Traci Gardner

@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-08

October 8, 2010

Is this the final chapter for paper books? | The Sydney Morning Herald » http://hoki.es/acIWLg #
Internet Speed Gap Between Research Universities and Smaller Colleges Grows – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/a3f4AD #
Substitute Education for Lysol in the Fight Against Bullying – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/bXvVrb #
Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/arAxdk #
UberStudent: An Academic-Oriented Linux Distribution – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/bHRecN #
Georgia State Ereserves Case Narrowed Yet Again | Library Journal » http://hoki.es/aX6r5q #
Face recognition camera catches late school pupils – mirror.co.uk http://hoki.es/bXF1kV #
Exploding with awesomeness: The Weekly #SAchat Twitter Talks – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/bU4W0H #
Tenure Isn't the Answer for Adjuncts – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/d2A3J1 #
Standing Their Ground on Tenure Procedures – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/dzZcjt #
Parents: Your Children Need Professors With Tenure – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/d2s7iM #
Learning from a Pro: Best Practices for Facebook and Twitter | School Library Journal » http://hoki.es/bPOew8 #
Mixing Work and Play on Facebook – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/brkZTE #
Community Colleges' Day in the Sun – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/bneoQq #
How Handwriting Boosts the Brain – WSJ.com http://hoki.es/90f3YH #
Adjunct Faculty Members Feel Left Out of Community-College Summit – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/cEgkvl #
Why McGraw-Hill Bought a Lecture-Capture Company – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/cWDifS #
Tweaking Technology Transfer (& Managing Univ Intellectual Property in the Public Interest) – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/cRYTkw #
Social Networking Can Bring Students Stress as Well as Connection, Survey Finds – Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/bfnTbf #
Back Up and Cull Your Tweets with Tweet Library – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/cPlSh7 #
Duke Winces as a Private Joke Slips Out of Control on the Internet – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/dBj1ta #
Baccalaureate board probes Wikipedia plagiarism claim | BBC News – http://hoki.es/aQFEbP #
An Appraisal – Vargas Llosa, a Storyteller Enthralled by the Power of Art – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/adzMEM #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-07

October 7, 2010

When Less Is More (on class size) – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/bIvrvq #
Does poetry need a special day? | BBC News – http://hoki.es/djuAMG #
How to Create Digital Letterhead for Your Department & Job Seach – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/cWGRXs #
The Education Crisis: The Daily Show Version – THE DAILY RIFF – http://hoki.es/95aHyo #
Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/9NmF0q #
Study: E-Book Piracy is on the Rise | ReadWriteWeb » http://hoki.es/959e5q #
What’s the Difference Between JPG, PNG, and GIF? | Gizmodo » http://hoki.es/a0bI6D #
Colleges Build Hubs to Track Social-Media Buzz About Their Institutions – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/9Cr8vk #
One Step Closer to a National Digital Library – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/9HpNw2 #
Grading Classroom Participation Rhetorically – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/8YqOSm #
Reader's Almanac: Nobel oblige: Steinbeck predicts a winner, and the burden of winning the Prize http://hoki.es/aC1RQe #
Literature transforms lives in poor NY neighbourhood | BBC News – http://hoki.es/9HYwV8 #

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Simmered Italian Rice

October 7, 2010

Found this tasty-looking recipe on the September issue of All You. It looks like an upscale version of the dish my brother named “Rice with Too Much Rice.” He was 4 or 5, and thought it was Chicken and Rice Soup with more rice than normal.

This variation from Swanson adds spinach and Parmesan. Can’t wait to try it out with some Italian-marinated chicken breasts or pork loin.

Ingredients

1 ¾ cup chicken broth
1 tsp Italian seasoning
¾ cup uncooked long-grain white rice
1 cup chopped fresh spinach (or thawed frozen spinach)
½ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions

Heat broth and Italian seasoning in 2 qt. saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil.
Stir in rice and spinach.
Reduce heat to low.
Cover and cook 20 min or until rice is tender.
Stir in the cheese.
Garnish with additional Parmesan cheese, if desired.

Variations

A vegetarian version, made with vegetable broth, would be just as tasty.
If you’re out of Italian seasoning, substitute 1/3 tsp each of oregano, marjoram, and basil.
Saute 1 small onion, diced and a clove of garlic, in some butter till transparent, and add with the rice and spinach.
A blend of Romano and Parmesan cheese will work as well.

Time Required: 35 minutes

Servings: 4

Filed under Italian, Side Dish Tagged with rice, spinach

Photo Writing Prompt: A Voice From the Past

October 7, 2010

My senior portrait This prompt is inspired by the piece that I wrote about my high school yearbook photo back in August 2009 for Laurie Halse Anderson’s for Write Fifteen Minutes a Day (WFMAD) and that I submitted to Bedford/St. Martin’s Gallery of Writing.

For this project, students choose their own photos, based on the kind of project they are completing. Here are some options students can use:

Choose your own school picture or yearbook photos or school pictures, and write an autobiographical memoir.
Find a photo of a famous historical figure or contemporary figure, and write your comments after completing some research on the person and the events in his or her life.
Use the photo of a family member, and write a biographical reflection, informed by your interactions with that family member.
Find a random photo on Flickr, and write a fictional piece about the imagined thoughts of the person in the photo.

A Voice From the Past. What would the person in the photo you have chosen say to you? What would that voice from the past tell you. Your job is to create a text from the perspective of the person in the photo. She will speak to the future, sharing something about things she has learned and what she has done.

Try freewriting on one of these questions to get started:

What choices would the person in the picture tell you to make?
What would the person regret that was happening when the picture was taken?
What would the person look back on with a smile?
What would the person wish could be different?
What advice or warnings would the person give you?
What would the person see now if she (or he) looked back at the photo?
What secrets would the person confess now about life then?
What does the person in the photo not realize yet?
What would the person tell you about goals and dreams?
What was important to the person in the photo? Has it changed?

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-07

October 6, 2010

Online Communities 2 | xkcd: http://hoki.es/a8ZAUc #
Roll Your Own E-Books – Wired How-To Wiki http://hoki.es/czfgZF #
How do you write a Very Short Introduction to English Literature? | Oxford UP Blog » http://hoki.es/9FbOh2 #
Hotseat and Mixable – Social Learning, Facebook integration in & out of the classroom | Jane's Pick of the Day: http://hoki.es/cUnnEn #
Classroom Pedagogy: The Reality TV Edition – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/96pKWE #
Reader's Almanac: Jonathan Edwards: the last great Puritan or the first Romantic? http://hoki.es/bUgVRY #
Historians Are Interested in Digital Scholarship but Lack Outlets – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/9ZcP87 #
Second Life To Drop Educational Discount – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/bKro1H #

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50 Teaching Links You May Have Missed

October 6, 2010

I gathered a collection of over 50 links for the ProfHacker Teaching Carnival 4.2. You can find links to teaching in a variety of disciplines at the college and university level, plus links to some humorous articles I found.

There are details at the end of the post on how to suggest your own links (or those of your colleagues) for the November Teaching Carnival, which will be hosted by .

Oh, and the “Right This Way to the Egress” header? Yep, completely inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching.

[Image: FerrisWheel by twoblueday, on Flickr]

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-05

October 5, 2010

Jealously Looking at a List of College Courses – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/9EXBS3 #
Online Tools For Collaboration – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/dwCbtN #
New York Schools Go Google – ReadWriteCloud http://hoki.es/a8wWTc #
Business cards thrive in a digital age | Washington Post » http://hoki.es/b5Qfqr #
Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Wired Magazine http://hoki.es/9nKZ2x #
National Poetry Day (UK): unlock the mathematical secrets of verse – Telegraph http://hoki.es/9nrZIx #
Literature settles in to the electronic era | guardian.co.uk http://hoki.es/9YYF36 #
Michael Cunningham: What It Takes to Be a Novelist (on his early days as a writer, advice he gives students) – WSJ http://hoki.es/cSOGPt #
Jill Biden, Obama host summit on community colleges (The Answer Sheet) | Washington Post » http://hoki.es/cTwgcJ #
4-Year Colleges Aren't for Everyone, Poll Finds – The Ticker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/9Q0vYc #
Accessorizing Surveillance: Hidden Video Camera Barbie | viz. http://hoki.es/csOX48 #
I Act as the Tongue of You: Poetry Resources Online | ReadWriteWeb » http://hoki.es/9FMaU9 #
Is academia right for me? – Salon.com http://hoki.es/9W27sg #
The Future of Social-Media Archiving – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/9hdbpl #
Why McGraw-Hill Bought a Lecture-Capture Company – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/c9GIdA #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-04

October 4, 2010

Publish Your Own EBook (And Profit!) With Barnes and Noble's PubIt! http://hoki.es/ck5fmb #
Nielsen on kids (and summarized too) | cbd http://hoki.es/9X4MBb #
In a wired world, children unable to escape cyberbullying – CNN.com http://hoki.es/bv6UoJ #
Spaar on Poetry: Whitman and Dickinson in OurSpace – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/cplqPz #
Digitally Incorrect: Ricardo Dominguez's provocations: art or crimes? – The Chronicle Review – CHE » http://hoki.es/cNtH5O #
Ads and Gender – Mama PhD – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/dt5RKl #
More Professors Are Using Twitter–but Mostly Not for Teaching – Wired Campus – Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/d7bxTB #
What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker http://hoki.es/b7UC5W #
"What Exactly is Mediated Content?" | viz. http://hoki.es/dj1MOI #
That'll show 'em: The Rhetoric of Didactic Kitsch? | viz. http://hoki.es/9W5SK2 #
Inside the Mind of Terry Pratchett « Inkpop Blog http://hoki.es/cwiM8q #
Teaching Carnival 4.2 – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/ags17v #
Yes We Can: The Case for the Editorial We – The Subversive Copy Editor Blog http://hoki.es/cTYDnn #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-03

October 3, 2010

Texting tops list of students' favorite ways to write, MSU study finds | Lansing State Journal http://hoki.es/dguNjM #
The Graduation Limitation – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/ayqJVp #
A Call for Open Textbooks – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/cCH493 #
Deadly Warning – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/9P7xwh #
Rallying for For-Profit Colleges – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/cfyTt2 #
'Fair Use' and … Football? – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/bzN9FP #
Who's Teaching the Teachers? – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/cIJCxa #
Searching For Better Research Habits – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/dq73Wn #
For-Profits Battle on Many Fronts – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/bMWmrG #
Staff at school to receive lessons in how to speak properly – Telegraph http://hoki.es/dccVQf #
How Karen Owen and Tyler Clementi Lost Control – Kashmir Hill – The Not-So Private Parts – Forbes http://hoki.es/ccjEO6 #
How Do You Teach Boy Scouts About Downloading Music? By Pretending It Doesn't Exist http://hoki.es/cWwCsU #

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@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-10-02

October 2, 2010

Found in Translation – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/91BykA (How the author of “The Hours” learned to write for his reader, not for himself.) #
Harrisburg University's Social Media Ban Lifted, Addictions Soothed | Fast Company http://hoki.es/9spizU #
Ten of the best vendettas in literature | The Guardian http://hoki.es/b49Pr2 #
Reader's Almanac: Wallace Stevens: on his birthday enjoy his walk and his words but watch out for his fist http://hoki.es/buZlJJ #
Is There a Place on the College Application to Divulge Cheating? – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/b5cPXj #

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