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App Review: Visual Poetry 27 Aug 2013 | 02:55 pm
I admit it: I am a sucker for word clouds. I have been since that first Wordle created so long ago. This app — Visual Poetry — is a cool twist on word clouds, turning short poems into visual images. R...
Learning About IOS App Development 27 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
I’m going to be trying something new over the next few months. I am going to try to teach myself about IOS Apps and how to make them. I have no clear vision of how it will turn out, but my hope is tha...
Annotated Bookshelfie Photo Meme 26 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
Thanks to Anna, I found out about the #bookshelfie meme idea, which is to simply take a photo of yourself in front of your bookshelf and share it out. There is even a Tumblr site for easy sharing. It’...
Summer Reading Book Reviews 25 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
This is a quick post reviewing three books that I read while on the beach. Lots of reading … that’s part of my down time. And not a professional book in the bunch. First, A Conspiracy of Faith is the...
Still Got Beach Head 24 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
I’ll be back to the blogging about teaching and writing and learning and more soon enough, but my head is still on the beach with my family even though my body is back home. And in less than a week, I...
Gone Away … Be Back Soon 17 Aug 2013 | 02:49 pm
I’m getting in some unplugged family time. See you soon! Peace (in the respite), Kevin
Book Review: Joyland 16 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
You never know how brutal and gory Stephen King might get (well, if you read him, you know), but I have to give Joyland a hearty thumbs up for an entertaining summer read. King’s paperback pulp-style ...
Getting A Story Gift on the Back of a Postcard 16 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
I love this idea that my friend, Kelly, had about taking the idea of the #25wordstory format from Twitter and moving it into a postcard project. She offered to send anyone who asked a 25 word story on...
Graphic Novel Review: Louis Armstrong Jazz Legend 15 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
When I was a music major in college (yep, for one year), all roads in our jazz music history class rightly went through the life story of Satchmo, or Louis Armstrong. While there were many before him ...
A Choose Your Own Path for Leadership Day 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 02:53 pm
Scott McLeod has been hosting a blogging Leadership Day at his Dangerously Irrelevant site for the past few years, encouraging bloggers to give advice to administrators. I’ve participated a number of ...
