Author: Traci Gardner
Things I’ve Come to Understand Because of 4/16
I love my brother-in-law as much as my brother. I’m sure I have for a long time, but I didn’t realize it consciously till 4/16. Feeling secure isn’t about locking all the doors. It’s about feeling I don’t have to…
Coping in a Time of Tragedy
Literature can provide powerful support for us in times of trauma and sadness. In the Teaching English in the Two-Year College article “Literature of Survival: A Literature Class as a Place for Healing,” Kate Dailey explains how literature can provide…
In Memory
Normally all these ribbons seem silly and pretentious to me. Today, this is the best I can do. I don’t have words for it.
Reading My E-mail While Chris Writes His Blog
Click To Play Chris.tv got a little boring. Okay, sure the writing teacher in me was entertained for a while by watching him compose his blog entry on the mashups from Thursday night. Once I saw that his…
Pink Camo Purse
OMG!!! Gaze upon the beautiful present that I am saving up to buy for Dr. B to carry to her knitwit jamboree. It is going to match her shirt PERFECTLY!!!
Today’s Twitters on Tech/Ed
Is cursive an unnecessary curse? http://tinyurl.com/35tln3 more on diff between HS and college needs: http://tinyurl.com/2ygza5 survey in HS doesn’t match deep needs in college: http://tinyurl.com/2c9qzh adult literacy influences family involvement. duh? http://tinyurl.com/25mtyp fired for being more tolerant than the school…
A Five Things Meme
Because Dr. B has forced me to, I am completing a A Five Things Meme. My task is to name five things that help me be successful every day. Not clear to me if the dear Dr. B is going…
Today’s Twitters on Tech/Ed
students quieted with clothespins http://tinyurl.com/yr2lna in what pervy world did this make sense? wonder if she was “highly qualified” maybe the problem is how we decide what “highly qualified” means… http://tinyurl.com/29nw5d map mash-ups: http://tinyurl.com/2j7uyp classroom: have students map childhood places,…
Today’s Twitters on Tech/Ed
poor word choice in the news http://tinyurl.com/25snvr do ppl really believe this nonsense? disappointing. now gingrich is a liar & a bigot! MarcoPolo named “Best site to download free lessons” in Edutopia’s 2007 Readers’ Survey!!! http://tinyurl.com/2ggpk5 Go Us!!! The Colbert…