February 2008
Lesson Plans →
HI + LOW: RULES →
January 2008
● Hell Yeah The Plane Takes Off shirts →
As requested in the airplane on a conveyor belt thread, a t-shirt commemorating this great event: Now available at CafePress in men’s plain white ($18), women’s plain white ($18), fitted white ($20), and organic cotton white ($21).
Reading comes first →
In a fiery Salon column, Garrison Keillor tells Democrats to stop bashing No Child Left Behind and Reading First. Teaching kids to read well is a lot more important than Bush bashing.
“Nice, caring, sharing people” — not “Republican oligarchs in top hats and spats” — are running the schools, Keillor writes. The failure to teach low-income students to read competently is their failure.
There...
The FAIL Blog →
The FAIL Blog: Absolutely amazing. Subscribed.
Growing Up Online: Interviews: Steve Maher →
“You find on the internet what you want. If it’s bad… if...”
– Frontline: Growing Up Online
Declaration of Independence →
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Livemocha: Education-blog-list →
Report Card On Personal Finance Education... →
Less than a week ago, Tennessee voted to require a personal finance class of all graduating high school students, starting with this year’s seventh graders. Unfortunately, less than 20% of states have similar requirements. We’ve made a fancy-schmancy graphic to show which states are teaching tomorrow’s citizens how to manage money, and which states are likely to be great places...
Unexamined Idolatry →
Dina Strasser on Jeff’s voluntary withdrawl of tech from his classroom:
He has the right to refuse ill-supported tech; or obtuse tech; or irrelevant tech; or redundant tech; or tech whose outcomes have not been measured sufficiently enough to warrant its judicious use in a classroom by a thoughtful teacher.
And let me tell you: blogger and Twitterer and 1:1 lab-er and Goggle Doc-er and...
*Radio Diaries* →
Phonesque →
Growl theme in the style of the iPhone notification window.
WatchVlog: Mark Frauenfelder - Rice Demographics - Boing Boing TV
The Best 50 Albums of 2007 / The Hype Machine →
“The most likely explanation, as is usually the case, is far simpler. Woot is,...”
– The Lexicographer’s Rules, the weblog of Grant Barrett
No Country For Old Teachers →
No Country For Old Men recently opened a bag full of Oscar nominations, all deserved. Not only is it the most suspenseful movie American cinema has produced in years but Joel & Ethan Coen tightened their movie down without the usual horror soundtrack schlock — loud scratches, loud shrieks, and loud strings — deploying nothing more than this low, resonant murmur.
Their rationale, followed by...
WatchPlasticky Goodness // Current
WatchBarack Obama’s Response to the State of the Union
Women’s group slams Kennedy for ‘betrayal’ →
“And now the greatest betrayal! …[Ted Kennedy] picked the new guy over us. Heâs joined the list of progressive white men who canât or wonât handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton.” Is this the Onion?
The Autumn of the Multitaskers →
“A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being...”
– George Orwell, 1984
“Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full...”
– Charisma as Natural as Gravity, Christopher Nolan on Heath Ledger
My Favourite Political T-Shirt: “Bros Before Hoes” →
T-Shirt Hell makes some outrageously offensive (but sometimes funny) t-shirts, and this one’s my current favourite:
Click the photo to see the order page.
The Creed →
What Poor Richard cost Benjamin Franklin.
Big changes could be in store for the WASL →
Interview with Andre Royo (2008-01-02) →
Royo plays “Bubbles” on The Wire.
Elgg Plans » Curriculum » diff →
A President Like My Father →
Caroline Kennedy on why she endorses Barack Obama
MetaFilter Bingo →
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States →
“Suffering the gloom, inevitable as breath, we must further accept this fact that...”
– In Praise of Melancholy
“The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders,...”
– Barack Obama
See your favorited Twitter posts! →
See who has favorited your twitter posts. Very cool.
Booksthatmakeyoudumb →
WatchP.J. O’Rourke | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Getting Past Done: What to Do After You’ve... →
There’s no feeling in the world quite like the mixture of triumph and sadness that comes after finishing a project you’ve been working on for months or even years. On one hand, you’re done and can finally release your finished product, whatever it is, into the world. On the other hand, though, completing a big goal leaves a little emptiness in your life, like sending your kids off to college —...
Social relationships in the Bible graphed →
Chris Harrison’s “Visualizing the Bible” project maps every social relationship and cross-reference in the Bible, as compiled by Christoph Römhild. Link (via Kottke)
reflection @ the informal education homepage →
When Is a Makeshift Best Buy Tribute to Heath... →
Too soon.
Let Me Save You $40: Here’s How to Be Happy →
A video and accompanying text from Edward Tufte on... →
A video and accompanying text from Edward Tufte on Interface Design and the iPhone. (link)
Attachments →
Since the new year, I have been on a cleaning kick. I cleaned the storage room behind the laundry room. I broke down all the empty boxes in the attic and rearranged the boxes that were left. I recycled three old computers, a non-working scanner, and an Epson RX-80 dot matrix printer. I categorized my cables and recycled the ones that only connect to computers or devices I no longer own. I...
Part I: A Brief History of Political Cartoons →
How to Work the Room →
Over at FoundRead, Larry Chiang has some advice that you might find useful if you’re following Scoble’s advice for people who’ve just been laid off (particularly the parts about networking and attending business events). His piece is titled How to Work the Room.
Here’s a condensed version:
Be more of a host and less of a guest. Make introductions and make people more comfortable.
Avoid...
TiltViewer →
Rules for Are You A Werewolf? →
TED | Talks | Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn... →
