Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies

Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies Review

 

What it means to read and write has changed, making this an exhilarating and daunting time to be an English teacher. As teachers, Robert Rozema and Allen Webb understand this and offer a vision of how to teach with emerging tools in ways that amplify student learning.

- Sara B. Kajder

Author of The Tech-Savvy English Classroom

 

Read the technology book that's about the content, not the computer. Literature and the Web is a thoughtful, nuts-and-bolts guide for any English teacher looking for effective tools to boost readers' engagement and improve their responses to literature.

 

Adolescents love being online: browsing, blogging, socializing. Robert Rozema and Allen Webb show you how to tap into students' understanding and enthusiasm for the Net to find deeper meaning in literary texts. Rozema and Webb's proven strategies harness the power of the Web to:

• guide students into the world of the story
• develop their close reading ability
• scaffold their understanding of a text's social, cultural, and historical contexts
• provide them with authentic opportunities to respond to the text.

 

From novels to short stories to poetry. From mythology to Milton to Orwell. Literature and the Web has ideas that will help crack open texts for any reader. Each of its chapters presents a different online strategy for guiding students through widely taught texts and even includes ways to use Web-based ideas in an offline setting. And Rozema and Webb provide blueprints for dozens of lessons, activities, and projects that are detailed enough to use tomorrow yet flexible enough for any context.

 

Literature and the Web isn't just another book on shiny new technologies. Read it and give your students tools they'll enjoy as they build a greater love of literature.

How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog (2nd Edition)

How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog (2nd Edition) Review

Have you created a blog for yourself or your business, but for whatever reason, you're having trouble driving traffic to it and getting people to read what you have to say? Well, this short book offers the proven tips and strategies you need to quickly, inexpensively and easily get hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to start reading your blog!

How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog is written by bestselling author Jason R. Rich (www.JasonRich.com), who has also written the full-length book "Blogging For Fame & Fortune," which is slated for publication by Entrepreneur Press in early-2009. He's also written "The Unofficial Guide to Starting A Business Online, 2nd Edition" (Wiley) and "Click Starts: Design and Launch Your E-Commerce Business In A Week" (Entrepreneur Press).

This edition was updated in late-February 2009.

Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs

Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs Review

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Blogs--or weblogs--are a huge phenomenon on the internet. From ultra-personal diary entries to specialized information on a wide variety of subjects (teen ranting to presidential campaigns), blogs are the new way to create a virtual community that can effect real-world change. It's not hard to set up a blog, but it can be difficult adjusting to life in the "Blogosphere."
One of the first blogging experts, who helped found the weblog community Xanga, Biz Stone will help readers:
--learn the origins of blogging
--discover why blogging is so popular
--explore the ettiquette of the blogosphere
--bring traffic to a blog
--make money by blogging
--use a blog to become influential in any industry
--maintain a blog and keep it fresh
With internet heavies like AOL, Microsoft, and Google already providing weblog software, blogging is moving out of indie geek culture and into the mainstream. Who Let the Blogs Out? is a next generation blogging book for anyone who wants to get started or anyone who wants to keep their blog blooming.

Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor (J-B Warren Bennis Series) Review

In Transparency, the authors?a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership?look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept of "transparency"?which has fast become the buzzword not only in business and corporate settings but in government and the social sector as well.

Together Bennis, Goleman, and O'Toole explore why the containment of truth is the dearest held value of far too many organizations and suggest practical ways that organizations, their leaders, their members, and their boards can achieve openness. After years of dedicating themselves to research and theory, at first separately, and now jointly, these three leadership giants reveal the multifaceted importance of candor and show what promotes transparency and what hinders it. They describe how leaders often stymie the flow of information and the structural impediments that keep information from getting where it needs to go. This vital resource is written for any organization?business, government, and nonprofit?that must achieve a culture of candor, truth, and transparency.

Blogging the hand that feeds you: while most employers have e-mail usage policies, less than one in 10 have policies governing personal blogs. What are ... saying about you?: An article from: Units

Blogging the hand that feeds you: while most employers have e-mail usage policies, less than one in 10 have policies governing personal blogs. What are ... saying about you?: An article from: Units Review

This digital document is an article from Units, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2816 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Blogging the hand that feeds you: while most employers have e-mail usage policies, less than one in 10 have policies governing personal blogs. What are your employees saying about you?
Author: Jeanine Gajewski
Publication:Units (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 30 Issue: 11 Page: 40(6)

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Blogging 101 Blogging Your Way to Profit,You Can Benefit from Blogging

Blogging 101 Blogging Your Way to Profit,You Can Benefit from Blogging Review

If you are already maintaining a web internet site, possessing a blog can add to, or enhance, your current web presence. The ability to provide your customers, and readers, with fresh content on a daily, or weekly basis can keep your business running still during lean months. Blogging is as well a fantastic way for small business owners, with little web design knowledge, and small budgets to establish a professional, attractive, web presence.
Many designers charge much much less for a completely customized blog design and installation than they would charge for complete, traditional, html or flash website design.
When blogging first began becoming popular among businesses I was slow to notice the change. It seemed to me as though more and more of my competitors were shutting down their traditional websites and replacing their situation with well designed blogs.
Other competitors kept their current websites up, but added links to their websites that sent surfers to there companies newly created blogs. I decided to start learning more about blogging, but I didn't want to change my entire website format until I was sure blogging was right for me and my business.

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging Review

The editors of The Huffington Post -- the most linked-to blog on the web -- offer an A-Z guide to all things blog, with information for everyone from the tech-challenged newbie looking to get a handle on this new way of communicating to the experienced blogger looking to break through the clutter of the Internet. With an introduction by Arianna Huffington, the site's cofounder and editor in chief, this book is everything you want to know about blogging, but didn't know who to ask.

As entertaining as it is informative, The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging will show you what to do to get your blog started. You'll find tools to help you build your blog, strategies to create your community, tips on finding your voice, and entertaining anecdotes from HuffPost bloggers that will make you wonder what took you so long to blog in the first place.

The Guide also includes choice selections from HuffPost's wide-ranging mix of top-notch bloggers. Among those who have blogged on HuffPost are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Larry David, Jane Smiley, Bill Maher, Nora Ephron, Jon Robin Baitz, Steve Martin, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ari Emanuel, Mia Farrow, Al Franken, Gary Hart, Barbara Ehrenreich, Edward Kennedy, Harry Shearer, Nancy Pelosi, Adam McKay, John Ridley, and Alec Baldwin.

Secrets of Online Persuasion: Captivating the Hearts, Minds and Pocketbooks of Thousands Using Blogs, Podcasts and Other New Media Marketing Tools

Secrets of Online Persuasion: Captivating the Hearts, Minds and Pocketbooks of Thousands Using Blogs, Podcasts and Other New Media Marketing Tools Review

Rarely does a communication revolution result in a marketplace transformation. The New Media Revolution is one of those extraordinary events. "There is a powerful and profitable pattern unfolding rapidly in business. In this masterpiece, Secrets of Online Persuasion, Deborah and John-Paul Micek take you on an incredible business-building journey from blogging to Podcasting and beyond. What they reveal about the New Media Marketplace will forever change your business... and make it more profitable! Everyone in business, politics or advocacy should read this book cover to cover." -Stephen Pierce, Business Optimization Strategist, Founder of Thinkubator, Ann Arbor More Than 77 Internet And Persuasion Secrets Exposed! If you want to market better, sell more, and boost your influence in today's rapidly changing, online marketplace, this is your textbook. -What the New Media Revolution is and how you can profit from it as it transforms the face of advertising and marketing forever -How to trigger powerful, word-of-mouth BUZZ with innovative New Media campaigns -Why your business blog (not mass marketing) must be at the center of your marketing strategy using New Media tools -Discover where your target audience is hanging out and captivate their attention with your persuasive message -Six key tools you must have when launching your own successful New Media Marketing Strategy -Online persuasion strategies that draw hundreds and thousands of highly qualified fans to your business, non-profit organization or political campaign "Just four days after following your advice, both CNN Money and The Wall Street Journal called me for an interview on the same day! Traffic to my website has sinceexploded, and I have so much business that I'm constantly referring clients to other consultants around the world!" -Debra Gould, The Staging DivaT President, Six Elements Inc., Canada Buy this book now - before your competition does!

Mom Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Mom Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) Review

Ready to start your Mom blog or enhance your existing one? This book is for you!The population of mom bloggers is growing at a stunning pace and they boast an audience of more than 23 million women reading, posting, or commenting on blogs every week. This fun and friendly guide targets moms who are looking to become a savvier blogger, build a personal brand, earn free products to review or give away, or make some extra cash through ad revenue. Named by Nielsen as one of the most influential moms online, author Wendy Piersall helps you determine the right business model for your blog and then create a professional, in-demand personal brand.

• Serves as a road map for the growing population of moms who are interested in creating a blog or enhancing an existing blog
• Explains how to define a business model, understand your reader demographics, and choose the right look and feel for your blog
• Addresses delicate issues such as dealing with privacy and family members who don't want to be featured on your blog
• Walks you through using social media to extend your personal brand, building traffic with SEO and blog networks, and having a plan and policies in place when big brands and media come calling
• Offers a very unintimidating format as well as the usual fun and friendly For Dummies approach

This guide presents baby steps for breaking into the often-daunting mom blogging community, with practical advice on how to join and become an accepted member of this exciting world.

Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education

Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education Review

On the surface, it seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students are highly motivated, enjoy engaging with course content, and have extensive personal experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex.

This book explores the question of what it means to understand games by looking at the challenges and problems faced by students who are taking games-related classes. It demonstrates how learning about games can be challenging for multiple reasons. Some of the more relevant findings discussed include realizing that extensive prior videogame experience often interferes with students’ abilities to reason critically and analytically about games, and that students have difficulties articulating their experiences and observations about games.

In response to these challenges, this book examines how we can use online learning environments to support learning about games by (1) helping students get more from their experiences with games, and (2) helping students use what they know to establish deeper understanding.

Mobile Website Profits

Mobile Website Profits Review

“Why Going Mobile Is The Next Website Trend Smart Marketers Are Quietly Keeping Under Their Hats!”

Last year was a ground-breaking year in the world of cyberspace, and it’s going to affect each and every one of us.

You see, last year, for the first time, the rise in mobile phone usage exceeded the growth of personal computing.

What this means, to you and me, is that people are abandoning their PC’s because they’ve discovered they can do just about everything they need to on their mobile devices.

Including access – and use – the internet. And all their favorite mobile-ready sites.

And it all boils down to this simple fact…

Those whose businesses are mobile-ready and optimized are going to become the new online business leaders of this coming decade.

And those who choose to ignore it are going to be left behind.

Dismiss it, and you can expect to watch others:

* Surge past you to take over the lead roles

* Become the authority figures for the new generation

* Take a serious piece of your pie – and then go back for a second helping

* Leave you with an empty plate – and an internet business that is no longer viable

* Leave you unable to compete. Just the way that Commodore computers blew away on the wind before the onslaught of the Microsoft empire

This is not just my opinion. The rise in cell phone internet access last year was not only jaw-dropping, but it even extended to two groups traditionally not in marketing play at all.

I’m talking about those over 55… and children.

It all boils down to a really simple reason: Using your mobile phone or PDA to access the net is something that people are increasingly finding to be really, really easy.

Think about it. It’s something you can do while you’re:

* Out and about, rushing from one appointment or class to another

* Waiting for school computers to become “free” (if you’ve been to college, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. There’s always a lineup… and you can never get on a computer right when you need one)

* Leaving your clunky laptop at home – it’s so much easier to browse the net on the cell phone you put in your pocket nowadays

* Making good use of traditional “dead” time, while finding yourself caught waiting for delayed public transportation… or riding as a passenger in someone else’s car

* Away at a conference… or visiting the in-laws (the ones who don’t like anyone else touching their computer)

* Sitting in the doctor’s office… or waiting for your kids in the school parking lot

Did you know you could be letting money you don’t yet have blow out your wide open window if you ignore:

* Mobile advertising – and the different-from-your-PC rules you need to know

* How to get your mobile site found and accessed – before most of your competitors even know it’s there!

* Letting your site be one of the small, mobile-optimized minority people gratefully bookmark and return to

* Ways to easily boost your promotions – ones that aren’t even available via PC

* The most important difference between mobile devices and PC’s – the one that’s making it possible for even new businesses to prosper

If my Special Report tells you quickly what you need to know, and shows you an easy way to go mobile within an hour, it will save you the headache of all that initial research… leaving you free to zero in only on what will work for you in the mobile world… and allow you to take less precious time away from your business or family.

Best Writing eBook Tips : 30 tips for ebook authors (eBook Superstore) If you are looking for a quick easy read with BIG ideas and information this this is the book for you.

Best Writing eBook Tips : 30 tips for ebook authors (eBook Superstore) If you are looking for a quick easy read with BIG ideas and information this this is the book for you. Review

This report was written by Jimmy D. Brown, who is one of my favorite marketers. He always provides good, quality, information in every product. This report is no different. Inside you will find 30 writing tips for e-book authors, otherwise known as information marketers.

Here is a quick breakdown of what you will find inside:

Topics to Write About
Research and Idea Generation
Outlining and Organization
Staying Motivated
Overcoming Writer’s Block
If you are looking for a quick easy read with BIG ideas and information this this is the book for you.

Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools

Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools Review

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Web 2.0 has arrived--find out how it can transform teaching and learning!

What is Web 2.0? Once upon a time, Web sites were isolated information 'silos'--all content and no functionality. Today, the next generation of Web sites gives power to the end-user, providing visitors with a new level of customization, interaction, and participation. Many Web sites now allow users to upload, categorize, and share content easily. Weblogs and podcasts allow anyone to publish or broadcast on any topic. Wikis provide information that is constantly updated by the end-user. Open-source software is free and customizable. These new technologies are changing our relationship to the Internet.

What can Web 2.0 tools offer educators? Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies and their use in the classroom and in professional development. Topics include blogging as a natural tool for writing instruction, wikis and their role in project collaboration, podcasting as a useful means of presenting information and ideas, and how to use Web 2.0 tools for professional development. Also included are a discussion of Web 2.0 safety and security issues and a look toward the future of the Web 2.0 movement. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools is essential reading for teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, and teacher educators.

Topics include:

-online collaboration tools
-technology literacy
-technology integration
-teacher training
-curriculum design
-open source
-blogs
-wikis
-podcasts
-professional development

Also available:

Database Magic: Using Databases to Teach Curriculum in Grades 4-12 - ISBN 1564842452
What Works in K-12 Online Learning - ISBN 1564842363
Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education - ISBN 1564842479

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and ISTE's annual conference (formerly known as the National Educational Computing Conference, or NECC), ISTE represents more than 100,000 professionals worldwide. We support our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of transforming education.

Some of the areas in which we publish are:
-Web. 2.0 in the classroom-RSS, podcasts, and more
-National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
-Professional development for educators and administrators
-Integrating technology into the classroom and curriculum
-Safe practices for the Internet and technology
-Educational technology for parents

Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran (International Library of Iranian Studies)

Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran (International Library of Iranian Studies) Review

The protests unleashed by Iran’s disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic’s vigorous cyber culture to the world’s attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The Internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has struggled to grasp what this new phenomenon actually means. How is it different from print culture? Is it really a new public sphere? Will the Iranian blogosphere create a culture of dissidence, which eventually overpowers the Islamist regime? In this groundbreaking work, the authors give a flavor of contemporary Internet culture in Iran and analyze how this new form of communication is affecting the social and political life of the country. Although they warn against stereotyping bloggers as dissidents, they argue that the Internet is changing things in ways which neither the government nor the democracy movement could have anticipated. Blogistan offers both a new reading of Iranian politics and a new conceptual framework for understanding the politics of the Internet, with implications for the wider Middle East, China, and beyond. 

WordPress In Depth

WordPress In Depth Review

Advice and techniques that you need to get the job done.

 

Looking for ways to streamline your work so you can focus on maximizing your time? In Depth provides specific, tested, and proven solutions to the problems you run into every day–things other books ignore or oversimplify. This is the one book that you can rely on to answer the questions you have now and will have in the future.

 

In Depth offers

• Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions
• Breakthrough techniques and shortcuts that are unavailable elsewhere
• Practical, real-world examples with nothing glossed over or left out
• Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can’t fix on your own
• Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style
• Quick information via sidebars, tips, reminders, notes, and warnings

 

In Depth is the only tool you need to get more done in less time!

 

Includes coverage on blog creation, widgets, plug-ins, themes, SEO, the WordPress.com platform, and WordPress.org software

 

Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes

Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes Review

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Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world's most popular CMS, WordPress.

By following the book's advice, readers can produce designs that are aesthetically stunning, consistent, and for-purpose -whether it's for their own use, or to drive a high price on the theme marketplace.

All facets of theme design are covered: from design, coding, and deployment, to ensuring readers' designs are ready-to-go as soon as they're installed.

Wicked WordPress Themes teaches readers how to leverage theme design frameworks to dramatically shorten development time, enabling them to enter the theme market faster.

How to Write Blog Posts That SUCK Visitors In,If You Are Coping With Hard To Get Individuals To Understand Your Blog Post

How to Write Blog Posts That SUCK Visitors In,If You Are Coping With Hard To Get Individuals To Understand Your Blog Post Review

Blog posts can convey visitors into your webpages; visitors who will join your feed and participate with your site in the future. When you take the time to produce blog posts that suck visitors in, you'll have a great foundation on which to build your online business.
In this essay, I'll show you the step by step process to getting your blog operating and holding onto the visitors that come your way. Whether you've had a blog for a while and need to update it, or you're brand new to blogging, you'll be able to use my process to get traffic and likely clients.