Here are samples of my writing, arranged by category: Education, Technology, Business, Health and General Features. Most are available for reprinting; all are copyrighted.
If you are looking for an article about a particular topic or written in a particular style and you don't see it here, let me know! This list of clips is by no means inclusive.
Education & Technology
Video for the 21st century: Enriching core courses and improving student engagement with digital video production. (Converge Magazine/Center for Digital Education)
Online education for instructional designers: picking the right program. (Learning Solutions)
New online law degrees target non-traditional students. (GetEducated.com)
Keeping students at the center of the Common Core classroom: How to incorporate Common Core standards in an engaging way. (NCTE Chronicle)
The shift to 21st century literacies: From Second Life to iPhones and videocasts, incorporating technology in the classroom (NCTE Chronicle)
The C's of change: Students and teachers learn 21st century skills. (NCTE Chronicle)
"It's like magic, that's what writing Is" - A look at the National Gallery of Writing submissions from all kinds of writers around the United States (NCTE Chronicle)
Inspiration information - New "Open Source" project aims to provide free interviews with experts for classroom use. (THE Journal)
Students reading and writing online - How to use new Internet and social media technologies in the classroom to motivate English students. (NCTE Chronicle)
Education upgrade: An iPhone for every college student? A look at tech trends affecting education in the next five years (MSN Encarta)
Long-distance learners helped by high tech: Videoconferencing, podcasts, Second Life, and other innovations are improving distance education (ATT.net)
Learning styles: Not every child learns the same way. How paying attention to learning styles can help your child in school (Chicago Tribune)
21st century literacies: How can teachers use Web 2.0 technologies to reach today's students? (NCTE Chronicle)
Internet urban legends: Why are these crazy stories so popular and what can be done to stop them from cramming your inbox? (Chicago Tribune)
Digital surveillance: Businesses use hidden cameras and the Internet to monitor employees from afar (Crain's Chicago Business)
Tempest: threat or hoax?: Can Big Brother see what you're typing on your computer from outside your building, using "Tempest" technology? (Smart Computing)
Business
Five ways to get 'liked' on Facebook. (Intuit Small Business Blog)
Social media guru Mari Smith on the importance of relationships. (Intuit Small Business Blog)
Collaboration beats competition for these boutique owners. (Intuit Small Business Blog)
Analyzing Wis. Gov. Scott Walker's business management style: Experts weigh in (Intuit Small Business Blog)
Building a Dream - A look at the construction of Boeing's new Dreamliner, partly built in Rockford, IL (Northwest Quarterly)
How to organize your office by your learning style: Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners need to set up office space differently. (Intuit Small Business Blog)
How to boost your trade show attendance with social media. (Intuit Small Business Blog)
The perils of acting as your own lawyer. (Intuit Small Business Blog)
Tears in the workplace: Why do women cry more than men, and what -- if anything -- should women do to avoid tears on the job? (Chicago Tribune)
Business profile: Envirovac: A look at a firm that's "flushed with success," thanks to its vacuum toilet business (Rockford Magazine)
Green Chicago: The city is "greening" as never before, thanks to aggressive efforts by administrators (Crain's Chicago Business)
Health
She nearly died from a bad flu: One woman's devastating encounter with H1N1 flu. (Lifescript.com)
Chemotherapy treatment: One woman's story: What to expect from chemotherapy for breast cancer. (Lifescript.com)
A revaccination choice: Woman undergoes bone marrow transplant, must have all childhood immunizations re-done. (Lifescript.com)
New health care card combines medical information storage with payment option: Learn about the new LifeNexus card. (InsuranceQuotes.com)
A stroke of insight: Jill Bolte-Taylor was a healthy, 37-year-old neuroanatomist at Harvard when she suffered a massive stroke—and recovered well enough to write about it. (Neurology Now)
The aging of anorexia: Eating disorders affect middle-aged (and older) women, not just teens, though treatment often is aimed exclusively at younger patients (Chicago Tribune)
Selective mutism: When children refuse to speak, it's sometimes more than just shyness or stubbornness -- it's a little-known disorder that can be treated if caught early enough (Chicago Tribune)
CHIP helps a city lose weight: An innovative low-fat lifestyle campaign kicks off in a burgers-and-fries, blue-collar Midwest town, hoping to be a blueprint for nationwide success (Chicago Tribune)
Childhood obesity: So many kids are overweight today that it's being called a crisis and an epidemic. What can be done? This series looks at solutions (Knight-Ridder Tribune, national distribution)
Autopsy video: A California filmmaker is fascinated by the autopsy process and makes a graphic video showing one, though response is not always what he had hoped (Chicago Tribune)
Heart puts teen's future on hold: An Illinois teenager living with late-stage cardiomyopathy awaits a transplant (Rockford Register Star)
Telemedicine: Virtual reality technology creates opportunities for long-distance doctoring (Newmedia.com)
General Features
OMG! My mom is online dating: How adult children react to their parents entering the world of e-dating. (CNN.com)
Tracy Kidder writes 'to catch the reflection of a human being on the page': Profile of Pulitzer-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains. (NCTE Chronicle)
Women and guns: Statistics indicate more women are arming themselves today, which some feminists think is a good thing, though others disagree (Chicago Tribune)
Camp To Belong: Two sisters who were separated as infants in foster care have created a special summer camp where kids across the country can spend time with the siblings they otherwise never see (Chicago Tribune)
Abortioncams: A radical anti-choice group is photographing women entering abortion clinics, then uploading pictures to websites, which is being challenged in court (Chicago Tribune)
Boot camps: Shipping troubled teens off to boot camps seems to work on TV talk shows, but not in real life (Chicago Tribune)
Life with the Sundays: How one family of modest means copes with the stresses—and joys—of raising quadruplets (Chicago Tribune)
Atheist parenting: Raising children outside the religious mainstream can subject families to prejudice and isolation, fueled by the misperception that atheists aren't moral people (Chicago Tribune)
Baby sign language: Researchers are discovering that babies can communicate using sign language before they learn to speak (Chicago Tribune)