May 2011
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September 2009
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aggregate and create
Sites like Politico, The Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast are all making the same bet: that there is value in original content in addition to aggregation and community, and they are starting to build businesses around that content.
Can Yahoo Save the News? - The Daily Beast
April 2009
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“With Finance Disgraced, Which Career Will Be King? - NYTimes.com:
“In...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12lohr.html
March 2009
1 post
Delight to wisdom
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. No one can really hold that the ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends...
February 2009
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December 2008
1 post
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Charles Kingsley
November 2008
2 posts
Definition of New Literacies
The new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs include the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to successfully use and adapt to the rapidly changing information and communication technologies and contexts that continuously emerge in our world and influence all areas of our personal and professional lives. These new literacies allow us to use the Internet and other ICTs to identify...
Image over words
In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing, you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious...
August 2008
3 posts
WatchMy dad in World War II, part one – graduating from college and basic training.
WatchWhy I use Web 2.0 tools in my teaching.
July 2008
3 posts
wrote and recorded this one in 47 minutes
Sometimes there’s a fine line between...
“I saw it” by Cicada. This is my...
June 2008
2 posts
March 2008
4 posts
“The fight against global warming starts with you! Did you know that the average...”
– Climate Savers
Songs come from everywhere.
Brit kids read more
The Independent reports that more British 11-year-olds say that they like reading more than watching TV than they did four years ago. A telling sentence in the story:The report, published to coincide with World Book Day, concludes there can be “cautious optimism” over the survey’s findings and says that government encouragement of more flexibility and creativity in the...
Smart students
I came across this article about how smart Finnish teenagers are, based on a test adminstered by the OECD. Of course the causes are complex, but a couple of ideas struck me. Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by 15-year-old students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens finished among the world’s C students even as U.S....
February 2008
4 posts
Aristotle and authenticity
A lot of the teachers I’ve been listening to lately have been distraught over plagiarism in their students’ writing. I try to sympathize, but I can’t relate. I’m not having those issues. When writing begins with inquiry, makes connections to the self’s place in the world, and sourcing is transparent, there doesn’t seem to be much of a problem. At the same...
Tumblr and Twitterific
I’ve been experimenting with keeping Twitterific open on my desktop, but the more I use Tumblr, the more I think it’s a more robust way of collaborating. However, I do like the word-length-limit feature in Twitter.
“Never forget that forging new roads is going to be difficult and that selling...”
– Dave Cormier’s Educational Blog
January 2008
2 posts
