Tag: Quotes
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Merry Christmas
Back when I was Catholic, the two masses I enjoyed the most were Christmas and Easter. I listen to Christmas music throughout the year. Birth and death are a fascinating duality of life. A material death is simple… The Second Law of Thermodynamics represents the scattering of the particles of which we are composed. Life…
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Its 10:34 Do You Know Where Your Tracking Files Are?
One of my co-workers says about tracking, “One of the big selling points to [Blackboard] Vista is the wealth of tracking data for auditing, grade challenges, and catching cheaters.” Certainly, Reports and Tracking in Blackboard’s Vista 3 is one of the more favorite tools. So making sure the data gets there is critically important. The…
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Insanity
. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. Rita Mae Brown – Wikiquote
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Sage Compy Admin Advice
“Time wounds all heals.” “THAT is a gross oversimplification.”
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A couple of quotes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes French mathematician & philosopher (1596 – 1650) Quote Details: Rene Descartes: Each problem that I… – The Quotations Page It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that powerattracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
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Name That Movie
Name the movie from which these quotes come: Everyone has a mortgage to pay. … (Narrator)The Yuppie Nuremberg Defense. … Well, 99% of everything done in the world good or bad is done because of a mortgage.
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Literacy Environments
“Become illiterate, save a tree” – Darryl Henriques, 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Pave the Earth Hmmmmmmm, as much as I love technology, I tend to shy awy from electronic books. Part of it, I think, has to do with how I use computers. In what I do, I multitask quite a bit,…
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Multiple Guess
Security Watch: The myth of online anonymity – CNET reviews: In his talk, Kazwetz mentioned several studies on gender use of keywords which, when weighted–with specific numerical values for male and different numerical values for female–can determine the gender of the author. Sounds too simple to be true, but research (including Gender, Genre, and Writing…
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Cheating in an Information Technology Era
Some quotes from an article in the NYT on cheating. This recently came up on a WebCT Users list (usually at least once every year). Maybe the timing is right because the academic year at many schools just ended? Test administrators are usually one step behind the cheaters. There are lots of technologies that have…