I almost cried when I saw this entrance to the children's section of the Kansas City Public Library. Memories of reading to and with the kids.

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Keeping things in the proper perspective at 4Cs: Praise for my delivery of a line from Star Trek.

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Midterm Grades Submitted.

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Multimodal Composing, Sketchnotes, and Idea Generation

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The science of fake news: Addressing fake news requires a multidisciplinary effort

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Good example of ‘do NOT remove things from photos.’

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The Media Pyramid: “Any content where ideology leads to falsehood is bad for you.”

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Among today’s major professional accomplishments: installing this hook. #springbreak

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