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Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by Howard Croy

Howard Croy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:04:31 +0000

Write every paragraph as if you were a Penticostal preacher. Let the words sing. Drive the vouls out like the thumping of a bass drum. Every sentence must build both in content and in structure until you can deliver the meaning, the punch line , the lesson in one final rolling thunder of a sentence. Leaving your audience breathless ….

Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by Sentence Length | neverthesameriver

Sentence Length | neverthesameriver — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:20:37 +0000

[...] found this today. An excellent advice on sentence length. We could all use it. Gary Provost, quoted in Roy [...]

Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by Sentence Length : neverthesameriver

Sentence Length : neverthesameriver — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:37:55 +0000

[...] found this today. An excellent advice on sentence length. We could all use it. Gary Provost, quoted in Roy [...]

Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by MadQueen

MadQueen — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:31:09 +0000

ahh, very cool. The delivery of an idea is just as important in effective communication as the idea itself. Sometimes perhaps even more important depending on the content and audience. Related post via iambic pentameter : http://theinfinitynetwork.org/edgar-allan-poe-evocation-of-anchors-in-poetry/ Cheers!

Comment on Playful Historical Thinking by The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Follow-up on Playful Historical Thinking Class Experiment | Play The Past

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000

[...] experiment in classroom pedagogy, building a modern European history course around the concept of playful historical thinking. I wrote about this in a guest post for Play the Past last September, which you can and should read [...]

Comment on History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age by Cycling through history in virtual interactive reality | Douglas McGlynn – a wee fireside chat

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:05:08 +0000

[...] In order to keep my promise to myself by keeping up with all of my assignments while juggling my time with my family and attempting to be somewhat sociable while trying not to be exhausted, I begin my new series of blogs for digital history and interactive design. For a far better understanding of what this course is about, Bill Turkel’s blog on designing interactive exhibits and his award-winning blogs on ‘History Appliances‘ make inspiring reading for the new digital historian or aspiring public historian or computer programmer. Rob MacDougall also provides an interesting and witty alternative to what could go wrong with this technology with history and appliances! [...]

Comment on Who Would Win? by Three More Half-Baked Ideas - THATCamp Games

Three More Half-Baked Ideas - THATCamp Games — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:38:15 +0000

[...] other forms of play? What can we learn from the action figure playset, or arguments about “who would win?“, or the “barely games” we play in our heads on car trips, at bus stops, standing [...]

Comment on This Sentence Has Five Words by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:58:51 +0000

Hilarious and wonderful. Thank you!

Comment on The Medium is the Message by max

max — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:48:22 +0000

I´m spiritist and medium, and to those whoes don´t belive pay atention to your dream when someone close to us dies. What most of the people dream with the gone spirit is the prove of life after death. Wants proves? type SPIRITISM, CHICO XAVIER, or ABRAHAM LINCOLN SPIRITIST. peace from South America…

Comment on The Medium is the Message by Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:32:51 +0000

I think all these mediums are fake. I am sure they are trying to fools of people. Just it is stupid to believe in such things. IMHO.