A) I haven’t blogged in over three weeks. B) I miss the blog-reading-and-writing cycle. C) My Masters program at Georgia State got in the way. Because of A, B, and C, I decided to share this story. The Kids are Talking About You. Are You? [The following story is something I thought long about before [...]
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Different ways I think about my blog. 1) Left-Directed (logical, analytical) Read enough indexed, and you too will start making Venn Diagrams to visualize any situation. 2) R-Directed (random, creative) The above is a modified image from Street Sign Generator. I think that teachers need a natural ability to see things from different perspectives. It [...]
How do you end the semester at school? Me? I take the chance to really clean up. My room collects dust like you wouldn’t believe, so the dust monsters are the first thing I attack. My routine includes the following: Thoroughly clean the computers. Open the cases and remove dust, shake out keyboards, wipe down [...]
(this via 43 Folders) I found this post about something called a “tact filter” on Merlin Mann’s website. The gist: “normal” people filter what they say before they say it; and “nerds” filter what they hear. All people have a “tact filter”, which applies tact in one direction to everything that passes through it. Most [...]
I’m neck deep in syllabi. When my students return on August 13, they’ll get the shiny, new syllabus I updated just for their class. (Re-)designing any course (for me, anyhow) is usually about answering “how am I going to grade this?” I refactored all of my syllabi to reflect improvements, especially in grading. Here are [...]
The Creative Commons folks just announced a new division, called ccLearn, devoted to dropping the barriers to sharing and reusing educational materials. ccLearn’s first project will make it easier to locate already-published open education resources. (Thanks to a Boing Boing article for the pointer.) Technorati Tags: creativecommons, copyright, education, teaching
My favorite grammar writer, Lynne Truss (of Eats, Shoots and Leaves fame) has written two children’s books. The Girl’s Like Spaghetti and Eats, Shoots and Leaves (the latter is a kids’ version). I had the chance to flip through them and was really impressed. From the Amazon.com book description: Just as the use of commas [...]
Thanks to 43 Folders for the link to this one: An Interview with Ze Frank. For a year, starting in March 2006, Ze Frank produced a daily video called The Show. I found episodes at times thought provoking or enlightening but always funny. Several episodes merited my showing them to high school students (see the [...]
I ran across Georgia’s Virtual Vault after googling for old pictures of downtown Atlanta (the gem I found is from a V-E Day Parade). According to the site, much of the digital content is the result of scanning for customer orders — which explains why the information is all over the map. Here are a [...]
I think I’m on to something: Post-It notes make great note presentation media for the web. My classroom blog is designed to include lecture notes for the students — but I didn’t want to have to prepare pages of lecture notes every day. For a time, I tried putting the notes directly in the blog. [...]
