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Gary Plumley

Getting Ideas When Hiring Limousines for Your Special Event - 0 views

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Limo Hire Oxford Limo Hire London

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  • Gary Plumley on 06 Aug 15
     
    Limo Hire Oxford is now becoming a trend. A lot of people would prefer going to their events and parties with a luxurious and glamorous style. With all its features and amenities, what else could you ask for?
C Reed

The Dark History of the Multiple-Choice Test | Edutopia - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/...ultiple-choice-ainissa-ramirez

testing

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  • C Reed on 23 Jun 15
     
    Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez reveals the questionable origins of the multiple-choice test and questions whether this is truly a valid form of assessment.
C Reed

Planting Seeds of Mindfulness - Peace Is The Way Films - 6 views

www.peaceisthewayfilms.com/planting-seeds-of-mindfulness

shared by C Reed on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • C Reed on 30 Aug 14
     
    Blog
Sara Kajder

How to Listen - NYTimes.com - 13 views

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...how-to-listen

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    • Sara Kajder
      Sara Kajder on 02 Jul 13
       
      What does Gutkind argue here that surprises you?
Leslie Healey

The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great example: interesting AP example?
  • take-away
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  • unders
  • e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community
  • n software
  • real estate agent
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      attorneys' "word of art" cease and desist
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 07 Apr 13
       
      great tweet!
  • It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.
  • : nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.
  • nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined
  • repudiating ambiguity and complexity.
  • priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.
  • t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.
  • instrument of manipulatio
  • instrument of manipulation,
Mark Smith

What do 'right-to-work' laws do to a state's economy? - 5 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...ould-reshape-michigans-economy

shared by Mark Smith on 10 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Similarly, one 1998 study by Thomas J. Holmes found that companies in heavily unionized states often relocated just across state borders to right-to-work states. But is that due to the right-to-work laws or other policies?
Leslie Healey

Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views

www.creativenonfiction.org/...whatiscnf.htm

creativenonfiction writing web2.0 blogging studentblog

shared by Leslie Healey on 13 Oct 12 - Cached
  • For a while the NEA experimented with “belles-lettres,” a misunderstood term that favors style over substance and did not capture the personal essence and foundation of the literature they were seeking. Eventually one of the NEA members in the meeting that day pointed out that a rebel in his English department was campaigning for the term “creative nonfiction.” That rebel was me.
  • literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To p
  • real demarcation points between fiction, which is or can be mostly imagination; traditional nonfiction (journalism and scholarship), which is mostly information; and creative nonfiction, which presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact.
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  • George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff are classic creative nonfiction efforts—
  • communicate information (reportage) in a scenic, dramatic fashion.
  • offers flexibility and freedom while adhering to the basic tenets of reportage. In creative nonfiction, writers can be poetic and journalistic simultaneously
  • inematic techniques, from scene to dialogue to description to point of view, to write about themselves and ot
Dana Huff

Evernote as Portfolio | The story of using Evernote as a portfolio in my k-12 school - 14 views

evernotefolios.wordpress.com

eportfolios portfolio evernote students technology education portfolios

shared by Dana Huff on 04 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 04 Jun 12
     
    This blog explores the option of using Evernote as a portfolio tool. Worth checking into.
Mark Smith

It's Official: Watching Fox Makes You Stupider | The Nation - 9 views

www.thenation.com/...atching-fox-makes-you-stupider

fox

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  • According to a new study by Farleigh Dickinson University, Fox viewers are the least knowledgeable audience of any outlet, and they know even less about politics and current events than people who watch no news at all.
Dana Huff

Mr. Palmer Discusses His Fellow Minor Characters « Jane Austen's World - 6 views

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minor characters character jane austen janeausten austen writing writers composition

shared by Dana Huff on 10 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 10 Dec 11
     
    This blog post would be fun to turn into a writing assignment: Have minor characters in a novel your students are studying discuss the other minor characters in the manner of Mr. Palmer.
Dana Huff

Put Poor Students to Work - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

chronicle.com/...41512

poor students chronicle higher education modest proposal swift satire

shared by Dana Huff on 27 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 27 Nov 11
     
    Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."
Leslie Healey

Reading Digitally Infographic - 23 views

www.ryanbretag.com/blog

infographic reading ebooks

shared by Leslie Healey on 19 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 19 Nov 11
     
    if you had doubts about the chance to engage more kids with eReaders, this infographic might change your mind. I am planning a digital reading course next year, and will use this to argue my case to administration
  • Mark Smith on 20 Nov 11
     
    This graphic is nice ... but who conducted the study? How was this information gathered? Why should we trust it?
Leslie Healey

Going Short - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 8 views

chronicle.com/...going-short

style writing authors

shared by Leslie Healey on 08 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 08 Nov 11
     
    concise review of what makes cogent, stylish prose. Just addressed this in class last week, and not nearly as succinctly as yagoda!
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