UPDATED! I just figured out how to add [annoying] music to the slideshow! Turn down your sound!

With thanks to my (now former) student Ariana, I learned about this nifty little slide show program called, appropriately enough, Slide. I am playing with it here to show some the pictures of my drive [...]

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Just found out that my Spring 06 students’ blogs were part of a presentation at the Computers in Libraries conference in DC this week. The presentation, given by Meredith Farkas of the information wants to be free blog and author of the upcoming book: Social Software in Libraries.
Nice to know that even after the [...]

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My students have begun their final 4 weeks of the term, and with that comes the choice of a final project and then the completion of the project.
The school where I teach is famous (infamous?) for the students who study here…they are all extraordinarily intelligent, and then extraordinarily interested (and passionately invested) in many many [...]

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Making my way through the dozens of emails I get in a day (GeekyMom you win…I think if I got as many emails as you do I think I would just cry), I found this wee gem from a language textbook publishing company:
Dear Professor:
We at (name of publisher) are very excited to extend to [...]

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