April 2011

  • Know Your History: Women of the 1970s

    Welcome to this special edition of Know Your History. Tuesday March 8th marked the 100th celebration of International Women’s Day. It’s a global day where we can recognize and celebrate the achievements of women, past, present, and future, It started back in 1911 and here we are 2011, one hundred years later.  That is why […]


  • Hip-Hop in Black and White

    I was approached by to write an article for Word is Bond over a month ago. The staff over there thought I would be a good choice to write about race relations in hip-hop as a guest contributor. We thought it would be a good idea to contrast the large white audience hip-hop has to […]


  • First Time in a Classroom? Try these Surefire Teaching Tips!

    Image via Wikipedia Please welcome a special guest post from Bobbie Walker for today’s Teaching Tip Tuesday.  There’s no doubting the fact that experience is the best teacher in any walk of life, and the only way to gain experience as a teacher is to start somewhere. We’re all beginners at some point of time […]


  • Script Frenzy: The Sequel

    Script Frenzy is a friendly writing challenge where the goal is simple – write an original feature-length film in one month. I participated in the event last year for the very first time. You can read that screenplay right now if you want. It was a lot of fun writing it and I am proud of how […]


  • Chasing Content – April 2010

    Image via Wikipedia As we look forward to all that April has in store for us this year, let’s look back at some of the great moments from last April. It’s time for “Chasing Content,” that monthly feature where we dig through the archives like the little miner from the Dig-Dug video game franchise. Remember that game? Let’s […]