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  • Language arts teachers, take note, experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time

    Dracula

    Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula
    is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or
    diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day
    that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may
    experience the drama as the characters would have.

    What a cool way to introduce classic literature to student’s brought up
    with blogs and social networking. I’ve subscribed to the feed and can’t
    wait to read the novel through Google Reader.

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  • Maybe, finally, found the perfect blog editor

    Although the built-in editor for WordPress works pretty well, it
    still feels a little bit kludgy. If I’m on my MacBook I like to use
    Windows Live Writer or Textmate, but Windows Live Writer requires me to
    fire up VMware and Textmate seems to also be a little kludgy.

    I’ve looked at the ScribeFire Firefox extension in the past, when it
    was Performancing, but the latest version seems to be almost perfect.
    What I’ve always wanted is to not only post drafts to my blog, but to
    also edit the drafts. The latest version of ScribeFire not only allows
    me to save my drafts, but I can then re-edit those drafts from
    ScribeFire or from WordPress itself.

    For pictures you can either select a picture on your computer and it
    will automatically upload it or you can do a Flickr search.

    I will really be pushing it to my teachers as we increase our blogging
    use, and maybe put it on as a global extension on my next disk image for
    school.