I finished and posted the lesson on Hopper and Carver: Outside In: Finding A Character’s Heart Through Art. It has a whole series of interactives, because of the way that the tools work. I had to create one for each…
Author: Traci Gardner
Daily Work: Writing, Cleaning, Sleeping
Watched Empire Falls while I continued work on the Hopper and Carver lesson plan. On breaks, I cleaned the kitchen a bit. There’s something so wrong with my life that I can’t get my kitchen clean. I have to work…
Sharon, Lisa, and I had lunch at the Courier. I had the usual—the Famous Courier Reuben. mmm. When we got back, I dug out the Cartman Bop Bag that I bought for the office at Christmas and blew it up.…
My MCI contact got the server up and running about 10 minutes after I went to bed last night. I called him today, and he walked me through what he does when this happens. Maybe next time, I can fix…
I was late to work . . . again . . . as usual :( NCTE has a new file server today. Well, actually, I guess they had it days ago. They just gave us all access today. The end…
For some unknown reason, I woke up at 6 AM and was wide awake. I got a drink of water and wisely convinced myself to sleep till 8:30. We ended up with some problems with the ReadWriteThink calendar this morning.…
Inbox: Does the Holocaust Matter?
NCTE is providing some resources for Oprah’s National High School Essay Contest, so the Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focuses on “Does the Holocaust Matter Today?” I also added resources on the ALA awards that were announced on Monday.
I wrote the Inbox that will go out tomorrow, and working ahead, wrote the Inbox for next week as well. I finally grew completely exasperated with the stupid chair mat at work. Around the 11th, they put chair mats at…
Since I’m stuck on the interactive, I spent most of the day working on my own political cartoon lesson plan. Found some cool stuff to link to. We already have one political cartoon lesson on the site, but this one…
Continued work on the comic vocabulary images. I’m having a hard time optimizing them so that they are small enough for the tool without losing detail. They keep going pixellated and looking rough. I think I have to just keep…