http://6-traits.blogspot.com/2007/11/methods-of-teaching-sentence-fluency.html
http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/
http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/grammar_mechanics/how-to-teach-essay-strategies/
http://penningtonpublishing.com/assessments.php
Wylio: http://wylio.com/ Searches for photos to use in blogging and resizes.
Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com Saves files on multiple computers and syncs the files as well as being accessible online. I keep all of my teaching files here, so I always have them available while I’m in the classroom or using a different computer.
I like using Jing to take quick movies of my computer. I can use it to show students how to do various things.
One problem, however, is that when students play the movie, students can hear my typing, and it is loud.
I think this is partly because I use a laptop. It makes the noise even more obnoxious in the movie.
An external keyboard would help. An external keyboard designed to eliminate “typing” noise would be even better.
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With the popularity of eReaders growing and being offered to college students, questions about how to cite eBooks are being raised.
The problem stems from how a specific location in a ebook is identified. It isn’t a page number. For the Amazon Kindle, locations in the book are identified with location numbers. The location number doesn’t correspond to page numbers. What’s more, an eReader and a copy of the eBook are required to verify that the location is correct.
There are free ways to view Kindle ebooks including Kindle for PC, but there still might be the cost of an eBook. The Amazon Kindle doesn’t allow book sharing beyond a single account. This means that one Amazon account can have several Kindles registered, and the Kindles related to that single Amazon account can share ebooks. But if the Kindles are registered to two different accounts, the ebooks can’t be shared.
This brings us back to the question: what happens when using a direct quote from a source that was published in an ebook?
The APA has already proposed a solution. It is one that can probably be applied to most citation styles.
The references listing is pretty straight forward, but the in-text citation is more difficult. The solution APA proposes can be found here: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2009/09/how-do-i-cite-a-kindle.html
