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"January 17th, 2010\n\nSolid writing skills open up career-boosting opportunities for professional writers and for those with aspirations beyond their basic job description. Journalists, fiction writers, scientists, teachers, business professionals, law students and other professionals can all get ahead by inspiring and influencing others with their writing. Whether you're an undergraduate wanting tips to organize your papers; a novelist who needs help with character development; or a technical writer in search of tips to write more engaging copy, here are 100 little ways all of you can dramatically improve your writing."

An excellent set of tips for anyone at the beginning stage of technology integration PK-University

Larry Ferlazzo offers tips on the most effective use of those last few minutes of class time.

tips on how to use blogging with students

10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly

Questions how is the most important thing in speaking English. As most of the time your conversation begins with a question if it is necessary to improve it. Here are some tips to learn the techniques of interrogation:

One of the prime requirements of Limo hire Reading would be an experienced chauffeur. You would not want an inexperienced driver to ruin your special day.

Liz Davis blog entry from 2009

Ryan Goble, who often coaches teachers in what he calls the "mindful" use of technology, has written today's guest post on user-friendly tools that enable the creation of student projects.

NYTimes article recommending 5 free tools: Visualizing Text, Comic Text, Interactive Timelines, Digital Interactive Presentations, Idea Maps & Brainstorms

Tips and lesson plans for using This I Believe- type essays in the classroom.

This wiki was created to support a 20 minute CUE Tips session at the 2008 CUE conference and was updated for CUE 2009. Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs can be powerful and easy to use tools for educators, but their features are overlapping and it can sometimes be difficult to know which one is right to meet a given need. This session is an effort to help sort that out.

# Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. # Never use a long word where a short one will do. # If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. # Never use the passive where you can use the act

Excellent compendium of practical strategies and resources for using comics in the classroom for a variety of purposes.

Collection of tips and curriclum for blogging in the classroom with students.

info on using blogging in the classroom

Resources for conducting socratic seminars including tips and rubrics