Okay, I have a guilty confession. I am a very naïve, gullible person. I will fall for anything. So when I was an 18-year-old and was assigned to read “A Modest Proposal,” of course I believed that Jonathon Swift was advocating the eating of children. I mean, he is a writer. He wouldn’t lie. The next day in class I was admonished by my peers and teacher for my stupidity. People couldn’t believe I was naïve enough to take the text at face value. Read more
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Weekend Tech: Tweets are still #funny
In yesterday’s post I referenced The New York Times Article, Writer’s New Form: Tweet-Up Comedy. One of the most interesting components to the piece 
was WitStream, an aggregator of humorous tweets. Now I think WitStream is simply genius. It helps that Michael Ian Black is one of the brains behind it, and I do like the idea of a “24 hour live comedy ticker.” I am not recommending that you show the website/posts in their entirety to your students. It can be a minefield. Instead, take a screenshot of appropriate WitStream posts. See example below:
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