Rita Marie: 15 books

Continuing to Engage the Online Learner Contributing to both the theoretical and practical literature, Continuing to Engage the Online Learner expands on the work of Conrad and Donaldson's bestselling Engaging the Online Learner. This next-step resource introduces a new phase to their proven...

Engaging the Online Learner This updated edition includes an innovative framework—the Phases of Engagement—that helps learners become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course. The book also provides specific ideas for tested activities (collected from experienced...

Essential reading for online instructors, updated to cover new and emerging issues and technologies The Online Teaching Survival Guide provides a robust overview of theory-based techniques for teaching online or technology-enhanced courses. Covering all aspects of online teaching, this book...

A guide to relationships and dating. Designed to encourage individuals to think through situations they are involved in. We present the problem; expose the jerky characters; define what real love is and offer the solution. Finally a set of test questions aids the serious-minded reader to evaluate his or her love relationship with a potential mate. It's all in an effort to find the right person.

Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous...

Kein Feiertag ist ihnen heilig! 'Mit Mordsgeschichten durch das Jahr' ist das Motto dieser Kurzgeschichtensammlung. Und nicht nur das Motto ist besonders, sondern auch die Gesellschaft, die die Taten auf dem Papier begeht. Der Jahresplaner des feinsinnigen Mordens im Überblick: Neujahr: Sunil Mann,...

Writers take inspiration from their experiences and those of others. They also harvest the colors, tastes, smells, tactile stimulus, and sounds around them, and the world in which they reside or wish they could to write their tales. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."...

ERSTER PREIS: EIN MANN! von FERRARELLA, MARIE Danny weiß genau, wie sein neuer Daddy sein soll! Leider zieht seine Mutter Rosemary nicht mit; die junge Witwe verabredet sich nie. Heimlich macht Danny also für sie bei einem Preisausschreiben mit und hofft auf den Hauptgewinn: ein Date mit Chris,...

Beyond Oz A Crazy Ink Anthology There's no place like… Somewhere over the rainbow and far beyond Oz, there was a happy ending. Or, was there? Follow Dorothy, Toto and more down the yellow brick road. Read stories of how their lives twisted and turned AFTER...

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...

Across our nation, many within our educational system complain that America’s children cannot write well. Hatfield and Young assert that the problem lies at the foundation of our pedagogy for writing, that most elementary writing curricula lack rudimentary instruction at the sentence level. The...

Aimititau ! Parlons nous ! réunit pour la première fois des auteurs du Québec et des Premières Nations, à travers des correspondances inédites qui prennent la forme de lettres, de récits, de courriels, de poèmes et de contes. Vingt-neuf auteurs, confirmés et jeunes, sont rassemblés ici par...

TTYS? People say, "I'm never going on a blind date, again!" "Why?" We ask. "Don't get me started," they say. Then they start: "He wore coveralls to dinner at a fancy restaurant." "He ordered five courses of the most expensive...