photo by Beverly & Pack www.flickr.com July 4th is always a good day for me. I love summer, I love festivals, and I love BBQ. I also love my husband, and it’s our anniversary–so even more reason to celebrate. I don’t always take the time to really think about what we are celebrating on July [...]

In the spirit of my blog’s title: “Margo Dill’s Read These Books and Use Them,” I have read the book Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And I’m going to use it. I’m going to use it to do something a little different with my blog. So, here’s what I am [...]

photo by D’Arcy Norman www.flickr.com I recently wrote an article for Bright Hub about a five themes of geography webquest for teachers to use in their classrooms. What I found interesting when I was researching webquest ideas for this article was the difference between a “true” webquest and then what some teachers call a webquest. [...]

photo by jon_nawaikula www.flickr.com With the almost-bombing scare in Times Square over the weekend, I’ve been watching a lot of news to see if they catch this person who almost caused great havoc in New York City. While listening to a press conference with New York’s mayor, I heard him say that the reason why [...]

I am so honored to be a part of WOW! Women On Writing‘s blog tour for Cindy Hudson, who is the author of a wonderful book for parents titled Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. Cindy has been in a mother-daughter book club with her own children for several years, [...]

photo by mrbill www.flickr.com On Saturday, April 24, I am involved in a very exciting event in St. Peters, Missouri with a writing group I belong to–Saturday Writers. Every year, we sponsor free writing contests for kids and teens; and this Saturday, we hand out the awards. Basically, we have a short story/poetry contest for [...]

Seattle Public Library by Jeff Wilcox www.flickr.com The town where I live in East Central Illinois has been fighting forever to get a new library. Finally, the residents in my town passed a bond issue to build a new library, and we should have one by the end of the summer–how super, super exciting! Illinois [...]

photo by Jeff Sandquist www.flickr.com I saw this story about Mrs. Q and her blog: Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project on Good Morning, America a couple weeks ago, and I knew I wanted to talk about this on my blog–since we are talking about education and stuff like that here. You know–important [...]

If you are a teacher, librarian, parent, or anyone really, you might be interested in taking some online classes about writing and social networking this spring and summer. I am teaching three classes through WOW! Women on Writing’s classroom and workshop program, and I am super excited! The first class I am teaching starts on [...]

photo by takomabibelot www.flickr.com If you haven’t heard by now, there’s a middle school teacher in Buncombe County, North Carolina who wrote LOSER on a student’s paper, and her parents are understandably (in my opinion) upset. (To see a video about this story, please go to: Yahoo News.) The teacher says he is only trying [...]