Ferdi S.
Subscriber since: August 2008
Location: Santa Fe, NM
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Favorite Word:

synergy
it inspires me about what could happen when we become skilled at building knowledge collectively
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Least Favorite Word:

ignorance
it provides such a broad set of barriers to learning
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Favorite Quote:

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education"
- Mark Twain

Favorite Topics:

Creativity:

Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010 - 2 Comments

Language:

Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 22, 2013 - 3 Comments
"Beat-Upedness"?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 21, 2013 - 5 Comments

Linguistics:

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013 - 11 Comments
What's Happening?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers March 1, 2013 - 6 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

Online:

A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Whither The #Hashtag?
March 27, 2013

Poetry:

The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013 - 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012

Politics:

How Language Shapes The Gun Debate
February 28, 2013
Letting "Sequester" Fester
February 21, 2013 - 4 Comments

Reading:

Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013 - 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013 - 5 Comments

Storytelling:

Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011 - 5 Comments

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

Teachers:

Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013 - 1 Comment
Schools Are More Than a Test
January 24, 2013 - 7 Comments

Teaching:

A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013 - 15 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