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Writing That Works
Portfolio
Working for and with her clients, Linda has developed or contributed to numerous projects – from web content to online curriculum programs, from fact sheets to training materials, from high-level reports to search engine catalog entries.
Web Content
2010 National Cohousing Conference
Working with the executive director of the Cohousing Association of the United States and a coordinating team, Linda wrote and edited more than 50 pages of content for this groundbreaking conference.
American Transcendentalism: An Online Travel Guide
Linda developed this extensive site in collaboration with Shepherd University faculty and students. It is listed as a featured resource in R. Todd Felton's book, A Journey into Transcendentalists' New England.
Online Curriculum Programs
Linda served as a contributing writer for two Action for Healthy Kids curriculum programs – ReCharge! and Game On! Linda has also developed numerous university-level WebQuests as well as Blackboard and WebCT courses as support for both face-to-face and hybrid courses.
ReCharge! Energizing After-School
A collaboration between Action for Healthy Kids, the National Dairy Council, and the National Football League, ReCharge! is a fun-for-kids program designed for students in grades 2 to 6 to learn about and practice good nutrition and physical activity habits.
Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge
This unique toolkit makes it easy for schools to help youth and their families learn to eat healthy and be active every day. Game On! features four fun, paired activities, or “challenges,” around “Making Better Food Choices” and “Moving More.”
WebQuests
Linda adapted a popular K-12 multimodal teaching technique for use in her university literature courses. These guided explorations of the web allow students to investigate targeted authors with greater depth.
Fact Sheets
Working for Action for Healthy Kids and Houston's Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Initiative, Linda translated complex concepts into easy-to-understand, at-a-glance fact sheets.
Action for Healthy Kids Fact Sheets
Better Nutrition and More Physical Activity Can Boost Student Achievement and Schools' Bottom Line
Houston Students: How Healthy Are They?
School Wellness Policy Snapshot
Training Materials
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom Teacher Training Kit
Drawing from her work leading K-12 professional development sessions, Linda helped to design, write, and edit this extensive train-the-trainer guide.
Training Camp Clips: The Fuel Up to Play 60 Kickoff Event and Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Action Strategies for Fuel Up to Play 60
Linda designed PowerPoint presentations and added voice-over narrations for several Fuel Up to Play 60 training clips, including the two featured here. A collaboration of the National Dairy Council and the National Football League, Fuel Up to Play 60 is a youth-based health program.
Reports
Fuel Up to Play 60 Physical Activity Measurement Report (available upon request)
Linda helped to create the final report of an advisory board's recommendations on measuring youth physical activity and physical fitness.
Taking Action for Healthy Kids: A Report on the Healthy Schools Summit and the Action for Healthy Kids Initiative
After the historic 2002 Healthy Schools Summit, Linda collated, wrote, and edited a 24-page report on the summit. The report pointed the way toward a new national initiative, Action for Healthy Kids. Drawing from a vast collection of Summit materials, this report includes: letters by Summit chair Dr. David Satcher (former U.S. Surgeon General) and Mrs. Laura Bush; photographs and key quotes from the Summit; fact-based sidebars on the childhood overweight and obesity crisis; promotional sidebars on successful programs; references; and the body of the report itself.
Search Engine Cataloging and Editing
MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom Search Engine
Linda worked as part of a team to develop, write, and edit content for the MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom search engine. This custom-built, proprietary search engine provided easy access to free K-12 lessons and other classroom materials for the following websites: ArtsEdge (Kennedy Center), EconEdLink (National Council on Economic Education), EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities), Illuminations (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics), ReadWriteThink (National Council of Teachers of English), Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and Xpeditions (National Geographic Society).
Copy Editing
In her many years as a wordsmith, Linda has copy edited and proofread numerous documents and projects. From her work as a typesetter/proofreader at Focus Graphics to her work as copy editor for the University of Denver Writing Program's newsletter, Linda has used her eagle eye to ensure that copy is clean, clear, and correct.
The Point, University of Denver Writing Program Newsletter
Articles
"Bryan Bowen Architects Leading the Way in Sustainable Architecture"
This feature article appeared in the April 2010 issue of EcoFutures, Inc., e-newsletter.
Web Content
2010 National Cohousing Conference
Working with the executive director of the Cohousing Association of the United States and a coordinating team, Linda wrote and edited more than 50 pages of content for this groundbreaking conference.
American Transcendentalism: An Online Travel Guide
Linda developed this extensive site in collaboration with Shepherd University faculty and students. It is listed as a featured resource in R. Todd Felton's book, A Journey into Transcendentalists' New England.
Online Curriculum Programs
Linda served as a contributing writer for two Action for Healthy Kids curriculum programs – ReCharge! and Game On! Linda has also developed numerous university-level WebQuests as well as Blackboard and WebCT courses as support for both face-to-face and hybrid courses.
ReCharge! Energizing After-School
A collaboration between Action for Healthy Kids, the National Dairy Council, and the National Football League, ReCharge! is a fun-for-kids program designed for students in grades 2 to 6 to learn about and practice good nutrition and physical activity habits.
Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge
This unique toolkit makes it easy for schools to help youth and their families learn to eat healthy and be active every day. Game On! features four fun, paired activities, or “challenges,” around “Making Better Food Choices” and “Moving More.”
WebQuests
Linda adapted a popular K-12 multimodal teaching technique for use in her university literature courses. These guided explorations of the web allow students to investigate targeted authors with greater depth.
Fact Sheets
Working for Action for Healthy Kids and Houston's Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Initiative, Linda translated complex concepts into easy-to-understand, at-a-glance fact sheets.
Action for Healthy Kids Fact Sheets
Better Nutrition and More Physical Activity Can Boost Student Achievement and Schools' Bottom Line
Houston Students: How Healthy Are They?
School Wellness Policy Snapshot
Training Materials
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom Teacher Training Kit
Drawing from her work leading K-12 professional development sessions, Linda helped to design, write, and edit this extensive train-the-trainer guide.
Training Camp Clips: The Fuel Up to Play 60 Kickoff Event and Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Action Strategies for Fuel Up to Play 60
Linda designed PowerPoint presentations and added voice-over narrations for several Fuel Up to Play 60 training clips, including the two featured here. A collaboration of the National Dairy Council and the National Football League, Fuel Up to Play 60 is a youth-based health program.
Reports
Fuel Up to Play 60 Physical Activity Measurement Report (available upon request)
Linda helped to create the final report of an advisory board's recommendations on measuring youth physical activity and physical fitness.
Taking Action for Healthy Kids: A Report on the Healthy Schools Summit and the Action for Healthy Kids Initiative
After the historic 2002 Healthy Schools Summit, Linda collated, wrote, and edited a 24-page report on the summit. The report pointed the way toward a new national initiative, Action for Healthy Kids. Drawing from a vast collection of Summit materials, this report includes: letters by Summit chair Dr. David Satcher (former U.S. Surgeon General) and Mrs. Laura Bush; photographs and key quotes from the Summit; fact-based sidebars on the childhood overweight and obesity crisis; promotional sidebars on successful programs; references; and the body of the report itself.
Search Engine Cataloging and Editing
MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom Search Engine
Linda worked as part of a team to develop, write, and edit content for the MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom search engine. This custom-built, proprietary search engine provided easy access to free K-12 lessons and other classroom materials for the following websites: ArtsEdge (Kennedy Center), EconEdLink (National Council on Economic Education), EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities), Illuminations (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics), ReadWriteThink (National Council of Teachers of English), Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and Xpeditions (National Geographic Society).
Copy Editing
In her many years as a wordsmith, Linda has copy edited and proofread numerous documents and projects. From her work as a typesetter/proofreader at Focus Graphics to her work as copy editor for the University of Denver Writing Program's newsletter, Linda has used her eagle eye to ensure that copy is clean, clear, and correct.
The Point, University of Denver Writing Program Newsletter
Articles
"Bryan Bowen Architects Leading the Way in Sustainable Architecture"
This feature article appeared in the April 2010 issue of EcoFutures, Inc., e-newsletter.
