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Freaky scary

Posted in hmm... on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While not all that surprising it makes you stop and think  – or, depending on your SES, maybe not.
It’s not just that these kids are poor and more likely to have health problems, but they might actually not be getting full brain development from the stressful and relatively impoverished environment associated with low socioeconomic status: [...]

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Today’s traditional students (or musings on MySpace)

Posted in hmm..., techno stuff on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I found this snip from a UK Guardian article interesting:
Phipps recalls interviewing a first-year female arts undergraduate who professed absolute ignorance of e-learning or web applications. “She was updating her blog at an internet café and then started integrating photos from her Flickr site on to the blog. At the end of it she said, [...]

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To be 18 again – NOT!

Posted in hmm..., school stuff on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dean Dad wrote a piece on his first year of college versus his high school experience and this paragraph sounded pretty familiar:
. . . in what I considered my wheelhouse, I could top the curve without working too hard. At some level, then, ‘hard work’ was actually associated with ‘failure.’ In the courses in which [...]

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My 2 cents

Posted in chaosgirl, hmm... on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Santa Claus + 3 year old = ??
Mother of Chaos has a good take on the whole Santa thing which got me thinking about what may be heading our way in a few months. ChaosGirl has seen guys dressed in Santa suits at daycare parties handing out candy canes but I don’t honestly know how [...]

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What’s up with color?

Posted in hmm..., yarny stuff on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was just looking through my finished and unfinished objects in Ravelry as I was updating a couple of things and noticed some serious color trending.  There is no red.  There is no bright yellow or coral or orange.  There really are no *bright* bright colors at all.  There are a lot of blues and [...]

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I think I’m one of those people

Posted in hmm... on December 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

You know.  Those people that are nice to be around in small doses.  I’m not sure how I feel about that. I ran into someone I had worked with several years ago and he made a comment to the effect that I was “intense” and not necessarily in a good way.  When we worked together [...]

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Conflicted a bit less

Posted in hmm..., teaching on November 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

As I said in the meme, I’m conflicted. Actually about a lot of things. But specifically I was conflicted about being tagged for the latest Teaching Carnival. I didn’t nominate myself or use de.licio.us or technocrati tags so I’m guessing that means someone actually nominated the post or combed through the WordPress [...]

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