The Literary Landscape
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This Fall, I decided to take a different approach on the first day of class (FDOC). Usually, FDOC is about two things. Syllabus and Class Overview. Students do this in most of their classes — it all runs together.

Saturday, October 11 is #LetFreedomRead Day. It is an opportunity to affirm our Constitutional Right (and responsibility) to free expression. It is also a day to honor those that make this freedom possible — librarians, booksellers, etc.

Day 4 of #BannedBooksWeek
@penamerica.org has a wealth of data available that gives a detailed picture of book banning in the US. Yesterday, I shared a map of the states banning the most books. Today, I’m looking at banned authors - each of the authors here have unique and compelling voices.

Day 3 of #BannedBooksWeek. @penamerica.bsky.social PEN America has put together a sobering report on the state of books bans in the United States for 2024-25. As a geographer, I am particularly interested in the map of state-level book bans (gray = 0 bans; red/dark red are over 1,000 bans).

It is the second day of #BannedBooksWeek. As mentioned in my last post, I have started reading “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson (@halseanderson.bsky.social) as part of the right to read.org Read In. Halse Anderson presents her meticulously researched historical fiction in stark yet sensitive way.

Today marks the first day of #BannedBooksWeek. Two of my favorite young adult authors, Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins, are frequent targets of censors. Both authors provide sensitive, deeply moving portrayals of the devastatingly real situations teenagers deal with.

I recently saved this quote from a Medium article by Eva Keffenheim (one of the smartest people I know) about “rented information”. My students often comment “why do I have to know this — I can just look it up”. This is why — they haven’t made the information their own.

I recently ran across a Medium article and this quote grabbed my attention. It is part of a terrific article on managing ”creative infrastructure” for wide-ranging interests. Many of my ideas lie dormant or dissipate because I am trying to keep it all in my head or scattered across my analog tools.

What would mending and enhancing your broken places do to enhance your success?

This is Day 4 of 30...Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting in the classroom!

Day 3: Thinking about the skills students in post secondary environments need for lifelong success…

Day 2 and I’m still here…

Setting sail on a new writing adventure…hope you can follow along…