It’s that time of year when we take a few minutes to look back and reflect. I asked Google Analytics to do some of the work for me, and it came up with these blog entries, written in 2010, which…
Category: Personal Journal
Turning Blog Posts Into a Book Draft
After thirty days of thinking, sorting, and scribbling, I turned a variety of notes and blog posts into a very rough and informal book draft of 52,967 words. Now as I confessed a month ago, I went about the process…
NaNoWriMo Underway
I’m a rebel. I’m doing what I want, and ignoring the rules. Usually I’m the goody-two-shoes perfectionist, but as far as writing a manuscript was going, that wasn’t working for me. I readily confess that I can’t remember how I…
The Back-to-School Organization Bug
I couldn’t figure out why i suddenly cared about the mess on my desk and the piles of papers sitting around this week. Why did it suddenly matter? I did think it funny that the printouts at the bottom of…
Tengrrl Cooks: A Collection Space for Family Recipes
Earlier this week, I wrote about my ongoing challenge to organize the bits of paper and pixels in my life. The one category that I was most lost on was how to handle the many recipes and cooking ideas spread…
Searching for an Organization System that Clicks
A pile of papers has slowly taken over my desk. Like a vicious mold, it started with a small bit, and it’s grown larger and larger until it seems like there’s no clear area left. Hidden in this pile I…
Officially a Geek Now
So I was bumbling along last week, doing a pretty good job of keeping up with everything. I was even working on blogs ahead of time and had a series of entries on using Twitter in the classroom underway. And…
Still Trying to Move to Virginia
Usually I stick to the pedagogical writing and educational news here, but I’m going to spend a few minutes on personal things today. As some of you may know, I left my job at NCTE back in November 2008 to…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-03-07
On The Media: "Search and Destroy" | http://bit.ly/a5SFZv –on China's human-flesh search engine # Yearbooks disappearing for the Facebook generation | eCampus News http://bit.ly/arUszV # Princeton students, professors give Kindle mixed grades | eCampus News http://bit.ly/cQa6Pk # Don’t Overreact to…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2010-03-04
Harvard Library Releases Online Collection on Reading – Library Journal http://bit.ly/ciKvnQ # Library Groups Join in Filing Motion on Copyright Appeal – Library Journal http://bit.ly/aiTFRJ # YouTube Turns on Automatic Captioning for All Videos | ReadWriteWeb http://bit.ly/bKlYnC # Plagiarism +…