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Diversionary tactics on a Sunday

A weekend outside that is glorious, and I’m stuck into report writing and continuing the bash together a conference paper, due Wednesday. Not much of this so far. Nothing like a little bit of pressure to bring out the procrastinator in me. What I have done is to sort photographs into smart albums (in iPhoto)

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Early start to the day

  Went early to bed with a head full of stuff and woke twice through the night processing, processing! Result was to get up early and get some of it (conference paper beta) down in a coherent fashion. No Sudoku this morning, but a productive couple of hours in the cool, pre-dawn air with good

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Fear of the tech god

Every time it happens I’m reminded of that first axiom of good teaching: take nothing for granted. Again today, a couple of bright students indicated how nervous they were about tackling the whole online thing. I suggested using either Google Docs and Spreadsheets or the excellent Celtx open-source software so that they could publish their

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The Tide Turns … a bit

I’m entering into a new phase, or “workflow” of projects right now. Mad Forest is playing out its season this week, so I’m in the room assessing student progress and providing feedback via the group and individual blogs. They are going well. I’m getting some time at last to start writing again! This time, it’s

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