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May '09 17

Author Series: Interview with Felicia Pride

When did you decide that you wanted to be an author and what steps did you take from there?

I think I decided to be an author about three years ago, and that was because the idea of writing a book always scared me. I thought it was something that I couldn’t do. I thought it was a task that was too overwhelming. I was a writer, writing articles, but the idea of writing a book just seemed to difficult. I worked in book publishing and had a lot of contacts in the industry that allowed me to connect with a literary agent. A literary agent is someone who helps you to develop books as well as work with publishing houses to secure a book contract. I had an idea floating in my head while simultaneously meeting with a literary agent. I told her my idea, and she really liked it. She encouraged me to put together a proposal and then to eventually write the book. I had to just do it instead of thinking about what I was doing. And when I actually started the process of writing the book I realized that it wasn’t as hard as I’d thought it would be. I just had to sit down and do it.

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Apr '09 9

Using the Four Square Graphic Organizer with MY Access!

By qualtic
Posted in Uncategorized, Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plan: Prewriting
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Objectives of the Lesson:

Students will be able to construct a brainstorming web for a given topic.

Students will be able to utilize a four square graphic organizer to plan descriptive techniques in an informative/expository essay. Read the rest of this entry »

Apr '09 1

Join a Webinar to Learn About Improvements to the iSEEK search engine

By qualtic
Posted in iSEEK Education Newsletter
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iSEEK™ in Action
Join us for a free webinar on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 3PM. EST. Review the latest features that will make searching effective and efficient. For conference call and webinar details email education@iseek.com.

We are proud to announce that iSEEK Education has been chosen as a Codie Award Finalist for Best Education Reference or Search Service Category. Click here for a full coverage press release on the nomination.

Watch iSEEK Education “About” Videos. These brief videos provide an overview of iSEEK features and how the search engine provides the safest, most accurate results.

Make iSEEK Education your home page
The portlets’ view includes the Vantage Learning “Author of the Week.” Read the author’s biography in the portlet view and click on the author’s name to search in iSEEK education. Students, teachers, parents and librarians will all enjoy discovering new authors and reacquainting themselves with those they may have forgotten about. This week’s author of the week is the balloon man poet e.e. cummings.

Improved Searching Power Points and PDFs.
As an iSEEK user, you perform your search and get great power point or PDF results. But iSEEK does not stop there. iSEEK searches the pages of PDFs and Power Points to return the individual page or slides that are most relevant to your search. Consider the search for “linking verb.” Mousing over the slide also provides a relevance percentage to further focus your search.

New email function
You can now email search results to your colleagues and students. iSEEK helps create learning communities so you can share sources through our simple and convenient email function.

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Author Series: Interview with Felicia Pride

Using the Four Square Graphic Organizer with MY Access!

Join a Webinar to Learn About Improvements to the iSEEK search engine