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  • Hoy dia me tomé un taller en interpretación trilingüe

    Perdóname si no escribo perfectamente el español, pero estoy feliz de que me fui a la Conferencia Estatal de Arizona RID y tomar un curso práctico sobre la interpretación trilingüe — español, inglés, y lenguaje de señas de Norte América. La maestra era Kristi Casanova de Canales, y el día con ella y de los participantes fue muy estimulante. Ella es una maestra muy talentoso. Hemos tenido más tiempo para practicar que en otros talleres que he tomado en el pasado. Era muy paciente cuando yo hable vacilantemente y ella sólo hablaba lo suficiente para enseñarnos. Si usted tiene la oportunidad de tomar uno de sus talleres, usted debe tomarlo!

    Me escribió la mayor parte de esto yo mismo pero con la ayuda de Google Translate.

    Oh, and I guess I should translate what I meant to say in English! Forgive me if my Spanish isn’t perfect, but I’m so excited about the Arizona RID State Conference I went to today and the workshop I took on trilingual interpreting — interpreting in Spanish, English, and ASL. The presenter was Kristi Casanova de Canales, and the day with her and the participants was very stimulating. Kristi is a talented instructor! We had more time for hands-on practice than I’ve had in other workshops I’ve taken. She was very patient with me and my halting Spanish, and she only lectured enough to teach us. If you get the chance the take one of her workshops, you should!

  • Seek first to understand,…

    Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

    Steven Covey, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Habit 5

    Hm… I’m pondering whether and how this applies to my work as a teacher.

  • The most important thing I learned…

    The most important thing that I learned from the Conference Interpretation program is…

  • Be obscure clearly….

    Be obscure clearly.

    E. B. White

  • WordPress themes not showing author bylines explained

    The other day, I expressed my concern on the WordPress Support Forums that my author bylines were gone from my posts in this blog using the Twenty Twelve theme. Today I got a response from staff explaining that, because of feedback from the WordPress community, they started using CSS (the style markup that composes the themes) to hide the author byline on some, but not all, themes. This makes the byline invisible in the normal, theme/CSS-enabled view, but if you view the page without the theme/CSS you will see the bylines.

    Screenshot courtesy of Josh, a WordPress Happiness Engineer
    Screenshot courtesy of Josh, a WordPress Happiness Engineer

    This means the search engines can read the bylines and verify authorship. I checked this with Google’s Rich Snippet Testing Tool and found the search engine did, in fact, read my byline and verify my authorship. This is good to know!

    For anyone who knows HTML and CSS and is curious, here is the HTML:

    <span class="by-author"> by <a title="View all posts by Daniel Greene" href="https://danielgreene.com/author/danielgreene/" rel="author">Daniel Greene</a></span>

    And here is the CSS that does the trick:

    .by-author&nbsp;{display:&nbsp;none;}

    If you are interested in viewing the code on your own blog, there are various ways to view source code.