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Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as […]
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The Most Important Edu Website I Know: Education for Well-Being Strikes Again
May 13, 2008 – 1:59 pm
Friday Funny: How Sex Education Promotes Abstinence
May 8, 2008 – 11:22 pm
From my Quotiki sidebar widget:
Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they’ve got nothing to worry about.
- Beverly Mickins
I’m telling you, there’s magic in these random quote widgets - especially when, as in Quotiki, […]
A Sunday Science Sermon
May 4, 2008 – 11:48 am
[Before I launch into the statistics, I want to urge you to watch the YouTube video at the bottom of this post. It’s a beautiful testament to the scientific method. In it, a scientist proves Darwin right on a hypothesis that, when Darwin was alive, earned him ridicule. The proof took 150 years to come […]
Aggregators as Couches, Comments as Salons
Another limitation of RSS readers I’ve often griped about before: with a few exceptions (Bloglines for one), they exclude comment threads from the feed. This sends entirely the wrong message: that the posts are the main thing, and the writer of the blog is the expert.
I operate on the opposite assumption: I post my thoughts […]