Zodiac by Neal Stephenson Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil -- all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to […]
In the first two articles of this series, we learned how using the rule of three can improve your speeches by [1] writing triads of words, phrases, and sentences and [2] by applying three-part speech outlines. In this article, you will learn how adding an unexpected twist to the third element can add power or […]
Author Kate DiCamillo’s first book, the Newbery Honor-winning Because of Winn-Dixie, is heading to Broadway as a musical. A creative team is not yet in place, but the show will feature a live dog playing the role of Winn-Dixie, trained by Bill Berloni (who trained the dog Sandy, for the musical Annie). “The opportunity to […]
The term blended learning is a term used to describe an educational course in which a mixture of face to face student/teacher instruction and online instruction are used together for any given class. The most exciting part of this process is to decide how to transform the teaching and learning experience into one, so that […]
Print is dead, nobody reads anymore, the web rules, blah, blah, blah…. The throngs packing the aisles at the recent BookExpo America prove that the book is not an endangered species and that, in fact, online tools and digital formats bring readers and writers together as never before. » » »
Researchers say a wandering mind may be important to setting goals, making discoveries, and living a balanced life. iStockphoto I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift […]
Award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan was already a star in his native Australia before he first gained nationwide attention in the U.S. with his brilliant wordless graphic novel, The Arrival (2007). Tan follows up with 15 extraordinary illustrated stories in Tales from Outer Suburbia (2009, both Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks.). Were you surprised that The Arrival […]
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." -- Goethe
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From the Bight Ideas Blog ... Whitefriars College teacher librarian Tania Sheko has been busy! She has also created a wiki for the English class she has been working with. Tania explains how the wiki came about: The English wiki was created to support a particular English class but with a view to sharing resources […]
