Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 28th, 2005 10 Comments »
The New York Times ran a story on gender and hemispheric differences between people who can more easily solve math problems and those who can’t. Mental Abilities: Peering Into a Math Whiz’s Brain In short, people who are good at solving math problems use more of their brains than not: both hemispheres are lighting up [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 27th, 2005 3 Comments »
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Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
The weblog collision detection has an interesting entry called: Can you think better when you’re typing?. The comments on this entry are as good or better than the entry itself.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
4 Digital Books is a high end scanner for turning paper books into digital books. It’s not for end users but for institutions who are digitizing large numbers of books.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
We’ve had a link to Bookshare on our Links page for a while now but I finally met one of people behind this project while in New York at the New York Branch of the International Dyslexia Association conference there. www.bookshare.org/ Bookshare is a subscription service that does some amazing things that go beyond both [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Here’s a great way to get started on a piece of writing. Make a list of everything you know about the topic, in any order. Don’t worry about spelling, don’t write sentences, just words and/or short phrases. animals bear panda lion tiger cat
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Here’s an interesting study of readability of pages useful to anyone who does both desktop publishing or web design: Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 19th, 2005 3 Comments »
Vocabulary Acquisition: Synthesis of the Research is a research paper on how we learn new words and work them into our lexicons. The citations at the bottom alone are worth collecting if you’re a word-smith or teach reading and writing.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Two great articles on writer’s block and more general stuckness. Well worth reading and saving. I’m a great believer in making lists, lists of lists, and master lists to control the world. Electronic outliners are great for making hierarchical lists (lists of lists) but the tool is only part of the equation, the other part [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Nov 29th, 2004 2 Comments »
© Jan Venolia From the excellent stylebook Write Right! by Jan Venolia, Ten Speed Press, ISBN: 0-89815-676-9 Sometimes a tongue-in-cheek approach is effective in fixing a subject in our minds. In that spirit, I present the following summary of the subjects covered in Write Right! – plus a few not mentioned. Put the apostrophe where [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Nov 27th, 2004 2 Comments »
This document was developed by the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators, as part of cooperative agreement #H180M10006 from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Office of Special Education Programs. The points of view expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do no [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Nov 27th, 2004 No Comments »
© Richard Lederer www.pobox.com/~verbivore Longtime Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley was known for beheading the English language with such mutilations as “I resent your insinuendoes” and “No man is an Ireland.” “Today the real problem is the future,” he declared but predicted that “We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement.” Mr. Daley’s creative [...]