Spent the day working ahead, so that I have a little bit of a cushion regarding Inbox. I did the pieces for 12/14, 1/4, and 1/10. There’s no Inbox on the 20th because of scheduled maintenance on the NCTE machine…
Author: Traci Gardner
The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox tied to Resolution on Supporting School and Community Libraries, passed at the Annual Convention in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago. The collection of lesson plans and articles focuses on Building an Independent Reading…
Suddenly we’re having errors that blank out entire calendar entries when the editor/writer tries to work on them. I’m at a loss for the solution. I can’t even figure out what the problem is. He’s working in the online form,…
I’ve begun the process of baking cookies for Christmas. I created a bunch of red and green pinwheels. More than I could actually finish baking, but I got a start. Can’t really take much credit for these. I bought red…
Wow. Tonight was the NCTE Holiday Party, an excellent opportunity for people watching. Naturally, I won one of the bottles of wine in the raffle. Why can’t I ever win things that I can actually use? The whole event is…
Finished editing and published the January Calendar for ReadWriteThink. Unfortunately, I found that the javascript for the titles isn’t really working. It’s great on the pages, but not for the spiders. They’re grabbing the javascript code for the title, rather…
Okay, I did turn in a content report today, but that wasn’t the highlight. Today was PANDA DAY! My niece and my two sisters had tickets to see baby butterstick, and there has been much happiness all around.
Fighting with Page Titles
Had a ReadWriteThink status update today, and one of the problems that came up was the title bars. When the site was originally designed, the designer went with very basic info. Lesson plan titles, for instance, were titled “ReadWriteThink: Lesson…
Honesty and Clarity in Advertising and the Media (Inbox Ideas)
The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox celebrates the winner of the 2005 NCTE Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language: The Daily Show :) How could I NOT take advantage of the opportunity to…
11/28 Journal
Spent much of today untangling notes and trying to uncover my desk, which seems to be a wreck. I’ve sort of lost my place on everything. Then of course, there was a chunk of time for Inbox. And mostly I…