from Facebook: why Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë are even more genius than you realized
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Charlotte Bronte
Uggie gets an Oscar! (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Should film be taught in school the way that literature is?
I think it’s very urgent that children be taught media literacy, but I have to confess that it never occurred to me that we might teach children how to watch and interpret great movies in the same way that we teach them how to read and interpret great fiction.
Jane Eyre (1943) (retro trailer)
The bit of Bronte fever happening in the U.K. at the moment really isn’t anything new…
