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  1. Shameless Self Promotion

     VT on TV
    Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 2006
    Check out this nice review of the Visual Thesaurus that ran recently on the Tech TV network. It includes a nice walk-through of some of our many features.

    Click here to watch the whole review.

  2. Behind the Dictionary

     Nasty, Brutish and... Long
    Mon Oct 30 00:00:00 EST 2006
    Lexicographer Jonathon Green is the editor of Cassell's Dictionary of Slang and the world's foremost authority on this rather rich subject. Here he argues the rationale behind his particular bailiwick:

    There are, in round figures, some 100,000 words and phrases in the slang vocabulary. That's half a millennium's coinage, of course, and it's not just British English.

  3. Dog Eared

     Fun Learning Grammar
    Mon Oct 30 00:00:00 EST 2006

    "Fun" and "grammar" in the same sentence? These books make learning grammar a blast. Teachers of the world, rejoice!

    Hot Fudge Monday by Randy Larson

    DownWRITE Funny by Randy Larson

    Comic-Strip Grammar by Dan Greenberg

    Awesome Hands-on Activities For Teaching Grammar by Sasan Van Zile

  4. Blog Excerpts

     Word Detective
    Sat Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    Check out a word sleuth in action: See how this lexicographer, who writes the Language Hat blog, answers the question, "why is that there is an 'oldfangled' and a 'newfangled' but no 'fangled'?" Click here for the response.

  5. Backstory

     Bonnie Shimko, author of "Kat's Promise"
    Sat Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    The fact that I've written anything at all astounds me. I certainly didn't end up being a writer on purpose.

    When I was a teenager (in the sixties), I wanted to be a famous artist -- the mysterious, dramatic type hidden away in a loft in NYC. Problem was, I didn't have any talent. So I became a second-grade teacher in a tiny rural town in northeastern New York. After thirty-three years, I retired, thinking I'd spend the rest of my life doing not a whole lot. That goes flat fast. I tried passing the time by refinishing furniture. No fun at all. A friend and I went into "business" making and selling little girls' smocked dresses. She smocked and I sold. It was a hoot for me but not for her. Then my son (a college senior at the time) won a national writing competition sponsored by the Kennedy Center. I thought maybe I could write something.

  6. 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.

  7. Teachers at Work

     21st Century Learning
    Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    Chris Lehman is the principal of a public high school in Philadelphia called the Science Leadership Academy. It's a brand new progressive school that just opened its doors to 110 ninth graders in September. What's so progressive about it? For starters, each kid gets a laptop -- but no textbooks to take home. And even more important, says Chris, who writes the respected blog Practical Theory, is the guiding philosophy of the school: Something he calls "21st century learning." Chris explains:

  8. Dog Eared

     Principal's Books
    Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Chris Lehman, the principal of Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy and author of the Practical Theory blog, recommends these books that he says "inspire me every day:"

    Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century by David Warlick

    Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks

    Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education by Nell Noddings

  9. Candlepower

     Marketing Copy, Meet Journalism
    Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    I logged a lot of years as a journalist before I made the leap into marketing. At first, writing marketing copy instead of filing stories seemed like a big change. But gradually I came to see my journalism training as an invaluable asset in my new career. In fact, I now believe that a journalism education is excellent preparation for writing of any kind.

  10. Backstory

     Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind"
    Sat Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    I was born in a small town, and I've lived mostly in small towns. When I write, that's where my stories are set, in places like those I know. The fiction I've always enjoyed reading features working-class characters that play roles, often unwittingly, in each other's lives, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for example, or William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County stories. Living in a small town, you witness human drama -- comedy, tragedy, often a weird blend of the two -- acted out every day on street corners, in kitchens and churches and coffee shops.

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