Further proof as this election season revs up that there’s more than the future of humanity at stake this November.
Writing teachers everywhere: this is not change you can believe in.
(kudos to TPM)
Tsk tsk…
August 29, 2008 By 3 Comments
Facebook In Reality
August 15, 2008 By 3 Comments
With all the talk on this blog about Facebook and other social networking sites (see here, here, and here), here’s something that humorously encapsulates some of what unnerves many people about Facebook — particularly how social networking of this sort can make us vulnerable to unsavory characters of various sorts and what some people are afraid can be done with the information we typically make available on Facebook.
x Minutes of Freedom
August 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
From the Dept. of We Stole It From Lifehacker: Here’s a great idea for those of us needing to focus for chunks of time. An application for Mac OS X called Freedom helps keep your nose to the grindstone and away from Facebook, email, LOLCATZ, or whatever by disabling your internet connectivity for a designated period of time up to 6 hours. The developers have yet to figure out how to make an allowance for online library catalogs, the ability to IM your friend who knows everything, and the Olympics medal count.
Now that’s American ingenuity.
The Film Club
August 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I have not read David Gilmour’s The Film Club: A Memoir reviewed a few months ago in the New York Times. It’s about a man who decides to home school his teenage son through a diet of film, film, film. Three a week. And nothing else. I was curious if anyone perusing this blog has read it, and if so, if they have any thoughts about it concerning alternative schooling and pedagogy.
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