Day 2 in the #WriMo Zone w/HT @Dogtrax

and until late this afternoon, not a single blog post on the horizon or much in the other #wrimo departments either, unless online banking counts as #digiwrimo... probably not what the merry pranksters of Hybrid Pedagogy had in mind with "anything goes."

OK, one down, "#Adjunct Reading Room: The #Precariat by @GuyStanding" on the precarious faculty blog 

And here's another (more of a re-post, links and image added): "Nov4 deadline for #adjunct hours/#PSLF comments to DoE « @KristaEliot" on the Precarious Faculty (Tumblr, one of a related set that included Precarity Dispatches and Adjunct Stories). I can't miss noticing that my community and personal blogs keep getting short shrift. 

And Kevin is still having more fun than any of us...

#NaBloPoMo workaround list: my Nov 1 blog posts

For I am not quite sure what reason, I have answered the November BlogHer daily blog post challenge even though I already signed on for both #DigiWriMo and NaNoWriMo. What was I thinking? For starters, I already blog just about everyday, some days more than one post. 

The rub is that, although I can register multiple blogs, the daily challenge posts have to be on the same blog. This workaround, as explained on NaBloPoMo Guide (unofficial)'s handy FAQ:

How can I have posts from different blogs count towards the full month's total?

To be eligible for prizes (during a month when prizes are awarded), BlogHer's judges need to see all your daily posts in one place. If you're blogging at different blogs each day, consider cross posting your daily posts (or snippets of them with links to the full posts) at a separate blog that you create specifically for NaBloPoMo.

Today I blogged:

• November…month of #writing—#edblogs…#digiwrimo…#nanowrimo & more - precarious faculty, 11/1/2014 (Blogger)
• Education Bloggers Network Supporting the Public Schools -  As the Adjunctiverse Turns, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• #Education must be protected from the forces of #privatization says UN #humanrights expert -  As the Adjunctiverse Turns, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• NaNoWriMo: Classic Novels Written in a Month - Vanessa's Blogueria, 11/1/2014 (WordPress)
• and, of course, this post...to get counted.

Plus several posts on A is for Adjunct, which shouldn't and probably doesn't count as a blog anymore than the usual social media would. I'd been thinking about about doing this anyway ~ "this" being a daily blogging/social re-cap post somewhere. "Best" design would be to follow +Laura Gibbs' model and pony up for a paid +Inoreader account with more features, I can just use clips ~ one set for me and another (others) for the blogrolls and social media streams.

November means no excuses

…#nanowrimo & by extension #digiwrimo advice + a timely (even overdue) rant from Heim Binas' fiction blog. 

Expect to see more posts here this month, and ones about digital writing. Even though I couldn't nano without a computer, I've never thought to make the obvious computers language writing connection. This year, however, I am taking a try at Digital Writing Month. Can't miss that connection. Is this then no NaNo? No, still nano-ing. This year it is double or nothing month. Why both? I'm not entirely sure but will explore the why while navigating the shoals of how. What about plot? T'm still working on that one. Stay tuned...

And now for that timely rant I promised. Heimas Binas wrote,

The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online

From Larry Ferlazzo's edublog, Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…  for Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

This “The Best…” list requires a bit of an explanation.

I’ve already posted The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement.  That list primarily contains links to sites that provide direct writing instruction.  And I’ve also posted several lists of Web 2.0 tools where writing is a key feature to using them, including The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows, The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations, and The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online.

I thought, though, that it would be useful to create another list of the best places where the primary purpose is just to write, and which make it interesting and easy for English Language Learners and other students to do so.  I don’t think that’s an artificial distinction and, if it is, so be it!

Here are my choices for The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

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