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This was the most time- intensive part. this was my fourth attempt.

Using the Creative Cloud by Adobe

January 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

As many of you know, the job of designing a brochure somehow dropped on my unartistic shoulders. I created something using the Creative Cloud for our Board Meeting on Saturday, and received immediate feedback about what to change. This was my first time ever to use Adobe Illustrator, and it represented about 8 or more hours of intensive effort. I just LOOKS so easy a first grader could do it! I would not call Illustrator an intuitive, user-friendly program. Today […]

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Categories: art, Blogging, California, CCSS, Common Core, communication, Education, Experience, history-social science, Photography • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CS5, California Council for the Social Studies, designing a brochure, Marsha Lee

My first attempt using Adobe Illustrator

My First Photography Up for Sale on Fine Art America Website

January 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

I saw Enice’s photography on this website http://fineartamerica.com/, so I thought I’d give it a try as well. So far I only have 10 pictures posted, but they are also advertised on my Facebook page. I’m excited, because I finally got myself started. This business is mostly a hobby, but I would like it to be a successful hobby just because I like to be successful. The way I will measure success is that 1) the pictures are of technically of […]

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Categories: art, California, CCSS, communication, Experience, history-social science, Organizations, Photography • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, California Council for the Social Studies, CCSS, CCSS.org, designing brochures, fineartamerica.com, Marsha Lee, nutsfortreasure, selling artwork

Another New Career: Designing Brochure Covers

January 20, 2013 by tchistorygal

I decided instead of not posting while I’m working, I would bring you into my workspace. Although I am not a graphic artist, I am designing covers for a new brochure for California Council for the Social Studies. So I’d like you to help me judge attractiveness. You should probably know what the organization is all about. Purpose California Council for the Social Studies advocates for and promotes social studies education as an essential foundation in developing citizens for a […]

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Categories: art, CCSS, communication, history-social science, Organizations • Tags: brochure designs, California Council for the Social Studies, CCSS, Marsha Lee

Comment Competition Ends Midnight Dec. 31, 2012 PST

December 19, 2012 by tchistorygal

Autty Jade has taken up the challenge. For months she has led the pack for numbers of comments – and numbers of words, too. Today, her record was broken by Ralph with a total of 55 comments to Autty’s 50. Autty has vowed that Ralph is not going to beat her, so watch out Ralph! This girl’s keyboarding fingers move faster than Superman’s when he has a pressing deadline at the Daily Planet, AND Lois Lane is in trouble.. Poor, […]

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Categories: Awards, Blogging, communication, Fiction, pets • Tags: blogging, Comment competition, fiction, fun, humor, Marsha Lee

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SUNDAY POST : Concept

December 14, 2012 by tchistorygal

Concept is hard to visualize. It can be anything and nothing all at the same time. Without concepts, we can work, and play, but we can’t do it sustainably effectively or with passion. Most of the time we think of concepts in terms of what is. A dog is an animal with specific characteristics. Addition is a concept of combining groups. Liberty and freedom are concepts that is not so easily illustrated. Which brings me to the point of my […]

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Categories: communication, Experience, Family, Featured Blog, Photography, Sunday Post, Tulare County • Tags: Amy, Coming East, Concept, humor, Jakesprinter Sunday Post, Marsha Lee, motivation, Russel Ray Photos, The World Is a Book

You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

December 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Featured Blog Who’s Renee? I started following Renee and her mom’s blog 6 month’s and 2 weeks ago, making her the 8th blog I followed. I followed her because she gave me one of my first awards before I even knew what an award was. Little did I know that this expert blogger was a mere 16 years old. Over the months I have gotten to know Renee a bit better, and found out that her birthday is on […]

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Categories: animals, communication, Family, Featured Blog, Photography • Tags: blogging party, Christmas birthday, fun, Marsha Lee, R and P Photography, Renee, The Odd One Out

Why Fly Through Cyberspace With a Vanity Blog?

December 11, 2012 by tchistorygal

There are basically only two things one can do with a blog, read them or write them, but most bloggers do both. I just learned that what we have here a vanity blog. It’s called vanity because Marsha Lee is not performing a service or selling a product for profit. I’m just writing for the pleasure of it. Oooh, I’m SO vain. I probably have a blog all about me. I’m SO vain. I probably have a blog all about […]

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Categories: Blogging, communication, Experience, Family, Photography, social media, Writing • Tags: blogging, Marsha Lee, reasons to blog, vanity blog, why blog

Internet Purgatory Solutions

November 14, 2012 by tchistorygal

I’m beginning to feel jinxed as I struggle technologically to blog. First I had my problems just learning the ropes, then I started jumping unannounced and uninvited into people’s spam boxes. That all came to a head when WordPress shut me down for pasting in a spam comment with the little gravitar. NOW I’m voraciously eating up internet gigabytes like there’s no tomorrow, and maybe I’ve sailed to the end of the world, and fallen off the internet safety web. So I […]

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Categories: Blogging, communication, Experience • Tags: Internet service, Wildblue, WordPress

Trackbacks, Pings

November 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

… [Trackback]… [...] There you will find 77615 more Infos: tchistorygal.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/spam-and-stats/ [...]… Not Spam | Delete Permanently “A trackback is an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is sent via a network signal (ping) from the originating site to the receiving site. The receptor often publishes a link back to the originator indicating its worthiness. Trackback requires both sites to be trackback-enabled in order to establish this communication.Trackbacks are used primarily to facilitate communication between blogs; if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or […]

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Categories: Blogging, communication, Experience, social media, spam • Tags: blogging, pings, trackbacks, WordPress

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Writing to a Prompt: A Complicated Subject

October 26, 2012 by tchistorygal

The WP Prompt: Take a complicated subject you know more about than most people, and explain it to a friend who knows nothing about it at all. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. Ernest Hemingway Writing essays is my forté, yet writing to a prompt is a complicated task. As I […]

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Categories: communication, Experience, Writing • Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Essay, Lead paragraph, Paragraph, Topic–comment

Ubiquitous

July 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Academic Vocabulary is one of the six major shifts in language arts standards as states are moving to implement the Common Core Standards. Teaching academic vocabulary is going to be ubiquitous. Every content area teacher ia already responsible for teaching vocabulary. All content teachers teach the vocabulary that is unique to their content. Where, but in a history class, would you learn the word Senate? The shift in academic vocabulary instruction due to the implementation of the Common […]

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Categories: academic vocabulary, Common Core, communication, Education, history-social science • Tags: academic vocabulary, California, Common Core Standards, Education, Language arts, Social science, teacher, United States, Vocabulary

Journal anyone?

June 21, 2012 by tchistorygal

Some people froth at the mouth — at a meeting, a party, on the phone, or during a disagreement leaving the non-frothers fettered in foam, and dying to excuse themselves. Ops, sometimes I am the frothy one. When I get foamy, I have sometimes suffered from having my foam salted. That’s a bad experience. My solution to all that fizz is to go home and write in my journal. My dad nicknamed me Hemest Earningway, and I think he […]

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Categories: Blogging, communication, social media, Writing • Tags: journal, write

Social Media

June 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I met Mike Lebsock on Facebook when he responded to a post. He was wearing a red colonial jacket with a white ruffly shirt. I was intrigued. I looked on his wall and found out he was a social studies teacher in a neighboring county. We carried on a message conversation over a period of a few weeks. I asked a friend of mine in his county if she knew him. She told me what a great teacher he was. […]

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Categories: communication, Experience, Resources, social media

Creating Teasers

April 29, 2012 by tchistorygal

If you are kind enough to read this blog, then you know it is an experiment in how to work with blogs and websites. Yesterday at National History Day California, the technician, Josh, tried to teach me about creating teasers. So I tried it with my last post, and it didn’t work very well. First I inserted html that said more…. But I remembered something that Josh said that it would open on another page. I couldn’t see how […]

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Categories: Blogging, communication, Experience, Writing • Tags: teasers

Dropbox v Google Docs

April 14, 2012 by tchistorygal

Not all technology eliminates frustration and irritation from my life, but for the most part these two applications do. Although I use Google Docs almost daily, I should be a Dropbox salesperson. For now, I’ll keep my day job, because I’m afraid that I couldn’t live for very long on my commission checks since both of these products are free. I often work on large projects with several collaborators, and the way I write, the projects usually need lots of […]

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Categories: communication, Resources, Writing • Tags: collaborator, cyber, documents, Dropbox, Google Docs, homework, internet speed, meetings, megabytes, Microsoft, revisions, sync, twitch, Word

Evernote

April 12, 2012 by tchistorygal

Meetings R Marsha For sure meetings and training are a huge part of my job and many of my off hours as well. So what do YOU do during meetings? As a presenter, it used to annoy me when administrators and teachers were all checking their email or surfing the net while I was presenting. Now the constant use of technology fits almost seamlessly into every meeting. Nobody can be 100% engaged during 6-8 hours of continual meetings, no matter how amazing the […]

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Categories: communication, Resources, Writing • Tags: doing research, ipad, social-media, syncs, technology

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Category Archives: communication

Comment Competition Ends Midnight Dec. 31, 2012 PST

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SUNDAY POST : Concept

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You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

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Internet Purgatory Solutions

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Writing to a Prompt: A Complicated Subject

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Dropbox v Google Docs

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