RT @SetonianOnline: Fire alarms, illicit solicitin…
RT @SetonianOnline: Fire alarms, illicit soliciting, and theft! Oh my! Read more in this month’s Police Blotter: bit.ly/13XscZi
RT @samplereality: Forget blogging. The students i…
RT @samplereality: Forget blogging. The students in my hacking, remixing, and design class will be keeping weekly failure logs (flogs).
What Miley Cyrus Did Was Disgusting — But Not For the Reasons You Think | Anne Theriault
I still have not seen the “performance” but I did find this response to the ensuing slut-shaming to be thought-provoking. I saw many prominent white feminists use their sizeable platforms to defend Miley’s right to rub her ass on Robin Thicke while wearing flesh-coloured bra and panties. I watched as those same people remained embarrassingly…
Mentoring and Education
Mentors can adapt their teaching methods, goals and values in ways that a body of information cannot. @LukeBaum @PhilKomarny @Historiator
Opt Out of Pre-approved Credit Mailings Requires SSN and DoB? Not So Fast!
I was horrified to see that, in order to opt out of pre-approved credit mailings, the bottom-feeders known as Equifax, Experian, Innovis, and TransUnion expect us suckers to type our SSN and birthdate into an online form, which we then are expected to print out and mail. I tried typing “000-00-MYOB” and “000-00-0000” into the…
Dear daughter, let Miley Cyrus be a lesson to you
I am intrigued by the possibility that Miley Cyrus’s alleged “performance” at VMA was intended as a criticism of the pro-date-rape sentiment of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” but I suspect we’re just witnessing the latest celebrity breakdown. Here’s a mommyblogger who calls it as she sees it. Yes, this is what happens when you constantly…
Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning
Brutally honest satire, from The Onion. Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current events. So, you may…
MTV VMAs: Will Smith Family’s Reaction Was to Gaga, Not Miley (Video)
I didn’t watch the show, but I did see the aftermath on Twitter. I think it’s perfectly newsworthy to correct a misconception by presenting a video clip that contextualizes a still image that has been apparently mischaracterized by the media. Unfortunately, Viacom has apparently blocked the copy of the image embedded with this story. The image…
Price History Chart of The Associated Press Stylebook 2013 (Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law)
The AP Stylebook jumped in price by more than $2 over the summer, to about $15. I assume this has everything to do with the fact that college students are buying textbooks like mad. Price History Chart of 0465082998 The Associated Press Stylebook 2013 (Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law).
100 Word Challenge
It is a weekly creative writing challenge for children under 16 years of age. Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the children can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. This should be posted on a class blog and then…
In Which The Geekiness of My Kids Surpasses My Own
A former student of mine who often wore a Star Trek VI T-shirt was trying to make an annoying person go away, so when he spoke to her, she said “Servant, attention!” in Goa’uld. When I paraphrased this story to my son, he immediately said, “Jaffa, kree!” Then he said something in Goa’uld that he…
Students whom I haven’t met yet…
Students whom I haven’t met yet, I’ll have you know I left a party early so I could be ready for you tomorrow. You’re welcome. And they were still serving cake and ice cream.
TWEEN GIRL: “What’s a tribble?”
TWEEN GIRL: “What’s a tribble?” MY GEEKLING DAUGHTER: (Gasp!) ME: Don’t worry, dear. If everyone was a geek, geeks wouldn’t be so awesome.
“I’m a geek. Deal with it.” –my 11yo daughter.
#geekgirlproblems
Sondra’s Garden: Butterfly Release Honors Dr. Lettrich (Seton Hill University)
“Every good lesson plan has a culminating activity,” says Dr. Audrey Quinlan. “Sondra, it took six months, but here’s your culminating activity.”
A blessing before the butterfly release at #sondra…
A blessing before the butterfly release at #sondrasgarden #setonhill http://t.co/z8rKzgc49B
How Poetry Helps You Improve Your Writing
While I’d rather see a reminder that we need to know the rules of formal writing, so that we can choose to ignore them deliberately, otherwise this author makes a good case for the value of poetry. (Great training for the art of writing engaging headlines and story leads.) (See also “Poetry Writing Tips.”) Poetry…
Save our children from the Grammar Tribe
Similarly, “dived” is the traditional past tense of “dive”, but “dove” has overtaken it, as speakers have drawn an analogy with “drove” and “wove”. At some stage, like “stopt” – the old past tense of “stop”, common as recently as the 1940s – “dived” may be obsolete. When will we start to dock points for…
The Soldier Formerly Known as Bradley Manning
Here is the entry on it from The Times’s “Manual of Style and Usage,” a guidebook used by reporters and editors throughout the newsroom: transgender (adj.) is an overall term for people whose current identity differs from their sex at birth, whether or not they have changed their biological characteristics. Cite a person’s transgender status…
New NASA Astronaut Wrote a Limerick to Get Hired
“There was a lot of writing involved. The one that stands out the most is, we were asked to compose a tweet, a limerick, or a haiku. I believe I did a limerick, and it goes: ‘Eyes fixed, gazing off into space My mind in awe of the human race This is all dizzying to…