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  1. Candlepower

     The Mysteries of Naming, Part 2
    Wed Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    To create a good name, you need to create a lot of names. Okay, I'm cribbing a bit. It was the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling who originally said, "To come up with a good idea, you need a lot of ideas." But his observation bears repeating and paraphrasing. In creative endeavors, quantity often begets quality.

  2. Blog Du Jour

     Namer's Blogs
    Wed Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Nancy Friedman runs a verbal-branding consultancy called Wordworking, and contributed today's "Candlepower" column on naming. She suggests these blogs on language, branding and media:

    Wordmall. "The labor of love of retired English teacher Michael Sheehan (who also contributes to the excellent online magazine Vocabula.com). Each post takes a familiar word or term -- one of my favorites is "bogus" -- and examines its history, etymology, and usage."

    The Language Guy. "The lessons of linguistics applied to advertising, journalism, politics, and society. Written by a retired linguist, this blog is invariably well researched and feisty."

  3. Dog Eared

     Storytelling, Real or Fiction
    Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    I came across this list of terrific writing books as a sidebar to a Detroit Free Press article on storytelling. To read the article, please click here. [Editor]

  4. Behind the Dictionary

     Slang's Staying Power
    Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    You know what "booze" means, of course, but what if you asked someone in London for a definition -- say, 500 years ago? Lexicographer Jonathon Green will tell you the word is a lot older than you might think. He's spent the last quarter century studying slang, and its history, in the English language. The respected editor of the authoritative Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon's written over a dozen books on the subject and has collected a database of over 100,000 slang words. He's now working on a mammoth multi-volume dictionary, due out in 2008, that will cover a half a millennium's worth of words, phrases and figures of speech -- salty and otherwise -- that have seeped into English as slang. We talked to Jonathon about his passion:

  5. Backstory

     Lynn Sinclair, author of "Return to Aten"
    Sat Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    For me, luck and timing played important roles in getting my first book published. I've dreamed of being a writer ever since Mrs. Jacks, my grade five teacher, first put a gold star on one of my stories (I should note that, as a child, I also wanted to be a veterinarian, a psychiatrist and a racehorse jockey). Throughout my teens, I wrote mounds of poems and short stories; kept a journal for seventeen years; and even tried my hand at a Harlequin Romance-type book. That particular attempt proved to be a dreadful waste of typewriter ribbon.

    It all came to an abrupt halt when, in my late twenties, the man I'd lived with for six years died in a motorcycle accident. For whatever reason, I got rid of my typewriter, packed away my paper and pens, and didn't write again for the next fifteen years. Yet my desire to create continued to simmer beneath the surface.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     ABCs of Writing
    Sat Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    The blog eWriteLife recently launched a series on creative writing called the ABCDE of Writing. "A is for Action, B is for Background..." Read the list as it evolves here. What will "Z" stand for?

  7. Teachers at Work

     Energize Your Classroom
    Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Elementary school teacher Brian Crosby is a technology-in-the-classroom innovator whose efforts have earned him an Apple Computer "Apple iLife Educator Award" honor. He's also the author of a popular educational blog called Learning Is Messy, the tagline of which is, "rollup your sleeves and get messy." It's a credo Brian puts to work at the Agnes Risley School in Sparks, NV, where he teaches at-risk students with the help of a wireless connection and seven-year-old laptops. Reading his blog, we were impressed by Brian's creativity, determination and passion for teaching and technology. When we contacted him we found his enthusiasm infectious -- and deeply inspiring. Here's our conversation:

    VT: How can technology energize teaching?

  8. Dog Eared

     Innovative Teaching
    Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Brian Crosby, the innovative educator we interview this week for our "Teachers at Work" feature, recommends these two publications.

  9. Blog Du Jour

     Innovative Teaching Blogs
    Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Brian Crosby, our featured educator in this week's "Teachers at Work" column, reads these blogs dedicated to innovating in the classroom:

    Borderland by Doug Noon

    Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

    Mark's Edtechblog by Mark Ahlness

    Around the Corner by Miguel Guhlin

    Room 208 by Bob Sprankle

    Finally, this is not a blog, per se, but Brian also recommends checking out National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for additional teaching resources.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Fix Your English
    Sat Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    The aim of Common Errors in English is "to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak." The way this site meets this lofty goal is to catalogue an exhaustive list of usage errors. So the next time you're trying to figure out whether "people are healthy, vegetables are healthful," just click here.
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