1. sandyjensen

    How Do I Write a Good Comment?

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    In the video above, kids a lot younger than any of us give good advice! Posting comments on blog posts you read is considered internet courtesy. Here are some tips: Compliment the writer in a specific way on the content of the post you read. Ask a question and/or add new information to the post. […]
  2. sandyjensen

    How Do I Attribute Blog Images?

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    How to Attribute Blog Images by David Koenig, Demand Media Adding relevant pictures to a blog post attracts readers and boosts the impact of your content. It’s good practice to acknowledge the owner of the image, and in some cases, proper attribution may be a condition of using the image. Failing to acknowledge the author […]
  3. sandyjensen

    Blogging Safety Guidelines

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    Shamelessly and thankfully copied from Brilliant Muskie Blog Blogging Safety Guidelines 1. Treat the “Edublog  spaces” as “classroom spaces” — use appropriate language and be sure that anything you write you are proud of and are prepared to take responsibility for.  Your blog exists as a public space on the Internet. When you put something […]
  4. sandyjensen

    16 Rules of Blog Writing and Layout

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    This is a blog post I borrowed from Sue Anne Dunlevie from her excellent site called “Successful Blogging.” Directly below is a slide show. Use the arrows at the bottom to advance the slides. Below that, I have included her infographic with the same information in case you want to download it, print it, and […]
  5. sandyjensen

    10 Reasons for Students to Blog

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      I require my Technical Writing students at Lane Community College to blog all of their assignments. There are 10 reasons in the graphic above! A common entry level job in any corporate or small business setting is taking over the social media responsibilities, often because the owner and other employees are of a generation […]
  6. sandramardene

    WILDFIRE! I’ve lived through a hurricane, the Columbus…

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    WILDFIRE! I’ve lived through a hurricane, the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, a number of disastrous Silver Freezes, but overwhelmingly, my memories are of wildfires. Wildfires are living entities, a ferocious predator. Forests can’t run, and you can fee...
  7. sandramardene

    WILDFIRE! I’ve lived through a hurricane, the Columbus…

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    WILDFIRE!

    I’ve lived through a hurricane, the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, a number of disastrous Silver Freezes, but overwhelmingly, my memories are of wildfires.

    Wildfires are living entities, a ferocious predator. Forests can’t run, and you can feel their terror on the blast furnace wind as the fire consumes them tree by tree.

    i have come home after work and seen my house surrounded on three sides (I need to draw that!) to the top of the ridgeline with fire. I have been evacuated from the hills by boat with wildfire racing down the mountain behind me (I need to draw that!).

    So much of my remembered history is woven together by tongues of fire.

  8. mfieldswriter

    Sick Sweetness

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    I attended a master writer’s workshop taught by Jacquelyn Mitchard last week. It was so fantastic–the group of other writers, Jackie, the copious amounts of tea I drank all day long, and the in depth analysis of the elements of a novel. Took me back to my days as an undergrad in English Literature, but this […]
  9. mfieldswriter

    Amazing Customer Service

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    I don’t even need to make stuff up today. No fiction involved here. Just a cut and paste of the email exchange I had with an Alaska Airlines rep. Though I sort of wanted to rip him a new you-know-what, I also had to laugh really hard. He’s ballsy. Email from me via Alaska’s “contact […]
  10. mfieldswriter

    It’s all the puppy’s fault

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    You’ve heard of kids blaming their dog for eating their homework, right? Well, I’m going to hop on the old bandwagon and say that my new puppy is the reason I’ve not hammered out more chapters in my latest novel, and why my floors are less clean than I like them to be if I’m […]

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

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