No news posts today. I’m on the road home from Columbus. Had a great time at the Stampin’ Up Regional yesterday. So many ideas and so many wonderful swaps! I love that Stampin’ Up folks are so interested in sharing…
Category: Personal Journal
My Top Blog Posts for 2011
These were the most popular posts on my blog during 2011: 6 News Stories to Connect to Orwell’s 1984 Text + Image = Tagxedo: The Next Generation of Word Cloud Fun Teaching Students About Headlines, Titles, and Subject Lines List…
Happy Christmas!
It’s a slow day for educational news, with the U.S. on winter break, so in lieu of news, I’d like to share my Ugly Christmas Sweater greeting card. It’s part of a 25 Holiday Cards Challenge I tried this year.…
While I’ve Been Away
You may have noticed that I’ve been away for a while. There have been no @newsfromtengrrl updates since early this month, no blog posts on Bedford Bits, and none of the usual updates for ReadWriteThink or Bedford. There’s not even…
Help Stop the Spread of Spam
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Historical Shot Tower
We drove back from Charlotte today, and I’m a bit behind on the work from the days off. I’ll upload more images in a day or two, but for now, here’s the historical shot town, near Fort Chiswell, Virginia. It’s…
Changing the Workflow to Get More Done
If you show up somewhere with your shirt on backwards, someone usually lets you know. People realize right away that the picture is on the back, the buttons aren’t where they belong, and the shirt just isn’t right. A friend…
Top 10 List of Lion Features
Many people I talk to are super-excited about Lion and I thought it was time to share in that excitement by creating a List of Ten on my favorite lion features. Here goes, in no particular order: Lion are carnivores…
More Important Things to Talk About
As stories of the National Spelling Bee flood the news, I wanted to repost a personal spelling story that originally appeared in the NCTE Inbox blog. It’s a story I carry with me as I respond to the writing of…
Please Think When You Abbreviate
Dear World, I normally do not like pointing out little errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and other minor issues in public, but sometimes you go too far. Sadly, tengrrl