A Little Trick for Mac Folk (now PC as well!)

THE PROBLEM I download a lot of Flick CC photos* for various presentations. I’m doing a decent job citing them but I usually do that on the spot so unless I want to re-find the picture or dig out the old presentation and find the citation there I can’t easily re-use them. *go to advanced […]

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Organization in a MetaData World (Part 2)

Jim’s finally figured out how to use this system effectively! A month ago I blogged my entrance in to the GTD (Getting Things Done) world of organization. Looking back, I haphazardly entered the system. I did all of my research online, and, when I finally pieced my system together, there were major holes that caused […]

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The Outsiders Vocabulary Blog

I know how tedious vocabulary can be–I’m an English teacher. I have a list of 60ish vocabulary words for the novel The Outsiders (Do it for Johnny!). In previous years I have handed out the list, sorted by chapter, and asked the students to define them. I would put a selection of words on the […]

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Organization in a MetaData World (Part 1)

Jim’s finally found a home for his kind of organization I am a swine. I can say this because my mother regularly told me I was “living in a pig sty.” I have struggled to reform myself. Dayrunner (in the bottom of a dusty box). Elaborate Note-Taking Systems (codes never seemed intuitive enough to stick). […]

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