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Author: Traci Gardner
@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-09-22
Resist the Pedagagogical Far Right – Inside Higher Ed | http://bit.ly/1yOtzv — Put stds, not prestige or politics, at center of higher ed # 'The Trials of Academe' – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/WDbMp (featuring WILL's Legal Issues in the News…
Bits Post: Using Current Events to Discuss Writing and Visual Rhetoric
Talking about Swine Flu at your school? The news stories and public documents give us current texts we can dissect for use of persuasive techniques and visual rhetoric. Combined with similar materials from the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, current…
WFMAD 5: Word Geek
Dear Teacher, I completely fail at vocabulary exercises. Sure, I can use your words in a sentence, but they sound like words I was told to use in a sentence. They never sound like anything natural. No matter how much…
WFMAD 4: Writing Space
Since I left my job at NCTE to come back to Virginia and take up family obligations, I have learned to write in what used to be a family bedroom. It’s a nice, standard-sized room. Every one of my siblings…
WFMAD 3: Cooking
I have put a bowl of Texmati Rice and water in the microwave to cook. Rice is one of the foods that always soothes and comforts my soul. I should say good rice actually. Give me fragrant Basmati, Texmati, or…
WFMAD 2: Yearbook Picture
Yes, that’s me. Or at least it’s the girl I was a very, very long time ago. I’ve only brought her out of the photo file because of Laurie Halse Anderson’s writing prompt for today: Find a yearbook pic or…
WFMAD 1: Dreams
Classrooms, student conferences, committee meetings. All my subconscious can think about is finding a teaching job–or maybe more accurately, actually having one. I seem to have great students, great classes, a wonderful department. Unfortunately they are only in…
Field Trip
Yesterday I took a field trip to New River Community College in Dublin. It was a nice and relatively fast drive over from Blacksburg. No doubt I benefited from taking the trip when shifts were NOT changing at the arsenal.…
Focus
Hello to the three search engines that seem to be my primary visitors. Yes, I know it’s been months since I posted here. I’ve been too busy posting elsewhere, like on Bedford Bits and @newsfromtengrrl. I seem to have an overwhelming problem…