June 18, 2008 – 5:35 pm
Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook. (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:35 pm
[Apture rocks. Click the icon beside Shirky, and the one beside “addons”, and then click each of the icons that I loaded, and watch the magic. I don’t have to spell out how rich a tool this is for every use, educational and otherwise, you can think of, do I? It’s in invitation-only beta right [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Standing on a corner
in Hong Kong -
It ain’t so good to be alone
in Hong Kong.
–Screaming Jay Hawkins, “Hong Kong” (psst…do yourself a favor and click the little icon for a classic Screaming Jay number on Youtube, and a Wikipedia link, thanks to the very cool Apture tool)
Just a quickie to show the local flavor of [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within.
–Leonard Cohen
The model of education from its earliest times was one of mentorship, starting with hunter-gatherers taking their children out on the hunt 100,000 years ago, all the way up to the teaching methods employed at the university [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Photo: Galleons Lap by zenitpetersburg
[Click here to read Part One.]
So despite the impending bell, the rush to the bus, the administrative fart in the Church of Wonder with that daily detention announcement over the intercom just when we’d arrived, in our Story, at the Enchanted Place - despite all of that, the children agreed to [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They had already guessed, all wrongly (but that was okay), how old I was when I first read the book I was sharing with them. Their guesses ranged from five to twelve. When I told them that I was in my thirties, and was reading that book as a peacekeeper in Kosovo, where I carried [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
A quickie: A couple weeks ago, I posted about the fatal weakness of RSS readers - their exclusion of a feed’s comments. Derrick Kwa replied with an offer to send me a no longer available WordPress plugin that shows a post’s comments underneath it. Derrick was kind enough to follow through (and by the [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan
Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
(Education News and Information) The impact of weeds on agricultural systems the environment and the global economy will be the focus of the 5th International Weed Science Congress scheduled for June 2327 in Vancouver Canada Hundreds of weed scientists and students from nearly 50 countries around the globe are expected to attend the event which [...]
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