Gift wrapping makes a great day

May 10, 2005 by

Today began happily with a package from LiteratiCat, which held my gift-wrapped winnings from the contest on teenliterature. An excellent way to begin the day.

I wrote my Ideas section for this week’s Inbox, this week on reflection as a part of assessment. Then I moved on to edit a new ReadWriteThink lesson plan: Questions and Answer Books–From Genre Study to Report Writing.

We also published a new Flash interactive today, the Flip Book, which helps students create those a staggered length book–page one is the shortest and page ten the longest. I can only take credit for helping with the design, but it’s taken almost a year to get it from design to reality, so I’m happy that it’s finally done. We’re planning spin-offs on the tool, interactives that use the same idea of templates and drawing tools to publish other artifacts (e.g., book covers, CD covers). Ideally, those won’t take as long.

Tomorrow I have a meeting with the Books Team about my series proposal. I hope all goes well.


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