Storyology from Both Sides of the Page
Call me “whiny”, but it’s totally unfair that elementary teachers get gifts every year. I mean, c’mon, secondary teachers have more students, do more grading, and build more meaningful bonds with students (when they do build them). We deserve gifts, dammit! Aaawwww…. Is Nia the jealous…? Not really; I got gifts from students every year. […]
It’s so easy to forget that technical writers are still writers, too. Though they don’t write “traditional stories”, or adopt the “writer” title when doing it for their career, they do still write. They tell us “knowledge stories”, you can say. In that sense, it’s just as important to help technical writers in the way […]
Rather than teach the standards like products, I take the assignment’s purpose and teach the skills to accomplish the same thing with a creative product.
Hello, there, again! If you’ve made it to part three of this series, I’m flattered that you’re probably liking my movie interpretations. You probably know already that I have a knack for reading movies like books. I don’t know what it is, but everything is a story to me. I can look at the simplest […]
When we think of “writers”, we tend to think of the short story and novel writers. We tend to ignore non-fiction writers and even completely disregard poets at times. It’s unfortunate because classic poets have told stories just as memorable and robust as any novelist. E.A. Poe, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and those are just famous […]
