I did a controversial exercise for Spotlight Online the other day, and now I wish I’d done one on the words we Americans use in polite company to avoid swearwords.
Heck! (hell)
Shoot! (shit)
Fudge! (fuck)
Gosh! Golly! (God)
For crying out loud! (for Christ’s sake)
Gee whizz! Jeepers! (Jesus)
Darn (damn)
Doggone it! (damn it)
Gosh darn it! (God damn it)
Do people in [...]
What comes first: Learning how something works or using it without really having a clue? It’s always using, for me. And it’s getting worse (or better, depending on your perspective) every day. I can hardly sit still long enough to hear someone out or live through the whole experience without wanting to apply that new [...]
Using ICT for communication in teaching is great, and it’s what hooked me to adopting technology as a professional focus. It’s the “personal” quality of Web 2.0 tools that opens up new kinds of learning.
But systems really shine when they are allowed to be, well, systems. In teaching they need to be well-designed to provide [...]
“sweet spring is your” by e e cummings from 1×1 (1944) is under copyright, so here are just the first two verses:
“sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for spring time is lovetime
and viva sweet love”
(all the merry little birds are
flying in the floating in the
very spirits singing in
are winging in the blossoming)
He [...]
OK, so it’s still cold out, but spring is here. Along with blackest humor. “Taubenvergiften im Park” was written by Georg Kreisler, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” was penned by Tom Lehrer. So: Did Lehrer steal the song from Kreisler, or was it the other way around? Lehrer had more chutzpah, and thanked Kreissler for [...]
It’s a little embarassing to have and use an iphone if you’re not big on gadgets. But I’ve got one and use it all the time now… for everything … From Ian, thanks:
Dave Nagel reports that Google Apps Education Edition is coming to Moodle. Moodlerooms, a Moodle partner, is launching a new enhancement to the open source LMS in collaboration with search giant Google to provide access to the application suite using a single sign-on. Through the integration, users loaded into Moodle will be automatically loaded into [...]
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