Saturday, May 28, 2005

Home : myGmaps

Home : myGmaps

http://mygmaps.com/show/0.0.6/?url=http://mygmaps.com/account/tellio/English300Map.xml

 

For sheer damn! factor you have to see this.  I have begun preparing a graphical map of my Junior English students for June summer term.  This is just an alpha version of the software but all I can say is—-wow!  Privacy?  What that mean? 

 

Friday faves : Lifehacker

Friday faves : Lifehacker

I am back from picking up my daughter from school and I ran across a Lifehack’s Friday faves.  I am already using some of these and want to use more. 

Monday, May 23, 2005

The Education Podcast Network

The Education Podcast Network

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together in one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to busy teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

 

Nicely done.  Easy on the eyes and while not yet full of podcasts, they appear to be charging hard.  This is a portal of podcasts so you are led far afield, but I especially liked the link to the University of Chicago’s ‘Poem Present’.  I am listening to a podcast of a reading and lecture by Mary Jo Bang from Feb 24, 2004.  This link goes into my developing online course, PostLitTeach which in turn is part of my tech advocacy project at Western Kentucky University’s e-train project.

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Yahoo! Groups : minciu_sodas_en Messages : Message 5334 of 5335

Yahoo! Groups : minciu_sodas_en Messages : Message 5334 of 5335

The domestic scene is not worth commenting on except for morbid
humour. A ten-minute discourse with the people in the street - urban
shopping centres, on bus or plane journeys, rural market places, in
the farmer fields, with tribal people in Pakistan's marginal areas -
will bring across one common perception: politics only affects the
five percent or so people who dabble in it directly in whatever
capacity. For the rest it is irrelevant since no one represents the
people or even tries to connect with them on issues that influence
their lives.

A former Pakistani military officer writing for  The News International, Islamabad, Pakistan, 22 May 2005, cracks a question that has been in my mind of late: how has Bush managed to pull the wool over so many eyes?  All tyrants need is for good men and women to say nothing.  It doesn’t matter why they say nothing, it only matters that they do.