Blogging… The Sport of Writing 9 Apr 2011 Some sports are played against the clock. Their time-centered rules vary greatly, but they include judicious use of the time available. Basketball rushes through its quarters with shot clocks to…
Books… Friday Flick: Do Schools Kill Creativity? 8 Apr 20119 Apr 2011 Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, spoke at TED a few years ago about…
Blogging… A Word about Copyright 2 Apr 201122 Apr 2011 My composer son believes in copyright karma. In high school, while pirated music surrounded him, he could have played his iTunes around the clock for two weeks straight without duplicating a track,…
Blogging… Halt! Who Goes There? 30 Mar 2011 I can't decide what to say to you today because I don't know who in the heck you are! When I teach students about the proverbial rhetorical triangle--how their ideas,…
Courage… Friday Flick: “If I Should Have a Daughter” 25 Mar 201125 Mar 2011 Between sharing two of her own polished pieces, poet Sarah Kay shares her own creative emergence and that of her students. She suggests listing ten things you know to be true.…
Blogging… Snow Days 23 Mar 201122 Apr 2011 In Arizona's lower elevations, snow days fraternize with tooth fairies and abominable snowmen--except when your school includes campuses in other climates, and their respective snow days bump the national calendar…
Blogging… Some Lawyers Can Write 21 Mar 2011 If you've ever wondered how privacy issues would be handled on Krypton with its x-ray vision, or whether the statute of limitations applies in cases of time travel or suspended…
Creativity… Friday Flick: Infinity Elephants 18 Mar 201119 Mar 2011 Meet Vi Hart "mathemusician" and infinitely creative. (I wonder what she was like as a kindergartner.) Here's one of her math doodle games.
Brain… “Let Silence Do the Heavy Lifting” 17 Mar 201118 Mar 2011 "Let silence do the heavy lifting." -- Susan Scott Lauren Owen quoted this in "10 Ways to Avoid Death by Meetings," suggesting we "give people some time to respond. As…
Brain… If You Build It, They Will See It 14 Mar 201114 Mar 2011 Some people go to all the trouble of designing and producing buildings, only to make them ugly. Why not hire an architect who understands proportions? Select beautiful colors for the…
Change the World… You Can’t Want It More than They Do 2 Mar 2011 A dear friend often reminds me: "You can't want it more than they do!" How often have I campaigned for someone's results so relentlessly, I've forgotten whose fight it was.…
Brain… My Students’ Best Advice 28 Feb 2011 My students are in finals week. I asked for advice to pass along to future students, and they all said, DON'T FALL BEHIND! They sound even more adamant than I…
Writers' Resort LLC 