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Put One Word After Another: Neil Gaiman’s Eight Rules of Writing
Put One Word After Another: Neil Gaiman’s Eight Rules of Writing. What a great list of “rules” to encourage the writer in all of us! I can say after a decade of teaching writing in the classroom, this is a far better set of writing precepts than what most students enjoy. Push your student writers…
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The NEXT BIG THING: Sci-Fi Hawaiian Shirts!
Seriously, I think this would be brilliant. Except I don’t know how to design fabric, rent a textile mill, or hire a thousand workers…..but just listen….. Hawaiian Shirts + Sci Fi Art – The Hawaiian Part = Nerd Clothing Heaven Really! Take this: Now add these designs instead …. like shrunk down to objects and…
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Memento Mori
“Remember that you are only dust, and to dust you shall return.” It all seems so medieval. Ash, reminders of mortality, vestments. I hadn’t planned to attend an Ash Wednesday service, but when our dinner guest invited us to accompany her, I eagerly accepted the offer. I don’t want to invade some congregation’s service on…
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Zero Dark Thirty : Hamlet :: Revenge : __?__
Zero Dark Thirty has garnered nearly everyone’s attention this winter. Kathryn Bigelow directed the film, her second outstanding film that takes a look at war (or situations related to war). Her first, The Hurt Locker, ranks on my list of best films ever. The Oscar committee stunned everyone by giving her Best Director, snubbing Avatar (directed…
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Mind, Body, and the Humble Chair
[Cross-posted from Teaching Redemptively, a blog managed by my colleagues and I who worked for several years in a grand experiment we liked to call “grace-based education.”] I’ve run across two articles recently that connect good design (building, object) with good education. Five Things Educators Could Learn From Designers The first, written by John Spencer…
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