As I was driving to work this morning, the local NPR station was talking with Philip Graham, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, and Antonia Leotsakos of the staff of Pages For All Ages Bookstore about book recommendations…
Category: Journal
In the News: Book Publishing
Blurb Home: Washington Post review of a demo of the product explains that you go from “Blogs to Books, using a ‘Blog Slurper.’” The service is still in beta testing. It looks like an interesting product, but it’s not publishing…
Windows Resources: Free themed fonts – Lifehacker
Free themed fonts – Lifehacker—such a shame that I didn’t have The Matrix font when I was working on the dystopia lesson plan. Maybe one of these will come in handy in the future though.
In the News: Bush: Boost math and science
eSchool News online – Bush: Boost math and science—this initiative is why we’re internally focusing on what has been titled the “STEM learning pathway.” STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. In any other world, we’d be talking about reading…
In the News: E-mail Tone
Email tone isn’t understood as much as we think – Lifehacker—of course the issue that isn’t being addressed here is how e-mail and telephone rhetorical skills compare to letter writing, memos, and so forth. There’s a move to damn what’s…
Web Resources: 30 Boxes Calendar Beta
30 Boxes calendar beta live – Lifehacker: This tool has possibilities for a shared calendar for IRA and NCTE as we both work on ReadWriteThink. We currently have a shareware app that lets us upload dates. This looks slicker. I…
Blogging: Del.icio.us and Teaching (and Categories?)
cbd offers an explanation of how Del.icio.us and teaching go together. I wish I could get my head around del.icio.us completely. It just evades me. There’s something I just don’t get. The way the cbd explains it here made me…
Depression: Late or Not?
Finally, I’m caught up. Feels like a million entries I’ve edited or written in the last 24 hours. The most interesting observation through all this was a note on one day that I was horribly late for work, and a…
Daily Work: Sleeping, Napping, Cooking
Got up at 12:30. Went back to bed at 2:00. Got back up at 4:30. Am I lame or what? I had it in my mind that I would run errands to Home Depot and Office Depot (an emerging depot…
Depression: "Just Getting Started" (Are they serious?)
A friend said that he’s taking Cymbalta, so I went off to find out what it does. I found the tips on their When You’re Just Getting Started page fun. I’m very good at “Defer Big Decisions”—that can account for…