[Update: A fuller discussion of Peak Oil and the A Crude Awakening documentary is taking place at Crooks and Liars. Skeptics and believers are listening and debating there.] I wonder if Cassandra, as the Greeks approached Troy, got more silent indifference from those she tried to warn, or instead argumentation and debate? My guess is [...]
Archives for the Month of July, 2007
21st Century Guerrila Satire: The Yes Men
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Goodbye, "Heart of Darkness" (or, "Yokels Abroad")
Sunday, 29 July 2007
I’ll probably get another B+ for this. Teacher loves this novel, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This student disagrees. ‘-) And for you “English-y types” from the last post, thanks for your feedback. I try to clarify things here. More homework from my AP Lit workshop. I worked harder on the style and ideas for this [...]
Clarification on Iraqi Death Toll
Saturday, 28 July 2007
IraqBodyCount.org reports between 68,000 and 79,000 confirmed civilian deaths in Iraq since the invasion in 2003. By “confirmed” they mean reported by two independent journalistic sources. JustForeignPolicy.org and the Lancet estimate that, based on the confirmed numbers above, Iraqi deaths due to the invasion are at 15,000 short of 1 million dead Iraqis. In four [...]
For "English-y" Types Only: Is "Heart of Darkness" Insipid?
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Port Washington Google Search Poetry….
Friday, 27 July 2007
Sometimes you wish you could just crawl into your monitor and come out in your anonymous reader’s room for a hello and a chat. Look at the beautiful Google search terms that led this Port Washington, New York visitor to my “Teaching Grammar on the Titanic: On Fear and Irrelevance in Education” post: “Concrete, real, [...]
Friendly People
Friday, 27 July 2007
Update on Teacher Anthony, the "Enlightened Grad School Drop-Out"
Thursday, 26 July 2007
I posted earlier about Anthony’s epiphany – that the edublogosphere and www generally offer better learning, and for free, than his US $2,000/term graduate program in educational technology – and his decision to opt out. [Clarification: Anthony didn't really say he was "dropping out" of grad school. He said he was stopping for a while [...]
Blessings from Hell: the View from the Student’s Desk*
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
“For Zeus the Helmsman laid it down as law,that we must suffer,suffer,suffer,into Truth. –Aeschylus, The Oresteia “Imprisonment of the Mind” by ccr_358 on Flickr. The first half of this post is written in the (very real) voice of an angry student wanting to “quit school.” The second half is a preview of an upcoming podcast [...]
With Konrad and Carolyn in Patrick’s Classroom Blogging Workshop (Podcast)
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Patrick Higgins Shows the Love (Nice poster skills!) So I’m hanging out with Mac last night, late, in Korea, doing homework for my (sorry) pretty uninspiring UCLA online workshop, and then Mac said: Brrrrriiing. It was Patrick Higgins (of the excellent Chalkdust) in New Jersey, on Skype. He was giving the second day of his [...]






