If you want to write, read!

"When I was really little I asked my dad if he had read every book in the world yet. I also asked him if he knew the answer to everything. He let me know that the best you can do is know a little about many things and know enough about those things to find out more about them if you want. He made me become a librarian!" Melanie Wood, librarian in Charlotte, NC


"Fiction is as essential as milk. I believe that in literature, in poetry, that we learn what we need to know." Elizabeth Strout

"Put a good book into the hands of a skilled and passionate teacher and those ideas come alive in the classroom; not longer is reading simply a laborious and necessary evil...Suddenly. reading has purpose." Steve Wolk. (2009) Reading for a Better World: Teaching for Social Responsibility with Young Adult Literature, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, (52:8), p. 664.

"Narrative is an 'existential necessity.' Through dialogue we 'mediate the world, in order to name the world,' and that by narrating our worlds, we transform them and thus gain significance as human beings." G. Wesley Houp, (2009), Lana's Story:Re-Storying Literacy Education, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (52:8), p. 701, quoting Friere, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

It's nice when someone else does your work for you


Last week I spoke at Holy Family University in Philadelphia and today I forwarded pictures of the event to one of my editors at Maupin House, Emily Raij. She kindly put together a blog on Maupin House's site. When I got done smiling, I realized the next blog Emily had posted was a review of my book by my hostess at Holy Family, Dr. Lynn Orlando.

This was the first time that I presented this 2 hour workshop on "Reading, Writing, & Technology" and it was well received. Using the new technology mini-lessons that Steve Johnson wrote for my second edition, the students used PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, a SMART Board, and a wiki to practice Show, Don't Tell writing and to see how fun revision can be.


Here's another picture from that event. Dr. Orlando is on my right, and the hero of the night, David Slowik (the technology wizard) is on my left. We grabbed a few students as well as Sally Jo Reid, a local teacher to complete our photo shoot.

It sure is nice to have friends in all the right places!
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