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