Charlie Brooker on apple

Representation of techology and the people who love it - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows

Bunty, Jackie etc

Today's freebie is Tammy ( don't remember it myself) but some of the material might be usefully compared with Jacqueline Wilson (a story about a girl who looks after her family since the death of her mum). 'The Slaves of War Orphan Farm' (seriously) could be used in conjunction with some misery lit - but I'm not volunteering to read that.

Bunty and Jackie

The Guardian's running reprints of 1970s comics in every edition this week. The Jackie and Bunty ones are class for analysing representation of gender (if a bit embarrassing to be seen reading on the train). I'll try to scan a few pages in and add them this weekend.

Kim Clijsters

Sit down before you read this. A woman who has had a baby (yes, a mum) has managed to do something else as well - in this case win a tennis tournament.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/14/kim-clijsters-motherhood

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/parenting/2636817/Mums-the-word-for-sport-glory.htm

Social workers

There's a new recruitment campaign on to persuade people to become social workers... just as well after last year's Baby P and this year's Edlington media maulings.

It's called Give Them a Voice and it's here.
The Daily Mail appears surprised that social workers can't be recruited here

Pass Notes

Great news - Guardian Pass Notes is back. Possible model for part of the intervention in ENGA4. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/08/pass-notes-return-g2

Second World War

The latest series of Guardian booklets contains short extracts from The Manchester Guardian from the period of the Second World War. Could be useful...

Representation of female tennis players

Stumbled across this excellent feminist take on how female tennis players are represented through language while looking for something else. There's also some very good stuff in Lia Litosseliti's Gender and Language: Theory and Practice, a text that I came across last year and used successfully with AS ENGA2 students.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/02/hadley-freeman-jayceee-lee-dugard

Hadley Freeman on Jaycee Lee Dugard