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The Best of L&L

The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology
Selections from Volumes 31-35
Edited by Jennifer Roland

With a large selection of articles from each of the regular sections of ISTE’s award-winning magazine, The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology is an excellent resource for new ISTE members or beginning ed tech users, and is a “must-have” volume for longtime fans of the magazine. Along with provocative columns, insightful features, and practical tips, a full-color section showcases some of the best artwork and covers from the L&L design team.

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Writing Roundup

With the holiday, my schedule got a little wonky. So I’ve got the roundup for you today.

NEA Report Finds Fiction Reading on the Rise
OMG! We’re reading again! This is definitely good news for those of us who write fiction.

How the Big Gulp Approach to News Makes Readers Scram
Simon Dumenco does not support the Chicago Tribune’s newsstand format change. He thinks if you’re going to do a special version of the newspaper, it should actually be different in content not just design. He has some interesting ideas about why newspaper readership is declining.

8 Articles/Posts All Writers Should Have Read in 2008
And so begins the nightmare of recrimination that is January. Seriously, folks, these eight pages provide some insight into what the future will bring to we writers.

On Being So Busy You Don’t Have Time to Title Your Blog Entry
A humorous take on writers’ time wasters. Personally, I clean, as you may have gathered from my post yesterday. In college, my apartment was never so clean as when I had a paper due.

Why Would a Pro Write for HuffPo?
Michael Miner describes the trend that puts the “free” in freelancing: high-profile websites that don’t pay their authors. The argument is that the exposure provided by a popular website provides a platform that is worth hte lack of pay.