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Jacqui Murray
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Tech Tips for Writers is an (almost) weekly post on overcoming Tech Dread. I’ll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I’ll cover it in a future Tip.
Q: My students are learning to use Powerpoint for presentations. They’ll stand in front of the class and the slideshow will play behind them. We wan...
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Building A Midshipman
by Jacqui Murray (Goodreads Author), Penelope Windsor — published 2008 |
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Watching the Sun Rise: Australian Reporting of Japan, 1931 to the Fall of Singapore
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38 Web 2.0 Articles That Will Turn Your Classroom Around
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Fifth Grade Technology: 32 Lessons Every Fifth Grader Can Accomplish on a Computer
by Structured Learning Technology Team, Jacqui Murray (Goodreads Author) — published 2008 |
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Building a Midshipman (Nonfiction)
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You don't have to be a miracle-worker to the 10% of applicants accepted to a military academy, but you do need a plan. For the thousands of students who apply every year--and slog through the numbing concatenation of decisions preceding a nomination--there is no greater discouragement than the likely event that they will fail. This, though, is the Board's peek into an applicant's moral fiber and an important ingredient to the go/no go decision. In the words of James Stockdale, USNA '46 and Medal of Honor Winner: "The test of character is not 'hanging in there' when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know that no light is coming." This is the true story of Maggie Schmidt, an All-American kid who dreamt of attending the Naval Academy when her research into the typical Midshipman uncovered a profile alarmingly like herself. This book describes her background and academic interests, her focus, as well as her struggle to put together a winning admissions package. Along the way, you gain insight into the moral fiber that grounds everything she does and the decisions she must make that some consider impossible for an adolescent, but are achievable for thousands of like-minded teens. This workbook walks you through the long process, provides check lists of everything required, decision making matrices, goal-setting exercises to determine if USNA is a good fit for you, and a mix of motivation and academic advice to balance a decision that rightfully might be the biggest one most teens have ever made.
To Hunt a Sub (Mystery & Thrillers)
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PhD candidate and single mom Kali Delamagente has something in common with Albert Einstein: They both regret their inventions. His changed the world and hers is on a train-wreck course to destroy it. It starts when her brainchild, a supercomputer named Otto, accidentally uncovers a foolproof way to steal military secrets. Kali’s brilliant friend, Cat, persuades her to enter him in a contest, the same one where Cat will unveil her undetectable DNA-based computer virus.
It’s no surprise both inventions catch the attention of America’s enemies. Their goal: hijack America’s Trident subs, the most advanced military platforms in the world. Enter Zeke Rowe, ex-SEAL-turned-anthropology professor. Though he doesn’t believe Otto can find the Tridents’ covert hiding places or that Cat’s virus can hijack them, he soon learns how wrong he is. When Kali’s son is kidnapped, the threat becomes all too real. Now she faces a moral dilemma: Is one life worth that of a nation? Because no answer is acceptable, Kali, Cat and Zeke band together to regain control of America’s most clandestine secrets.
TO HUNT A SUB is a richly-textured techno-thriller set in a virtual world as real as its physical counterpart. Its cerebral characters maneuver through a fast-moving serpentine plot where more is at stake than a mother’s son or a man’s passion for his country, where victory requires out-thinking the enemy, and where battle lines are formulas and theorems rather than guns and shattered landscapes.
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| I am an armchair paleoanthropologist, so any novel that even hints at early man gets my attention. What a rich time in human history, when nature ruled and man--without the ferocious mammalian tools of claws, ripping teeth, and thick skin--survived t...more | |
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| Sophie Hannah's thriller "Kind of Cruel" (Putnam 2013) never lets up. From the opening scene when Amber Hewerdine--an insomniac going to a hypnotist as a final gambit to end her sleeplessness--is arrested in connection with a murder, to the final sur...more | |
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so all you motherlumpers who didn't listen to me when i squeeed all over Niceville when i reviewed it last year are going to be SO EMBARRASSED! because the sequel is coming out, and it is a legitimate squee-quel, better than the first!! it is such... " Read more of this review » |
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| Carsten Stroud's "The Homecoming" (Knopf 2013) is the second in the "Niceville" trilogy. It picks up where "Niceville" left off, with our hero Nick Kavanaugh, called in when a flock of crows brings down a private jet of Chinese nationals by mucking u...more | |
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| "Rules of Crime" (Thomas & Mercer 2013) is the tenth Detective Jackson mystery by L.J. Seller and the first I've read. It won't be the last. It opens as Detective Jackson is trying to relax and wind down on a Hawaiian vacation with his girlfriend...more | |
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Hi Jacqui, Welcome once again and thank you so much for your kind friendship. Yes I will look at your blog, why? you have been a tech teacher for 15 years. Like the opening paragraph to a novel... Jacqui welcomed the exchange from her students, at any level, in the knowledge that only she knew who she was and her past, beyond the last 15 years...
thanks for being my friend and that's so cool that your a teacher at a school and i'm an aid at the riverside elementary school where i help little kids that are handicapped and i play the piano and i'm raising money by making bracelets for the make a wish foundation of new jersey and i have a medical problem
Hi Jacqui, I Thank you for the friend add on and the nice comments! I just reviewed your blog, its incredible. We Thank you for all Your Troop Support US. Army Special Forces! I hope you enjoyed the reading on Desperate Lands. Please drop me a message on my (friends comments) on good reads. I look forward to talking to you on Desperate Lands book discussions if possible.Thank you
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Hehe. It does sound like a character.