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Productivity Spotlight: A Phone Journal

| May 14, 2011

I used to be the queen of sticky notes. My desk was covered with them. But they weren’t sticky enough for me. They would fall off my monitor and eventually slip behind my desk…along with whatever essential information they contained. Well, no more of that nonsense. One day I was inspired to buy a small, [...]

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Keeping New Projects Organized

| August 29, 2009

In this blog, I don’t usually write about the work I’m currently doing. I’m going to talk about my own work this time, though, because it’s posing organizational challenges that I think must be common to many other writers who may read this blog. Currently, I am finishing a long book on Thyroid Disorders for [...]

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productivity tools for writers

| June 5, 2009

I never seem to be satisfied with my calendaring and organizational skills. But I am working on it. To that end, I want to share two tools with you. One is Google Calendar. I previously tried Google Calendar, but stopped using it because I didn’t know how to sync it with my Palm phone. Instead [...]

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Using iPods to Support English Language Learners

| March 18, 2009

Welcome to my website! This is my first post. I’ve been writing a book about iPods and MP3 players, and happened upon some interesting classroom applications for iPods. I am going to post some of them here. In the New York Times, I found an article (“In Some Schools, iPods Are Required Listening,” by Winnie [...]

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Bringing a Whole Language Approach to Middle and High School Classrooms

| December 24, 2008

This post has been sitting here with no text in it for weeks. How appalling! When I came back to this title, I realized that it’s kind of silly — after all, the alternative to whole language is generally phonics, and middle and high school students should have a good handle on how to read [...]

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