narrator (7)
Objects (4)
POV (3)
Phrases (3)
Plot (18)
Poetry (1)
Research (9)
Rewriting (2)
Setting (1)
Similies (1)
Structure (14)
Theme (8)
Verbs (1)
Vocabulary (5)
Voice (16)
Word Play (2)
Workshop (2)
(<a href="http://litreactor.com/essays/categories">Craft Essays</a>)
in list: Writing
Review and Summary of <i>Learner-Centered Teaching</i> by Maryellen Weimer / by Bill Peirce, Coordinator of Reasoning across the Curriculum (c. 2002)
in list: Faculty Development
" ..[T]his ebook covers the practical questions that often arise when designing and developing an online course. Topics were collected and assembled from questions asked over my years of working closely with educators. It is designed to help educators create an online course that is usable, accessible, and engaging so students get the most out of an online course " (Ebook Short Description, para. 1).
in list: Educational Technology
"This post shows how to cite any e-book in APA Style" (Lee, 2011.06.03, ¶1 [retrieved 2011.06.09]).
in list: Writing
Represents a YouTube video from IDEO, and responses to three conceptual questions:
1. "... [H]ow do you ensure that readers are adequately informed?" (Nelson, ¶1)
2. "What is truly worth knowing?" (Coupland, ¶1)
3. "How do we experience written narratives in new and engaging ways?" (Alice, ¶1)
Melita M. Pereira; 27 September 2010, retrieved 2011.04.05
in list: Publishing
Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)
in list: Reading Resources
"Free Downloadable Audio Books ... [:] fairy tales, classics[,] and poems for children" (headline and tagline, 2011.03.15)
in list: Reading Resources
Menu of online reading collections: Three Little Plays, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables (2011.03.15)
in list: Reading Resources
Offers previews of book by Robin Williams (Peachpit Press, 2008)
in list: Design Principles
"From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books... " (retrieved 2010.05.10).
in list: Reading Resources
"poetic manuscripts ... available for ... free download", a counterpart of "Pay to Print" and "Print & Listen" collections from the Poets' Coop.
in list: Reading Resources
This page lists a full Elluminate session (1 hr.), portable audio, and video recordings, plus a chat log, from an August 20, 2009, discussion with the author, Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA.
in list: Information Literacy
"Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best." (Issuu - You Publish [home page], Publish by millions, ¶1, 2009.09.10)
in list: Information Literacy
George Siemens asks, "...[D]oesn't the notion of media have an inherent social trait?"
Book cover extract in blog post defines learnscapes and indicates the roles learnscape architects play in them.
in list: Online Collaboration
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A learnscape is the platform where knowledge workers collaborate, solve problems, converse, share ideas, brainstorm, learn, relate to others, talk, explain, communicate, conceptualize, tell stories, help one another, teach, serve customers, keep up to date, meet one another, forge partnerships, build communities, and distribute information. Learnscapes are where and how modern work is performed — including workplace learning.
"The online bookstore with a soul" (http://www.betterworld.com/info.aspx)
podcast following up on the topic of feedback from a previous session
a blog exploring book readership in San Francisco, CA, with pictures and posts about what folks are reading on the street - so to speak, pointed out on the Project Platypus blog
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