• First Grader Creates iPhone App of His Version of “The Three Little Pigs” « Libraries and Transliteracy

  A first grader creates an iPhone app version of “The Three Little Pigs” with illustrations and voice narration. Excellent!

  tags: app, iphone, writing, technology

• Letters About Literature and More – Contests – Read.gov

  Annual contest: write a letter to the author of a poem or book that changed your life. Great writing assignment.

  tags: literature, letters, writing, composition

• Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Microblog: The Ten Best Uses of Shakespeare Sonnets in Popular Culture: “So Long Lives This, and This Gives Life to Thee.”

  Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.

  tags: shakespeare, sonnets, english, literature, poetry

• NCWIT

  We need more women in IT. NCWIT helps spread the word.

  tags: technology, computing, gender, it

• Letters With Character

  Have you ever wanted to write a letter to a fictional character? This site publishes letters from real people to fictional people. Could yours be next?

  tags: character, letters, reading, literature

• Plagiarism by Lora Cowell on Prezi

  Plagiarism presentation with tips on paraphrasing and discussion of structure, words, ideas.

  tags: presentation, plagiarism, prezi

• Presentation Zen: Where to get quotations for presentations?

  Presentation Zen recommends quotations as a powerful technique, but where can you find them?

  tags: reference, quotes, presentations, quotations, presentation, education, resources

• Presentation Zen: Using quotes in your slides to support your story

  Using quotes from experts, leaders, and authors can be a powerful technique in presentation.

  tags: presentation, education, presentations, resources

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