I managed to avoid tears and too much screaming last week. Obviously I am very sad that the Seahawks are not playing tonight, but for a team that was supposed to be in a rebuilding year, and that was one…
Tag: Twitter
MOOCMOOC II: The Wrath of MOOC
This week, a monster not seen since August returned. MOOCMOOC, a MOOC about MOOCs, took over Twitter, and rampaged on Storify and The Canvas Network once again. I can only presume that the monster, temporarily sated will now hibernate for…
#DigiBakeDay Begins with Bread
It is just past midnight, and dough is rising in my kitchen. When it doubles in size, I will punch it back down, knead it, and shape it into a loaf. I will then let that loaf double in size…
A Penguin, A Duck, A Digital Writing Month
Despite my ambivalence about WriMos, I will be participating in Digital Writing Month (DigiWriMo) during November. My participation, however, will not be focused on reaching 50,000 words. My sense that aiming for a high word count can be counterproductive is…
Poem Inspired by a Tweet from @clairehennessy
How many times a year do you use bouncy castles? Every time I have to answer a survey with how many steps, what kind of disease and do you count your calories? When I call someone to fix my trees—…
The Problem with NaNoWriMo
There is a problem with NaNoWriMo, but it isn’t what Laura Miller thinks. I’ve done and won NaNoWriMo before. I can see it benefiting individual writers by helping them establish writing routines or ways of viewing their day with an…