Monday, June 14, 2010

Weekly Twitter Summary


Our weekly summary of selected tweets from SCC English:
  1. Imagining life as a dinner jacket button... http://bit.ly/ai6mGB
  2. 'Why teenagers can't concentrate': http://bit.ly/b8FLlD
  3. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher | Book review http://bit.ly/d72t9a
  4. Steven Pinker says Twitter, email and PP aren't making us stupid: http://nyti.ms/bnLGfO.
  5. Wonder if we could try same at secondary level... RT @simonmlewis: New Post:: Twitter and Primary Education (2) http://bit.ly/czJugZ
  6. Our Science colleagues are away on trips now, so it's left to us to push their Leaving Cert podcasts (@thefrogblog): http://bit.ly/9cCHcM
  7. Our commentary on Leaving Cert English Higher Paper 1 http://bit.ly/b7Tmyr and Paper 2: http://bit.ly/aWsGwk
  8. Our blog inundated by people Googling 'Seed by Paula Meehan': sounds like it stretched a lot of Leaving Cert candidates http://bit.ly/9DhY4M
  9. A small irony. Boland not on Leaving Cert Eng paper (fuss). Paula Meehan (unseen poet) dedicated last book to...Boland. http://bit.ly/9DhY4M
  10. Analysis of Leaving Cert English Paper 2 from this afternoon: http://bit.ly/aWsGwk
  11. Emily Dickinson - gardener first, poet second ... http://to.pbs.org/aMUJ3A.
  12. Leaving Cert English advice: final morning! 'King Lear': http://bit.ly/9caH0G and quotations: http://bit.ly/amvgev. Good luck to all...
  13. Leaving Cert English, paper 1: an analysis - http://bit.ly/b7Tmyr
  14. Under 24 hrs left: Leaving Cert English candidates can freshen up thoughts by listening to our podcasts on 'King Lear': http://bit.ly/9caH0G
  15. Hamlet in stick figures... how much easier can you get?! http://tinyurl.com/omjuw5.
  16. James Nesbitt on RTE Radio 1: has just filmed 'Coriolanus' with Ralph Fiennes: http://bit.ly/doBjgG.
  17. Comments on using quotations in the English Leaving Cert exams: http://bit.ly/bLZ0Vi
  18. Hans Fallada's 'Alone in Berlin' - 'A triumph of quality in a predominantly commercial marketplace'- Irish Times today: http://bit.ly/byyZdC

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