{"id":2,"date":"2008-12-26T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:38:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Traci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Traci Gardner, an instructor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. This website brings together my blogs, educational materials, and hobbies. \u00a0It&#8217;s impossible to share everything about myself on one page, but this <em>List of Ten<\/em> will tell you a lot.<\/p>\n<h3>Traci . . .<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>is known as \u201ctengrrl\u201d on most online networks.<\/li>\n<li>wrote <a title=\"Designing Writing Assignments\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.ncte.org\/store\/books\/newbooks\/129014.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Designing Writing Assignments<\/em><\/a> (NCTE, 2008).<\/li>\n<li>writes <a title=\"ReadWriteThink Lesson Plans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readwritethink.org\/lessons\/author_detail.asp?authorid=3\" target=\"_blank\">lesson plans<\/a>, classroom resources, \u000band professional development materials.<\/li>\n<li>worked at NCTE for 9 years, serving in 3 different positions\u2013online publications developer, online content developer, and web manager.<\/li>\n<li>was the editor of the \u201cIdeas\u201d section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCTE\u2019s \u000bINBOX<\/a> and of the <a title=\"NCTE Inbox Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ncteinbox.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCTE INBOX Blog<\/a> until November 2008.<\/li>\n<li>taught writing and literature at Virginia Tech.<\/li>\n<li>chaired the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication.<\/li>\n<li>edited the <em>Engaging Media-Savvy Students Topical Resource Kit<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>published articles in <em>English Journal, Classroom Notes Plus,<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cateweb.org\/california_english\/ce_2006_november.htm\" target=\"_blank\">California English<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>loves poodles, especially cute little ones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Additional Information<\/h3>\n<p>You can download my <a title=\"Curriculum Vitae of Traci Gardner (pdf)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/vita\/Gardner-Traci-CV-February2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">vita<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/about\/teaching-philosophy\/\" title=\"Teaching Statement\">teaching statement<\/a> for more details on my work. If you need any additional information, you \u00a0can email me at tengrrl at tengrrl dot com. Send postal mail to Traci Gardner, P.O. Box 11836, Blacksburg, VA 24062-1836.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Traci Gardner, an instructor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. This website brings together my blogs, educational materials, and hobbies. \u00a0It&#8217;s impossible to share everything about myself on one page, but this List of Ten will tell you a lot. Traci . . . is known as \u201ctengrrl\u201d on most online networks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PqzI8-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18423,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/18423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}