Topic : Reading
The Los Angeles Times takes a fascinating look at how electronic reading has the potential to revolutionize the concept of the book. "Books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers." Read the article here.
Word CountWriters Talk About WritingDon't Read This: What Kindle's Highlights Tell Us About Popular Taste July 2, 2010 By Dennis Baron
Users of Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, can not only highlight their favorite passages, they can see what everyone else is highlighting. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron ponders the consequences.
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Article Topics:The New York Times Learning Network is offering students an alternative to the run-of-the-mill summer reading lists that are being stuffed into backpacks across the nation this time of year. The Learning Network's "Student Challenge" asks students to read The New York Times over the course of the summer and to identify something that either piques their interest or catches their eye. Bonus: the Learning Network plans on featuring the best student submissions on their blog! Read more about the Student Challenge here. Word CountWriters Talk About WritingHow We Know Writers Through Their Writing May 13, 2010 By Michael Lydon
Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon explores how the best writers speak to us through their singular literary styles.
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Teachers, if you are considering having your students read graphic novels or create their own, check out these inspiring sites. Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingThe iPad: What's a Gutenberg Moment, Anyway? April 8, 2010 By Dennis Baron
Apple's iPad tablet computer is being heralded as a technological advance on par with Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mere hyperbole? University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron takes a look, and considers how the iPad might revolutionize the way we interact with text.
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Teachers at WorkA column about teachingShort But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom March 15, 2010 By Shannon Reed
I don't naturally love short stories, even though I do like small things:
fairies, marshmallows and babies all come to mind. But in my personal
reading, I prefer the meatiness of a long book, be it fiction or non-.
Even in my magazine reading (and I am a devoted magazine reader),
I catch myself flipping ahead to see how long an article is before I
start. To my mind, the longer the better, which is why I am inordinately
fond of Malcolm Gladwell's articles in The New Yorker.
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