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Rather than include the URL and title, create a hotlinked title only by clicking on Link in the Format Bar, choosing URL, and putting in the URL in the first box and the title in the second box.

Video: Adding RSS Feeds to Bloglines

University of California, Berkeley: Screencast: Adding RSS feeds to Bloglines

On-line student reviews of book

Review & React

Denise Wahlin-Fiskum and her students at Buffalo High School in Buffalo, Minn., created the website as a place where young readers could post reviews and suggest books to their peers. As implied by its name, though, Review & React serves not only as a resource but as a forum for the students to talk about the books.

"Looking around on the Web, we realized that there are lots of sites that let readers post reviews," Wahlin-Fiskum said. "What was missing, however, was the back-and-forth conversation that is so important in getting others to read something you've liked. This dialogue between readers is what we have tried to create on this website."

If any of you are teaching poetry, check out this site created by 8th graders at Cary Academy, Cary, NC, on different poets.

Webpage Creator

Hello all,

I was so excited about the google page creator that as soon as I got home from class last week's class, I created a webpage for my daughter and one for mysellf.

It was so easy to do. If you haven'ttried it, you'll just need some digital pictures and about an hour or less. I did mine in 30 mins and my daughter's in about an hour. I love this!

Here are the links to the pages if you're interested:

http://ligie1.googlepages.com/ligiaihernandez

http://ligie1.googlepages.com/laurasofiajaime-hernandez

And here is a link to teh google page creator

http://pages.google.com/-/about.html

Have fun!!!

Ligiahernandez

Bill McKibben on the media culture

Listen to Bill McKibben, author of Our 21st Century Media Culture: Re-Visiting the ‘Age of Missing Information’ speaking during the opening plenary at the ACME Summit 2006.

Post your blog URL's at StudentBlogs in the SideBar

On the SideBar click on StudentBlogs and put your name and you blog URL; please visit some others' blogs to comment on them.

For some critical analysis examples, go to the Teaching Literature site and Chapter 10: Activities

Policies regarding uses of blogs in schools as well as sample parent letters (see also Richardson, pp. 13-15).

Check out My Pop Studio

The reality TV option involves an iMovie type set up in which students make decisions about optional storylines associated with teen relationships. The activities on here would be appealing to Crosswinds Middle School students.

NBC show: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: A show about the production of a Saturday-Night Live type show that addresses some of the controversies involved in creating satire in the current political climate.

Reelz Channel: New channel about new films/film industry

From their Website:

The big ones, the small ones, the sad ones, the funny ones, the fast ones, the slow ones, the great ones - even the not so great ones. We watch everything!

Reelz Channel is a new multimedia brand dedicated to entertaining, informing, directing and connecting fans to everything movies. We don't show movies. We make shows about movies. For people who want to know movies, Reelz Channel is the authority for the latest buzz in the movie biz. From players cutting the deals to wranglers handling the stars, from the pitch to the premiere Reelz Channel is all over it.

Producing is great, but like everyone else in Hollywood, we love to direct—direct our fans, that is—to movies playing in the theater, released on DVD and even on TV. We'll find you movies that everyone's talking about and even ones you've never heard of.

Filmmaking techniques from Current TV; their online filmmaking tutorials are first rate--because they want people making good videos to submit to them.

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