Life is physically and mentally too cramped for me to write the posts I’ve been planning about Pink’s Whole New Mind and Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.  I’m tutoring three days a week, finishing up my change of visa status (I never thought I’d need a Green Card, but there it is), and moving into our [...]

Supporters: Looking for US History textbooks? Visit ValoreBooks, a marketplace that aims to provide cheap textbooks. Now that I’ve left schooling, it’s wonderful to explore things for teaching. Case in point: Annenberg Media / Learner.org’s A Biography of America series.  It’s an astonishingly media-rich 26-part series – count ‘em, 26 half-hour PBS episodes featuring leading [...]

Just doinking around with Mystudiyo. They say they’ll never make me pay for this when they leave beta, which is cool – but I always wonder what will happen to this sort of work if the company goes out of business. Is all my labor lost? That being said, I love the ease of use. [...]

[UPDATE 2: 10 Nov. 2008: Downloading the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004 (1.0) did the job for me.  Two days in and no drops, much faster load speeds. From the Apple Downloads site: "This update is recommended for all Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5.5." NOTE: I don't have Airport Extreme. I have an old [...]

That Networked Learning elective “English Seminar” class I taught last semester ended two weeks ago. (Sift through the archives for related posts.) For new readers or simply people not tuned in here during the last six months, here’s a recap: Ten students of mixed grades (9-12, ages 15-18), each with a MacBook laptop (the school [...]

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook.  (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 [...]

[Apture rocks. Click the icon beside Shirky, and the one beside "addons", and then click each of the icons that I loaded, and watch the magic. I don't have to spell out how rich a tool this is for every use, educational and otherwise, you can think of, do I? It's in invitation-only beta right [...]

Standing on a corner in Hong Kong – It ain’t so good to be alone in Hong Kong. –Screaming Jay Hawkins, “Hong Kong” (psst…do yourself a favor and click the little icon for a classic Screaming Jay number on Youtube, and a Wikipedia link, thanks to the very cool Apture tool) Just a quickie to [...]

[Update 5 April 2010: Prof. (?) Paul Worfel weighs in with some evidence that the story of William Farish, as relayed by Thom Hartmann below, is more complicated than Hartmann suggests. Read his comment here (scroll down for his response to Claire's comment) for the details -- and thanks to Paul for the fact-checking.] They [...]

Photo: Galleons Lap by zenitpetersburg [Click here to read Part One.] So despite the impending bell, the rush to the bus, the administrative fart in the Church of Wonder with that daily detention announcement over the intercom just when we’d arrived, in our Story, at the Enchanted Place – despite all of that, the children [...]