Social media is already transforming classrooms. If you teach, there's a good chance you've used Twitter, Facebook, and even Pinterest to draw your students' attention to their work in exciting new ways. But now there's a new app on the scene: Vine. Luckily the blog at OnlineUniversities.com was on hand to help us all become…
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Having a Ball at the MOTH
Last week I caught a live show called "The Moth." Perhaps you've heard of it? It's a little like a live version of This American Life--ordinary people (some aspiring writers and performers, many not) headline a show in which they each have five minutes to tell a true story on a theme. On the night I was…
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
It's almost a new year, let the embarrassing work Christmas parties commence and the Auld Lang Synes ring! For my part, I'd like to say farewell to 2012 and herald 2013 with a list of favorite things I discovered or enjoyed this past year, for the most part online. Hopefully you'll agree that this collection…
Some Take-Aways from Twitter’s Fiction Festival
As promised in last week's post on Twitter's Fiction Festival, here's a round up of a few standouts of the online event, which finished this past Sunday. Four things I took away from the festival, besides learning how to read from the ground up: 1. My personal favorite was Andrew Pyper's sinister adaptation of Thomas…
#twitterfiction Worthy of a Retweet
Literary festivals come to town and go, and for whatever reason you just couldn't make it out to all you wanted to see this year. Fear not! Now the festival can come to you. Today is the first day of Twitter's very own Fiction Festival, an event that draws writers and readers from around the…
Helen Fielding Working on New Bridget Jones Novel (v.g.)
Everyone's favourite singleton to be thrust into the brave new world of Twitterature. It's been thirteen long years since a new volume of Bridget Jones' diary, with all its obsessive weight woes and love laments, has been unleashed upon the world. In that time, fanatics have had to content themselves with reading the series' two…
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The Worst (Fictional) Jobs in Literature
Every week in a competition of wits The New Yorker asks a question of the Twitter-verse. One of our favorite questions was when they asked followers to reply to the question, "What's the worst job in literature?" Although James Joyce's proofreader appeared several times in the list, most tweeters stuck to the fictional theme. In the…