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  1. Lesson Plans

     Learning Idioms in ESL
    Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    In this lesson, small groups of ESL students will use the Visual Thesaurus to assist them in figuring out the meanings of some common English language idioms. Students will then create visual images to present their assigned idioms to the class-demonstrating how idioms can be interpreted both figuratively and literally.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     On the Road
    Sat Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel, On the Road. Blogs across the 'net are honoring this occasion, including boingboing, which excerpts an essay written by an old friend of Kerouac's here.

  3. Candlepower

     Research Your Target Audience
    Sat Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    When writing a marketing or publicity piece, such as a landing page or press release, you have to know the ins and outs of the product you're writing about. That's a given. However, it is equally important -- if not more so -- to thoroughly understand the target audience as well. That's not always easy.

  4. Teachers at Work

     The New Literacy
    Wed Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Visual Thesaurus subscriber Debbie Shults is a veteran teacher, literacy coach -- and now, blogger -- who's helping her Sarasota, Florida, middle school define a "new literacy." So what's so new about this new literacy? We spoke to Debbie about innovations in language arts education at her school, where teachers there now make literacy a fundamental part of their class work -- no matter what the subject, from math to gym to shop class (yes, even shop!). How? Read our conversation:

  5. Blog Du Jour

     Debbie's Teacher Blogs
    Wed Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    Debbie Shults, the veteran teacher, literacy coach -- and now blogger -- we interview in this week's "Teachers at Work" column, recommends these blogs written by and for teachers:

    "Jess Timmons, my young blogging mentor, has a blog called Meaningful Fragments. Jess's website was my original inspiration, and reading her posts keeps me in touch with what our best young teachers are thinking."

    "Zach Chase, another young teacher in the Sarasota County Public School system, has a fabulous blog called, Mr. Chase's Room. He is a definite guru in the world of educational blogs. His posts are always thought provoking and innovative."

    "Darren Kuropatwa. I found his blog, A Difference, through a link on Zach Chase's blog. Darren is a math teacher who writes about all kinds of ideas, especially what's on the cutting edge in integrating technology into the classroom."

  6. Dog Eared

     Promoting Literacy
    Wed Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    Debbie Shults, the veteran teacher and literacy coach we interview in this week's "Teachers at Work" column, recommends these books for promoting literacy in science classrooms:

    The Physics of Baseball by Robert Adair. "At first glance this book looks rather dry, but the illustrations are fascinating. This is a book that makes science and math relevant to many young athletes. This book is part of a series on the physics of different types of sports."

    Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease by Jeanette Farrell. "This book tells the history of small pox, malaria, tuberculosis, plague, leprosy, cholera, and AIDS. Fascinating photographs and other visuals and extremely interesting stories about these diseases make this book irresistible to many students."

    The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and Your Car by Barry Parker. "This is a fun book. Parker grounds all his science in pop culture and writes in a very casual, non-scientific sounding way. Books like these help make science and math relevant to all learners."

  7. Behind the Dictionary

     Witnessing the Birth of Language
    Mon Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    An offhand comment by a former professor tipped off New York Times reporter Margalit Fox to a remarkable linguistic quest: A group of researchers studying, firsthand, the birth of a language. The birth of a language? These scientists had been working secretly in a Bedouin village in the Israeli desert that, because of an unusually high population of deaf residents, had spontaneously created its own sign language, used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. What their experience teaches us about all languages, signed and spoken, is the subject of Margalit's amazing new book, Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind, and our conversation:

  8. Blog Excerpts

     World War Two Fiction
    Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    We've been digging into the terrific literary blog The Millions and found the writer C. Max Magee's entries on World War Two fiction. Why WW2 fiction? "I especially appreciate how the genre can illuminate elements of the conflict," he writes, "that history books cannot, for want of specificity and seriousness." Read his excellent posts here and here.

  9. Language Lounge

     A Talking Ghost
    Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    This month we sweep away the cobwebs in the Poetry Corner to spend some time with a poem just over a hundred years old that still speaks loud and clear today.

  10. Candlepower

     Asymmetric Communications
    Wed Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Marty Cooke is the chief creative officer of an agency called SS+K in New York City-but don't call it an ad agency. Marty's firm brings together a wide range of communications disciplines to provide what he calls "asymmetric communications." How does this work? We called Marty to talk about his agency's approach, and how language comes into play. Here's our conversation:
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