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This is a nice presentation on an apparent obsolete way to teach and learn. Makes me wonder if the tools now available to students really have any positive impact. In my time, I would have loved to be able to bring a laptop and use collaborative tools in classes, but just like the students in this videos mentioned, I'm afraild that my attention ( Read more... )

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Well, the year is coming to an end once more, and already I start seeing 'best of 2008' lists all around. And this time, I've decided to look at what I have been listening these past 12 months, and gather a list of what were for me some of the best albums of 2008. It is not an homogeneous list whatsoever (nor should it be), so expect to see a ( Read more... )

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“Look at the bible as a pastiche, a collection of mutually and often internally inconsistent fragments slapped together for crude reasons of politics and art and priestly self-promotion and sometimes beauty and a lot of chest-thumping tribalism, and through that lens, it makes a lot of sense. It does tell us something important... about us, not ( Read more... )

Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses." She opened one unfriendly eye and ( Read more... )

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