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Mullins in Academe: Commonly Confused Words
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Partly due to the rich ethnic heritage of the language, there are many words in English that are confused with other words. We have words that sound the same but have different meanings. Such as fair, fare, and fair. I recently attended the State Fair [event] of Texas, where the fare [cost] to ride the Ferris wheel seemed quite fair [just or reasonable], considering the stunning views of Dallas at night from the tallest Ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere. We also have words...
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Mullins in Academe: February 2011
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Thursday, February 3, 2011. Begin with the End in Mind. Among the speakers at the Arkansas Comprehensive Literacy Conference in October of 2007, was Dr. Sonya Whitaker. On the title page of her presentation slides, Dr. Whitaker, who currently is an educational consultant with a Chicago firm, lists herself as "Director of Literacy," in (or, possibly, for? The Culturally Responsive Teacher and Leader. Disaster. But the point here is not Griffin’s words, but Whitaker’s representation of them...Launch. A...
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Mullins in Academe: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Partly due to the rich ethnic heritage of the language, there are many words in English that are confused with other words. We have words that sound the same but have different meanings. Such as fair, fare, and fair. I recently attended the State Fair [event] of Texas, where the fare [cost] to ride the Ferris wheel seemed quite fair [just or reasonable], considering the stunning views of Dallas at night from the tallest Ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere. MA Tech Comm, TSU.
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Mullins in Academe: Begin with the End in Mind
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Thursday, February 3, 2011. Begin with the End in Mind. Among the speakers at the Arkansas Comprehensive Literacy Conference in October of 2007, was Dr. Sonya Whitaker. On the title page of her presentation slides, Dr. Whitaker, who currently is an educational consultant with a Chicago firm, lists herself as "Director of Literacy," in (or, possibly, for? The Culturally Responsive Teacher and Leader. Disaster. But the point here is not Griffin’s words, but Whitaker’s representation of them...Launch. A...
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Mullins in Academe: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Rules and Tools: Does New Media Warrant New Standards? In a recent Twitter post, a colleague complained about an academic tool he had to use for compliance training. Designed by engineers who have never used tech more advanced than an overhead projector. Having recently been engaged in discussions with my class, other faculty, and instructional technology folks about the hinckyness. Of Blackboard in its current iteration, naturally, I reposted. This to my own Twitter stream.
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Mullins in Academe: Pitches and Picas and Points. Oh my!
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012. Pitches and Picas and Points. Oh my! Machine to figure out what's going on. In this case, it was a fairly straightforward calculation (once I was in " way back thinking. Mode) First, because most of the customer output is to PDFs, which have a set size and "image area," the maximum line width is known. Second, because we mark all blocks of code with. What is the relationship between pitch and points? In typesetting is shorthand for. The pitch of a typeface is the. The most com...
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Mullins in Academe: Balancing Act
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Friday, June 22, 2012. It is a straightforward equation: E. Energy output must equal energy input in order to maintain balance. Energy input (E. Which in nutrition is represented in Calories (1 food Calorie = 1 kilocalorie), is the amount of one's "fuel" intake. A kilocalorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a liter of water 1ºC at sea level. Factor one can reasonably affect is one's level of physical activity, it is the BMR that represents the lion's share of E. Men's bodies ...
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Mullins in Academe: December 2012
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012. Pitches and Picas and Points. Oh my! Machine to figure out what's going on. In this case, it was a fairly straightforward calculation (once I was in " way back thinking. Mode) First, because most of the customer output is to PDFs, which have a set size and "image area," the maximum line width is known. Second, because we mark all blocks of code with. What is the relationship between pitch and points? In typesetting is shorthand for. The pitch of a typeface is the. The most com...
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Mullins in Academe: November 2009
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009. In a Twitter post, Sean Zdenek asks Which rhetorical figures can be redeployed visually? He gives a great example. Of visual chiasmus,. A rhetorical form that uses repetition of themes (also sometimes words) or structures in an inverted order. The name derives from the Greek word for the letter x. The most prevalent form of visual rhetorical figures may be the metaphor. Metaphors, in the simplest sense, simply refer to one thing as another. Posted by Cheri Mullins. Your Onli...
