Project Gutenberg

For those who love to read you know that Project Gutenberg has thousands of e-texts.

What you don't know is that you can help get those texts downloaded.

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Creative Project

Google Lit Trip's, this amazing project by Jerome Burg was the inspiration for my project.

Comparing the trip that fictional character Phileas Fogg took, from Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days to the real life trip journalist Nellie Bly took.

It's been a most interesting project, full of learning and frustration. I don't know if I could have accomplished it without Jerome's help, he is amazing.

I'm going to try and figure out how I can load it or link it here so you all can look and let me know what you think.

Game theory for educators

This absolutely amazing site is all about game theory in the classroom. It's awesome, Game Theory for Educators.

Project idea

I was thinking of possible projects, and I realized that some of my favorite movies all began as comics or video games.

I did a little looking around and found a few reviews from comic sites.

V for Vendetta

Comics in Film News Roundup

IGN Comics: Reviews, forums and cool stuff

Article: Hollywood invades the comic book industry

So I'm going to dig around a bit more, and see what I come up with but I think this might be interesting.

Edit:
Holy Hannah, just looked at a List of films based on English language comics
over at Wikipedia, I had no idea!

Resources I find valuable

Online Etymology Dictionary

Purdue's Writing Lab called OWL is the most amazing website I've seen yet.

Just a few of the resources they make available:

Writing on and With the Internet

Writing Across Curriculum

ESL Resources for Teachers

Internet Resources for Teachers

Online Resources

And as a Graduate Student my personal favorites:

Genres of Writing

Academic Cover Letters

Writing the Personal Statement

Resumes

Writing the CV (Curriculum Vitae)

MHRA
(Modern Humanities Research Association)

Oxford Journals

MI5 confused by Orwell's politics

From BBC News UK

"'Bit of an anarchist'

Orwell is best known for books including 1984 and Animal Farm, which criticise totalitarianism, and other works attacking inequality, including Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.

The records show Orwell first came to the attention of intelligence service MI6 in 1929 when he was in France and offered to become Paris correspondent for the Workers Life.

In 1942, a record described him as "a bit of an anarchist in his day and in touch with extremist elements".

He had "undoubtedly strong left-wing views, but he is a long way from orthodox communism", it added."

I've always loved 1984 and Animal Farm, so to read all these years later that MI5 thought he was an Anarchist just makes me smile.

And while I'm thinking about it

We were talking about re-mixing in class, and one of the sites my daughter likes is about Harry Potter. There is a link called "essays" in which regular people post essays on topics from the book, kind of like an extra bit.

I thought it was a new twist on an old idea is all.

The Harry Potter Lexicon