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		<title>Reality</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/11/22/reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gjacobs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I&#8217;ve been working sporadically on the chapter that&#8217;s been hanging over my head for many months now. It&#8217;s gaining some kind of shape. It needs a lot of work, but I&#8217;m no longer discouraged.
The truth, however, is that when writing gets done, the teaching stuff falls by the wayside. The stuff that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Action</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/11/17/taking-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve heard rumbles against the actions Arne Duncan is planning for education on behalf of the Obama administration. I&#8217;ve also heard rumors that NYS is planning some drastic changes to expectations for teacher certification &#8211; especially is respect to Master degree requirements. I haven&#8217;t seen any details on that one.
I am disappointed in President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rambling off the top of my head thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been really discouraged about my research/writing recently and really hating my teaching as well (not all of it, just parts). I can&#8217;t give up my teaching (it pays the bills), but I stepped away from the writing to see if it would make me feel better &#8211; not so stretched. I have writing projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing thinking</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/10/25/sharing-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gjacobs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/?p=413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not been doing much writing lately because I&#8217;ve been struggling with figuring out what I want to say or write about. Writing turned into an obligation rather than a way of sharing my thinking and participating in a broader dialogue about the things that are important to me.
Today I saved an article from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>relationship of spoken word to written word</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/10/12/relationship-of-spoken-word-to-written-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gjacobs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the writing life; teaching; theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my literacy theory class we&#8217;ve been studying the relationship of oral language to literacy acquisition and development. In my language, literacy, and diversity class we&#8217;re now reading about spoken word performance and it&#8217;s place in the African American Literate tradition (the work of Maisha Fisher among others). Fisher and others stress that it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two kinds of teachers/professors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gjacobs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to see that there are two kinds of teachers/professors. Those that work out the course curriculum, learn it well, and then leave it there. They are hesitant to make changes because it represents uncertainty and lots of work. The result is a course that is well organized but static. The students walk away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eat simply &#8211; eat well &#8211; lessons for teaching</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/09/19/eat-simply-eat-well-lessons-for-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eating simply doesn&#8217;t mean one has to eat poor quality food. A long long time ago a friend invited us to dinner. She was totally into mega complicated cooking. She asked what we liked and I said, simple foods. I don&#8217;t remember what she serve us but it was unremarkable.
30 years later I now have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So very tired</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/09/08/so-very-tired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The semester is just beginning and already I&#8217;m so very tired and discouraged. I don&#8217;t know if I have it in me any more to fight to publish, to go to conferences, to stay on top of the teaching game. I&#8217;ve always been self-motivated but it&#8217;s slipping away. I just don&#8217;t see myself getting anywhere. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Furor over Obama&#8217;s speech to the kiddies</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/09/06/furor-over-obamas-speech-to-the-kiddies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gjacobs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can I secede? My fellow American&#8217;s are a bunch of dumba**es. I disagree with much of O&#8217;s education plans and wish he would do more for our youth than talk at them and tell them to stay in school, but geeze&#8230;
I love much of what the United States is about, but I&#8217;m really not liking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>attention</title>
		<link>http://procrastadabbler.edublogs.org/2009/08/28/attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gjacobs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[attention economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weaving in and out of the critique of the new literacies is the concern that forms such as twitter, blogging, IM, email, RSS feeds etc are contributing to the lack of ability among people to attend to lengthy, in-depth texts. The argument goes that we have become so accustomed to gathering our information in bursts [...]]]></description>
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