Normally unsolicited emails about products, guest posts, or “special opportunities” get deleted with barely a cursory skim, but I received one recently that I felt warranted a closer look, and eventually a blog post (guess there’s a first time for everything). Samuel Sennott is a doctoral student at Penn State and the co-creator of the [...]
Over the course of some Memorial Day morning bargain-hunting, I came across this magnet for sale at my local Five Below store: In the last “Words Mean Things” installment, I wrote about the unintended signals our words sometimes send. At least this magnet doesn’t have that problem. I debated saying something to the staff or [...]
I’m making a bit of a change here on my blog – not a huge one; in fact, a miniscule one, but it’s one I think is important. In the sidebar, I keep a list of the different categories of posts. One of them – Reform – I feel has been hijacked by folks who [...]
Every so often I come across language used in such a way that makes me wonder what the intent behind the words is. As we all know, sometimes the words said and the message conveyed are two very different things. Recently, my son was playing with one of his birthday gifts, and I noticed this [...]
Seen on the front page of a test protocol this morning: two sections for collecting demographic information on a student. Section I (to be filled out by professional): Section II (to be filled out by teacher): I’ll just leave this here for you to do with what you will.
