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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 12/05/2025
Happy Monday, everyone. I spent yesterday cleaning my office and was so satisfied with the newly tidy space that I wondered how everyone else's teaching area looked. So, if you're feeling a bit voyeuristic about your work space feel free to share in this thread. #edusky #academicsky #teachersky
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 16/03/2025
Reading “Don’t Go,” a collection of first hand stories about the racial segregation we impose upon ourselves in #Chicago. What are you reading tonight, #AcademicSky?
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 14/03/2025
A student recommended Natural Reader to me, so I checked it out. Red flags appeared right away. The male voices are "confident, engaging, and formal" while the female ones are "calm, emotional, and soft." Gender stereotypes are generally unhelpful but nefarious when applied to educational tools.
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 20/02/2025
The third new logo. God, I love this one.
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 18/02/2025
The second of three logos.
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 12/02/2025
I am number 173 at Chicago Public Library. :)
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 11/02/2025
New logo! Well, first of three new logos. :)
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 07/02/2025
So... fess up,. Who from #writingcommunity slipped the word "cocky" past the Kellogg Marketing Department? Further: has this word been used previously on breakfast products?
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 26/01/2025
This is for you, #writingcommunity and #academicsky: "Your obligation / is not discharged by any common rite. / What you do you must do on your own. / The main thing is to write / for the joy of it." James Joyce (as Seamus Heaney imagined him, Virgil-esque), in The New Yorker September 9 2024.
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 23/01/2025
Oh my God. I use this same image. A student thought it was hilarious when I explained it this way to them. I even drew teeth on the symbol because that's what our teachers did.
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The Chicago English Corner @chicagoenglishcorner.com · 20/01/2025
The Chicago English Corner launches on 1 March 2025. I'll be working my ass off on the transition from the previous site until then. :)
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