To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.     Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3:1‬

Happy Wednesday!  Please excuse my oops from yesterday.  I’m embarrassed to say that I mixed up my days.

Have you ever felt torn between being a good Christian and being who the world wants you to be?  Have you been guilty of trying to justify today’s watered down standards with the Bible?  Do you have a battle in your mind between what is right (what the news media says is right or what the Church says is right)?  If you said yes to any one of these questions, it is totally understandable.  In today’s society it seems like anything goes.  On top of that television news seems to say whatever you want to do is okay.  We all know deep down that isn’t the case, but how can you truly know…

by Rainne Mendoza  on The Write Life Site:

If you’re a self-published author, the dream of holding an in-person book signing at a Barnes & Noble bookstore probably seems farfetched.

Yes, the giant retailer sells almost 200 million physical books a year and regularly conducts author events in its stores, but these book events seem to cater only to published authors.

But guess what?

I’m an indie author with one self-published book. As unbelievable as it may seem, my first book signing five months after the book’s release was held inside a Barnes & Noble. I successfully sold a number of books and gained loyal readers.

How did I do it?

By not letting all the what-ifs hiding in my apprehensive author’s mind get in the way. In the end, my determination and patience paid off.

If you’re a self-published author looking for an opportunity to hold a book signing…

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, continuing Part 3 of the book: Other Beats. This chapter deals with:

Walking and moving (I)

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There are so many ways of describing walking, each of them conveying a certain emotion. For instance, consider the differences between the following: walk; tread; stride; stroll; saunter; march; amble; stagger; perambulate; ramble; meander; wander; dawdle; mosey; roam; rove; travel; journey; tramp; trudge; slog; plod; lumber; scramble; journey; shuffle; hobble; shamble; waddle; trundle; limp.

Here are some more examples:

• He swung around/spun around.
• She slinked over to him
• She hurtled into the room with all the momentum of a tidal wave, slamming the door behind her.
• He rushed to his feet.
• He barreled into the room
• Snake:…

In the early days of computers, pretty much the only thing everyone could agree on was how to represent small positive integers. Other than that, nobody could agree on anything. They couldn’t agree on how many bits were in a byte. Or how many bytes you should work on together (called a “word”). Or how the bytes in a word should be ordered (biggest to smallest, or smallest to biggest). They couldn’t agree on how to represent negative numbers (sign-magnitude or two’s-compliment). They couldn’t agree on how to map letters to numbers (EBCDIC or ASCII). And they really, really, really couldn’t agree on how to represent real numbers (the kind with decimal points in them).

Over time, all these arguments got settled. Except the word ordering one. They still can’t agree on that. And the final decision on how to represent numbers (both integers and real numbers) was worked out…

from Janice Wald’s Mostly Blogging Site:

Today, everyone is jumping on the popular trend to produce videos.

Facebook videos are called Facebook Live.

Twitter has Live Video powered by Periscope, a live streaming app.

YouTube has always been the king of the video market until Facebook and Twitter decided to compete for their share.

Facebook Live has proven to be a decent competitor. After becoming available to the public, just last year, according to recent statistics, interest in Facebook videos has risen over 330%.

Guest author Cathy Lawdanski is here to offer tips on how you, too, can take advantage of the surging interest in Facebook Live to produce your own live streaming videos.

By the end of this post, you will know how to get started and what to talk about in your live streaming videos.

Facebook Live Made Easy, by Cathy Lawdanski

We hear all the time…

Homework is one of those contentious things that divides teachers as well as parents. John Hattie’s research leads to the conclusion that homework in primary school has an effect of nearly zero.  But the reality is that many schools have policies that require homework to be assigned to students on a daily or weekly basis.

This year, I am experimenting with a theory that primary student achievement can be improved with homework if there is a distance learning tutor available for coaching for every assignment.

What I’m trialing this year:

This year I’ve told all of my students that whenever they need help with their homework, they should shoot me an email. I know, it sounds like a crazy responsibility for me to take on, and I’ll see if I have the stamina to keep up with it throughout the year, but so far it has gone really well!

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