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Rebuild the Resume, LinkedIn
Each week, my writing course The Interactive Voice reevaluates classic writing forms, contrasts newer online models, and critiques specific student examples. In the third week, we look at avatars, or written and…
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You Are Not A Visual Learner
You are far more intelligent than that. I wrote about how scientists disproved the hypothesis that right-brained people are creative and left-brained people are analytical. Our creative and analytic skills live in…
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Online, No One Knows Your Age
My grandmother used to say she never felt any older than eighteen. I’ve heard many variations on this sentiment, but only decades after I connected the thought with her. She died when…
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Teaching Creativity Takes Patience
I met with the principal and teachers at a local high school to discuss my ideas about applying social-media-based learning to project-based learning. In the same way I came away from a…
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Everyone Wants Recognition and No One Wants To Be Recognized
Through the power of the Web, and because of the power of the Web, I force anonymity on my communications students. We use pseudonyms and hashtags to create virtual classrooms of masked…
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You Can Find Genius Anywhere
I wrote about the total eclipse and how an influential voice is a similar alignment of the right elements. I posted about Manhattan and my realization that periods of enlightenment are always…
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