A quick fyi: Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies will open up reg­is­tra­tion Mon­day morn­ing (8:30 am Cal­i­for­nia time) for its sum­mer line­up of online writ­ing cours­es. Offered in part­ner­ship with the Stan­ford Cre­ative Writ­ing Pro­gram (one of the most dis­tin­guished writ­ing pro­grams in the coun­try), these online cours­es give begin­ning and advanced writ­ers, no mat­ter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gift­ed writ­ing instruc­tors.

Class­es will start in late June. And many of these class­es fill quick­ly (some very quick­ly). To get more infor­ma­tion on these writ­ing cours­es, click here, or sep­a­rate­ly check out this FAQ.

Caveat emp­tor: These class­es are not free, and I helped set them up. So while I whole­heart­ed­ly believe in these cours­es, you can take my views with a grain of salt.

• Writ­ing Fic­tion with The New York Times
• Cre­ative Non­fic­tion I: The Pow­er­ful Begin­ning
• No Fear Poet­ry
• Writ­ing from Life: The Art of Cre­ative Non­fic­tion
• One-on-One, Togeth­er: The Writ­ing Course Built Around You
• Nov­el Writ­ing: Mak­ing the Great Debut
• Writ­ing for Mag­a­zines: Think Like a Free­lancer
• Short Sto­ry Writ­ing
• Get in the Zone! A Start­ing Place for Writ­ers
• Nov­el III: Writ­ing Toward the Fin­ish

A quick fyi: On Mon­day morn­ing, Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies opens up reg­is­tra­tion for its sum­mer line­up of online writ­ing cours­es. Offered in part­ner­ship with the Stan­ford Cre­ative Writ­ing Pro­gram (one of the most dis­tin­guished writ­ing pro­grams in the coun­try), these online cours­es give begin­ning and advanced writ­ers, no mat­ter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gift­ed writ­ing instruc­tors. As you will see, there are a cou­ple of cours­es offered in con­junc­tion with The New York Times. The idea here is that you’ll learn writ­ing from a Stan­ford  writ­ing instruc­tor and then get your work reviewed by a New York Times book crit­ic. Quite a perk. And the cours­es sell out quick­ly. For more infor­ma­tion, click here, or sep­a­rate­ly check out the FAQ and the tes­ti­mo­ni­als.

Caveat emp­tor: These class­es are not free, and I helped set them up. So while I whole­heart­ed­ly believe in these cours­es, you can take my views with a grain of salt.

• Writ­ing Cre­ative Non­fic­tion with The New York Times
• Writ­ing Fic­tion with The New York Times
• Short Sto­ry Writ­ing
  
• Nov­el Writ­ing: Struc­ture for Suc­cess
  
• Writ­ing the Cre­ative Non­fic­tion Book: The Pow­er­ful Begin­ning (New Sec­tion Added)
  
• Blood­lines: Writ­ing from Fam­i­ly His­to­ry
  
• Intro­duc­tion to Cre­ative Writ­ing
  
• Writ­ing Short Fic­tion for Pub­li­ca­tions
  
• Find­ing Your Voice in Poet­ry and Prose
  
• The Art of Plot

From The Chron­i­cle of High­er Edu­ca­tion’s “Wired Cam­pus” Blog:

“Cole W. Cam­plese, direc­tor of edu­ca­tion-tech­nol­o­gy ser­vices at Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty at Uni­ver­si­ty Park, prefers to teach in class­rooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and anoth­er to project a Twit­ter stream of notes from stu­dents. He knows he is invit­ing dis­trac­tion — after all, he’s essen­tial­ly ask­ing stu­dents to pass notes dur­ing class. But he argues that the addi­tion­al lay­er of com­mu­ni­ca­tion will make for rich­er class dis­cus­sions…

Once stu­dents warmed to the idea that their pro­fes­sors actu­al­ly want­ed them to chat dur­ing class, stu­dents begin float­ing ideas or post­ing links to relat­ed mate­ri­als, the pro­fes­sor says. In some cas­es, a shy stu­dent would type an obser­va­tion or ques­tion on Twit­ter, and oth­ers in the class would respond with notes encour­ag­ing the stu­dent to raise the top­ic out loud. Oth­er times, one of the pro­fes­sors would see a link post­ed by a stu­dent and stop class to dis­cuss it.

Get the full sto­ry here, and feel free to tell us about oth­er edu­ca­tion­al uses of Twit­ter. Just add them to the com­ments below. Last­ly, you can find us on Twit­ter here.