So, as my first quarter studying education ends, I came across a pretty interesting editorial. Read it, discuss it if you like. Apparently the author now helps Obama do education policy.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/darling-hammond

http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/001857.php

Perhaps the best case for causal inference from correlation that I have ever encountered.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/86831.html

Should I just make this into my dissertation? It comes out in April, apparently.

So, I'm out here in this California place. On my way I passed Davis' campus, about an hour and a half before hitting Palo Alto, I also passed Berkeley about 45 minutes after that, though I was at about the low traffic point for the week. Things are pretty relaxed right now, real move in here starts Saturday for grads(they didn't bother to tell me ( Read more... )

Move out of Bloomington~ Aug 20th ( Read more... )

SOCCER!

Check out http://metaverseroadmap.org/. It is kind of cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGHSczA1nag

So everyone talked about the Matrix video and how it was gone. I think this is the one you were talking about.

It is officially the last real summer of my life(I guess I may take a summer or two off during grad school, but thats up in the air, and definitely not next summer).  As such I would like as many suggestions for what I should do as I can get.  I can actually budget a decent amount of money for travel and such, but I need to work at least 20 hours a ( Read more... )

In my standard Big Tim style, this post is going to be way too serious, after all, we're graduating, and thats no fun, I didn't even take a victory lap.  First I'm going to clarify on what I said last night a bit, I will be designing an educational computer game this summer.  It is called Quest: Atlantis, and if you want to know about what it is, ( Read more... )