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  1. Teachers at Work

     American School for the Deaf
    Wed May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    We recently spoke with Francisco Abeyta, the Education Technology Coordinator at the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, CT. The school introduced Visual Thesaurus to its 250 students last October. Francisco tells us how it's working out.

    VT: How does Visual Thesaurus fit in your classroom?

    Francisco: In one of our high school-level reading classes, students have laptops that connect to the internet. The teacher has a laptop that connects to an LCD projector. The students have their books open, and their laptops open to the Visual Thesaurus. When they come to a word that they don't understand they'll enter it in the Visual Thesaurus. When the teacher wants to go over some of the language, she'll project the entry from her laptop.

  2. Backstory

     Margo Rabb, author of "Cures for Heartbreak"
    Sat Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2007

    I wrote Cures for Heartbreak over a period of eight years, though when I started writing it I had no idea that it would take so long to finish.

    Cures for Heartbreak is a very personal story for me: the fifteen-year-old narrator, Mia Pearlman, loses her mother to melanoma days after the diagnosis, just as I did. It seems that many writers are drawn to personal material for their first books, and when I started writing fiction, the material that I couldn't keep away from was about my mother's death.

  3. Language Lounge

     Design, Then and Now
    Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In high school we studied a poem by Robert Frost called "Design." It deposited enduring fragments that echo in our mind from time to time, and recently we spent a quiet afternoon in the Poetry Corner of the Lounge to revisit the poem.

  4. Language Lounge

     Age-Related Texting Disorder
    Thu Nov 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021
    Just as there can be a disconnect between intention and interpretation in other more traditional communication channels, the same thing can happen in texting, and the disconnect may well occur for some of the same reasons.

  5. Blog Du Jour

     Nancy Says...
    Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Nancy Friedman, the naming and branding expert who contributed our "Candlepower" feature this week says, "here's a clutch of useful and entertaining sites about readin' and writin'. 'Rithmetic I leave to others more qualified." She writes:

    Writerisms and Other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing was first posted in 1995, but it's as relevant as ever. Author C.J. Cherryh defines "writerisms" as "overused and misused language"--and the examples are fresh and memorable. Includes the definitive guide to never mistaking "who" for "whom."

    Give What Should I Read Next the title of a book you enjoyed and it will suggest others you should try. Differs from Amazon Recommendations because it's based on books you've actually read and liked, not books you may have bought for others--or bought and returned.

  6. Word Count

     Blessings and Well Wishes
    Wed Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    When I was struggling with a cold that left me empty of writing ideas, I asked the Twitterverse for help. One follower suggested that I stick with my cold and look into the phrase "God bless you." It proved to be a more daunting task than I anticipated, even once my head cleared.

  7. Language Lounge

     I Think We're All Bayesians on This Bus
    Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2021
    Why is predictive typing so much more accurate and useful than predictive speech?

  8. Word Routes

     Back to Brooklyn: It's Puzzlin' Time!
    Fri Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    This weekend, the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott will once again host the 34th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament — the premier annual gathering of word nerds. Presided over by New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz, the ACPT promises to provide just as much competitive drama as past years.

  9. Language Lounge

     Spam: A Lexical and Pragmatic Guide
    Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2017
    When I open an email that a spam filter has misdirected I'm rarely in doubt about whether it is or isn't spam, and the basis of my certainty is nearly always linguistic. For me, the reasons that spam fails so colossally to convince can be divided into two convenient categories of linguistic analysis: lexical and pragmatic.

  10. Lesson Plans

     Words That Sell
    Mon Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    In this lesson, students are asked to evaluate particular brand names that were developed from words in the English language. Students are then asked to develop their own original brand names to sell products that they feel have been poorly named.
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