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 [...]
Archives for the Month of June, 2008
Replace That US History Textbook with Learner.org’s “A Biography of America”
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
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 [...]
Strut Your Etymo-Lexico Stuff with a Mystudiyo Vocab Quiz
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
OS X Leopard Airport Scanning Driving You Crazy? A Possible Fix
Saturday, 21 June 2008
[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 [...]
Networked Learning Class Reflection 1: Basketball without Borders Project
Saturday, 21 June 2008
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 [...]
Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)
Thursday, 19 June 2008
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: Get it while it’s hot
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Noodling in Kowloon
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Taking Back Teaching: A Forgotten History
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
[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 [...]
An Enchanted Place, Part 2: In Which We Say Goodbye
Monday, 9 June 2008
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 [...]






