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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     Interior Enforcement and Other Freedom Logs
    Wed Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Please enjoy the newest and cluelessest lexical cloaking devices that shine a spotlight on the very malarkey they try to hide.

  2. Word Count

     Of Time, Happiness, Creativity and Writing Accomplishments....
    Thu Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2021
    Find out why being in a good mood is essential to creativity.

  3. 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?

  4. Weekly Worksheet

     A Presidential Word Sort for George
    Mon Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2011
    In this week's worksheet, we celebrate George Washington's birthday with a Word Sort that helps students brush up on their parts of speech and some vocabulary associated with the holiday.

  5. Weekly Worksheet

     A Presidential Word Sort for George
    Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2012
    In this week's worksheet, we celebrate George Washington's birthday with a Word Sort that helps students brush up on their parts of speech and some vocabulary associated with the holiday.

  6. Teachers at Work

     Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
    Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    I don't naturally love short stories, even though I do like small things: fairies, marshmallows and babies all come to mind. But in my personal reading, I prefer the meatiness of a long book, be it fiction or non-. Even in my magazine reading (and I am a devoted magazine reader), I catch myself flipping ahead to see how long an article is before I start. To my mind, the longer the better, which is why I am inordinately fond of Malcolm Gladwell's articles in The New Yorker.

  7. Lesson Plans

     Salinger and the Vocabulary of the Vernacular
    Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2010
    How can students map the meanings of some of Holden Caulfield's slang words and expressions?

  8. Teachers at Work

     The Trouble with Creative Writing
    Tue Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2011
    The day after Halloween, my Facebook feed exploded with posts about numbers. "I've written 5,200 words!" one friend exclaimed. Another claimed to have written 2,300. Someone else only had 1,500. And so on.

  9. Behind the Dictionary

     Inside the OED, Part 1: The Wisdom of Crowds
    Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    Ever wonder how work is done at the Oxford English Dictionary, the world's largest and most prestigious English-language dictionary project? We got the inside story from none other than Jesse Sheidlower, OED editor at large, who works on North American materials out of the dictionary's New York office. In the first installment of our three-part interview, Jesse explains how the OED's North American Reading Program operates. (Note the firmly American spelling of "Program"!) The reading programs (or programmes) have been radically transformed by the digital revolution, but at the same time they still follow the traditions set down 150 years ago by James Murray, the dictionary's first editor. As Jesse explains, the OED relied on "the wisdom of crowds" for the gathering of historical evidence long before the age of Wikipedia.

  10. Language Lounge

     Hotter Than the Doones' Bonfire in July
    Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    If you ask me to complete the phrase "hotter than ________", "July" is what comes to my mind first. The calendar inspires the subject of this month's column, which I might characterize as "uses and abuses of the comparative".
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