Participant Bios: Content and Directions

What to Include in Your Bio:

1. Your Name
2. Your Preferred Contact Information
3. Something about your teaching
4. Something about your involvement with the Writing Project
5. Something about your tech endeavors and/or feelings
6. Some short responses to some of the bio-prompt questions listed below
7. (Feel free, too, to post a picture of yourself as well as links to samples of your tech projects.)
8. (Later, you'll publish your TEC Menu from GoogleDocs on your bio, but don't worry about that right now.)

How to Complete Your Bio in Blogger:

1. Accept the invitation from Blogger to join the blog. You’ll have to do this only once. After the first time—after you “belong”—you’ll simply need to sign in to the blog if you want to add content. You can read anonymously at any time.
2. Once on the blog itself, select “New Post” (upper right-hand corner, light blue on dark blue bar).
3. Select “Edit Posts” (upper left-hand corner, second from left on darker-brown bar directly under Blogger’s tabs).
4. Select “Edit” on the line on which your name appears.
5. Type in / insert required information. If desired (and prepared or courageous), add picture or two, create links, try different formatting options (font size, color, etc.).  Check your spelling.  :)
6. To finish—or to save in progress, as you add/type, which I recommend—click on the “PUBLISH POST” option in the lower left-hand corner of the post box. You can continue to edit as frequently as you wish. Just follow steps from #2 above.
7. Save some room on your bio to post your personal Tech Evaluation Criteria Menu (TEC Menu); in fact, you may want to create your header for the TEC Menu now.  Or not.
8. Relax and enjoy. Email Tracy with questions.  Read and comment on other bios.

Bio-Prompt Questions:

Answer as many or as few as you would like.  Mostly, though, please treat these as SHORT-answer prompts.  Keep your replies telegraphic--10 words or fewer--and address the "what" but not the "why."  Thank you.

Pivot Questionnaire
Questions made most famous, perhaps, by James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio:

1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually, or emotionally?
4. What turns you off?
5. What is your favorite curse word?
6. What sound or noise do you love?
7. What sound or noise do you hate?
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to do?
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Other Questions

1. What is your favorite song?
2. What is your favorite musical album/CD?
3. What is your favorite era or style of music?
4. What is your favorite singer / musical group?
5. What is your favorite radio station?
6. Who is your favorite author?
7. What is your favorite literary novel / book / collection?
8. What is your favorite movie genre?
9. What is your favorite movie?
10. What is your favorite television show?
11. What is the town of your birth?
12. What town do you consider home?
13. What is your favorite vacation / vacation spot?
14. What is your astrological sign?
15. What is the name of your favorite teacher?
16. What was your favorite year in school?
17. What is the best car you ever drove?
18. What is the best pet you ever had?
19. What is your favorite food?
20. What is your favorite beverage?
21. What is your favorite restaurant?
22. What would you eat as your last meal on earth?
23. What title best fits your life?
24. What is your most surprising guilty pleasure?

Remember, please: short answers.  Do the "what," not the "why."