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All In – Instead of Nickel and Diming You
5 & 10 is a nice place. aya1081 and brittsaqt invited me out for dinner with some others. Good trout and ‘tater pancake and desert. So now I am home and killing time before doing the maintenance for work tonight. At least that will be short. I won’t even get to catch up much on TiVo…
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File Conversion
Zamzar came in useful today. Someone sent a WordPerfect document. My Windows XP didn’t know what to do with it, so I found Zamzar off my del.icio.us bookmarks and sent the file for conversion. I was able to open the file no problem. Fantastic! I can see lots of uses for this sort of thing.…
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Dance Lessons, Anyone?
The modest proposal of having students help teachers learn to dance makes an interesting point. Suggesting the learners do not want to learn is an easy way to avoid the real problem. I hear from higher education faculty, students are unmotivated and fail to see the importance of learning. I hear from academic technical support…
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Study Groups Violate Academic Integrity?
Maybe I need to add a “What were they thinking?” category? A student created a Facebook group for chemistry students to ask peers for help. As these students already collaborate face-to-face in a study room and use official tutoring services, this was just replicating this online. The students claim to just be helping each other.…
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Not Black Enough
Because of racial profiling, I get false positive screened for extra security screening in airports. So, I need to look more African American. Some suggestions so far: Grow out my hair and wear it in an afro / dreadlocks / cornrows. Clothing improvements: baggy jeans, Jordans, tall teeshirt or sports jersey, one stud earing, chain,…
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Game For Your Soul
Poor Death… By the way, two poll questions: How many D&D (all versions D&D, AD&D, AD&D 2nd Ed, D&D 3rd Ed) do you think I have owned? Don’t worry, I only know because I counted years ago. Have you played?
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Intuition
How often do you go with your gut? If the answer is very little, then maybe you should listen to your intuition more? Now… How to legitimize intuition so oversight bodies accept it….
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Page View Metric Dying
First Metricocracy measured hits. Pictures and other junk on pages inflated the results so Metricocracy decided on either unique visitors or page views. Now, the Metricocracy wants us to measure attention. Attention is engagement, how much time users spend on a page. What do we really want to know? Really it is the potential value…
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Roll a d20 in His Honor
Gary Gygax passed away last night. I haven’t played in years. 🙁