Running Jack: A Tribute Video

Happy Birthday, Laila

Having just discovered Wordle, I thought I'd see what my CV looked like as a tag cloud.

Yeah, Mikey!

It had better be the thought that counts.

Consistent with the mission of this blog, I hereby post a multimedia notice of an informal educational opportunity available to anyone traveling in Central New Jersey.

This is our cat Buster.

I just learned of a design blog over at 37signals called Signal vs. Noise, which is where I found this video about making music videos.

Read and Discuss

A recent post on the NCTE Inbox Blog gives teachers suggestions about how "to explore movies based on short stories and novels in the literature classroom." The links on Read, Write, Think lead to a discussion that connects the Macintosh 1984 commercial to Orwell's 1984. That got me thinking about the SoBe Life Water "Thrillicious" cpmmercial which, eventually, led here.

MIT sketching

I was already a convert to the benefits of SMART Boards before I saw this demo of a wonderfully intuitive simulation tool.

Here is a link to a YouTube video by Richard Miller, Chair of the English Department at Rutgers University. It speaks, eloquently, I think, to my concerns about English, English Education, and Teacher Education. If only I could get faculty in some of those areas to speak to the issues addressed in this video.