Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog
A 'warts and all' view of my teaching career. Hopefully, some of my thoughts will inspire you. Or, they will prevent you from making some of the mistakes I have made in the past.
By Xris.
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Safe and dangerous creative writing
Teaching students to write with effect is quite a tricky thing. Over the years, I have seen writing reduced to tick lists. The problem is that no two good pieces are really alike. You could …
Adam Greenfield's Speedbird
Clean living under difficult circumstances.
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Selected publications, 1988-2024
As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed …
Sweeping The Nation
UK-originating new music-slanted hullabaloo. Est. 2005.
By Simon.
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New sounds: 15/11/24
Autocamper - Summertime Manchester by spiritual way of Dunedin, the janglepop revivalists (if it ever needs reviving, or indeed counts as one) have their calendar all wrong but their spirit absolutely in the right place, …
Breakfast and Travel Updates
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Day 7: Te Whanganui-a-Tara
WelcomeYesterday we played a show in the Great Hall of the Dominion Museum in Whanganui a Tara. I returned for the second day to Akin for breakfast, the café with a name that I still …
By Benjamin Sinclair, 960 words
Eat Sleep Cycle Blog
Written by those who love to eat, sleep, cycle. From our base in Girona, Catalunya, we ride bikes all over Europe.
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The 2024 Ex-Rental Bike Sale is Live!
Grab yourself a bargain bike from our 2024 rental fleet! La entrada The 2024 Ex-Rental Bike Sale is Live! se publicó primero en Eat Sleep Cycle.
By Lee Comerford, 33 words
Freewheeling France
Cycling in France and velotourisme including bike routes, cycling books and information on French cycling holidays.
By Lyn.
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2025 Tour de France program and race guide
The official Tour de France race guide ALWAYS SELLS OUT. It has all the info you need to follow the Tour de France. Here is how to find it.
TomsBikeTrip.com
Veteran advice for cycle tourers & bikepackers.
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No Stupid Questions: Any Tips For Staying Motivated On A Longer Tour?
A reader writes: Have you got any tips for maintaining motivation on a longer tour? I’m just past halfway through a Spain to Ireland tour, and I’ve just been feeling a bit burnt out. Been …
Adventuresite.com
Family focused outdoor adventures.
By Summer Ludwig, Bill Ludwig.
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Best Scenic Road Trips for Fall Colors in the Southwest
Before we moved to New Mexico, one of our favorite places to see the fall leaves was Missouri. Every year, we’d head to the Ozarks to soak up the vibrant reds and golds of the …
Simon schreibt.
I'm a VFX Artist & Consultant writing about game art tricks that impressed me.
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Being a Tech Art Detective
This is a talk I gave for the Toulouse Game Dev Master Class. I talk about my methods of discovering cool game art tricks (which I then document on this blog) by asking around, doing …
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By Kevin Dowling.
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Bits & bytes for October 2024
I do love me some video-games. But one genre I have loved since almost the beginning of my hobbyist career has been racing games. And any keen reader here will note that I almost always …
Constitutionally Speaking
By Pierre de Vos.
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Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universities
Even when the legal arguments in such lawfare cases are weak or absurd, the litigation itself can be of value to litigants who seek to utilise the court hearings to air a litany of real …
By Pierre De Vos, 2,054 words
Micropub Adventures
Micropubs, Breweries, Pubs and more…….
By Scott Spencer.
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9/11/24 – Ilkeston, Heanor and Loscoe
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By scottspencer001, 2,308 words
Birchtree
I've been writing here since 2010! Back when personal blogs were all the rage. Kids, ask your parents.
By Matt Birchler.
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One of the many ways modern operating systems help you
One of the things that bothers me about how many people use their computers in the modern era is in how they feel like they need to baby them.I think a lot of people feel …
By Matt Birchler, 522 words
Pat in the World
Paperwork enthusiast seeking new frontiers of paperwork. Former submariner, former Peace Corps Volunteer.
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More LMS Photos
Reading this week: Visions from the Forests, General Editors Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers and Alexander Bortolot Sacred River by Syl Cheney-Coker Afro Sport This fall I got to visit the London Missionary Society archives kept at SOAS …
By patintheworld, 1,240 words
James Warrick
Observations at the intersection of business and technology.
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Using Astro to Build Corso's Help Site
We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use.User-facing documentation is an important element of good software. Sure, good software should always be as easy …
By James Warrick, 764 words