I have a flight to Des Moines (for DemiCon), arriving Thursday May 13.

I am seeking a ride from DemiCon to the Twin Cities on the Sunday, after Win, Lose or Draw.

So I arrive in the Twin Cities on Sunday evening May 16.

I fly home Wednesday evening May 19

M will be with me for DemiCon but not continuing on to Minnesota.

What online book management app would you suggest for me?

I want to build bibliographies of non-fiction books, one list each for several different topics.
I want to be able to search, browse and sort each of my lists.

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I come from a background of privilege -- my parents both had college degrees and could pay for college educations for me and my brother ( Read more... )

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I have been "training" pandora.com to play music I like as my own little "radio station."

I finally realized what this was (late to every party, I know) -- and it has nothing to do with that planet in that movie. I discovered it through dead tree reading (also typical of me). A fascinating article in the NYTimes Magazine on how it "matches" your ( Read more... )

I may be unemployed, but at least I wasn't the graphic  artist who had to create THIS
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I teach adults. I pay attention to HOW I teach as well as WHAT I teach. I get positive feedback from students, some of whom compare me favorably to other instructors who know their stuff but can't explain it well.

So I was interested in a new study. It's about learning styles -- particularly the prescriptive “matching hypothesis” that teaching ( Read more... )

I went to at least two events in Portland in December where someone was taking pictures.

Photo 1. Delivering "my" talk on curling at Presentation Karaoke.

Photo 2. Attending the holiday Open House at the All Classical radio station.

#2 I copied from a set from the radio folks (that requires a FaceBook login). If you didn't see my post on FaceBook, I ( Read more... )

I said it in my Social Media Marketing class, and I'll say it here. Then you can make the same response I got from the instructors and the more savvy fellow students ( Read more... )