Girl in a Cage: Importance of Being Earnest—I gush over Donorboy and then the author of the book writes a blog entry questioning the value of authenticity and earnestness. Now what am I supposed to do? Granted he finally decides…
Author: Traci Gardner
In the News: Learning in the Classroom by Reaching Out to Others
Learning in the Classroom by Reaching Out to Others—description of a 3rd grade social action project, making books for younger children. The article describes the purpose of the activity: “Making the books is part of a literacy project designed not…
How to bind a book – Lifehacker
How to bind a book – Lifehacker—okay, so I may not have a really good excuse to bind my own book, but at least I have the instructions should it become necessary.
In the News: Be Afraid
Don’t Talk to Invisible Strangers – New York Times and IMs: What’s a Mother to Do? – Washington Post—goodie! More fearmongering article to annoy me. It’s not that I don’t believe that people (not just kids, but anyone) can get…
Daily Work: Filth Management
For reasons that still aren’t clear to me, I went to bed last night at 10:30, and I actually got hours and hours of great sleep. Woke up completely refreshed, and ready to tackle the world. From this well-rested perspective,…
Daily Work: Opossum Trauma Abates
The harrowing night of the opossum yielded to the treacherous morn of the opossum. In other words, when I got up this morning, he was still in the driveway. He hadn’t moved since that rolling over that I noticed at…
Inbox: Raising Students’ Awareness of Copyright
March 6-10 is Copyright Awareness Week, an event designed to urge teachers from across the curriculum to teach students basic concepts of copyright, so the Ideas Section for this week’s Inbox discusses how to explore these issues with students.
Musings: Playing Opossum
This evening when I got home from work, I was “greeted” by a opossum, lying across the driveway (artist’s representation). He won’t move. I drove up to him, and he just sat there. I beeped at him. I finally had…
ReadWriteThink: Fair Use Lesson Plan
In a moment of inspiration, I wrote a new lesson for the site today. I was searching for resources for Copyright Awareness Week for Inbox, and coming up empty. I hate that copyright is so frequently defined as in terms…
Daily Work of a Sort
I finally gave up on the GIC blog publication as it was and put the blog on my other server. So now available for your perusal is tengrrl @ gic.blogshares.com. Other than that, I watched the Oscars and mainly lamented…