New Teaching Materials Added to Schmoop

I have mentioned Shmoop on this blog before. According to their site:

"Shmoop will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.

Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. "

Schmoop has 20 gifts for you this Christmas season in the form of new materials that include:

6 New in Shmoop Literature:

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Chairs, by Eugene Ionesco
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tartuffe, by Molière


3 New in Shmoop Poetry:

"Because I could not stop for death," by Emily Dickinson
"Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art," by John Keats
"Paul Revere's Ride," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


1 New in Shmoop Bestsellers:

The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger


2 New in Shmoop US History:

The 1960s
The West


3 New in Shmoop Biography:

Flannery O'Connor
George Eliot
Harriet Beecher Stowe


5 New in Shmoop Music:

Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Paparazzi, Lady Gaga
Rocket Man, Elton John
Say it Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud), James Brown
Strange Fruit, Billie Holliday

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Speechable

Speechable is a free site that allows you to add speech bubbles to any graphic. This means that you can convert a personal picture, any photo from Flickr, etc., into a meaningful addition to your course.

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Jing to Twitter

We have mentioned Jing before in the blog. Jing is free software that lets you capture whatever is on your monitor as a graphic or up to 5 minutes of video with sound. It is very useful.

Jing now allows you to send your Jing output to Twitter (in addition to email). The Jing email announcing this upgrade states, in part:

"Get more out of Twitter and separate yourself from the pack. Update your followers instantly when you integrate rich media into your everyday tweets. Check out this quick video and see how!"

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Butler Online Channel on YouTube

Butler Online now has its own YouTube channel! This account is designed for videos used in instruction, primarily for the Butler Online program.

Instructors can upload videos and embed these or any of the other videos in channel inside ANGEL.

If you or any other online instructor at Butler is interested in using this free service, please contact Roberta Sheahan - rsheahan@butlercc.edu or call 316-322-3271/733-3271 for details

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SumoPaint - a Free Alternative to PhotoShop

SumoPaint is a free drawing/photo-editing tool that works in your browser. It has many of the same tools, features, and capabilities of PhotoShop but SumoPaint is free. As all of you know, the IT department loves free! This video provides a general idea of what SumoPaint can do. If you are interested, check out their YouTube channel for several tutorials and ideas.

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3-D Snowflake

Today's post is just for fun. I hope you enjoy it. I have made snowflakes like the one pictured and they are really beautiful - especially when several are grouped together. One year my sisters, my mother, and I gathered and made a bunch of these, then shared them equally. It was a fun evening and we all went home with several snowflakes and fond memories. The instructions for this snowflake and several others are available at the Instructables web site.

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