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John Hattaway

I am a student of learning, life, and the universe as a whole. I dream of big things and work on small things with the hopes that someday something big will develop. I walk through life looking and searching while attempting to be here in the now. I've found satisfaction and happiness with the little things: food, home, family, and clothes. I choose to believe the best will happen.

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My Curating

My Entrepeneur. Top 10 Lists - Listverse. How to Identify Top Websites & Blogs in Your Category. Flickr / Marcel Germain I often advise new bloggers to identify the top blogs or communities for their target audience, and build relationships with those bloggers.

How to Identify Top Websites & Blogs in Your Category

(Don’t see blogging as a competition. It’s a community.) But then the question arises, how do you identify the top websites and blogs in your category or for your audience? Here are free methods and resources you can use. Topsy. With No. 9 in mind, I hope you’ll share your favorite techniques for uncovering the top blogs or sites for a specific category or audience. Writing + Money + Life If you enjoyed this article, then I think you'll love Scratch, a new digital magazine that I founded to help writers learn more about the business side of publishing.

Ten lessons. Despite the lecturer's best efforts, however, it becomes more difficult to hold the attention of the students as the term wears on, and they start falling asleep in class under those circumstances should be a source of satisfaction for a teacher, since it confirms that they have been doing their jobs.

Ten lessons

There students have been up half the night-maybe all night-finishing problem sets and preparing for their midterm exams. Four courses in science and engineering each term is a heavy workload for anyone; very few students fail to learn, first and foremost, the discipline of intensive and constant work. Plan Cruncher.

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Many of the links below are part of larger sites that are worth exploring more fully. See also the sites that give advice about how best to use a writing center tutorial. Writing Tips This site offers tips and tools for writers on a variety of topics. The Eserver The EServer hosted by Iowa State University is a particularly rich site of information for writers as they brainstorm, research, draft, and develop projects on language, literacy, culture, and virtual communities.

This site offers electronic texts and images captured from a wide variety of documents and artworks, as well as an extensive collection of reference tools. University of Missouri-Columbia's Online Writery The Writery is a virtual community for writers based at the University of Missouri-Columbia's learning center. What Really Matters to Working Students - Do Your Job Better.

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What Really Matters to Working Students - Do Your Job Better

Hall A student who had attended one of my developmental English courses only six times in 11 weeks stopped me in the hall before class to turn in a paper. I asked if she would be in class that day. No, she said, and gave me the excuse that I've heard most frequently in my three years of teaching at a metropolitan community college: "I have business to take care of. " Angry that, once again, my class was not part of that "business," I decided to have a candid conversation with my students about why school just doesn't seem that important to many of them. For almost two hours, we discussed attitudes and expectations—theirs and mine. What follows are anecdotes and suggestions in my students' own words—including italicized comments from particular students—that focus on what the majority of them felt were the most important areas to discuss.

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My Writing

My Blueberry Girls. My Submission Places. Cool Hunting. Are You Creating Meaningful Content? 7 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Klout Score. Aim high.

7 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Klout Score

It's a worthy goal for credit scores, SATs and now, Klout scores. These days, more and more social networkers are looking to boost their Klout rating and show others the power of their social influence. Klout — which provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn – has received much criticism since its inception in 2009 not only for its business model but also for its operating principle.

However, more people are turning to the service to see where their influence stacks up against others. The analysis is executed using data taken from sites such as Twitter and Facebook and measures the size of a person's network, the content created and how other people interact with that content. Are you below your target Klout score? 1. Brain Pickings. NOTCOT.ORG.

My Websites

The Rise of the Social Media Curator. The Internet is a mess.

The Rise of the Social Media Curator

There’s so much information out there that it’s a blessing we can find anything at all. Sure, you can ask Google for a hint, as long as you know what you’re looking for. But when it comes to discovering new and inspiring things on the Internet, Google isn’t helping at all. Which is why we need filters. High School DxD 1 v01 - Read High School DxD 1 Online - Page 19. My Social Media. My Headhunters. My Market Analysis. My Education Research. My Videos. My Pr0n. My Education. My Programming.

My AWS

Circle, Triangle, Rhombus. Sunlight Foundation. My Bookselling. Gamification and Games. Crowdsourcing. Home. A Dictionary of Video Game Theory. Preface This dictionary of video game theory is a companion to my book, Half-Real.

A Dictionary of Video Game Theory

With the dictionary, I hope to provide a resource for students, researchers, teachers, and game players looking for terminological clarifications and pointers to further reading. A list of works cited can be found at the bottom of the page. The dictionary is not intended to be encyclopedic, but takes its starting point from the issues discussed in the book. The sign indicates an issue that is elaborated in Half-Real. If there is any term that you would like to see listed in the dictionary, please send me a mail with your request . Jesper Juul, Copenhagen, November 2005. Abstract game An abstract game has rules, but no fictional world. Half-Real, chapter 4. Aesthetic index.

My Interesting Things

My DIY. My Transportation. My Things2Do. My Cycling.