Another Think Coming
Miguel Guhlin
Another Think Coming

Challenge Claims, Uncover Reality

Writing

AI Detection and Writing

As an educator with friends in K 12 education, responsible for teaching writing, much as I did when I worked in a classroom, I am sympathetic about the turmoil that AI causes. For

My Blog Formula

Wish you could write a blog entry? It's not as hard as you might think, but some folks find it so when starting out. I suspect it's the absence of an audience...I know I wrote many

Rusty Water

I was just reading this morning about how the brain works. If you aren't learning new stuff, getting fresh input for your brain, it can have bad effects in the long run. I cited th

Revisiting Markdown Editors

One of the tools I use every day is a Markdown editor. But what editor to use? A quick Google search will give you a list of markdown editors. For many reasons, I write my blog ent

A Simple Style

This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy to use plan for achieving e

AL DíA: Story Frames

While preparing to present for a conference that was cancelled (sigh), I found myself wondering what Kurt Vonnegut would say about it. You see, I thought it might be fun to design

Mourn Your Space

Doug "Blue Skunk" Johnson writes of his last column: My last column in LMC (Li

5 Ways to Slay the Energy Vampire

Over the last few years, I've seen my energy level slowly decrease. It's weird, only 10 years ago, I remember working all day, heading home and blogging 5 6 entries in a short time

Average is Over

Something very, very big happened over the last decade. It is being felt in every job, factory and school. My own shorthand is that the world went from “connected to hyperconnect

Take-Aways from Writing

Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want, and Getting It When you care enough to write down your goals,

Witless Brevity

"Be brief," he said. My daughter takes this advice to heart: Short, concise sentences. Short, concise sentences. This has to become my mantra for when I write papers. Oh, how I l

The Write Way

Shouldn't kids be taught to outline their non fiction writing BEFORE they write it? I'm not sure. As a writer myself, I NEVER outline my work. In fact, I find outlines to be too re

FISHing for IT

Note: This OLDYBUTGOODY was written after I read the book FISH. I know you have better things to do this weekend than to take some time and do some reflection. We have begun a

Avoiding Psychic Disequilibrium

One of the neat ideas in this reading for me included the concept of psychic disequilibrium. An Imperfect Summary of Reading 2: Carroll, Joyce Armonstrong and Edward E. Wilson. “P

Summarizing Books on Writing

There is a probably a better way of summarizing, but I'm afraid, I haven't mastered it yet. My own children have always had trouble summarizing. When I facilitated [reciprocal](htt

Breathless

The following was written as part of my contribution to the Abydos Summer Writing Academy I am participating in. Please feel free to offer any constructive criticism, as I will b

Shape Poems

Note: Another blog entry I didn't want to lose and I'm reposting here. To begin my search, I decided to pursue an interactive that matches this screenshot below: ![](

Writing Workshop Videos

A few interesting videos on facilitating writing workshop...they are all from YouTube so be warned you may not have access to them if you're at work. I've included a complete list

Writing Lesson

I wrote this a few years ago, and adapted it again recently in October, 2009. Since I don't want to lose it, I'm posting it here! How To Write a "Talking to Animals" Poem Aut

How To

When I'm writing how to articles, I like to make pictures of what I'm doing, even if they are just stick figures. Then, I try to describe what is happening in those pictures. There

San Antonio Poetry Fair

Details about the San Antonio Poetry Fair can be found online. The San Antonio Poetry Fair tentatively will be held Saturday Oc

The Eyes

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Joomla Migration RFQ

A month or so ago, feedback was solicited on what should go into a request for quotes for a Joomla migration. A district I'm familiar with has to migrate some of their Joomla sites

Model Project

Dean Groom (Teaching and Learning Design) shares an exciting two week descriptive writing project idea ([here's

Developing Voice

As a young writer, I was always reading about how powerful the writer's voice needed to be. Voice came to mean, as Susan Scott shares in Fierce Conversations, getting out from be

Fight Cancer--Write!

Image Source: Though this study is referring to writing to ease stress resulting from

Keep It Simple

Note: Right click to view image at full size She didn't mark me 'High Distinction'," my daughter explained to

Technical Writing and Wikis

When a freshman/sophmore in college Wichita Falls, Tx's MidWestern State University I was doing terrible in math and science, but was taking sophmore English classes. I'd managed

Be the Animal

This is a sample lesson on using blogs for publishing student writing in 2nd grade. CONTENT AR

Students Writing

Yesterday, I spent my entire day at a UIL competition. All day. No connectivity. No computer. No internet...and, I had a GREAT time. One of the frustrations I have had with the way