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  1. Allison Miller has been an advocate for #portfolio work for many years, leading the ePortfolios Australia community of practice. But she's also an educator, company director, and lifelong learner. In her interview for our podcast 'Create. Share. Engage.' Allison shares her views on the #ePortfolio, why it is important and how organisations and individuals can get started with it and overcome initial hurdles. Listen in your favourite audio podcast player or at podcast.mahara.org

  2. A book by a Canadian author - August 28, 2025 - This book is very disjointed. It starts seemingly a story about half-siblings, then turns to a commentary on Ponzi schemes during the market crash of 2008, and ends up a ghost story?!? The stories are sort of connected, but it doesn't flow very well.

    Rating ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

    #allisonpicksbooks #bookstodon #bookstodoner #canadianauthor #literaryfiction

  3. June book club theme - 🪀 youth 🪀 - June 5, 2025 - This is a great young adult mystery novel with a touch of the paranormal. There are some decent twists in the plot, and the story shows character growth. Even though the main characters are teenagers, it's an entertaining read for older adults as well.

    Rating ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

    #allisonpicksbooks #bookstodon #bookstodoner #canadianauthor #newbrunswick #introvertbookclub #youngadultfiction #mystery

  4. May book club theme - 💐 flowers 💐 - May 17, 2025 - This is a small town mystery written by a local author. When a mother brings her children to her childhood summer home for vacation, she doesn't get the quiet, relaxing time she was expecting. From buried treasure, murder, and evil sea shells, this story keeps the pages turning.

    Rating ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

    #allisonpicksbooks #bookstodon #bookstodoner #canadianauthor #mystery #introvertbookclub #gardenbooks #mayflowers

  5. A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Energy’s plan to ⚠️cap universities’ indirect research cost reimbursement rates,
    pending a hearing in the ongoing lawsuit filed by several higher education associations and universities.
    Judge #Allison D. #Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts wrote in the brief Wednesday order that
    👉the plaintiffs had shown that, without a temporary restraining order, “they will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”
    Plaintiffs include the Association of American Universities,
    the American Council on Education,
    the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
    and nine individual universities, including
    Brown, Cornell and Princeton Universities
    and the Universities of Michigan, Illinois and Rochester.
    They sued the DOE and department secretary Chris Wright on Monday, three days after the DOE announced its plan
    insidehighered.com/news/quick-

  6. From 14 Feb: Ohio food banks warn over less funding in governor’s budget proposal - Eggs in a grocery store. (Stock photo from Getty Images.)Have you seen the price of eggs? The cost o... ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02 #allison-russo #brian-stewart #farm-bill #food-assistance #food-banks #food-pantries #matt-huffman #mike-dewine #ohio-association-of-foodbanks #politics-&-gov #snap #snap-cuts #u.s.-farm-bill

  7. I'm doing a fiction sampler for the Loft on Sept. 4, 6-7pm North American Central time. This is a cheap, low-stakes writing class with some group close reading, some writing prompts, some community, some fun:

    loft.org/classes/fall-fiction-

    #WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #WritingClass #WritingCraft #Fiction

  8. July book club theme - ⛱️ Beach ⛱️ - July 3, 2025 - This book follows two timelines, one present day and one from the 1800s. The stories slowly reveal details that show the connections between the two. It involves magic, shipwrecks, and treasure. It was an excellent beach read.

    Rating ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2

    #allisonpicksbooks #bookstodon #bookstodoner #introvertbookclub #beachreads #julybooks #theamalficurse

  9. @allisonwyss @orionkidder @joehumphrey

    [R]eaders really do need breaks! And they like breaks! And sometimes it means they come back to the story even more ready for it.

    Not disagreeing, but I believe it important to force readers to choose.

    I don't often stop reading a story never to pick it up again, but one thing -- other than it being a really bad story -- that will make me stop reading is a writer resolving stuff before a chapter break. Given a choice of stopping, I might.

    Stop.

    Permanently.

    This stuff I'm discussing here I don't do consciously, I'll admit. This is an analysis of my writing. I'm an unabashed pantster, under the spell of loquacious characters living their lives breathlessly, barreling along toward their destiny (writing toward a known ending). I throw breaks when it feels right, but not after plot or character resolution!

    Except... After the climax or denouement (penultimate chapter), and again at the end of the epilogue (end of story).

    For me, some of what flags that I can chapter break is a sense of mystery, foreboding the character might be doing the wrong thing, or a cliffhanger in the action that will proceed subsequently at another time or place. Something to be curious about.

    #writers #WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersofMastodon #Writing #WritingCraft #Chapters #Paragraphs #WritingConversations #writingTeacherConversations #fiction #writing

  10. @allisonwyss @whatzaname @orionkidder @joehumphrey When I don't break, the characters and action does. I do it only rarely, and only when it feels right. It's always a sprint not exactly a marathon, but the reader is welcome to grab a bottle of water before jumping back into the race.

    In the context of the current 130K novel, one chapter wants to be like this and it's 10K. It goes from MC and love interest, each of who are competing for control, feeling a weird synergy (love, [spoilers], or both?), to dinner, dancing, desserts, and asking about his "etchings", to... uh, hem. The next chapter is the greatest mystery of the whole book, and is 600 words long.

    #writers #writing #writingAdvice #writerTeacherConversations
    #WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersofMastodon #Writing #WritingCraft #Chapters #Paragraphs #WritingConversations

  11. @allisonwyss @Trajecient @orionkidder @joehumphrey When I am at my best in chaptering or naming the books/parts of a novel, the title is always a mystery to be solved by the time you reach the end of the chapter or part. Sometimes I even do that with the title of the novel. Moreover, I like it when the cover art is a scene from the novel you have to look for, also, not merely something evocative of the spirit of the work (tho that's advertising for the publisher and you're lucky if you get consulted).

    This are things that engage me when I find them, so I also do them in my stories.

    #writers #writing #writingAdvice #writerTeacherConversations
    #WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersofMastodon #Writing #WritingCraft #Chapters #Paragraphs #WritingConversations

  12. Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad03 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

  13. Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad03 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

  14. Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad03 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

  15. Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad03 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

  16. Allison Pearson using the pushing back of Trans Rights to start talking about 'White Rights' in the NHS now....

    Brits keep looking at America and thinking it could never happen here and just because it's not 'guns and bibles' doesn't mean the same playbook is not being used.

    The British Empire knows your mind and body better than you, and both don't belong to you..

    #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Politics #WhiteNationalism #TransRights #AllisonPearson #Fascism #Colonialism #Transphobia #Rascism

  17. Clearly, #AllisonPearson hasn't been to the #Philippines, where we generally start celebrating Christmas on September 1st and continue until January 6th. Appall your face :KEKW: @Philippines

    telegraph.co.uk/columnists/202