Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Affective Objectives?
“Are there other affective objectives that would be more in sync with this particular class?”
And there is the rub. It isn’t that I am down on the idea of affective objectives that could be included in a curriculum; it is that all evidence I saw in my exposure to the Boston school system was [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Olympic Village
The Olympic Flame arrived in Milan today. I wonder what those fashion divas would think of my entry for the ‘06 winter games. Fellow olympiads and spectators alike, may I introduce you to my knitting event? The Thrumb - no, not the ubiquitous thrumb mittens, but Muffy:
I know [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Confessions of a recovering communard:
I spent the better part of the week trying to do this as a podcast, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out my Garage Band and I am resistant to blow the $$ on an upgrade to a program I didn’t know existed a week ago.
In our class forum, Elaine offered the following [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Possible Projects for the Winter Olympics
I’m still searching for my event. A trip to Knitty provided some inspiration.
Ripley for my son.
Bella or Ella or Muffy for me.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Needs assessment … learning goals
… In which I try to manage my own change here at the Graduate Center …
The list of skills I thought I needed when I entered the the program last fall are quite different from the skills that I am learning, and because of that, my own learning goals are constantly evolving as put more [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
What to make, what to make?
I’m in. I thought about being a cheerleader for this event, but couldn’t resist being part of the hometown team. But what to knit? What will be my challenge? Do I stash dive and get creative or splurge for something new? Do I knit for myself or for others? Do I want the knitting to [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Legal Cheating?
“Today, if one of the main tools workers use in a digital age is the Internet, why not include it in test-taking? After all, asserts M.I.T. economist Frank Levy, it’s more important to locate and piece together information about the World Bank than to know when it was founded.” Read more here
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Study: Most College Students Lack Skills
Wow, what timing!
Study: Most College Students Lack Skills
Jan 19 2:43 PM US/Eastern
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By BEN FELLER
AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON
Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
New and notable
Blog: If:Book
… “the aim of Google Book Search” is also to discover who you are. It’s capturing our clickstreams, analyzing what we’ve searched and the terms we’ve used to get there. The book is reading you. [my emphisis]
Pod:Accident Hash, its like college radio for your mid life crisis and innoculates your mind against the evil [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
B is for ball
*** edited to note*** this is one from the vault, written in January 2006
A follow up to A is for Arggg.
The original ball of yarn cost me $55 (for 750 yards, I think). I’ve spent 10 hours untangling it and even though I don’t have an income stream right now, if I [...]
