http://www.content4reprint.com/profile/laura-preble-7749.xml Articles at Content for Reprint en-us http://www.content4reprint.com/writing/pop-culture-slang-and-day-old-sushi-things-that-can-quickly-go-bad.htm http://www.content4reprint.com/writing/pop-culture-slang-and-day-old-sushi-things-that-can-quickly-go-bad.htm Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:16:52 +0000 (And How To Keep Them From Fouling Up Your YA Fiction) In 10 years, will anybody understand you if you say "fo shizzle" Will they stare blankly if you mention Britney Spears' buzz cut or Paris Hilton's jail time http://www.content4reprint.com/writing/eleven-questions-for-laura-preble-author.htm http://www.content4reprint.com/writing/eleven-questions-for-laura-preble-author.htm Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:05:31 +0000 Ms Preble is an award-winning teacher, a jazz singer and pianist, and the author of The Queen Geek Social Club and its just-published sequel Queen Geeks In Love (both available from Penguin Books) http://www.content4reprint.com/culture-and-society/electo-isolation-at-issue-for-generation-online.htm http://www.content4reprint.com/culture-and-society/electo-isolation-at-issue-for-generation-online.htm Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:16:37 +0000 When the computers at a school in Lake Oswego, Oregon, had to be turned off for four days because of a virus, students were bewildered about how to address a snail mail envelope These tech-savvy students could email, text, web browse, MySpace, and Google with great skill, but when the system went down, both students and teachers realized that technology is no longer a luxury, but a necessity—perhaps a necessity that serves to separate us rather than bring us together http://www.content4reprint.com/writing/a-geek-groundswell.htm http://www.content4reprint.com/writing/a-geek-groundswell.htm Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:59:37 +0000 One day when I had nothing to do (well, actually, I had a lot to do, but I didn't want to do any of it), I decided to play the Google game This is the one where you input your own name or something else into the field in quotes to see how many search results you get