Category: Ideas
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BJ and the Bear
So I told DC about the show BJ and the Bear tonight – she had no clue what I was talking about. The show premiered February of 1979. I watched this show growing up. If you don’t know what it’s about – it was a tv show about a Trucker…
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A Cluttered Mind
I am rereading a book – for my research and was struck by the idea that a cluttered mind is actually the normal and natural state of our minds. When someone says that their mind is all over the place – it takes no work for your mind to be…
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Dear Mr. Lack of Spatial Awareness,
I know that you’re anxious to get your cup of coffee, but not matter how close you stand behind me, its not going to get you any coffee sooner than me. I mean seriously. I’m next. There’s no one behind you. Give me some space. Crowding me is not…
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Your Inner Guttenberg
There was a time when spreading ideas wasn’t so easy. Books had to be written by hand. Ideas traveled slowly. It’s difficult for me to imagine a world without books or newspapers. Guttenberg changed all of that. With his printing press, he was able to spread ideas much more easily.…
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Google Street View Car
I have never seen it – until today. It looked weird at first, but I was kinda excited to see it. It was a little dangerous trying to take a picture of it while I was driving. If you’ve never seen it, it loos like this.
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Sometimes It’s Annoying
…..all of these posts. I had a student tell me that I’m all over her Facebook wall, and although I’m actually not on Facebook that much, this blog and tweets end up on Facebook. So first of all – Thank you Rachel for pointing it. Second, I apologize to those…
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An Ed Psych Lesson
I Googled a definition of Educational Psychology. The first hit defined it as: Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organization. Here is where I got it. I was…
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Great Friends
I almost got kicked out of college. It’s a great story. I can’t tell it in a 100 words, but I will share the face of a great friend that I almost got kicked out of college with. It was the summer of 95. I was a Senior and Kirk…
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Projected Pain
So I took this picture while I was waiting for a left turn. Sometimes there is someone standing there hoping to get some change from the people waiting to turn left. If you look closely at the sign it says – Fight addiction in my family & I get screwed…
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The Speed of Science
….is SLOOOOOOOOOOOW. If you have a great idea today that you want to research and study, by the time your idea is published, it’ll be at least a year before the world will know it. Then with a one year embargo – that the journals have instituted – it’s 2…
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Post Literate Society
We are slowly moving toward it. In fact, people have been talking about it for almost 50 years – so even before Twitter and Facebook, people were already thinking that we are headed that way. I heard this week that the web will soon be images and videos. More and…
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More Than Theory
In the past, I would have said that it’s easier to just teach theory. Go to class. Just teach the next chapter. Keep it theory, and I would have fulfilled the requirements of that course. Easy enough. But teaching is so much more than theory. When you teach the…
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