To most people, there seems to be nothing to producing a book. According to them, you just get a simple word processing program like MS word, start typing away, and once you are done, just apply some simple and pre determined formatting and viola! Your book is ready for print and publication. Nothing could be further from the truth. For book design is not just an exacting science that has to take many factors into consideration. It is an art that makes the book itself much better than it was written to be.
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One of the best inventions of the past century is the dry erase board. I have used a dry erase board in countless presentations for the agency I work for and I have nothing but good things to say about them. The dry erase markers, on the other hand could stand some improvements.
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I bemoan the passing of the half-priced books store. A few years (or a decade) ago, I would be out with friends and would happen upon a storefront in a mall that looked like it was a going out of business shop with its huge banner. But the banner was advertising a special sell-out event -- the half-priced books sale. The store space was filled not with bookshelves and impulse and coffee table items all neat and alluring, but with boxes of books that would they not have had the half-priced books! Sticker and had they not been pawed over would have been brand new books, really. I would spend the grocery money to stock my already overwhelming collection of literature, oversized pictorials, and references. I would ask about the possibility of my returning next week and would be told by a temporary day-worker who knew nothing of fine reading that this was a first-come, first-serve sale that would last only as long as the books did. Then the half-priced books store would be no more in that particular location.
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One of the obvious boons of the worldwide web is the facility of accessing quality teacher resource materials and tools. The supportive sources offer general guides, interactive tasks, and lesson plans for all levels and numerous disciplines. Specifically, some of the lesson plans for high school are better online than they could be on paper, for obvious reasons, again. These lesson plans for high school and college-level courses, usually designed, written, and submitted by fellow instructors, offer fresh approaches, lend themselves to professional development, and (again, obviously) contribute to the enhancement of classroom (or virtual classroom) learning of concepts, strategies, methodologies, and skills.
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