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.