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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 17 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 17 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
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Archives
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Anti-Teaching
Some of you probably know Michael Wesch through his YouTube videos. He’s just published an article in Education Canada entitled “Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Signficance.” It is available as a pdf. If you want to see the significance problem first hand, visit a classroom and pay attention to the types of questions asked by [...]
Breeze & Transparency online
I am engaged in a three-week online seminar with other online teachers at Quinnipiac, talking about teaching and learning online. Since this week I we are talking about transparency, I figured I should put my contribution up here on my blog as well. So, here is the short (11 minute) presentation in Breeze–it opens in [...]
Lecture notes & copyright
I have an admission to make. When I was an undergraduate, I bought a lot of notes. And I did far better in the courses in which I did. The process was easy. Show up to class the first week to get the syllabus. See if the university library or any other local libraries had [...]
SEO Rapping
Got to get this guy in as a guest lecturer! He’s got a bunch of these up on YouTube, including “Social Media Addition.” (via Mark)
Congestion Pricing
Dear Assembly Member O’Donnell: Thank you for taking the time to reply to my email. Naturally, I am extremely disappointed to see the proposal, supported here in my own city, die in Albany with your help. In the email below, you note we “can do better.” I can’t disagree with that notion, nor with some [...]
KROQ and Extreme Nostalgia
I hate to admit how much KROQ insinuated itself as the soundtrack of my life. Of course, KROQ is still around (and pretty bleh), but there is now a web stream of KROQ of the 80s reconstructed. Not just a mix of the music, but drops and station IDs from the period. I just listened [...]
MPOV on NPOV – inconvenient truth