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Andrea and I spend a lot of time helping students find rich details to add to their writing. Over and over we emphasize how the five sense can be used to draw the reader or listener into the world and experience of the writer or storyteller. Rarely does it happen that a young elementary student has too much detail. But it does occur in upper grades and in the story world too. In these cases an exercise that sought to encoura… Continue

The Moth’s Story Slam or: How Not to Judge
By Queequeg
June 2nd, 2009 @ 9:35 AM Commentary, East Side, Events, West Side

800px-tragic_life_storiesOne of the worst things I did in college and post-college was go to poetry slams. They sound so great in theory, but the reality is, the ones I went to completely failed to build and strengthen community (which I thought they were supposed to actually do). Instead, these slams were self-affirming forums to bolster rather privileged slammers and their… Continue

Our monthly PG13 Comedy show on the first Wednesday of each month features and supports the full range of Open Comedy that includes storytellers, eccentrics, magicians, folk singers and of course stand-up comedy. Check us out next on November 4 when Judith Black is our feature.

Contact office@amazingthings.org or call 508 405 2787 for a information on how to advance register for a mique slot. We are located at 160 Hollis Street in downtown Framingham ( Rte 126) Free parking. Tix at door $6 ( $5… Continue

Author Norah Dooley listens as ESL Teacher Jackie Sisun discusses how she uses 'Everybody Bakes Bread' in the classroom.

On Oct. 9, four MEd in TESL (teaching English as a second language) cooperating teachers attended a private book signing and discussion with Norah Dooley, famed New England author of “Ev… Continue

Great post - found on twitter
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/5087

Getting Started with Disruptive Business Design

10:20 AM Monday October 19, 2009

Tags:Design, Disruptive innovation, Entrepreneurship

Oliver Yeh, a first-year Mechanical Engineering student at MIT, just successfully designed, launched and retrieved a camera 17.5 miles into the atmosphere and took 4,000 photos — at a cost of just $15… Continue