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Video Graphic for 2014 Social Media Trends
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I wish you many blessings and prosperity for this upcoming year and all those that follow! I found this video courtesy of my Twitter friend, Christopher, @wellbelove . Thank you!
First Lady: Mrs. Obama Reads "The Night Before Christmas"
Thank you for reading to our children, Mrs. Obama! I've prayed for you and your family! I wish you a wonderful and blessed Christmas season. Merry Christmas and hang in there! Godspeed! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! P.S. She reads interactively, just like my beautiful mother does to her grandchildren! Cocoa mamas are awesome like that! (All reading mothers, actually!)
How Schools Kill Creativity: Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk
Lately, I've had a sort of expat soul and have developed a keen interest in the UK. Heck, I even had a dream the other night that I was Ebenezer Scrooge, living in a hobbit-shire in England. The ironic tidbit is that my first name is Eboni and I feel asleep writing about ye ol' "Holiday Blues!" Recently, every professional development training I've attended for public schools incorporate a Ted Talk. Usually, I zone out because not everyone can captivate my attention for long speaking, because I believe you must inject humor, anecdotes and wit into public performances. Everyone featured in a Ted Talk I saw didn't have that je ne sais quoi ! That's not a dig against the innovation that's remarkably Ted Talks. I just learned to search on my own, as most intellects should do. But holy mercy, Sir Ken Robinson nailed it! His talk inspire, questions, entertains and challenges the traditional FLAWED hierarchy of public education. I've always th...
The Art of Flying by Judy Hoffman
Okay fellow followers! :) I just had the fortunate pleasure to interview Judy Hoffman , a new YA author, who's charmed readers with her debut novel The Art of Flying: a novel. So the best way I can describe this novel is as so: Hoffman is the missing soul sister of J.K. Rowling and Rosemary Wells. The wondrous childlike obsession with magic, witches, birds and flying shouts the modis oprendi of J. K. Rowling; while the imagination, innocence and intrigue mimics Rosemary Wells. Bottom line, Hoffman delivers in her first novel. Before I get to her novel review, let me shed some light on the writer. Judy graciously agreed to answer some questions for me because I chose her novel to do as an in depth study for my graduate class at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (Go Hawks!) She's a rare writer, in the manner that she doesn't give in to the current hype for more sinister, dystopian, and darker literature. Judy wants her readers to walk away entertain, ready to ex...