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Linda Rader Overman is so proud of her former student Natalie Grill who was a winner of the Oliver W. Evans Writing Prize in Fall 2023--Well done!!

A Comparative Analysis of Spiegelman’s Maus II and Oster’s The Stable Boy of Auschwitz It has been nearly eighty years since that decis...

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Badge of Completion 

Hooray!! I completed another online workshop for CANVAS STUDIO to be a better instructor for my wonderful CSUN students who work very hard on Zoom despite having Zoom fatigue after almost 16 weeks of this semester.

Friday, October 23, 2020

Hooray,👍 I completed another ONLINE Boot Camp brought to you by CSUN's  IT Academic Technology department-one of the hardest working departments currently.

CANVAS QUIZ Bootcamp Certificate of Completion 

Thank you Andreea Kosa, Instructional Technologist in IT Academic Technology. You were an amazing interlocutor--all three weeks! 

Monday, September 14, 2020

Linda Rader Overman is very proud of her son's amazing work

 Linda Rader Overman is very proud of her son's brilliant work as an artist and creative director. 

All those art classes were definitely worth it!!

MICHAEL OVERMAN'S WORK

Friday, July 3, 2020

QLT Q1 Introduction to Teaching Online 

I did it!! HOORAY!!

CSU Q1 Introduction to Teaching Online using QLT

Awarded to Linda Overmanloverman@csun.edu
Issued on
Q1 introduces faculty in the CSU System to tools and teaching strategies for designing a fully online course. Faculty become familiar with the 10 sections of the Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) Instrument, developing a conceptual theoretical framework guide, UDL, engagement tools/strategies, developing content, and assessment in online courses across 7 modules.


Thursday, May 7, 2020





Book Cover

Cursed

Author: Karol Ruth Silverstein

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing, Chasbridge Teen

Language(s): English

Synopsis:
An #ownvoices contemporary/realistic YA debut. and winner of the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award for the teen category. 14 year Erica "Ricky" Bloom, is newly diagnosed with a painful chronic illness and seriously pissed off about it. Her body hurts constantly, her family’s a mess and the boy she’s crushing on seems completely clueless. The best coping mechanisms she can come up with are cursing and cutting school. But when her truancy is discovered she must struggle to catch up in school to avoid a far worse horror: repeating ninth grade.