Man to live three years in cave

“When I remained 366 days underground, I had the impression of only spending 219 days,” he said. —Man to live three years in cave (BBC) Similar:It's Not "Fake News" Just Because You Disagree With ItI use the term “fake news” to refer to d…CultureHow Trump Is Making Journalism School Great AgainThis is an important time to…

Home-schoolers get taste of classroom

While their children are in class, parents like Hanlon and Leigh Jerz, of Unity Township, sit and chat. Jerz’s 8-year-old son, Peter, is participating for the first time. “I thought it would be enjoyable for us to see other home-school children and parents more regularly,” Jerz said. Hanlon said the program offers home-schoolers resources they…

The Handwriting Is on the Wall

The loss of handwriting also may be a cognitive opportunity missed. The neurological process that directs thought, through fingers, into written symbols is a highly sophisticated one. Several academic studies have found that good handwriting skills at a young age can help children express their thoughts better — a lifelong benefit. Children who don’t learn…

Community Papers Anniversary Lift

That’s cut and paste journalism, taken in large part from Wikipedia – the online encyclopedia to which any member of the public can contribute. Here’s where freelance journalist Tom Winterbourn took the exact same words and sentences from Wikipedia. —Community Papers Anniversary Lift (ABCTV (Australia) MediaWatch) An interesting article about a print journalist accused of plagiarizing…

Tron

[Y]ou’re running around on a big circuit board, powering up at transformers, dodging resistors, your path barred by ROM chips. This probably seems pretty weird to The Youth of Today. In the years since Tron we’ve been trained to think that a journey to “the inside of the computer” might entail running around on a…

Annoying Blue Bounding Box in Adobe Flash

Annoying Blue Bounding Box in Adobe Flash (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) I’m introducing Adobe Flash to my New Media Projects course next week. I’ve fiddled with Flash before, but I haven’t yet worked through the examples in our book. My simian curiosity got the better of me, and I started clicking buttons at random. I suddenly noticed…

Timez Attack

—Timez Attack (BigBrainz) There are flashcard “games” and is multiplication bingo and multiplication Frogger, and they’re all well and good. But this is something else. Watch the video on the home page. Similar:Surprise: Humanities Degrees Provide Great Return On InvestmentCompleting a humanities degree is a good…AcademiaVery interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. #pptlaytime @thepublicpghCultureThe belief…

[E-Mail is for Old People]

—[E-Mail is for Old People] (User Friendly) Thanks for the link, Josh. Similar:Technical and Literary Writing: What’s the difference? « DekonztruktschonIn an advanced new media class, I’m intr…AcademiaDid you see that guy’s license plate?Did you see that guy’s license plate? …AmusingPicking a rubric in Canvas should not be so frustrating that it makes me want to…

I'm a Man, Yes I am

The question, “what can you say when you step off something?” tells you almost everything you need to know about Armstrong: Everyone else on earth was thinking in terms of stepping on something — the surface of another world — while the pilot was thinking, and still thinks today, in terms of stepping off something…

Shop Class as Soulcraft

Being able to think materially about material goods, hence critically, gives one some independence from the manipulations of marketing, which typically divert attention from what a thing is to a back-story intimated through associations, the point of which is to exaggerate minor differences between brands. Knowing the production narrative, or at least being able to…

IFComp 2006

The games are now available for downloading. —IFComp 2006 Mmmm…. interactive fiction. Similar:Tin Man (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 20) Sad telepath bonds with starshi…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….CulturePerchance to Dream: LARPing Hamlet at Castle ElsinoreThis is the concept of Inside Hamlet, an…CultureHow We Found Tom Price’s Private JetsGreat behind-the-scenes story of the…