November 1, 2010 – 6:58 AM
THE GRAMMAR DEVOTIONAL by Mignon Fogarty (Henry Holt) It hit me this morning that it’s already time to think about gifts! Last year a bunch of people got my book The Grammar Devotional for their children’s teachers, and I got a lot of feedback that the teachers enjoyed it. Although it’s not based on a [...]
October 29, 2010 – 9:11 AM
THE SIMPSONS IN THE CLASSROOM: EMBIGGENING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE WITH THE WISDOM OF SPRINGFIELD by Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay (McFarland) It’s easier to engage students when the topic is fun and familiar, and what could be more fun an familiar than The Simpsons? The show has been on the air for over 20 [...]
October 26, 2010 – 1:05 PM
A couple of days ago I had to go to a hotel because the water was turned off in my building. I grudgingly left behind my beloved desktop Mac and packed my laptop. I grumbled that I wasn’t going to get any work done. Surprisingly, I got a ton of work done with time to [...]
October 21, 2010 – 5:07 PM
This is an audio and video post. If you receive it by e-mail, the audio link may be at the bottom. Sponsor: Visit gotomeeting.com, click the “try it free” button and use promo code “Podcast.” Content Rules by Ann Handley & C.C. Chapman BookBrewer.com — Blog to E-book in Minutes Blubrry.com — Get your video [...]
October 12, 2010 – 9:04 AM
GET SEEN by Steve Garfield (Wiley) I’ve been spending more time making videos, and that meant first getting set up to do video. It was frustrating and confusing. What camera? What mic? Daylight or studio lights? Green screen or set? Where to host the files? It was making me crazy. Well, Steve Garfield was one [...]
October 7, 2010 – 8:38 AM
This is an audio and video post. If you receive it by e-mail, the audio link may be at the bottom. Sponsor: Visit gotomeeting.com, click the “try it free” button and use promo code “Podcast.” Franzen Typogate Jonathan Franzen’s book Freedom suffers UK recall (The Guardian) Franzen’s British Publisher Apologizes for Printing Errors (New York [...]
September 29, 2010 – 11:00 AM
This is an audio and video post. If you receive it by e-mail, the audio link may be at the bottom. Sponsor: Visit gotomeeting.com, click the “try it free” button and use promo code “Podcast.” Happy Banned Book Week Banned Books Week: 10 banned books you might not expect Banned Book Week: Celebrating the Freedom [...]
September 28, 2010 – 2:48 PM
I had a fun surprise this morning when I saw Pandora’s Tim Westergren on CNBC. I worked a summer job with Tim many years ago when I was a graduate student at Stanford. He was running a program to encourage minority students to study science, and I was one of the mentors, but I remember [...]
September 21, 2010 – 2:25 PM
This is an audio podcast post. In some cases the link to the audio will be at the bottom of the page. Sponsor: Try GoToMeeting free for 45 days at GoToMeeting.com/podcast. Hear how Stever Robbins wove all the content from his podcast (and more) into a seamless productivity book using wiki and mind mapping software [...]
September 15, 2010 – 10:09 AM
GET-IT-DONE GUY’S 9 STEPS TO WORK LESS AND DO MORE by Stever Robbins (St. Martin’s Griffin) I recommended Stever as a host for the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network that I founded, so I wasn’t surprised that I liked his book—but I was a bit surprised that I loved it. I’m already familiar with [...]
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