Saturday, February 05, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
11 Fast Syllabus Hacks - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/11-fast-syllabus-hacks/22657
Profhacker has a very handy 11 tips for a crankin' good syllabus. LOL, but you have never seen crankin' + good + syllabus together. I especially liked the one about adding humor to your syllabi. A professor, a hedgehog, and a fox walk into a bar....
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Enterprise of One: How New Entrepreneurs Are Taking Advantage of the Great Reset
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The Enterprise of One: How New Entrepreneurs Are Taking Advantage of the Great Reset
- In his book, The Great Reset, Richard Florida calls periods like the one currently facing the United States “Great Resets.”
- We all know the stories of mass unemployment and hardships suffered by American citizens during the Great Depression. But what often becomes lost in these stories is that a reset plays out as a process and not as much as an event. It represents a shift in values, economic tastes and preferences, business structures, and industries. In fact, it is a fundamental change in our culture as a whole.
- The great resets first refocus people.
- Much like turning soil, these resets provide fertile ground for new ideas and new ways of doing things.
- cumulative cleansing
- opportunity
- a person’s professional identity is more important than ever. Individual skills, expertise, reputation and authority have become the personal currencies of our economy.
- The opportunities provided by the transformation to an online business landscape, as well as the elimination of many barriers to entry and transaction costs, have left individual strengths, passions and expertise as the only distinguishing factors remaining in an individual’s or business’ success. Who you are as a person, and your expertise and passions, are more important than ever. In fact, they drive your own personal enterprise.
- Today, everyone is an Enterprise of One.
- the story of a new side of entrepreneurism.
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and Google Books (Culturomics)
http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/compare-culturomics.asp
This link is a rather extraordinary one that begs to be followed up for anyone who loves language, it uses, and its wanderings.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
General_Public - News & Events - Ryerson University
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General_Public - News & Events - Ryerson University
- Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone tech experts present New Year’s tech resolutions
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"Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone tech experts present New Year’s tech resolutions
1. First things first: time to get a smartphone
2. Get to know Android.
3. If you already know Android, upgrade to Android 2.3.
4. Get into the tablet game.
5. Come June, Hold 3-D in the palm of your hand with the first handheld 3-D gaming system, Nintendo 3DS
6. Get out of your phone and back into your life with Windows Phone 7.
7. Take your home videos like a pro with Go Pro camera hero HD.
8. A resolution for the techie: Build your own 3-D Imax theatre at home."
Maybe you can add a few of your own: augmented reality apps on your smartphone, phone blogging, Moodle 2.0 tutorials, figure out streaming from your video camera, and create digital media on a regular basis for work or family.
Article highlighted and highlights extracted using Diigo.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
The English Room-30 Days of Poetry-Student Activity
Monday, September 06, 2010
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Sugru
Sugru is a soft moldable material that reminds me of Fimo clay. But unlike Fimo, it does not have to be heated to cure. It air drys and is rubbery and sticks to anything. I used it to make a new button for my utility knife when the plastic one broke. I made bumpers for my cell phone. I put some on my tools so they would not roll off the table. I am still discovering ways to use the product.
-- Philip Lipton
This stuff comes in tiny pouches of different primary colors. You knead a bit with your hands until soft, then you apply it where you would like an additional grip, or stop, or section of repair. It's pretty sticky, can be worked like clay, but dries into a hard rubber. The photo shows a paring knife handle that was falling apart from years of dishwasher use. I coated the outside with Sugru and it now it feels great and is dishwasher proof. See Sugru's website for other ways it can be used.
-- KK
Hands-Free Phone-Interview Setup
It's a serious issue in contemporary journalism: how do you record phone interviews while using a headset?
Radio Shack sells a nice, cheap device (the previously reviewed Mini-Phone Recorder) that interrupts the cord that goes from the handset to the phone, which works well when you're using the handset. But when I do interviews by phone, I like to type a rough transcript while I talk, and typing while clamping a handset to your ear with your shoulder can quickly get painful.
When I first confronted this problem earlier this year, I spent a lot of time on the internet looking for solutions. The ones I found were pretty unappetizing. The main technology on offer is a microphone that you stick in your ear, which seems both unpleasant and ineffective.
But then I encountered the good people at Sagebrush.com, who invented this elegant and inexpensive solution, which uses about $20 worth of stuff you can get from Radio Shack.
You need three items:
1. the Gold Series Y-Adapter, 3/32" Stereo Jacks & 3/32" Plug, which is item # 2264801 and costs $7;
2. a 1/8" Stereo Jack to 3/32" Stereo Plug Adapter, which is item # 2160379 and costs $6; and
3. a 12-Inch Shielded Stereo Audio Cable, which is item # 2265306 and costs $6.
The Y-Adapter splits the signal coming out of your phone's headset jack. One line goes to the headset; the other goes to the recorder.
Arguably, this is more of a hack than a Cool Tool. But it works (as long as your phone has a headset jack). And it's very portable: you can also use it on the road by plugging into a cell phone.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Charles Jennings: Why focus on informal and social learning - Internet Time Alliance
Charles Jennings: Why focus on informal and social learning - Internet Time Alliance - Annotated
"Forgotten before it's needed"--what an odd expression! Still rolling that idea around in my chinese checker tin.
