I’m reading Travels with Charlie just for fun this summer and I’m making lots of “Language and Literacy” connections that I thought you might find interesting. It’s a great book for those of us who have the traveling itch, but not the money or time to scratch it. Steinbeck sets out to discover America for [...]
Archive for June, 2005
On a Road Trip With John Steinbeck
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2005 | 1 Comment »
George Lakoff in Austin
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
**Note: this is a Democracy for Texas Event** (grassroots organization).
Lakoff is a linguist at UC Berkeley.
This is from a recent email announcement from Democracy for Texas:
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George Lakoff in Austin
When: Saturday, June 25, 1:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Where: St. Edward’s University, Ragsdale Center
Cost: Free, but please RSVP
To RSVP, get more information, and to volunteer, please visit www.austinmovingforward.org
Nursery School Kids Going Online!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Hi everyone: this is from NCTE Inbox, an Associated Press story from the boston.com about preschoolers going online! Maybe some of you with young children can speak to this? Things are changing so fast! Remember the days of typewriters, 8-tracks, Betamax, and Pong? I used to think my Speak-and-Spell was pretty advanced!
Here’s the [...]
End Note Class this Thursday, June 9
Posted in Uncategorized on June 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The class is at the PCL.
“Learn to use EndNote with other library databases such as the Web of
Science at 2 p.m. in the Flawn Academic Center, Room 227. Other
indexes, the Library Catalog and competing products also will be
explored.”
