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  1. Edulinks

     Going Graphic
    Thu May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Teachers, if you are considering having your students read graphic novels or create their own, check out these inspiring sites.

    National Association of Comics Art Educators

    Teaching Graphic Novels blog

    Comic Creator

    An Introduction to Graphic Novels podcast

  2. Wordshop

     Vocabulary OUT LOUD
    Thu May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can you say you know a word if you have never spoken it aloud? How can you "own" a word if you have never used it? These are some of the questions that Heidi Hayes Jacobs prompts us to consider in her widely acclaimed book for educators Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     Mischievous Euphemisms Lacking Longevity Thinking
    Wed May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Sometimes a euphemism is staring you in the face, blowing a raspberry, and insulting your mother, but you don't even realize it. That's how I feel about mischief — a word whose history I might be doomed to repeat, since I didn't know diddly about it till recently.

  4. Blog Excerpts

     Quotation Investigator
    Wed May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A new blog has been launched by Garson O'Toole, dedicated to unearthing the truth about the origins of famous quotations. If you want to find out whether Groucho Marx really said, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana," or if Mark Twain really said, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it," check out Quotation Investigator.

  5. Calendar

     VT @ ICHLL
    Wed Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010 - Fri Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, from June 16 to 18. Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer will be presenting a paper on slang lexicography. Click here for more details.

  6. Calendar

     VT @ ISTE
    Sun Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010 - Wed Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the Annual Conference & Exposition of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Visit us at Booth #2368! Click here for conference details.

  7. Calendar

     Literacies for All Summer Institute
    Thu Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010 - Sun Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The 2010 Literacies for All Summer Institute (sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English) will be held at the Indianapolis Marriott Hotel Downtown, Indianapolis, IN, from July 8 to 11. On July 9 at 10 am, the Visual Thesaurus will be co-presenting a session with Colorado Springs School District 11 on "Academic Vocabulary and 21st Century Tools: From District-wide Initiative to Classroom Practice." Click here for conference details.

  8. Word Count

     "Yes, We Want": Who Owns Global English?
    Tue May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A Spanish educational ad campaign using what appears to be "bad English" has University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron thinking about the spread of international English beyond the Anglophone world.

  9. Language Lounge

     Patches
    Mon May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We rarely shine the spotlight on a single word in the Lounge but this month we have a special honoree: the noun patch. We've heard a couple of startling uses of patch recently and it got us thinking about what a great word it is, and how well it exemplifies the genius of language and the genius of English.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Naming the Unspeakable
    Mon May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    As the massive oil disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, John Conway of the Cosmic Variance blog wonders what name we will eventually settle on for the environmental catastrophe. The "BP Deepwater Horizon Spill"? The "Transocean/BP Leak"? Read more here.
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