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E-Textbooks with Engagement Index: Good Idea or Not?
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This week a New York Times article was released about CourseSmart’s new technology for universities—e-textbooks with an engagement index. The Engagement index allows teachers to monitor whether a student is reading the textbook and taking sufficient notes. The purpose of this is to help teachers see how their students study…
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Visiting Authors: Quentin Falk Talk
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Tuesday, April 9, UK film critic Quentin Falk gave a talk entitled “Cinema, Celebrity, and the Courtroom,” in Shott Auditorium. After a brief introduction by Dr. Austin Reide, Falk began by discussing the different celebrities, both British and American, that he has interviewed throughout his career; celebrities such as Britney…
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“The Hobbit” Novel and Film Review
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In Middle Earth there lived a very small hobbit, who was destined for a very big adventure. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit in 1937. The novel is about the adventures of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and how he joins forces with a band of dwarves and the wizard Gandalf to…
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Pride and Prejudice Adaptations: Me and Mr. Darcy
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in the possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.” Or so this is the case for Emily Albright. After a string of disastrous dates, including a guy who had hair plugs and another whose…
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Link-N-Blogs Apr 5
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” –Sylvia Plath Curious George Goes Digital: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt launched CuriousGeorge.com this week. This popular monkey is the face…
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4 Ways to “Show Don’t Tell”
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Have you ever heard the expression “show don’t tell?” Most people learn this expression when they are being taught to write in school, but the concept is very much important to anyone who wants to create a story. It is important to show the readers the world you are creating…
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Larry Weill Book Signing
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On Thursday, March 28, the University Press of North Georgia hosted a book signing and reading by Kentucky author Lawrence Weill on his recently published book, Incarnate. Incarnate follows a mother named Lara Joyner who believes that her eldest son, Dale, is the second coming of Christ. Weill states this…