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There are no words.

There are no words.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/6604485775 It is that wonderful time at the end of the calendar year when businesses and schools are closed and family members are home, together.  Here at our house,  in between the Scrabble  board game smack downs and the Sudoku marathons, interspersed  between the hours of sleeping, cooking and eating, I have been trying to(…)

Conference Blather

Ryan is attending an Ed Tech conference this week and sends me this email from the venue: WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN? (bullet points from an actual powerpoint preso) – Explore better system functionality and/or approaches to pushing content dynamically into LMS – Capitalize on future library and learning management systems enhancements to generate more(…)

Low hanging fruit

Low hanging fruit

This entry is part 16 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently

This entry is part 16 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclean/ / CC BY-NC 2.0   O’er the past few days there has been a kerfluffle brewing over at Inside Higher Ed in their Blog U section. As my colleague and fellow LLU blogger Doug posted earlier this week, Joshua Kim, a blogger(…)

Flickrpoet and the Language Classroom

I became aware of FlickrPoet via a tweet on Twitter, and have been playing around with it a bit. Here is how it works: you type in a poem or a phrase and it searches Flickr’s public collection for images tagged with those words, and then voila! it constructs a series of images in a(…)

Office 2007: now with more language-y goodness

[cross-posted on techotuesday] After two days of Office2007 training, I’ve a few pieces of info that might be of interest to language folks: Publish Directly to Blog This is pretty cool: if you don’t like your blog’s online post editor, or frequently need to blog when no intartubes are available, Word can automagically take content(…)