Archives for posts tagged ‘Will Richardson’

Second-hand Reflection on NECC 2008

I’m filching my comment on Will Richardson’s NECC reflection and putting it below for whatever weird archival reasons: NECC is pretty far away from Korea (and air travel for a tech conference is a wildly ironic eco-no-no anyway, but I digress), and I was moving into a new apartment the very days it was held, [...]

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“So Off I Flew to Seek a Newer Land” – Notes Beyond Schoolteaching

Yes, I’ve been following Clay and know exactly what he means. I too want to do away with all of the fluff and wasting of time in a public classroom. Trouble is, I have this pesky student loan to pay off. And I absolutely love to share the joy of learning with kids, so I [...]

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A Mind-Bending Web 2.0 Way to DO History and Non-Fiction Writing

In recent years, postmodernists have challenged the validity and need for the study of history on the basis that all history is based on the personal interpretation of sources. In his book In Defence of History, Richard J. Evans, a professor of modern history at Cambridge University, defended the worth of history. –Wikipedia: “History“ –the [...]

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