Posted on March 9, 2008 by 101tips
Most English Departments in most schools will at some point ask pupils to write in some depth about a text of their choice. This may be a novel, a non-fiction text, poetry or short stories.
Several years ago, I set a blog ‘database’ of texts, which contained reviews, plot outline (no spoiler!), author details and links [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007 by 101tips
Whatever tool you’re using to get your message across on the web, your actual content is, or should be, king. So what to link to? Author and book sites are the most obvious place to start, some starting points listed below.
Authors
Achuka
Bloomsbury
Booktrusted
Fairrosa
Google Directory
Jubilee Books
Random House
Scholastic
Strongest Links
Teen Reads
The Wee Web
The Word [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007 by 101tips
Podcasts, strictly speaking, are a type of audio blog, where the information is updated regularly. Your subscribers will await updates via RSS or visit the web area where the podcast lives, such as i-tunes or your own blog.
However, I don’t see any reason why you can’t use the same technology to make static recordings which [...]
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