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60 Second Recap

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, November 12, 2009, In : Literature 

60 Second Recap provides book summaries in sixty second video segments.

60 Second Recap is a very new service still in its alpha phase of development; current book titles in its library are...

  • Animal Farm
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Frankenstein
  • Great Expectations
  • Hamlet
  • Jane Eyre
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Crucible
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The turn of the Screw and
  • To Kill a Mockingbird.

60 Second Recap could be the basis for a le...


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LitCharts

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, In : Literature 

LitCharts is an online service that provides outlines and summaries of classic literature.

Most of the outlines and summaries are ten pages, give or take a page or two.

LitCharts...

  • colour code...
    • the themes addressed and
    • the symbolism 
...within a particular work. The colour coding makes it easy to quickly pick out the themes and symbols in each chapter of a book.
  • can be...
    • viewed online,
    • downloaded as PDFs, or
    • accessed through iPhone applications.

Note: LitCharts provides n...


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John Dalziel
Liverpool Uk

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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