Creative GeekSharing in the passion of learning and exploring.(Untitled)- January 17, 2003 W. Edwards Deming "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." via Motivational Quotes of the Day I've been in a class for the past three days so I have had no time to write anything. Well, that's sort of a lie. Last night I had my writing group and wrote quite a bit. It was my first night back after the group ended at Thanksgiving time. Writing felt good. The class was great too. 'Building Support for your Ideas'. Many of the individual skills that we went over (active...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105334/2003/01/16.html#a378 (Untitled)- January 10, 2003 Pearl Buck "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." via Motivational Quotes of the Day So why do I always seem to slip past that split second and make the mistake I know it's going to be a mistake and I choose to go ahead anyways.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105334/2003/01/09.html#a377 (Untitled)- January 9, 2003 Tauzin Reverses Stance On Do-Not-Call List I guess Billy Tauzin doesn't want to be labeled as the guy who let the telemarketers keep calling. As powerful as the telemarketing lobby can be (I'm sure they call your house every night at dinner time), the hatred that voters feel for telemarketers seems to have swayed Tauzin. Just yesterday he was going to block funding for a national do not call list. And, now, he's miraculously changed his mind. He still wants the funds to be limited, and he wants.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105334/2003/01/09.html#a376 (Untitled)- January 4, 2003 Serious Instructional Technology In Search of Quality has a pointer to another article giving a "Nice overview of research on journals". I guess I've never thought of journals in an educational context. And it's not like I've never heard about it before. My wife sometimes has her classes keep journals that are a key part of their final grade. She has them journal about their thought processes and to make sure they're reading the material. It makes sense for her students. They're religion..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105334/2003/01/04.html#a374 |