Enid Baines's List: Curating Content

• What is content curation?
• Content curation is sorting through a large amount of web content to find the best, most meaningful bits and presenting these in an organized, valuable way.

• License to Read
• “Literary-related sites”

• Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels : NPR   

   

     

   

   

       

     

           

                     

   

   

   

   

   

   

  More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young-adult fiction. Now, after all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Here are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR
• Suggestions for Pairing Contemporary Music and Canonical Literature
• Monty Python - Novel Writing
• Songs Inspired by Literature: Chapter One :: Artists for Literacy
• Three long "chapters" of music inspired by lit. My reading list just got really long. 
• "Artists for Literacy uses art inspired by literature to nurture the inspiration to read...AFL leverages the power of films and songs based on books to communicate the power of literature and its relevancy to those people who are not yet in the good habit of reading. 
• Not all, but many of these songs were directly influenced by the literature. 
• endless editing. Anyone who writes a lot understands this
• Beach Books: What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class? 2011-2012 | National Association of Scholars
• Author Responds to Student Begging for Summary of Required Read

• Many of these made me laugh because they fit so well. Too many to list, but here are three of my favs:

  Pride and Prejudice -- "Accidentally in Love"

  The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock -- "Creep"

  The Scarlet Letter -- "Call Me When You're Sober"
• 9 Books That Make You Undateable
• I love that teachers and writers admit to not reading books that were assigned. I wouldn't have read "The Scarlet Letter" either if I wasn't the one who had to assign it.
• WATCH: 'Life Of Pi' Gets The Year's Most Gorgeous Trailer
• Guessing Game: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as Written by Other Famous Authors - Flavorwire
• QUIZ: Can You Guess The Literary Reference?

• A Shakespeare/Hip Hop Mashup That's Actually Pretty Good   

   

     

   

   

       

     

           

                     

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Will Power, playwright, rapper, teacher, and possessor of a name you always hope exists but never know for sure, just released a "Tempest"/hip hop mashup.
• "Frodo Baggins looked at the ring. The ring was round. It was a good ring. The hole at the heart of the ring was also round. The hole was clean and pure. ... The earth moved."
• Some writers have distinct stylistic fingerprints. Student writers, not so much.
• Kids Hate Classic Books Through Hilarious Tweets at #worstbookever « PWxyz
• The old man and the sea, #worstbookever uuuggghhhh
• thank god for sparknotes #readingthecrucible#worstbookever
• heart of darkness please die #worstbookever#whatsisgoingon?

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• Any use of technology should improve the process or outcome. We must ask ourselves whether using technology is contributing to improved teaching and learning
• SUBSTITUTION
• Using a computer as a typewriter, printing the assignment, and handing it in
• AUGMENTATION
• students use powerful functions of word processing such as embedding charts, graphs, and images in assignments. Using more sophisticated layouts to create brochures, pamphlets, and books would be examples. Students could contribute to online blogs, reading and posting responses to the author’s ideas.
• MODIFICATION
• Web 2.0 resources. These tools allowed teachers and students to create, gather, and combine information online.
• REDEFINITION
• Educators can now collaborate with other educators from the next town, the next state, or another continent. Students can interview authors, researchers, policymakers, and other experts no matter where they are. In addition, teachers and students can create their own multimedia productions to share what they know and are able to do.

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