Cindy Scinto
Subscriber since: March 2009
Location:
Spokane Valley,
WA
My Favorites
Favorite Word:
esotericI like this. Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or INTEREST; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.
Favorite Quote:
"Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action."
- O. Chambers
Favorite Topics:
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
How to write:
Language:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
Marketing copy:
Copywriting Case Study: Building Business Success
March 17, 2008
- 1 Comment
Business Communicators: Got Metaphor?
February 25, 2008
- 3 Comments
Media:
Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013
- 2 Comments
Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013
- 7 Comments
Public relations:
Optimizing Your Press Releases For the Web
February 15, 2008
- 1 Comment
Publicity How-To, For Free
January 17, 2008
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Students:
You've Got Mail: The Art of the Thank You
December 4, 2012
- 5 Comments
The E-Reader Over Your Shoulder
November 12, 2012
- 2 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
- 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Words:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
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