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  • Intern Spotlight: Collette Whittemore

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    Hello, everyone! My name is Collette Whittemore, and I am a new intern at the University of North Georgia Press for the summer. I am a senior twice over. I have been in college since 2012, but I would like to think that I have a well-rounded education. I enjoy…

  • Celebrating Russian Authors on Russian Language Day

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    You may know that 193 countries make-up the United Nations (UN), but did you know that there are 6 official languages for the UN? Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish, French, and Russian are the official languages. This means all official UN documents and announcements are available in each language. In 2010,…

  • Peace Officers Memorial Day

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    Today’s blog is written by author John Cagle. Cagle is the former Chief Deputy of the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office and was a Special Agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He is a member of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia. On October 1, 1962, President John F. Kennedy…

  • How Open Pedagogy Helps Students and Teachers

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    This blog was adapted from the panel “Open Pedagogy: Who, What, Where, How, and Why” presented by the UNG Press at the 2019 USG Teaching & Learning Conference. If you’ve visited the UNG Press blog before, you’ve heard us talk about open educational resources (OER). We’re a big supporter of OER,…

  • Indie Bookstore Spotlight

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    Bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million! are competing with the likes of Amazon for business, but where does that leave the small-town shops we know and love? We’ve rounded up a list of our favorite regional independent bookstores in celebration of all they have done for our local communities.…

  • Slides for Students Launch Info

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    Slides for Students: The Effective Use of Powerpoint in Education releases April 23! We’re only two weeks away from this amazing and important monograph about student learning and powerpoint. 300 million powerpoint presentations are given daily, yet there is a disconnect between the amazing technology of powerpoint and a mediocre…

  • The Importance of Modern Poetry

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    Poetry. The word itself was enough to incite a chorus of moans and groans in many high school or college standard literature classes. Stumbling through Dickinson, Eliot, or Tennyson was bewildering enough to cause most students to swear off the genre as a plague on personal sanity. As of a few years…

  • Book Review: “Write to Protect and Serve,” reviewed by John B. Edwards

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    This book review of Write to Protect and Serve comes from John B. Edwards, Executive Director for the Peace Officers Association of Georgia. Write to Protect and Serve: A Practical Guide for Writing Better Police Reports Write to Protect and Serve provides the foundation for officers to produce professional reports that…