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The Word Count: Call for EDITORIAL TEAM MEMBERS

The office of the Campus Writing Coordinator at UC-Irvine is pleased to announce plans to create a new online publication for student writing and is currently accepting applications for volunteers to join the editorial board. The new publication, tentatively called The Word Count, will be student-centered, containing undergraduate student writing that has been selected and edited by an editorial board made up of undergraduate student peers. This publication will showcase exemplary writing produced across the curriculum in writing courses at UC-Irvine.  As such we hope the publication will encourage students to see writing courses as an opportunity to produce writing that engages a wider academic and potentially public audience. Internship credit can be arranged through the Department of English.

To apply to be a part of this exciting editorial team, contact Professor Jonathan Alexander [email protected].  Include a resume and writing sample with your email, stating your interest in joining the team and what specific skills and interests you could bring to the project.  We will collect applications through September 1, 2013.

LJ Digital: This sounds like an excellent opportunity for all you UCI writers out there! What a great way to be a part of the the UCI writing community as they take to the Internet. Don't hesitate to apply before the deadline. It'll be a solid internship to add to your résumé and course credit is always a plus! Good luck!

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 The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking their fingers in the sand or running them along mossy stones or digging for hermit crabs. Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine. A couple of 3-year-old girls were leaning against a pair of French doors, reading an interactive story called Ten Giggly Gorillas and fighting over which ape to tickle next. A boy in a nearby corner had turned his fingertip into a red marker to draw an ugly picture of his older brother. On an old oak table at the front of the room, a giant stuffed Angry Bird beckoned the children to come and test out tablets loaded with dozens of new apps. Some of the chairs had pillows strapped to them, since an 18-month-old might not otherwise be able to reach the table, though she’d know how to swipe once she did. -Hanna Rosin 

LJ Digital: There have been discussions and arguments from parents around the world about how to raise their children. No one wants to be told that they aren't raising their kid to be what society expects of them– bright, sociable, respectable, etc. The issue of whether or not handing your child an iPad is better or worse than setting up a jungle gym in the backyard has been a contentious one with the constant development of lighter, swifter, smaller technology. I myself have even scoffed at the site of children in malls and supermarkets sit and play on their iPads while their parents shop. They're just going to grow up being perpetual Instagramers and need glasses too early, I think to myself. 

However, iPads aren't that awful. Every other adult person I know has one so why do I find it strange that my 7-year-old cousin has one? What makes us afraid to give technology to children? There are stories and interactive games on an iPad that can enhance a child's receptive and problem-solving skills. In the outdoor setting, however, a child's immune system matures and their bodies are more physically active. Can there be a happy medium? 

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First, a little context. The popular electronic reader, the Kindle, was introduced less than six years ago. Yet adult e-book sales are already outpacing adult hardcover sales. In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016. Increasingly these books are being consumed on full featured Apple, Amazon and Android tablets.

Last year we invested in a start-up digital publisher called Open Air Publishing. The company focuses on creating how-to books for tablets. Two weeks ago they released their latest title, a high end digital parenting book that caters to mothers and fathers called Ready, Set, Baby!

LJ Digital: I never mind a good how-to book. Now we can get them digitally. 

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Psychology Today examines how author, Nick Miller, built a healthy Internet following while writing his new novel, Isn't It Pretty To Think So?  Take a look!