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You will be You will have a series of MANDATORY POSTS.  You will be posting to topics provided by me You will be posting to SHORT STORIES POETRY QUOTES     The topics below are ones that you will have an opportunity to select from. Let readers know who you are. Write a letter to [...]

  On Character Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

  On Running Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or [...]

Plans Plans often change, but the vision should remain the same. Therefore, as a leader, you should be stubborn in maintaining your vision but flexible in adjusting your plans. (my paraphrase)” — Andy Stanley “Leading in Uncertain Times”

On Doing Something I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do” — Helen Keller Respond

Below you will find some general tips to follow to help you create headlines to hook you readers.  You want them to read because you sound like you have something to say.  1. Give Me [short time period] and I’ll Give You [blank]. This headline promises a strong benefit to the reader, like all good [...]

  For this class, I want you to gain readers and to have meaningful conversations with them.  So to help you do that this blog post gives some ideas about mistakes that will hinder your readership.    Here are some mistakes that you should avoid: Mistake #1: You don’t post enough.  Common sense.  The more [...]

Not sure if my earlier proposal to change our wiki project to a blogging project has been accepted but I am stepping out on faith and demonstrating what could be done with our blog pages.  Below I have taken some of the discussion ideas that I got from a Twitter resource to begin possible blogging [...]

Twitter resource that I got from  @englishraven @SeanBanville 13,000 conversation questions for #esl classroom – 650 printable handouts – http://www.esldiscussions.com