I just touched up a handout on Parallel Structure vs Faulty Parallelism. Similar:And Now for This Breaking News Report “Police have cornered the suspect wh…AmusingMeasuring Humanities Degrees Misses Much of Their Value“I don’t see why we are fixated on the s…AcademiaStart writing your novel. Journey with Seton Hill University t…AcademiaPoetry Out Loud : Learning RecitationI’m…
These comic panels cover the issue well. (Pennington Publishing) Similar:from “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe poets made all the words, and theref…AestheticsUpdated my "Show, Don't (Just) Tell" HandoutTaking advantage of a summer day in the …AcademiaI'm no longer surprised, but still want to document.This is really noteworthy. Today the Pre…Current_EventsMe loving my birthday…
A thoughtful reflection on religion in Star Trek. While Humans aren’t depicted as participating in any form of organized religion (there is a reference to a Christmas party here, a nod to monotheism there), the series also includes a distrust of science and technology, regularly depicting mad scientists, societies over-dependent on technology, etc.) that insists…
If you’re legally present on a public street or sidewalk, you can legally photograph anything in plain view. (This includes children and crime victims… but just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea.) If law enforcement engages you, ask whether you are free to go; if so, then move out of the…
Standardized testing rewards standardized thinking, while excluding creativity, resilience & other “soft” skills. I have started gong out of my way to remind students in my classes that I am not comparing their papers to a “correct answer” in the back of my book — I want them to learn a habit of mind that…
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I’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-obligated-for-jury-duty citizen. Similar:The last submissions of this o'er ripe term, Ungraded, mock me though this app. And thus,…AcademiaWhat a great time everyone had at the "Cabbies."CultureWhy Tetris is the 'perfect' video gameRather than wanting to make a film about…AestheticsI am happy with how this turned out. My mother told me…
Keep a local backup of anything important you’ve entrusted to online services. There’s no guarantee that, years from now, those services will honor the terms you agreed to. Backed by new investors, including singer Justin Timberlake, Myspace (after dropping the capital ‘S’) has been rebranded as a music-streaming service, with a new sleek interface, and…
Penn and Teller are involved with this story. Worth a read. The only record of the game’s existence was a handful of review copies that had been sent out to journalists in the weeks before the publisher went bust, in 1995. The game remained a curious rumor until September, 2005, when Frank Cifaldi, a freelance…
Judge: Apple conspired to fix eBook prices. #ethics #books The Federal lawsuit claimed that Apple, led by then-CEO Steve Jobs and senior vice president of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue, conspired with HarperCollins, Hatchett, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster to drive e-book prices up from the $9.99 price point Amazon had established. –readwrite.com Similar:Toiletries for…
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RT @DepressedDarth: Dear J.J. Abrams, If the new Star Wars is bad, you will forever be known as Jar Jar Abrams. Sincerely, Star Wars fans Similar:What Borges Learned from CervantesBorges reinvented Don Quixote as a playf…BooksExplaining Twerking to Your ParentsI still haven’t seen the video, but this…AmusingKafka Meets Charlie BrownThis year marks the 100th anniversary…
I really like MailChimp’s “Social” plugin, which not only publishes a WordPress blog entry to Twitter and Facebook, but also collects responses from Twitter and Facebook users and collects them as WordPress comments. Today I installed a different plugin, Twitter Tools, which is really just a single tool — it lets you create a WordPress…
Habits for happiness: tips for looking on the bright side of life. At bedtime, in order to avoid a nightly litany of complaints, I ask my glass-is-half-empty-and-I-hate-the-pirate-glass-and-there’s-a-bug-in-it tween to list three good things, two neutral things, and one sad thing about her day. Sometimes if she needs to share more than one sad thing, I…
While researching my obligations for #juryduty Thursday, I came across this “Juror’s Creed.” The gender-specific reference to men, the instruction to reflect upon the virtues of democracy, and the instruction to respect the judge’s education all hint at a historical context for the creed. Institutions never put their creeds into writing unless they feel those…
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Not kidding — 254,460 spam comments in my trash folder! Similar:That gut-wrenching photo of immigrant children in a cage? First published in 2014.Don’t blame “the media” for using this p…CultureHermann Zapf, the font designer behind Palatino and Zapf Dingbats, has died at 96Hermann Zapf, the designer of fonts such…AestheticsOkay, please stop droolingIt perfectly pulls together four…
“Bach is not for the weak of mind.” — Miss Renee, my kids’ piano teacher. “I’m in trouble.” — Peter, my son. Similar:Liberals and conservatives dislike reading opposing viewsMost research subjects, when offered the…CultureShakespeare on EclipsesPrepping for tomorrow’s first meeting of…AcademiaAnother chess tournament with the boy.GamesWe found a mushroom fairy ring in our yardIt won’t…
While I am uncomfortable with the whole “classroom as marketplace” metaphor, since it’s pretty much gamifying without the fun, I am nonetheless interested in this strategy for encouraging students to collaborate by having them attach a value to the artifacts they present to the class for sharing.. We shop for everything from apps to ideas.…