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The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform
The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity“My sense is that Atavist is exploiting the...
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Infographics and charts - interactive data visualization | Infogr.am
Infogr.am is a super-simple tool for data visualization - creation of interactive infographics and charts...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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EssayTyper
Finals slump? EssayTyper will type your essay in minutes!See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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New Year’s Resolution Reading List: 9 Books on Reading and Writing
Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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How Twitter & Texting Saved Writing
The end of literacy as we know it? Get over yourself. These popular tools force people to write more clearly and concisely.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Twitter use | Pew Internet & American Life Project
African-Americans — Black internet users continue to use Twitter at high rates. More than one quarter of online African-Americans (28%) use Twitter, with 13% doing so on a typical day. Young adults —...
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That can be my next tweet
Generates your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Ask the Mercenary Writer: Books on How to Teach Writing | The Mercenary...
Someone asked me for recommendations about books on teaching people to write. I had to laugh a little bit about this. I have a Master’s degree in writing education, I’ve taught writing for over 15...
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Letters of Note: All of my friends were on the shelves above
"All of my friends were on the shelves above" How a library & a bag of dimes led to Bradbury's classic, Fahrenheit 451See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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What Is Design Thinking Anyway? - PSFK
Is know-how threatening to win out over intuition and inspiration? Robin Lanahan, Director Brand Strategy, New Product Incubation at Microsoft, traces the evolution of the contemporary creative...
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lettrs: take time to write
"The mission of lettrs launched to address the growing problem of shallow and fragmented digital communications and help bring back letters of the past. Merging modern technology advances with the art...
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Is blogging “writing”?
Much of the research that has been done on writing frames what the writer does as surmounting a “rhetorical situation”. This is usually thought of as conceptualizing the audience, for...See it on...
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Document: The Symbolism Survey
"In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did...
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Organic Writing and Digital Media: Seeds and Organs | Digital Pedagogy |...
The act of writing is organic and generative. Ironically, this biological approach to writing is strengthened by digital environments that allow students and teachers to cultivate better compositions....
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Book Review: Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age -...
The book is a refreshing read, written in a style which is easy to understand but has that lightness of touch which makes it possible to deal with theoretically difficult ideas without losing its...
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Brevity: the only journal devoted exclusively to concise literary nonfiction.
Fascinating resource for teachers looking to integrate so-called "nonfiction*" into their writing instruction. (CCSS)See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Find Free Images Quickly With Compfight - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of...
"Creative Commons licensed photos are a sort of internet miracle: By providing an easily-understood syntax for attribution and permissions, they make it possible to add visual interest to blog posts,...
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Wandering through the Future (film) - Marjolijn Dijkman
April 2007. The project Wandering through the Future reinserted such science fiction films into the public sphere from which they are normally banned. Clips from seventy movies were compiled into a...
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Abraham Lincoln Would Have Tweeted » Cyborgology
"Recently, I started following a new podcast from Slate.com called Lexicon Valley. The half hour-long, weekly podcast by Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo covers a variety of topics but all of the episodes...
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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Comic Book Markup Language: An...
"Comics, comic books, and graphic novels are increasingly the target of seriously scholarly attention in the humanities. Moreover, comic books are exceptionally complex documents, with intricate...
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