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5 Strategies for Reducing Student Email
Today’s A Month of Favorites topic is five most useful digital lifehacks, so I'm going to talk about something that has made my digital life easier: reducing the number of...
2014: A Year in Books
Today's topic for A Month of Favorites is a look at our reading over the course of this year. I've tried this a couple of different ways, and I'm stuck, so I'm just going to...
A Month of Faves: Picking Favorites #1
Today's Yesterday's topic was a post we've loved from someone else this week. This one was hard! I've enjoyed everything I've read so far from all the participants. One in...
6 Degrees of Separation: The Cracks in the Kingdom
As part of the month of favorites, the six degrees of separation meme has been expanded so we can pick one of our faves and see where it takes us. Since The Cracks in the...
Fave Book Covers of 2014
Another day, another Month of Favorites post! Here are my ten favorite book covers of books I read this year. And, yes, I put The Great Greene Heist on there twice. I love...
5 Faves By & About People of Color
I'm participating in the Month of Faves hosted by Estella's Revenge et. al. Here are five of my faves from this year: 1. The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang -- Lots of great...
I’m tired.
I missed posting last week because I was grading, grading, grading. And I was all set to post something this week, but then the Ferguson decision happened and the shooting of...
Top Ten Characters I Wish Would Get Their Own Books
Links go to my reviews! 1. Rachel Elizabeth Dare (Percy Jackson series) -- I love Rachel Elizabeth Dare so much. Like, so so much. I want to see what wacky adventures...
Movies Based on Books: Gone Girl
The best thing for me about watching movies in the theater is observing audience reactions—especially one that’s based on a pretty popular book. I read Gone Girl by Gillian...