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TeacherScribe: clickbait
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What I Want to Read Next. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Thanks to a former student of mine who I saw this morning while refueling my car, I have learned a new word. Clickbait, apparently, is when you have a status on Facebook that is inflammatory (guilty as charged with my previous post where I used a quote from Gary Paulson) to get people to click on your link, which, in this case, took you to my previous post which was a playful jab at the MN dentist who killed a popular lion on safari. Whenever I read one...
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TeacherScribe: My Writing
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What I Want to Read Next. Any writing teacher worth a damn knows this is true: the best writing teachers write themselves. I don't know if I picked that up from Donald Murray, Ken Macrorie, Tom Romano, or someone else. But it's absolutely essential. So here's some of what I've written over the years. You will find a mixture of poetry, non fiction, creative non-fiction, fiction, and - sometimes - all of them woven together into one piece. Meeting Myrtle: A Memoir. I Stand in Awe Before Love. I blogged a l...
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TeacherScribe: And it might as well be fall!
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What I Want to Read Next. Sunday, August 02, 2015. And it might as well be fall! I know that there are still 38 days left of summer before school starts, but once August rolls around, I can't help but get excited for autumn. The signs area already beginning to show -. 1 I saw a combine harvesting grain in the east field behind our house. 2 The back to school ads and displays are starting to pop up in the stores. 3 The evening seems to come just a little bit sooner than it did early in the summer. Usually...
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TeacherScribe: My Top Ten Favorite Movies
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What I Want to Read Next. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. My Top Ten Favorite Movies. In honor of watching one of my all time favorite films in Literature today, Sleepy Hollow, I thought I'd devise a list of my top ten favorite films as I don't think I've ever thought of that before. So here we go. No judging! How can't you not love Jaws. He said that it had rained while they were inside, so when they came out, the parking lot had a sheen of water across it as if it were open water. What I love about this film...
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TeacherScribe: Resume
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What I Want to Read Next. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Thief River Falls, Minnesota, United States. I am happily married to the most amazing person in the world, Kristie (she also happens to be the smartest, funniest, and hardest working person I have ever met). I am also blessed with four amazing kids: Casey, KoKo, Kenzie, and Cash. When I am not with them, I am teaching high school English, which just so happens to be the greatest job on earth. View my complete profile. My classroom. Ideally.
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TeacherScribe: Police for America
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What I Want to Read Next. Thursday, July 30, 2015. This is amazing. This man appears to be a wonderful leader and a true hero. But for every great man like this, there are also others like the police officer profiled below. Given the tragedies that have occurred for both innocent victims (such as the Minnesota man who was shot) and for the innocent police officers who were killed in Dallas, this post seems just as relevant today as it was when I initially wrote it last summer. Or being harassed like this?
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TeacherScribe: Presentations
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What I Want to Read Next. Here is a quick overview of the classes and presentations (mostly technology based) I have been fortunate enough to present:. Teaching from the Heart: Digital Style (with Jeff Mumm). The Five Digital Tools I Cannot Teach Without. The Power Point Isn't Dead: How to Create Engaging Presentations. Presented at the ISD 564 Martin Luther King Technology Day at Lincoln High School (February 2016). The Five Digital Tools I Cannot Teach Without. Digital Culture in a 1:1 School. Social M...
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TeacherScribe: The best Werewolf Stories of all Time
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What I Want to Read Next. Monday, July 27, 2015. The best Werewolf Stories of all Time. In honor of my Sci Fi II class where this week we leave zombies behind and begin to study werewolves, I'm counting down my all time favorite lycanthropy stories of all time. Here they are -. 10 " Twilight at the Towers. Clive Barker. Barker is one of the most talented writers in all of horror. If you doubt this, check out his seminal The Books of Blood. 7 " The White Wolf. 5 " The Lame Priest. 4 " The Cell. David Case...
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TeacherScribe: What I'm Reading
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What I Want to Read Next. It's no secret I love what I do and am passionate about it. Here are the books I am reading (or have read) to make myself a better teacher. Chip Heath (Winter 2015, namely Christmas break). How the World Sees You. Sally Hogshead (bought this fall but saving this for Christmas break). How We Got to Now. Steven Johnson (Winter 2015). Carmine Gallo (Fall/Winter 2015). The Rise: the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery. Sarah Lewis (Spring 2014). S - Peter Sims (Summer 2014).
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TeacherScribe: "No adult man should enjoy hunting"
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What I Want to Read Next. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. No adult man should enjoy hunting". That is a quote from Gary Paulson via the podcast Barnes and Noble: Meet the Authors. Here is a link. To the interview by the way, which is really, really good as it dishes on Paulson's early life growing up in TRF and his dear friend/father figure, Nuts Myers, whose death was the inspiration for his book (now out of print) Winterkill. The podcast is #103). Especially of the endangered (or soon to be endangered) kind?