• Better Living Through Beowulf: If Jane Austen Used Facebook . . .

  Professor Bates describes his students’ construction of Facebook profiles for characters in Sense and Sensibility, an activity that many teachers are trying as an alternative way to analyze literature, history, science, Bible characters, etc.

  tags: literature facebook analysis synthesis

• Favorite blogs this year (besides ones I wrote for

  Favorite blogs this year (besides ones I wrote for): @TheHairpin, @io9, @arstechnica, @ftrain, @TheAtlanticTech, & @edyong209’s @discovermag

• Flipping Out

  Dan Bruno discussed “flipping” the classroom and provides a model for what that might look like.

  tags: flip classroom flipped flippedclassroom teaching education

• Free Technology for Teachers: Logotype Maker – Quickly Create Neat Logos

  I love this thing. I’m a logo making fool with it right now. Logotype Maker – Quickly Create Neat Logos http://t.co/Er6eBvhB

• Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable – Education Week Teacher

  What should teacher evaluations look like? A host of teachers respond in @EdWeekTeacher’s latest roundtable: http://t.co/HHFVlbFY

• Using Google Earth in the classroom | Google Earth Blog

  Using Google Earth in the classroom http://t.co/ezfV2bEK @reubenhoffman

• will return on Jan. 9th at 7 PM EST w/ writer/teac

  tags: engchat nwp

  #engchat will return on Jan. 9th at 7 PM EST w/ writer/teacher Kelly Gallagher @KellyGToGo – Pls. RT. #nwp

• Teachers Publish Their Own Textbooks – Yahoo! News

  Teachers publishing (and selling) their own textbooks: http://t.co/tBREyFHZ

• Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Places to Find Free eBooks for Yourself and Your Students

  New post: 11 Places to Find Free eBooks for You and Your Students http://t.co/dUtrVVu7

• Resume Generator – ReadWriteThink

  What would Scrooge list on his resume? Use the Resume Generator to create a resume for a favorite character: http://t.co/fwFdEOdZ

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