October 2007
E-Learning Mythbusters #3
Go to any e-Learning conference and you will hear a great deal about the importance of building a sense of “community” for your e-learners. This is one of the myths/realities that I try to explore in my e-Learning Mythbusters presentation. At the ETOM conference at Mott Community College I posed the following question to the audience (about 60 people responded with clickers): As you...
Where There's Smoke...
As you’ve no doubt heard, Southern California has been devastated by wildfire for the past several days. And at this point, there are no fires burning in the San Gabriel valley, and the smoke from fires to the north and south of Pasadena are blowing west, out towards the Pacific. So, it’s a strange feeling. Friends and family have been asking, “How has it been out there? With all...
there's a "demilitarized zone" joke in here...
Guy 1: So now that he has a girlfriend, does he still play “Dungeons & Dragons” all the time?
Guy 2: Yeah… I think she’s Korean.
Guy 1: That’s good. He needs someone who can appreciate a Level 70 upgrade.
@manhattan cafe
overheard by: brent spotswood
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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson - 13 October...
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A Wise, wise, animule
[Crawling up thousands of feet of mountain] You: I’ve come all this way to hear your guidance, oh great bunneh-like mammal Bunneh creature: “Remember this my son. There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don’t.”
Thank you, Charlotte S., for introducing us to this wise, wise “Viscacha” animule. (via Ez’s...
Video games may reduce gender gap in spatial...
A couple weeks ago, a CogDaily commenter wondered if some of the science achievement differences between men and women might be related to the fact that boys play more video games than girls:
There are many more boys playing video games than girls. Could the mental sweat caused by video games strengthen the areas of the brain more involved in mathematics?
Good question, Lauren. As it turns...
User Friendly by J D "Illiad" Frazer - 7...
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Dilbert by Scott Adams - 7 October 2007
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Devra Davis: Chemicals, Cancer and You
In The Secret History of the War on Cancer, environmental-health expert Devra Davis warns that we’re ignoring dozens of cancer-causing chemicals, like asbestos, benzene, vinyl chloride, and dioxin. She writes that, like the tobacco companies, the chemical industry has managed to obfuscate the carcinogenic dangers of chemical and other toxic waste.
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Infants perceive language sounds differently by...
A study doesn’t have to be brand-new to be interesting. Consider the situation in 1992: It was known that adults are much better at distinguishing between sounds used in their own language compared to other languages. Take the R and L sounds in English. In Japanese, both of these sounds belong in the same category of sounds: both sounds have the same meaning, which is why it’s...
