Archive for August, 2007
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007soul dog
Sunday, August 26th, 2007This is JJ (not my favorite name). He’s a little, cream colored, 2 year old cockapoo. I met him in a shelter where I was volunteering. JJ’s been a bit of trouble, mainly because of a hard background. He’s spent the last six months in relative safety in […]
optimal experience
Sunday, August 26th, 2007I don’t really have a need for this right now, but it is really cool. If you’re looking to optimize your text for search engines, one of the best ways to do that has been made that much easier. Live Keyword Analysis allows you to analyze your text for density of keywords. […]
what’s your type?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007After a post about how to pimp the text, it seems only fair to add another about classic, beautifully designed fonts. Smashing continues to provide great tool with 80 beautiful typefaces for professional designers (and students who are particularly well educated about their letters) You know what? Teach the kids grammar, because […]
use your mind to pimp your text
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007I’m not about the shizzle (which must be, by now, a corny mid-21st century equivalent of groovy), but I like to nod in the direction of the cool now and then. And what better way to do that than to give kids access to tools and tutorials that help them personalize […]
Data Visualization
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007One of the things that I’ve been most interested in is how information is graphically represented. Every year, our students have to do data collection (what’s your favorite ice cream, team, candy, etc.) and then represent that information as a graph. I’ve wondered ( and maybe 12 is too young, who knows?) whether […]
how to
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Vicki Davis lists her de.li.ci.ous tags every day or so. This morning (3:30 am) she has linked to a woman who is going to Cambodia to teach people to blog. It has me thinking about blogging in my classroom this year and how I want to do it differently from last year.
Last […]
son of something there is that loves a list
Monday, August 6th, 2007 I’m trying to follow my own preference for brevity, but this is really a continuation of that
Mr Belshaw asks what’s to like about edubloggers:
1) giving good headline. A good title always makes me want to read the entry. I read from my rss (unless I’m reading from a link in someone else’s blog). If […]
something there is that loves a list
Monday, August 6th, 2007Mr. Belshaw asks what irritates about edubloggers. Here’s my list:
1) serving yourself. Edubloggers who use listservs for the sole purpose of advertising their own blogs with no give back (you know who you are) and those whose self interest conflicts with critical evaluation of products, positions, and practices
2) nonstop evangelizing. Thinking the […]
heresy outright
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Here’s a hypothesis. If degree granting was not such a lucrative business and if people didn’t want a fair shake, SAT scores would still be as high as they were in the 1950s. Prior to the early 60s, most people did not go to college. Only 26% of the American […]
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