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This web page incorporates a series of youtube-like videos (in fact, Lonely Girl began as a YouTube series) but now includes a forum, a user group, a chat room, a blog and an "igpedia" to explain things. Look at season 1 to see how things started. From here it has grown to a major project and real job! All possible with the ease of creation of web content and use of social media
Games
Web 2.0 Tools
reading Joyce on twitter; took 8 months to finish Ulysses
"... will test the permanence of the electronic medium against that of the traditional book. It also poses several challenges: to what extent can we fragment (or ‘microchunk,’ in the latest parlance) literature before it becomes incoherent? How many media can literature be forced into—if, indeed, there is any limit?"
movie trailer mix - turns a horror movie into a family love story
a movie trailer mashup - mary poppins as horror story
Another "historical" blog; some students may be interested in creating these
Another blog story - but design is a bit outdated
Another history story in a blog - a great example
Note the two "notebooks"
Note the reason for the blog
Note the included resources
Another great example but hasn't been updated in almost a year. This is a blog to read, and there is an accompanying podcast