Weekly Twitter Summary

Our regular round-up of selected tweets from the last week, on matters English, literary, linguistic and technological:

1. Our 2nd book, 'Outside the Frame' - poems, stories, essays, book recomm's by pupils & staff, published via @luludotcom: http://bit.ly/dqTe7I
2. Actiontrack drama showbuild blog - Day 4: http://bit.ly/9dri9g
3. RT @TheOnion: South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By Soccer Games Breaking Out During Concerts http://onion.com/dkwWFJ
4. Got one of his votes here. RT @JimCarmin: No surprise here for the Oxford poet RT @alisonflood: Geoffrey Hill wins it! http://bit.ly/aP7KZs
5. Laureate Siobhan Parkinson welcomes the retention of school librarians http://fb.me/Ba10xFAM.
   
6. Actiontrack blog, Day 3: http://bit.ly/9OSrbx
   
7. 'The Twin', #IMPAC winner: links & that song, Willeke Alberti's Dutch entry for 1994 Euro Song Contest, Waar is de zon: http://bit.ly/bJxGPu
8. Interview with Gerbrand Bakker and translator David Colmer ('The Twin', #impac winner) in today's Irish Times: http://bit.ly/ag4bcR
9. Just one #followfriday today: the great @Larryferlazzo : a stream of interesting, wide-ranging and succinct tweets.
10. Our review of 'The Twin' by Gerbrand Bakker, the #IMPAC winner: http://bit.ly/aBC6cN
11. Former Palm DateBook fans (who miss that week view): check out the excellent #Calengoo for iPhone, sync easily with Google Calendar.
12. Actiontrack drama blog, Day 2: http://bit.ly/c1SIff
13. Lovely- a perfect accompaniment to Jan Morris book RT @StanCarey: Trieste in the fog, a slideshow sent by @whyowhyvonne: http://j.mp/biTWOp
14. Hear hear! RT @ScoilnetPPrim: Excellent blog from St Columba’s Art department http://bit.ly/clvqvm
15. Actiontrack blog day 1: http://bit.ly/bhFEI9
16. All of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets as Wordles: http://bit.ly/bSIf5I
17. Stationery nerds out there: the Muji 0.5 gel pen is terrific. Good colours for teachers for marking work, too - http://bit.ly/cYExVq
18. Konkurrenzeid, Sehnsucht, Futterneid...There are some feelings that only the German language can express: http://bit.ly/bspiEE
19. Just voted for Geoffrey Hill in the Oxford Poetry Professor stakes.
20. 'Florence and the Machine': TY pupil's ecstatic endorsement http://bit.ly/9pFIjs
21. Should someone tell Amazon that they might have got Harper Lee a teeny weeny bit wrong? http://www.sccenglish.ie/2010/06/creep-10.html
22. Recommend a visit to Ranelagh's 'Company of Books' @CompanyofBooks - pleasant and classy. http://bit.ly/aOFhdG
    

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

Weekly Twitter Summary

1. "Reading a long sequence of pages helps us develop a rare kind of mental discipline": http://bit.ly/a8edAS
2. For all those candidates huddled over their books as the rain comes down: Leaving Cert revision podcasts on King Lear: http://bit.ly/dcY2OE
3. RT @englishcomp: article by Nicholas Carr in today's WSJ about effect of tech/Internet on reading, brain, intelligence: http://bit.ly/a8edAS
4. Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison | Book review http://bit.ly/a4CCAo.
5. National Spelling Bee site - test yourself - http://bit.ly/g6xID.
6. '20 under 40' writers : the new New Yorker list - http://bit.ly/9NKjdv
7. Just got big order of our new book from @luludotcom. One week from ordering arrived in Ireland: terrific service.
8. Statement from Laureate na nÓg about the Irish school library crisis: http://bit.ly/9Ydxwq
9. Stieg Larsson: The Man Behind 'The Hornet's Nest' http://n.pr/9Aooa5.
10. A fine piece - worth reading by all teachers. RT @englishcomp: Difficult Lessons via Jim Burke's Blog: http://tinyurl.com/24jqld3
11. One week today: Leaving Cert students will be answering on 'King Lear' - listen to 6 podcasts to help you revise: http://bit.ly/9caH0G
12. Read this, Sweetie Dumplings! RT @guardiang2: Love you too cuddlepie! The dangers of pet names http://bit.ly/aDeaO0
13. Value of Twitter for teachers series from @Oh_the_Places http://bit.ly/agDYYQ.
14. A truly great Irish cultural achievement: 40 years of the Gallery Press, poetry publisher. Hat off to Peter Fallon: http://bit.ly/dzY83p
15. Can poetry save relationships between parents and teenagers? http://bit.ly/cJWcCe
16. The most common mispellings, er, misspellings, Wash Post http://bit.ly/bdG06H. RT @Larryferlazzo
17. Report on our Transition Year English Evening last night: http://bit.ly/bXdNl5
18. Check out English quizzes and crosswords on Scoilnet, such as Romeo and Juliet Crossword: http://bit.ly/alr92y.
19. We sympathise: an old battle across the world: RT @Darcy1968: Article in The Australian, 'Dumbing down English teaching' http://is.gd/czh35
20. Angelica Huston on W.B.Yeats ('Summer's Wreath celebration from @NLIreland): http://bit.ly/8YBU4A
21. Good idea! RT @yourenglishclas: I plan to use NPR's "This I Believe" as a model for my final senior projects... http://bit.ly/b2pvvW
22. RT @ByLeavesWeLive: Getting to know... Seamus Heaney. A piece by Douglas Dunn, first published in our Poetry Reader 5 http://bit.ly/cOLvDQ
23. 'Posthumous Keats: a personal biography' by Stanley Plumley - long review at http://bit.ly/aJQTlk
24. Useful language study: RT @marklittlenews: Very diff editorials this a.m inJerusalem Post http://bit.ly/aAa7ed, Haaretz http://bit.ly/9OJ9xz
25. Report on Voices of Poetry : English, Irish, Latin, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Ibo, Chinese, German, Russian: http://bit.ly/9ywaE7

Weekly Twitter Summary

Selected tweets from the last week, with links to English language/literature and IT-related resources:-

1. Jane Austen as a global brand http://bit.ly/cQ5fkf via @msstewart
2. RT @Larryferlazzo: New post "My Best Posts On Books: Why They’re Important & How To Help Students...." http://bit.ly/chOvVJ
3. The Guardian children's fiction prize 2010 http://bit.ly/caluFO.
4. Can you spot mistakes? Would you be a good proof-reader? Test yourself: http://bit.ly/do8qbC
5. All 6 'King Lear' revision podcasts now complete: http://bit.ly/cYbipY
6. Review of Bakker's 'The Twin': outstanding contender for #impac Award: http://bit.ly/a4rdKE
7. All 6 'King Lear' revision podcasts now online: http://bit.ly/9caH0G
8. The last of 6 podcasts on 'King Lear' now posted: the end of the play. Good luck to all in the Leaving Cert... http://bit.ly/cyvHke.
9. Lessons and Resources | 50 Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird" http://nyti.ms/don9Y5.
10. 50 iconic book covers (from Abebooks): http://bit.ly/dDyIfs
11. Is there any more intelligent book on Shakespeare? Tony Tanner's Everyman introductions, collected at last: http://bit.ly/bFfpFz
12. Good to see reopened local bookshop tweeting @Hughes_Dundrum.
13. J.D.Salinger: http://bit.ly/aRXQ3y
14. An enjoyable production: RT @MillTheatre: Dancing at Lughnasa almost sold out tonight.http://www.milltheatre.com/shows/dancing-lughnasa
15. The new SCC English book now available: highlights from the blog - poems, essays, book recommendations, essays. http://bit.ly/dqTe7I
16. Igloo Animations from Digital Hub work with Irish software company on Romeo & Juliet App now on iPad http://bit.ly/csabXP. RT @TheDigitalHub
17. @Luludotcom : thanks for the RT - delighted with our book!
18. RT @PoetryArchive: Check out the Poetry Foundation's new iPhone app: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/iphone. Take hundreds of poems with you
19. The Best Free Apps for Education: Apple iPod Touch Apps for Language Arts Teachers: http://bit.ly/dum4sd.
20. 'Outside the Frame', our second book from SCC English blog, just published. Excellent service, quality @luludotcom. http://bit.ly/dqTe7I
21. Why has 'panini' become singular? "I'll have one panini, please." http://bit.ly/9VkcGK

Weekly Twitter Summary

1.  'How English became the world's language' : http://bit.ly/9I1oad 
2. 'Four go mad in Gatwick': Rave review for Alan Warner's new novel- http://bit.ly/cUwG8c 
3. Dr Ewan Fernie on the demonic in Macbeth - podcast part of a NEW series giving background to the plays http://bit.ly/ao0aSz. 
4. 'King Lear' podcast 5 now available on SCC English blog: 'blindness and seeing in the play'. http://bit.ly/duSLIq 
5. Animal Allotment. #lesserbooks 
6. WILLIS MEMORIAL SHAKESPEARE PRIZE: congratulations to the winner, Fiona Boyd. 
7. A new essay on the late Alan Sillitoe, and 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner': http://bit.ly/d35d8Z 
8. Poetry - there's an app for that. @PoetryFound launches free iPhone app http://bit.ly/cZOCtZ http://bit.ly/ahalm7. 
9. A tenderly-written, haunting masterpiece: review of Gerbrand Bakker's 'The Twin': http://bit.ly/a4rdKE 
10. Is the internet doing real harm to our brains? http://bit.ly/94ZT8j 
11. Looking forward to rereading: RT @GuardianBooks: JG Farrell's Lost Man Booker prize for Troubles- literary resurrection http://bit.ly/aQRRkW 
12.  18 Novels set in Boarding Schools (revised): http://bit.ly/bM06bZ 1
13. The Poetry Society's Poem of the Month is Dennis O'Driscoll's 'Revenue Choir': http://bit.ly/boTkBo 
14. Just sent off for test copies of our second book from @Luludotcom. Excitement! 
15. '5 Things You Didn't Know about the Romantics': http://bit.ly/coTAxZ 
16. Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry. Winner 2010 - Olivia Plunket: http://bit.ly/cvF1e3 
17. Podcast on War Poetry from Sunday Times Literary Festival feat. Tim Kendal and Jon Stallworthy now online: http://bit.ly/bFehbB. 
18. Well introduced Simon, and ta for the mention! RT @simonmlewis: New Post:: Twitter Workshop Podcast http://www.anseo.net/?p=2890 
19. The new Faber Podcast features historian James Shapiro and novelist Maria McCann - listen at http://bit.ly/dgzRbf. 
20. [ Her book 'Venice' still shines after all these years] A Perpetual Love Affair – Jan Morris's Venice http://bit.ly/dh9ggL RT @GuardianBooks 
21. 'How to Name a Volcano' from The Oatmeal: http://bit.ly/9YGosH 
22. Recommending our art department colleagues' blog: lots of lovely work - http://bit.ly/4xrpBm 
23. 7 revision podcasts on 'Macbeth': http://bit.ly/cz2FeG 

Selected Tweets from Last Week

Some useful links/resources from last week's SCC English Twitter site:

1. Classic: RT @TheOnion: New David Simon Project To Investigate Happy, Upper-Middle-Class Streets Of Wilmette, IL http://onion.com/9ZJ2de
2. Gambon superb now at the Gate, Dublin, as Krapp: RT @dcozy: is looking forward to: Drama on 3: Krapp's Last Tape: http://bit.ly/99PGm7
3. Artistic prompts for pupils writing poems: our 'Images in Poetry' module: http://bit.ly/cREOnB.
4. Great help for English teachers for #ff: @RealGeoffBarton, @englishcomp, @web20classroom, @abfromz.
5. Great help for English teachers for #ff: @umphrey, @yourenglishclas, @msstewart, @SeanBanville, @ozge, @kristenswanson, @CohenD.
6. Great help for English teachers for #ff: @larryferlazzo, @coolcatteacher, @rmbyrne, @esolcourses, @ecning, @englishblog.
7. Olivia Plunket =third in 'Teaching English' national senior poetry competition, & Michael Kemp, Highly Commended: http://bit.ly/aMLXMN
8. DRAMA PRIZES: congratulations to the winners- Poppy Vernon (senior), and Kezia Wright (junior)
9. Vote for SCC English in the Top 100 Language Learning Blogs 2010! Thanks! http://bit.ly/dh2qsh
10. 'Some Like it Tepid.' #lessermovies
11. 'The Bourne Inferiority' #lessermovies
12. 'Gone with the Breeze' #lessermovies
13. 3 revision podcasts on 'King Lear': http://bit.ly/9caH0G
14. Seconded! RT @sineadgleeson: Halfway through #IMPAC shortlist. If I had to pick the likeliest winner, it'd be Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin.
15. Perhaps navigation app? RT @TelegraphTech: Two thirds of Britons use mobiles while crossing road http://tgr.ph/bCiUDK
16. The School Library Association (Rep Ireland) is at http://www.slari.ie.
17. Neat classy idea from @paperlesspost: elegant stationery on the screen: http://www.paperlesspost.com
18. Reminder of a classic. RT @declanburke: "They laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now." - Bob Monkhouse
19. I.T. letter today re coughing at Beckett performance. Hear hear (er, as it were): http://bit.ly/9Xhz4P (we were obviously lucky on Thursday)
20. SCC English podcast site: 20 podcasts on Shakespeare, drama, Chaucer, Henry James, Yeats, Boland, Kavanagh: http://sccenglish.podbean.com

Selected SCC English Tweets

Selected tweets, links, resources from the last week from our Twitter account:

1. 49 techniques to become a 'champion teacher'? http://bit.ly/bGonpi
2. Guardian launch new site http://tinyurl.com/35gzhd8 dedicated to technology in schools as teaching/learning tool.
   
3. King Lear podcast 3: revision for Leaving Certificate. Albany and Kent: http://bit.ly/b49OfF.
   
4. Thanks to Scoilnet for putting a link to our podcasts on their Post-Primary Students page: http://bit.ly/cZB3bK
5. 'Krapp's Last Tape' at the Gate last night: great play, great playwright, great actor: http://bit.ly/drJZbC
6. In pictures: Puffin's 70 best books for children http://bit.ly/aRK7VT.
7. Mark Lawson talks w Andrew Motion re election for Oxford Professor of Poetry. BBC R4 http://bit.ly/cr0hND
   
8. What do climate scientists make of Ian McEwan's "Solar"? http://bit.ly/dl8CpU
9. Called 'Alone in Berlin' over here... RT @GrantaMag: on Hans Fallada’s stunning “Every Man Dies Alone" http://nyti.ms/b5RWFC
10. 100 Most Educational iPhone Apps: http://tinyurl.com/nyvemw
    
11. A lost world: names of 38 typewriters: http://bit.ly/aOXBG3
12. New excellent free PDF mag 'Five Dials' out: 'Broken Britain', Alan Hollinghurst, 38 typewriters, Stephen Vizinczey: http://bit.ly/ciAmAQ
13. 'The wonder of Wordles': http://bit.ly/9ELUZg
14. Our own list (some overlap): http://bit.ly/bM06bZRT @mrspal "15 Fictional Boarding Schools We Wish Were Real" http://j.mp/cgGzcJ
15. Congrats to Patrick McGonagle ,winner of Irish Times/YSI essay competition, attending award ceremony in Croke Park: http://bit.ly/9EwWJa
16. Three word letter to the Irish Times today. "Ar ais aris." Genius.
    
17. Sir Christopher Lee reads Jabberwocky: http://bit.ly/9PNcBC.
18. I like this line from Lorrie Moore: "A reader gets in and out of a short story, like a cold bath."
19. Lots of accessible useful poems for English classes at 'American Life in Poetry: a project for newspapers' : http://bit.ly/cevLdJ
20. Go on, admit, it: we all like a little weep ... RT @GuardianBooks: Children's stories that can still make you cry http://bit.ly/aXERNv
21. Nice activity when teaching Shakespeare: set up a character's 'Shakesbook' account: http://bit.ly/cD0BS2.
    

25 Shakespeare Tweets

Today being Shakespeare's birthday (and 'death'-day too), we've been tweeting on the Bard, and here's a selection, with links to lots of interesting resources, books, articles and more...

1. 7 Podcasts on 'Macbeth': http://bit.ly/cz2FeG
2. Visualizations of the text of King Lear: http://bit.ly/7DnKeX.
3. RT @FolgerLibrary: Five Geeky Ways to Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday.
4. All #Shakespeare's sonnets via #Wordle: http://bit.ly/5qt0Jv
5. Fascinating: the Hamlet Quartos site: http://bit.ly/a0LkH1
6. Multimedia 'Romeo and Juliet' from Shakespeare in Bits: http://bit.ly/bhNcDH
7. More tweets on the Bard's birthday ... Recommending the Shakespeare iPhone App : http://bit.ly/9wUhN3.
8. RT @boulderbooks: In his writings, #Shakespeare used 31,534 words. Estimates indicate he knew 66,500. The average person?
9. Shakespeare #ff for the day that's in it: @ShakespeareGeek
10. Shakespeare #ffs for day that's in it: Shakespeare: @TheRSC, @shakespeareinb, @MadShakespeare, @BritShakespeare, @The_Globe, @FolgerLibrary
11. Terrific and fascinating resource: Shakespeare word frequency lists - http://bit.ly/90yHmu.
12. Brilliant collection of Shakespeare production design links - http://bit.ly/aEfVxp.
13. Thou spleeny onion-eyed clack-dish! [Fun : the Shakespeare Insulter Machine - http://bit.ly/d94zG6]
14. Macbeth resource notes from @abbeytheatre: http://bit.ly/c5ruls
15. On Shakespeare's birthday, each play via #Wordle: http://bit.ly/bSIf5I
16. Happy birthday, Shakespeare! Here's our Student Crossword for the occasion: http://nyti.ms/d2G3Lg. RT @NYTimesLearning
17. On Shakespeare's birthday, our first King Lear revision podcast for Leaving Cert: http://bit.ly/aCXO5W
18. Excellent! RT @EditorMark: List of the day: Shakespearean insults, including swag-bellied, toad-spotted, and whey-face: http://bit.ly/aTwhHi
19. A brilliant critic - great that essays now all in one book. RT @RhysTranter: Prefaces to Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/bUnN9b
20. Shakespeare comments on the internet: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together" (from 'All's Well...')
21. The Bardweb resource site: lots of great #Shakespeare links: http://bit.ly/cbmchW
22. The Hamlet blog: http://bit.ly/aD98Mq.
23. Recommended: the brilliant Shakespeare Clusty Search Engine - fabulous resource. http://bit.ly/a1CjFZ
24. Shakespeare was born on April 23rd (we think) 1564 and died on April 23rd 1616: lots of Bard tweets today and a summary later.
25. Find more Shakespeare-inspired fun for kids on Folger's Shakespeare in American Life website. bit.ly/avEUWj