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The Medical Society of New Jersey, the state's largest physicians group, opposed a recently tabled bill for physician-assisted suicide. But it is pushing an alternative that may be just as bad: the Practitioner's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST.
POLST is a legally binding form with medical instructions that other healthcare providers, such as paramedics and nursing home staff, must follow if the patient is unable to speak because of illness. It gives more specific instructions than a living will or advance directive, and is said to be more effective because it comes from — and is signed by — a medical authority, such as the patient's doctor. Ideally, the patient gives permission for the form, but if the patient is unable to, a designated proxy can do so.
"POLST has teeth," as a 2013 NPR segment put it: "It overrides the legal obligation of an EMT or a hospital to provide CPR and other emergency care that for old and sick people can lead to a long, miserable hospital stay."
But is POLST really a good idea? POLST has been gaining ground nationwide, in various forms, since it was launched in the 1990s in Oregon, the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. It's now been implemented or is under development in all but seven states. New Jersey introduced its version in February 2013, but Larry Downs, the head of the medical society, said in news reports that "it's going to take a few years" to be adopted.
I don't need to wait to weigh in on it. I can't help but feel a deep-seated distrust and dread over POLST and any assisted-suicide laws. I have lived all of my 51 years on the cusp of death because of a genetic neurological condition called spinal muscular atrophy. I have never been able to stand or walk, and I lost the use of my hands 16 years ago. I was not expected to live beyond my teens but am a Harvard graduate, a writer, a husband and the father of two. And with the help of a motorized wheelchair, a voice-recognition computer and attendants, I live a full life.
In fairness, the attention being given to end-of-life choices is a good sign for those of us who are concerned about patients' rights. I'm simply leery of the push for a better death before we've done all we can to promote a better life for those of us on the fringe.
Last month, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a study by Oregon Health & Science University validating the success of Oregon's POLST program. "Almost everyone in our study who wanted to be with family and avoid an unwanted terminal hospitalization, as long as their comfort could be managed, got their wish," concluded the study's senior author, Susan Tolle.
I agree that too many people die in hospitals rather than at home where they'd prefer to be. Nevertheless, POLST is the wrong solution. The forms are standardized, not tailored to the patient. It is unlikely that a doctor would suggest any hypothetical, extreme treatment on such a form, so it is inherently skewed toward the patient not opting for potentially lifesaving care. In fact, there's no provision to ensure how well informed you are at the time to make such a decision.
I don't like my care choices hemmed in by pre-planned institutionalized parameters. I know firsthand how important it is to remain flexible regarding medical care, and how common it is for conditions to be dangerously misunderstood and deemed terminal.
Seven years ago, I spent three months in the ICU after an error in routine surgery. I was in a coma. My wife was asked, given my severe physical limitations, whether I felt my life was worth saving. She had to insist that every measure should be taken to preserve my life.
It took another six months after I was home before I was back in the swing of life. During that time, my wife learned how to keep clueless home nurses on task. She would say, "Doctor's orders." It's a powerful phrase that says, "This must be obeyed precisely. Don't argue." But just as "doctor's orders" can save the day, they can also be harmfully rigid.
Physician orders written in advance can't possibly cover every real-world eventuality. Sometimes you have to render decisions on the spot, in response to new information such as an allergic reaction — or a change of heart.
At other times, a doctor's orders are simply wrong. Reasonable doctors can and often do disagree. That's why we seek second opinions.
To be sure, POLST and assisted-suicide advocates aim to alleviate misunderstandings and honor patients' desires and tolerance limits. But what I want most when I'm at my worst physically is to feel better. So if a doctor asks a patient about some future treatment, "Do you prefer to refuse treatment and let nature take its course?" — or words to that effect — it might well sound like a recommendation. After all, aren't doctors supposed to know what's best?
Worse still, some POLST programs don't even require a doctor's input. A nurse practitioner simply has to indicate that various treatment options were discussed with a patient — "Do you want to go on a ventilator?" "How do you feel about blood transfusions?" "Would you like to a feeding tube?" No one witnesses how that was done, how well the patient understood the options or how clearly the patient answered. If a patient declines to answer, is that taken as permission to forgo life-sustaining treatment?
The subtle pressures to go along — to avoid costly treatments — can easily lead to acquiescence, especially if the patient is confused. Believe me, we may say anything under the influence of pain or morphine or in the isolation of an ICU.
POLST merely hastens uninformed decision-making based on fear, just as assisted suicide's medically monitored poisoning is based on fear. Both have equally insufficient safeguards against coercion.
Ben Mattlin is the author of "Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity."


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New York, July 7, 2009--With at least 30 journalists currently in prison, Iran replaces China as the world's worst jailer of journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ called on the Iranian authorities to release all journalists who have been detained following the country's disputed June 12 presidential elections.
CPJ research shows that at least 24 detained in the aftermath of the elections remain in custody, in addition to at least six journalists who were in detention prior to the disputed elections. In the past few days three journalists have been freed, while at least three others have been arrested.
Of the 30 journalists currently behind bars, 13 work primarily for print publications, three work for online publications, two work for television stations, six are primarily bloggers, and an additional six are freelancers or with unknown affiliations.
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said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator
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Massoud Bastani, Jomhoriyat
DETAINED: July 5, 2009
Bastani, husband of detained journalist Mehamsa Amrabadi, was arrested when he was went to a Tehran court seeking information about his wife's whereabouts, according to multiple local news reports. He works for Jomhoriyat, a news Web site affiliated with the defeated reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. His wife, Amrabadi, was arrested along with two other journalists on June 15. According to local and international rights groups Amrabadi, who is pregnant, is being held at Evin Prison.
Issa Saharkhiz, freelance
DETAINED: July 3, 2009
Saharkhiz, a freelance journalist and founding member of
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Abulfazl Abedini , freelance
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Abidini, a freelance journalist and human right activist,
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Kambiz Nouroozi, Association of Iranian Journalists
DETAINED: June 28, 2009
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Mujtaba Tehrani, Etemad e Melli
DETAINED: June 27, 2009
Tehrani, a reporter with the newspaper owned by defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, was arrested on his way home, according to Saham News, a news Web site affiliated with Karroubi. According to Saham News, Tehrani had informed his family that he was returning home from work, but never arrived. The following day police visited his home, searched it, and took his computer, the Web site reported.
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DETAINED: June 22, 2009
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Alireza Beheshti, Kalameh Sabz
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Beheshti, editor-in-chief of
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DETAINED: June 20, 2009
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Zhila Bani-Yaghoub, Iranian Women's Club
Bahman Ahmadi Omavi, Affiliation unknown
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Muhammad Ghouchani, Etemad e Melli
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Ghouchani, editor-in-chief of Etemad e Melli , which is
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On June 30, Javan, a newspaper aligned with President Mahmoud
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Saeed Laylaz , Sarmaia
DETAINED: June 17, 2009
Lilaz, a journalist for the daily business journal Sarmaia and a vocal critic of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's economic policy, was arrested in his home on June 17, his wife, Sepharnaz Panahi, told the BBC Persian service. She said that officers searched their home and confiscated videotapes, hard disks, and letters. The family doesn't know where Lilaz is being held, the BBC reported. Sarmaia also reported the arrest.
Karim Arghandehpour, blogger
DETAINED: June 17, 2009
Arghandehpour, a journalist who blogs at Futurama, was arrested on June 17, according to news reports. Arghandehpour wrote for the now-defunct reformist newspapers Salaam and Vaghaa-ye-Ettefaaghyeh, according to the Tehran Bureau, a news Web site.
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, blogger
DETAINED: June 16, 2009
The well-known blogger Abtahi, who is an advisor to the defeated
presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi and was vice president during Mohammad
Khatami's presidency, was arrested on June 16, the BBC Persian service reported.
A blog entry on his site states
that he will resume writing as soon as he is released. His wife, Fatima Abtahi,
told the BBC that three men in plainclothes visited their home in
Sumaia Tawhidlu, blogger
DETAINED: Mid-June
Tawhidlu, who blogs at Sahel
e Salamat and is a supporter of defeated reformist candidate Mir-Hossein
Mousavi, was arrested in mid-June in
Ahmad Zaid-Abadi, Rooz Online
DETAINED: Mid-June
Zaid-Abadi, a well-known journalist who writes a weekly
column for Rooz Online, a Farsi and English reformist news Web site, was
arrested in mid-June in
Mehamsa Amrabadi, Etemad e Melli
Behzad Bashbo, date unknown
Khalil Mir-Ashrafi, date unknown
DETAINED: June 15, 2009
Amrabadi, a reporter for Etemad e Melli newspaper, was
arrested on June 15, her mother, Maryam Naqi, told
the BBC Persian service. Naqi told the BBC that the Ministry of Justice
informed her on June 18 that her daughter was being held at Evin Prison. On
June 17, Ham Mihan, a news Web site, reported that the cartoonist Bashbo
and television producer Mir-Ashrafi were guests
Shiwa Nazar-Ahari, blogger
DETAINED: June 14, 2009
Nazar-Ahari, a blogger
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Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Julian Kuo (郭正亮) yesterday promoted his proposal to freeze the Taiwanese independence clause in the party's charter, saying that it is aimed at maintaining the nation's "status quo," which would help the party in the next presidential race, but agreeing that its adoption could be pushed back until after the year-end local elections.
Before attending the launch of a book about DPP Legislator Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), the party's nominee for the Greater Taichung mayoral poll in November's local elections, Kuo said the US wants a Taiwan that maintains the "status quo," which is why it supported the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in the 2012 presidential election.
"The idea of freezing the Taiwan independence clause is to maintain the 'status quo' in the hope that the US will be neutral in the 2016 presidential election," Kuo said.
Kuo said he was under no illusion that the Chinese Communist Party would support the DPP if it froze the clause, but does believe it would allow Washington to be neutral in the next presidential poll.
The independence clause of the DPP charter adopted in 1991 calls for the creation of the "Republic of Taiwan" and a new constitution.
Kuo's proposal, cosponsored by many other DPP delegates, was briefly discussed at the national party congress on Sunday, until DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) decided to refer it to the Central Executive Committee for discussion and, if necessary, deal with it at a future congress.
Kuo said that the nationwide nine-in-one elections to be held on Nov. 29 are the party's top priority right now and discussion of the proposal could wait until after the elections or the Lunar New Year holiday early next year.
By waiting, the DPP could ride the crest of success in the local elections and the momentum of choosing the party's presidential candidate in May next year to help the measure pass at the next national congress in July of that year, Kuo said.
In other news, a Chinese academic has argued that that the DPP remains the biggest hurdle for the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, a digital Chinese media outlet reported.
Zhou Zhihuai (周志懷), director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Taiwan Studies, made the remarks at a cross-strait relations seminar that opened in Qinghai Province yesterday, www.crntt.com reported.
Zhou said that as the two sides of the Taiwan Strait make major progress on peacefully developing relations, four issues have arisen:
After Tsai was re-elected as DPP chair in May, she said that "freezing the Taiwan Independence clause would require a lot of time" and that "China will adjust to the DPP after it triumphs in the year-end local elections," Zhou was reported as saying. "This shows that the DPP is still the biggest hurdle to the peaceful development of cross-strait ties."
Another issue was the mass protest in March against the cross-strait services trade agreement — dubbed the Sunflower movement — which Zhou said shows that while Taiwanese are supportive of the peaceful development of bilateral ties, they have misunderstandings and misgivings about the future course of these relations.
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Now that a guilty verdict has been handed down in the case of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was accused of involuntary manslaughter regarding his patient Michael Jackson, the doctor has been remanded to custody and was promptly placed on suicide watch in the L.A. County Jail while he awaits sentencing. Murray's sentencing is slated for Nov. 29.
According to the LA Times, a confidential source in the law enforcement field admitted that the doctor was placed on suicide watch. The source spoke on a condition of anonymity.
Murray, a cardiologist with a practice in Houston, was convicted Monday (Nov. 7) of involuntary manslaughter. The jury believed he acted with criminal negligence and contributed to the death of Jackson in June of 2009. Jackson was under Murray's care at the time of his death and the biggest criticisms against Murray were how he handled — make that "mishandled"– a dying Jackson and even administered him with propofol, an anesthetic that is dangerous and deadly when used outside of surgical settings. Murray gave the drug to Jackson as a sleep aid. Jackson died of a fatal overdose of the drug, but Murray's defense team tried to argue that it was the King of Pop himself who administered the final, fatal dose, not Murray.
"This is a crime where the end result was the death of a human being. That factor demands rather dramatically that the public should be protected," L.A. County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said about the case.
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I can make small sentences but unfortunately I'm not good enough to express a "full" opinion written in German . So, I'll answer in English. I hope that's not a problem.
Oh yeah, and yesterday I took my B2 German-Zeugnis from the Goethe Institut in Athens .
Anyway, on-topic again.
I'm a great fan of ancient Greece, and especially ancient Greek mythology . But unfortunately everything that has to do with Greek mythology these days is completely "mythologically" wrong. For example the TV series Xena, Hercules or the games God of War, Age of Mythology, are totally wrong. In order to become better and more enjoyable they change the greek mythology - that's normal, but I get really disappointed when I meet people (even Greeks!) who believe that Xena was a real mythological figure, Hera was evil and things like that .
Rise of the Argonauts , just like every American product, has changed the story of the Greek myths BUT fortunately, even with those changes, it "respects" the Greek mythological world. Other games or tv series show ancient greece as a brutal world where only the main hero is the good guy and everything else is corrupted. That's the most disrespectful thing they could do. But in Rise of the Argonauts on the other hand, you could still see the beauty and the greatness of the Greek mythology (at least that's the impression I got from what I've read and seen so far). So I'd really want to play this game .
And as for me, yes I live in Athens. Modern Athens is unfortunately ugly. You can't find any green areas (parks etc) and everything is grey... The only beautiful part of Athens is the area around Acropolis. The Parthenon looks magical especially during the night, and the rest archaeological places are also very interesting. Unlike Rome, most (not all) Athenian "great" structures (ancient temples, shrines etc) are either buried under modern Athens or they're destroyed by barbarians, fanatical byzantine christians (), turks or by the time (compared to ancient Rome structures, ancient Greek structures are about 500-1000 years older).
Personally I don't think you need more than 3 days to "enjoy" and visit Athens landmarks. The greek islands are the ones that really worth our time . And also places like Delphi or Olympus are great too! The interesting thing about Greece is that every place is connected somehow to mythology, legends and ancient history.
Well, that's all! If you have any questions about greek mythology or greek history they are my favorite subjects for discussion so ask me .


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Etana Jacobi, 22, of Hooksell, N.H., who is the Harry H. Wachtel Leadership Scholar at the Center for Civic Engagement, and Kayla Rivara, 21, of Shoreham in Suffolk County, a Hofstra senior majoring in political science, led the Oct. 22 forum at Kennedy High.
And, while the discussion got heated at times, it never became overheated.
Kennedy senior Marc Tawfik, 17, said government must protect citizens from terrorism, but must do so without impinging on their civil liberties, and that, he noted, is not always possible. "In protecting itself against threats," he said of the U.S., the country "became more constricted."
Classmate Cory Azmon, 17, said that the more than $750 billion the U.S. spends annually on the military may be too great a price to pay. Military spending, he said, "is a little excessive when we have allies that will protect us."
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A number of students said the U.S. should work through the United Nations in a multilateral approach to world peacekeeping. "Diplomacy should always be the first option," said Sara Bigman, 17.
Feit said she believes "there is never going to be an end to the war on terror." Containment is the only real possibility. By working together with other nations, she said, keeping the terrorists at bay is made far easier than if the U.S. were to go it alone.
Perhaps the presidential candidates could take a lesson or two from the students in the L.I. Deepens Democracy project.
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text: On my friends computer (a sony laptop running windows xp) the windows media player does not seem to be working correctly. He can play a music cd on it, and the PROGRAM not the computer entirely recognizes it as a cd-rw-dvd drive. When he takes the audio disk out and puts in a blank disk which he wants to burn stuff onto, the program, when refreshed, seems to have changed its mind, and only recognies the drive as a cd playing drive, not a cd-rw-DVD. The computer has no problem recognizing audio and data cds, but just burning them with windows media palyer isw the problem. iTunes works and allows him to burn cds with it. Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.


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Each year, the NNWP offers inservice courses designed to help teachers make new and exciting connections with the six traits of writing. The goal of these professional development experiences is to help educators see the value of using traits as their classroom language during writing instruction. When both teachers and students "own" the language of traits enough to discuss them throughout the writing process, writing improves dramatically, and learners can "go deep" as they discover their personal strengths and struggles that come with the process of writing.
Word choice is just one of the six writing traits. In Nevada, although it isn't specifically assessed on our fifth grade state writing test, there is a bullet on the state's voice rubric (which is assessed) that directly mentions word choice. The trait of word choice is a complex trait that should be discussed, explored, and further developed every year that students learn to write in school; both kindergartners and high school seniors can be taught to think about developmentally appropriate skills that are associated with word choice. This page contains word choice lessons and resources that we consider appropriate for sharing with third graders and up. If you are working with primary writers and the six traits, be sure to visit WritingFix's 6 Traits and Primary Writing Homepage.
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WORD CHOICE—like the sun in the sky—can accomplish many things: comfort or sunburn, thirst or relaxation. The words you choose to include in your writing have profound impact on your reader.
WritingFix offers a free template of Word Choice Post-It sized notes. These can either be printed on purple colored paper and cut out and stapled to students' drafts, or you can--if you dare--attempt to print them on real 3 x 3 Post-it® Note-sized templates.
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Word choice "mentor texts" that are focused on during the NNWP's annual
6-Trait Inservice Classes for Teachers:
(Visit our 6-Trait Homepage to learn more about our popular inservice class.)
Each year, the Northern Nevada Writing Project sponsors a huge variety of inservice classes and workshops that focus on helping teachers make 6 traits the language of their classrooms during writing instruction. A variety of presenters share K-12 classroom ideas with each workshop's audience, and--as teachers are known to do--the participants madly write down the names of mentor texts shared by the presenters.
Here are two word choice mentor tools shared by our presenters that our participants are always happy they have written down the titles for:
Children's Thesaurus
Have a favorite book not mentioned on this page for teaching word choice? Send us the title at email@example.com.
More word choice "mentor texts" cited in the NNWP's
Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide:
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Lesson title:
Hoot & Howl
inspired by
Halloween Hoots and Howls
by Joan Horton
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What If... Poems
inspired by
What If...
by Regina Johnson
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Make 'em Laugh or Cry...
inspired by
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
Lesson title:
Writing Like an Artist Paints
inspired by
Chasing Vermeer
by Blue Balliett
All of WritingFix's Serendipitous Word Games are designed to make you laugh, and if you keep clicking the buttons long enough, an idea for original writing will eventually jump at you.
"I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them."
"I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them."
--Jay W. Lorsch, Harvard Business School
--Jay W. Lorsch, Harvard Business School
Prompt Title: The Verb Game
Overview: Students click the two "magic buttons" until they build a story prompt inspired by random verbs. Before writing, students should have discussed the power of good verbs in a story's sentences, and you might create a verb word wall where students can refer when they create an entire story that is inspired by the prompt your students create. If your students write a particularly good story inspired by the prompt they build, you are invited to send it to us at email@example.com so that we may consider publishing it for other students to be inspired by. See this prompt's student samples page for details.
Ronda Donaldson, a Missouri teacher, shared the idea below with us. We sent her the NNWP's Going Deep with Compare and Contrast Thinking Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: email@example.com.
"In order to encourage children to use more precise words, I challenge students in grades 3+ with a lesson we call '10 - No Repeat'.
"The children are given a topic. The topic may be a holiday, a shared book, or whatever you like. Then, the children are asked to write 10 sentences about the topic. The challenge comes in with the 'no repeat'. 'No repeat' means that they may not use a word more than one time... yes, that includes: 'is', 'the', 'and', 'I', etc. They may only use a word once.
"This activity pushes children to find alternative ways of stating the topic, use precise action words (verbs) and descriptions (adjectives), and find different ways to express their thoughts. A by-product of this activity is that the children will begin to vary the structure of their sentences.
"Sharing and analyzing their favorite sentence allows other students to grab on to a new idea/way to write. Finally, we write a reflection in our journals about something we learned during the lesson."
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Lesson title:
Serendipitous Characters
inspired by
Tough Boris
by Mem Fox
Lesson title:
Onomatopoetic Field Trips
inspired by
RattleTrap Car
by Phyllis Root
Lesson title:
To Imitate Two Natural Authors
inspired by
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
Lesson title:
Your Own Faraway Place
inspired by
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Prompt Title: The Adjective Game
Overview: Students click the four "magic buttons" until they build a story prompt inspired by one noun and three random adjectives. Before writing, students should have discuss the power of unique and memorable adjectives in a story's sentences, and you might even create a strong adjective word wall where students can refer when they create an entire story that is inspired by the prompt your students create. If your students write a particularly good story inspired by the prompt they build, you are invited to send it to us at email@example.com so that we may consider publishing it for other students to be inspired by. See this prompt's student samples page for details.
Holly Platt, a Arizona teacher, shared the idea below with us. We sent her the NNWP's Going Deep with Compare and Contrast Thinking Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
"I wanted to share a book that I have used over and over again when I teach word choice. The book is called Piggie Pie! by Margie Palatini. It is an adorable story of a witch who desperately needs eight piggies to make her piggie pie. She ends up at Old McDonald's farm, but the piggies have disguised themselves, and the witch goes home without her piggies. When I use this book to teach, I first read a version of the story that has all the descriptive words changed, or taken out. The students have to see how many 'colorful,' descriptive words they can find, which is usually not very many. I then read the book a second time the way it is actually written. The students are always writing furiously to get all the 'colorful' words written down.
"When I am done, we make a chart of all the descriptive words that are found in the story. We hang up the chart and use these words over and over through the year. My students love this story and the activity!"
Lesson title:
Details and Vocabulary
inspired by
Tulip Sees America
by Cynthia Rylant
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Noun-inspired Animal Reports
inspired by
We Are Bears
by Molly Grooms
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Original Metaphor Collections
inspired by
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
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Creative Parallel Universes
inspired by
The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
From Corbett Harrison, iPod Class Presenter: "I love making playlists on my iPod, and I love challenging my students to create imaginary playlists inspired by themes I give them and lessons I teach. If you click on the thumbnail below, you will see a playlist from my iPod I call 'Pronouns.' After teaching my students the many types of pronouns, I challenge them to create their own pronoun playlists based on song titles. We have a class contest to see whose list sounds the funniest when just the song titles are read aloud in order."
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Prompt Title: The Noun Game
Overview: Students click the three "magic buttons" until they build a story prompt inspired by random nouns: one person, one place, and one thing. Before writing, students should have discussed the power of using precise and interesting nouns in a story. If you don't have the ability to get your students on computers to use this prompt, you can easily fill three coffee cans with index cards; on each card, write an interesting person, place or thing, depending on which coffee can you're placing it in. If your students write a particularly good story inspired by the noun prompt they build, you are invited to send it to us at firstname.lastname@example.com so that we may consider publishing it for other students to be inspired by. See this prompt's student samples page for details.
Tara Olivarria, a Nevada elementary teacher, originally shared the following innovative technique with us in the NNWP's Going Deep with 6 Trait Language Guide. If you have unique ideas about teaching nouns and pronouns while teaching writing, direct your ideas to: email@example.com. If we post your idea, you can earn a copy of any of the NNWP's Print Publications.
"Both Brian Cleary's I And You And Don't Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? and Ruth Heller's Mine, All Mine! examine pronouns and the many forms they can take. One or both of these mentor texts should be shared before attempting this graphing activity. They do an excellent job of showing pronouns in their many forms.
"After creating a class list--inspired by both books--of the most commonly used pronouns, have your students highlight the pronouns they have used in a piece of writing they are currently working on. Have a partner look over their highlights, pointing out any words that the writer missed in their first look-over; students often miss their own pronouns when beginning this process, and an extra set of eyes helps them catch them all.
"Next, pass out a short sample of published writing (Xeroxed) by a favorite classroom author. It might help to find a piece of writing that is of a similar genre to what your students are working on; for example, if you're learning about and writing personal narratives, do this with a published personal narrative. Have students work together to highlight popular pronouns in the published piece of writing. Create a class graph that shows a published author's pronoun use.
"Then, have students create a similar graph for their own writing. I find that often my students use pronouns a lot more recklessly than published authors do. When we compare my students' personal graphs to the published author's, a lot of my students make that connection and vow to use fewer pronouns and more precise nouns when they revise.
"Have students discuss their graphs with each other before having several share their findings with the whole class."
Lesson title:
Listen to Poets' Word Choices
inspired by
Listen to the Rain
by Bill Martin Jr.
Lesson title:
The Color of Love
inspired by
I Love You the Purplest
by Barbara M. Joosse
Lesson title:
A Moment Like This Memoir
inspired by
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
by Bruce Coville
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Paulsen-Inspired Nature Poems
inspired by
by Gary Paulsen
Brenda Arnold, a wonderful Northern Nevada middle school teacher, allowed us to visit her classroom and photograph her sensory language word walls. In Brenda's class, students are encouraged to carefully choose words from these list that genuinely help and improve their writing. There is nothing worse than forcing sensory language into a piece where it isn't needed in order to simply make the writing longer. Brenda's students are taught to choose with care.
We gave Brenda the NNWP's Going Deep with Compare & Contrast Thinking Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Each of the writing traits--word choice included--can be broken down into multiple smaller writing skills that--when working together--make-up the bigger trait. Below, find some of our webmaster's favorite resources and lessons that focus specifically on one word choice sub-skill: using figurative language effectively. A great writing teacher finds the time to explore as many of each trait's subskills as possible, helping students understand that each trait is built from multiple skills.
One teaching point when helping students understand figurative language is to make sure they realize that figurative language should sound natural if it is to improve a piece. How many pieces of student writing have been spoiled by teachers forcing them to add poetic elements that don't fit?
Lesson title:
Haiku Riddles
inspired by
If Not for the Cat
by Jack Prelutsky
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Special Place Poems
inspired by
A Quiet Place
by Douglas Wood
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Prose Poetry
inspired by
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
In Northern Nevada, we host an annual poetry workshop--our Piñon Poetry Festival--where teachers and select students attend to write poetry together under the guidance of Northern Nevada Writing Project Teacher Consultants. At evening's end, the attending teachers are encouraged to return to their classrooms to teach the same lessons they've learned with the help of the students they brought.
At WritingFix's Poetry Lesson Collection, we feature not only all of the lessons shared at past poetry festivals, but also other innovative lessons written by Northern Nevada teachers who've been inspired by the NNWP's Poetry Projects and Festivals. We believe that when students are taught to love the act of writing poetry, all their assigned writing's word choice improves.
Marsha Kessler, an Idaho elementary teacher, shared the following mentor text suggestion with us. We sent her a copy of the NNWP's 6 x 6 Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
"I love to share Sam and the Tigers when teaching my students to use better similes in their writing. This book--by the great Julius Lester--is a more modern day version of Little Black Sambo. Each piece of Sam's outfit is described using a color simile. The similes Lester uses are rich and thoughtful, not trite or predictable.
"We talk about predictable similes and cliche similes, and then we make some for each of the colors as a class: as blue as the sky, as green as the grass, as yellow as the sun, as black as the blacktop.
"Then we re-read Sam and the Tigers. The students start to appreciate the unique sound of Lester's figurative language.
"I then have students visit some of their previous writing and find places to carefully add similes that might improve their writing, not feel forced, and not make it predictable."
Lesson title:
Poems to Bug Your Readers
inspired by
by Douglas Florian
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Alliterative Insects
inspired by
Clara Caterpillar
by Pamela Duncan Edwards
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Prose Poetry
inspired by
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
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Oxymoron Poems
inspired by
by Louis Sachar
Sausage Story: Writing a Riddle into an Original Tale -- A sausage sentence is a very special kind of sentence that students can create; making one involves playing with language in a very unique way. Once students have created a series of these special sentence, they choose one and use it as either their story's introduction or conclusion.
This is a fun differentiated writing prompt, as you will have some students who really excel at this word-play story-writing challenge, and you will have others who, at very best, will be able to manage writing just a single, challenging sentence. When you partner those who excel at this prompt with those who struggle, you will hear some great conversations about language strategies.
Enjoy this word play prompt!
Alliteration is a fun tool to teach, but the type of tongue-twister alliteration our students compose during these lessons with is not the type of alliteration often seen in actual published writing. Real authors do use alliteration in their prose, but they do it so subtly and gently so that the reader often doesn't realize it's there.
In our Northern Nevada Revision Workshop for teachers, we study real authors uses of subtle alliterations in descriptive writing. Teachers are amazed at how often they discover it, once they realize it's a commonplace technique.
One of the lessons we share during the workshop is called the "Four Corners of 90th Street." Inspired by Roni Schotter's Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street, the lesson includes advice about adding subtle alliteration during revision as a technique to improve both word choice and idea development.
Melissa Connors, a Michigan middle school teacher, shared the following mentor texts us. We sent her a copy of the NNWP's Secondary Writing Guide as our thanks for her being so willing to give back to our site. Shared ideas can be directed to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
"As a kid, I adored The Munsters, starring Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster. When I first started teaching, I borrowed a book from a colleague for a lesson I was designing on puns, and it never occurred to me that the author was the same man who'd made me laugh so much on television.
"A Chocolate Moose for Dinner was the book I borrowed. Later, I also found The King Who Rained. Both are now prominently displayed through most of the year in my chalk tray, and they inspire my kids to celebrate the sound of language, especially interesting words that are homonyms.
"Each spring, I team the students up in pairs, and we have a visual pun contest. After sharing from Gwynne's books, the students brainstorm as many homonyms they can. They circle all the ones that might make interesting visual puns like the ones from the mentor texts. I always model with the homonyms bases, basis, and basses. We make funny puns like 'ran around the basses,' 'on what bases did you make your decision,' and 'you better tune your basis before playing.' I ask the students which pun would make the funniest cartoon, and what would the cartoon look like.
"In pairs, students now begin creating and brainstorming illustration ideas of visual puns. At the end of class, I ask students to listen carefully to words over the next few days, and I explain that in a few days, each partnership will be responsible for submitting an original illustrated pun that can be hung in the hallway. We vote for our favorites, and they become our punny bulletin board that hangs up for the rest of the year.
"I find this exercise really helps my students understand that language is fun and can be played with. Long after the contest is over my students still bring me visual puns they think up after hearing words in places outside my classroom."
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The "war with Iraq only if pre-conditions are met" drumbeat, exemplified by the Washington Post editorial I posted last night, has the feel of an anti-war movement that dare not speak its name. It certainly provides great cover. If the war goes badly, they warned us not to proceed without our European allies and without having gained support in the Arab world by "solving" the Israeli-Palestinian conflcit. If the war goes well but post-war events are bumpy, they warned us that we needed better post-war planning. If everything goes well then, hey, they never opposed the war.
This brings to mind Bill Clinton's "position" on the Gulf War. Asked in 1991 how he would have voted on the war resolution, he responded, and I recall these to be his exact or almost exact words: I guess I would have voted with the majority [supporting the war] if [the vote] was close, but the minority had the better arguments."
Except as a ploy, the "pre-condition" movement makes little sense. Either Saddam is a significant threat or he isn't. If he is then, assuming we have the capability, we should topple him regardless of how many allies support us and whether we can promise that Iraq will become Switzerland. If Saddam does not pose a significant threat, we should not put Americans troops in danger even if all our allies wanted us to and even if we had a fool-proof post-war plan.
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Forest partnerships
- Amazon: For many of the companies involved, it is the image of partnering with communities that is more important than the product itself.
- Innovation: Partnerships between scientists and practitioners are not working well.
- Forests Dialogue: I'm convinced that partnerships can achieve much by 'engaging the radical middle'.
- Interview: We haven't tapped into the real potential of partnerships for forests yet.
- 2 Editorial
- 3 Livelihoods and Landscapes: Mount Elgon, Uganda
- 4-5 Partnerships for equitable forest trade: Corporate-community partnerships in the Amazon; the Union for Ethical BioTrade
- 6-7 Partnerships for learning: a learning network on forest landscape restoration; partnerships for innovation
- 8-9 Feature: Growing forest partnerships
- 10-11 Partnership organizations: Multistakeholder initiatives under fire; Insights from The Forests Dialogue
- 12-14 Partnerships for forest governance: VPAs as partnerships; Strengthening Voices for Better Choices in Brazil; Multistakeholder processes
- 15 Ground rules for forest partnerships
- 16 The interview: Jan McAlpine, Director of UNFF
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HILLSBORO, Ore., Dec. 16, 2010 – SolarWorld has culminated its five-year drive to integrate, revitalize and expand U.S. operations by adding its 1,000th worker in Hillsboro, establishing the equivalent of four factories there and overhauling operations in Camarillo, Calif., all on schedule.
The biggest and most experienced U.S. crystalline silicon solar technology manufacturer has achieved extraordinary economies of scale on domestic soil by building out the four factory steps in Hillsboro – most recently including a highly automated panel-assembly factory in a new building – and modernizing solar power panel assembly in its more than 30-year-old factory in Camarillo. A host of allies, including the state of Oregon and its higher-education centers, have helped the company transform the former semiconductor plant site in Hillsboro into the largest solar manufacturing plant in the Americas.
"Our goals here were straightforward: to tool up annual production capacity to 500 megawatts at the U.S. sites and hire 1,000 workers in Hillsboro by 2011," said Bob Beisner, managing director and vice president of the U.S. operations. "We have done just exactly that on the very schedule we laid out. But the feat – rare in these days of off-shoring and industrial recession – has been enormous, requiring the combined passions and dogged commitment of our many partners and employees."
Approximately the 1,000th worker to be hired embodies that determination. Angela Beed, who traces her interest in clean energy to her childhood in rural Cove, Oregon, started work on her associate of science degree in microelectronics at Portland Community College with plans of working in the semiconductor industry. After SolarWorld announced its expansion and the college added photovoltaic coursework, she switched tracks. On Dec. 1, she became a maintenance technician in the company's wafer-cutting plant.
"I was one of the lucky ones to get a job in something that I actually feel passionate about," said Beed, 28, who lives in nearby Portland. "Now I feel even more drive."
The company employs another 250 people, including sales and marketing employees, in Camarillo, where the SolarWorld expansion got its start. In mid- 2006, Germany-based SolarWorld acquired the assets of Shell Solar, featuring the Camarillo plant and its lineage of solar pioneering dating to 1975. In 2007, the company bought the former chip factory in Hillsboro, where it could establish much bigger operations to produce silicon crystal, solar wafers, photovoltaic cells and solar panels.
Support for the Hillsboro project has reached beyond the state. In January, the U.S. government granted $82.2 million in renewable-energy manufacturing tax credits – the largest for a solar manufacturer among $2.3 billion in tax-credit awards.
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — We always seem to find coach Doc Rivers and his Boston Celtics in this position at the end of a season.
Perhaps it has something to do with the exhausting effort the Celtics put in each and every season, or the grueling emotional fallout from coming up short of their ultimate goal (it's always championship-or-bust in Boston, even when the rest of us understand that it's not possible). Rivers always seems spent when the ball stops bouncing, like he's not sure if he has another season in him, regardless of his contract situation.
The way he and Kevin Garnett acknowledged the end in that Game 6 loss to the New York Knicks last week, it certainly felt like the end of an era was near. But maybe not. Celtics boss Danny Ainge spoke publicly on a radio show in Boston about both Rivers and Garnett coming back for another go at it next season.
They're both under contract and even with the inevitable changes that are sure to come in the offseason, Ainge is counting on those two franchise pillars to be in place. At least that's what he said on the radio, as Chris Forsberg of ESPNBoston.com details here:
"Doc is always unsure [about his future]," Ainge said. "Coaching is very, very draining. Every year with Doc, he's had to go home and sort of recharge and ask himself that question, 'Is this something that I'm passionate about and want to continue doing?' I understand that. And we sorta give him time to unwind and relax, and after a couple of 92s on the golf course, he usually comes back."
Pressed further on what he believes Rivers will do next season, Ainge added, "I think Doc will be coaching the Boston Celtics."
Rivers signed a five-year, $35 million contract extension with the Celtics following the 2010-11 season. That hasn't stopped his name from dancing in rumors about other vacant jobs, and a report by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith suggested there were whispers around the league about a potential deal that could land Rivers, Garnett, and Paul Pierce with the Los Angeles Clippers as part of a blockbuster swap.
Said an amused Ainge: "Hey, listen, those things are silly. Those are a waste of time to even acknowledge."
Pressed on Smith's suggestion that there could be lingering friction between Ainge and Rivers, Ainge added, "Well, you'd have to ask Doc what he thinks, but what I think is that I have the best coach in the NBA and I'm not the least bit tired of hearing his voice. We have a great relationship from what I feel, and what I perceive, and so I have no idea where that's coming from. But it's certainly not coming from my side of the table."
Ainge has every reason to support his coach. Rivers has held the Celtics together through some absolutely tumultuous times over the past couple of seasons, given the injuries to both Garnett, Rajon Rondo and others as well as the roster shuffling that has gone on since the Celtics played in The Finals in 2010.
There is a genuine love between Rivers and his veteran leaders. It's a bond that will be extremely difficult for Ainge to break up. And make no mistake, there will come a time when the remaining nucleus of the Celtics' championship crew of Garnett, Pierce and Rondo will no longer be a viable unit.
The Celtics' vets aren't getting any younger. And even with an influx of youth (Jeff Green and Avery Bradley) and fresh faces (Jason Terry and Jordan Crawford), the playoff load was just too much for Garnett and Pierce to handle without Rondo around to help direct the traffic.
"We need more," Rivers said. "It's like that little girl on the commercial said. 'We need more, we need more because we need more.' We need more, because we do. The key for us is do you want to take away to get more. And that will be a decision that make … later."
Rivers is fiercely loyal to the players who have sacrificed for the greater good in Boston. So it won't be easy for him to part ways with Pierce either, especially with Pierce's history with the franchise.
"He's one of the greatest Celtics ever to ever play. He's done so much for this franchise," Rivers said. "Listen, we live in a day and time when guys are changing teams like socks. And Paul has chosen to stay here throughout his career, when clearly he had all rights to leave. And he chose to stay here. I have so much respect for him for that. When I first got here we were really rebuilding. Its's funny, we made the playoffs that first year and I remember telling him that 'we're going to change our team and things may not go very well for a year or two.' And they didn't. And Paul, he never wavered. I give him that and just an amazing amount of respect. He wanted to get it done here. He made that choice … [where] other guys are running around trying to find it."
Ainge will ultimately have to make the decision on when the Celtics' Big 3 era officially comes to an end. Ray Allen's departure last summer didn't do it. Neither did Rondo's season-ending knee injury nor the deflating end to this season.
If Rivers and Garnett do indeed return, whether Pierce stays on or not, the Celtics are poised to make at least one last run together before the inevitability of it all finally catches up to them.


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South By Southwest (SXSW) – Final ThoughtsPosted: March 23, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, sxsw2007 Leave a comment
Some visuals for the crowd…
Check out the Flickr stream provided by Chad Hutchens for more pics from the conference and Austin.
South by Southwest Interactive was well worth the time and money. TERRA: the nature of our world didn't win the finals, but I was pretty happy just to be competing in this race. In terms of new ideas for digital library apps, I don't think I've ever felt so full of ideas after a conference. Some possibilities: microformats integrated into results pages, digital document delivery based on XML, blip.tv api to leverage distribution of digital library videos… It was great to get outside of the library community and Austin was lots o' fun as well. As conferences go, the price wasn't steep – under $250 with food and drink options every night. If you get the chance, step outside your library comfort zone. It'll work wonders.
UPDATE: The podcasts of the SXSWi panels continue to grow. Check out the SXSWi podcast page or subscribe to the SXSWi podcast feed to see the latest additions.
South By Southwest (SXSW) – Day 4Posted: March 23, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, sxsw2007 Leave a comment
My final day at the conference. Still found lots to do and write about. More of a brain dump…
Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0
Moderator: Liz Danzico Director, experience strategy, Daylife
Liz Danzico Director, experience strategy, Daylife
Kristian Bengtsson Creative Dir, FutureLab
Chris Messina Co-founder, Citizen Agency
Luke Wroblewski Principal Designer, Yahoo!
Jeffrey Zeldman Founder, Happy Cog
This was a great panel. A conversation about organizational cultures and how to change them. Relevant to just about anyone who works in the service industry.
Stuck is about perspective
act or process of:
doing good work
being productive
feeling fulfilled on a team
How are you stuck? too many meetings; micromanage
document design process with wiki, blog, flickr, open up to world
management through conversation – talk before design, listen, create trust and comfort
keep researching – getting data and trends, write things down to think things through
accept constant change – be fearless and have fun
set the terms for the conversation – name it
don't pitch your process – just add value
articulate simple goals
"hire your clients" – find the opportunity, bring the solution
understanding context – become friendly
The Future of the Online Magazine
Moderator: Rufus Griscom CEO, Nerve Media
Rufus Griscom CEO, Nerve Media
Sean Mills The Onion
Ricky Van Veen Editor, CollegeHumor.com
Laurel Touby CEO & Founder, mediabistro.com
Joan Walsh Editor in Chief, Salon.com
Another hilarious panel with leaders of some of the world's most compelling online magazines discuss their visions of where this medium is headed. Pretty interesting to see old school editing model versus user-generated editing model. American Idol was used as an example of a user-generated media. Blogs continually came up as a way to increase readership and even recruit talent. The physical side of the business was also considered. Some of the "online" business are still dipping their toes in the physical world. Examples: the Onion – books and t-shirts; CollegeHumor – t-shirts.
How has business changed?
web2.0 has helped – blogosphere disseminates, lightly moderated content from readers
RSS helps, but only geeks are active users – newsletters are more effective (email)
increasing importance of natural web traffic and blog links
Is edited content obsolete?
full-time staff remains
collective editing can work, but we still need editors.
Can premium paid content work?
Advertising revenue can stem the tide
Subscription might be able to work – membership programs these are valuable, loyal users
"Our publications are a community" LT
Merchandise can be another source of revenue
How to maintain consistent voice?
Not really a concern, the web has multiple voices
The Growth and Evolution of Microformats
Moderator: Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
Frances Berriman Volume
Michael Kaply IBM
Glenn Jones Creative Dir, Madgex
Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
Microformats is an extension of structured xhtml and metadata… From the microformats site:
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).
This was a packed house which is cool for at least two reasons.
1. It was competing with Dan Rather's keynote.
2. It's really encouraging to see geeks take the idea of metadata and bring it to the masses.
We'll see if it takes off. At its core, it gives us a way to markup up blogs or web pages with some semantic data. It gives a richer meaning (for machines and people) to sections of a page. Imagine search results with extra standardized markup behind the scenes that let you push pieces of a page to mobile devices, feedreaders or even other web pages.
Favorite Question:
Could microformats be a data transfer layer? Yes, could be a low level API – expose a simple set of data. Could read simple structured data from a web page
Open Content, Remix Culture and the Sharing Economy: Rights, Ownership and Getting Paid
Moderator: Eric Steuer Creative Dir, Creative Commons
Eric Steuer Creative Dir, Creative Commons
Glenn Otis Brown Products Counsel, YouTube
John Buckman Founder and CEO, Magnatune
Laurie Racine Eyespot and DotSub
Max Schorr Publisher & Founding Ed, GOOD
Kind of hit or miss… Some feuding on the panel between Magnatune guy and YouTube guy. Some highlights about copyright and DMCA:
DMCA – it is up to content owners, tacitly they want people to use their content
Let copyright holders make the choice about content use. Direction is toward "openness"
Is it the responsibility of companies to be open?
good for business, good for customers
agreements/licenses could have simple and complicated versions
It was interesting to hear an audience member ask, "why should university license open content?" This could play into how we sell institutional repositories. Make the contributors know that they still own the rights to the content. Note to self: emphasize library role as one of access intermediary.
South By Southwest (SXSW) – Day 3Posted: March 23, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, sxsw2007 Leave a comment
Keeping the ball rolling… Some thoughts from the day. It was another great day. The best part of this conference is hearing about new ideas and working to translate the idea into the library web environment.
Why We Should Ignore Users
Moderator: Robert Hoekman Jr Interaction Designer | Consultant, http://www.rhjr.net
Robert Hoekman Jr Interaction Designer | Consultant, http://www.rhjr.net
Sarah Bloomer Principal, Sarah Bloomer & Co
Mark Schraad Sr User Interaction Designer, AOL
Christina Wodtke CEO, Cucina Media
I love the title; I just couldn't resist. What are the merits of user research? Great question and it was a room full of interaction designers, information architects. There's a whole world out there whose job it is to research and create from the user perspective. Robert Hoekman Jr was the dissenter on the panel. The other panelists were really interested in canonizing user feedback as the only way to create. Hoekman pointed to the inconsistencies in user feedback and spoke about designing around tasks and activities. Build the tool and see what works for users. Might try and bring some of that sentiment back to academe…
Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care
Moderator: Elisa Camahort Pres of Events & Mktg, BlogHer
Elisa Camahort Pres of Events & Mktg, BlogHer
Dawn Foster Dir of Community & Partner Programs, Compiere
Annalee Newitz Freelance Writer
Erica Rios Internet Project Mgr, Anita Borg Institute For Women and Technology
Interesting panel trying to bridge the gap between open source zealots and the designers they develop for. A solid, balanced conversation about what makes open source compelling for both parties. Nice give and take with the audience. Best quote "Open Source is not free as in beer; it's free as in freedom to build what you need." There's a hidden cost to this stuff, but you need to balance it with the advantages of the open programming development model.
How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Mashup Culture
Moderator: Kevin Lawver , AOL
Kevin Lawver AOL
Steven Chipman Pr Software Engineer, AOL
Gregory Cypes Sr Software Engineer, AOL Instant Messanger
Alla Gringaus Time Inc Interactive
Arun Ranganathan AOL
I was expecting a little more from this group. More of a dog and pony show about some pretty cool AOL projects. OpenID, a new way of confiriming identity on the internet based on a user's personal url, received some airtime. Promising, but seems like it's a bit out of reach for those people that don't live and breath the web. There was also some encouragement to work on interesting projects outside of your work duties. Ficlets.com, an online storytelling service, was used as an example.
South By Southwest (SXSW) – Day 2Posted: March 14, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, sxsw2007 Leave a comment
Lots of panels to visit. It's a chance to see web heroes up close and personal. Most of the panels will be available as podcasts. Here's the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SXSWpodcasts. Wireless access was pretty good, but I'm avoiding liveblogging the panels (obviously). I just wanted to collect some of my thoughts on my own time… Anyway, here's a cursory summary and commentary of some of the panels visited.
A Decade of Style
Molly Holzschlag Pres, Molly.com Inc
Eric Meyer Principal, Complex Spiral Consulting
Chris Wilson IE Platform Architect, Microsoft
Douglas Bowman Visual Design Lead, Google
More of a reflection on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and where CSS development is going from some pioneers of design. Question and answer session mostly… It was interesting to note how much knowledge was the panel assumed the audience would have. Talked through very advanced CSS techniques and nobody in crowd batted an eyelash. It made me feel like I was in the right place. The highlight was hearing Doug Bowman talk about the possibility of layout markup for CSS and the use of variables and constants in stylesheets. Brilliant, let's see it in the CSS 4 spec.
How to Bluff Your Way in Web 2.0
Andy Budd Creative Dir, Clearleft Ltd
Jeremy Keith Web Developer, Clearleft Ltd
These guys were entertaining and hilarious. Much of the presentation was tongue in cheek, but poignant. We've been doing a lot of this web 2.0 stuff since Tim Berners Lee invented hypertext. Look at Amazon and Ebay – commenting, rating… If you have a chance, listen to the podcast available on the South by Southwest site. This was the first session where I heard of a call to kill "web2.0" as a term. Let's start looking at the technologies on their own terms and not get lost in the broader semantic debate. There's valuable stuff under the web 2.0 umbrella, but let's get rid of the term. Good stuff.
Web App Autopsy
Moderator: Ryan Campbell Co-founder, Infinity Box Inc
Ryan Campbell Co-founder, Infinity Box Inc
William Flagg Pres, RegOnline
John Zeratsky Designer, FeedBurner
Josh Williams CEO, Firewheel Design
A nice chance to hear from the folks that built FeedBurner. That's a solid web application. The panel evaluated the code behind top web apps, more of a focus on eCommerce apps which was pretty relevant to libraries. A couple of takeaways from the QandA: "The reality is that the marketplace doesn't look like us (techgeeks); it's about selling ease of use for your application." AND "Here's a new design principle: put as few barriers as possible in front of user (keep forms simple)"
Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: The Impact on Scientific Publishing
"new webtech and science publishing: (re)constructing the scientific article"
Second mention about an allergy to the web 2.0 moniker… This was a great session looking at how web 2.0 technologies – social bookmarking, tagging, RSS – are informing the design of online scientific journals and the way research can be conducted. There was an interesting discussion about traditional metrics for impact factors and journal power rankings. Blogs, tagging, active participation in soical networks are a different kinfd of impact factor within your field. The problem is how to reward and encourage this new kind of impact. What can you measure? PageRank, Trackbacks, Web Traffic, number of bookmarks, number of comments.. These new opportunities for measurements move much faster than traditional citation ranking metrics. I'm leaving quite a bit out… A quick takeaway from the QandA: How does the Semantic Web relate to tagging? Tagging is first step – translate the actions and definitions we are seeing into semantic web relationships.
South by Southwest (SXSW) – Day 1Posted: March 9, 2007 Filed under: conferences/events, sxsw2007 Leave a comment
Stood in line today for my badge. It only took about 45minutes. (Pictures will be coming.) Chad Hutchens, a colleague and my travel guide, had the insight to get us to the convention center early.
This thing is big. Much bigger than any library conference I've been to. It's also full of a younger crowd. 4o something feels like an old fart. I'll post more later tonight when I collect my thoughts. Can't wait for the start tomorrow.


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