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Song to time handwashing (Yup’ik Eskimo)

March 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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Happy Birthday song in Yup’ik Eskimo (mp3) click to play or right click to download and play <—Happy Birthday song in Yup’ik Eskimo (mp3) click to play or right click to download and play
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Tumblr as E-mail complement to web logging

March 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Eudora is a great note taking, journal/diary, correspondence, info management, etc. I have the last Windows version (Eudora 7) which also has a built-in X1 file searcher. Eudora doesn’t have the ability to quickly add a reminder, unlike Outlook or other PIMs (personal information managers. Lotus Organizer was also great but no longer published). However, [...]

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Tags: Teachers · blogging blogginess

Tundra Teachers

November 10th, 2007 · 25 Comments

[updated] 2008-03-20
At one point there were few teachers from the tundra regions writing blogs. Few enough I could put them all into one RSS feed mix in the sidebar as I came across them.

[Kangirsuk, Nunivik] Not Obscure (John Higham from Nunavik, Canada) http://notobscure.com/
[Kongiganak, Toksook Bay, Tununak] Alaska The View From Up Here, (Brett Stirling [...]

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March 30 Stop Cyberbullying Day

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments

from Bringing Health Information to Communities, March 27, 2007

http://library.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/archives/cat_websites.html#002196

March 30: Stop Cyberbullying Day
Andy Carvin, blogger on PBS’s learning.now http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/ has declared March 30th as Stop Cyberbullying Day.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/march_30_participate_in_stop_c_1.html The MedlinePlus Health Topic Bullying http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bullying.html includes links to cyberbullying and online harrassment.
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Tags: Teachers · blogging blogginess

Miscellany: plagiarism items

February 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

See Lorelle vanFossen for issues specific to blogging

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=plagiarism&searchsubmit=Find+%C2%BB

What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content -
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/

Can photographers be plagiarists?
Click here for a slide show about two similar shots of Shanghai’s Nanpu Bridge..
Thoughts on Turnitin.com
A fellow blogger asked for a dean’s-eye-view impression of turnitin.com.
Lethem, Vaidhyanathan, et al talk copyright and plagiarism on NPR tonight
Cory Doctorow: [...]

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Tags: Teachers · blogging blogginess

Teachers as students

January 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is a placeholder entry, to be modified, about the need for Internet and computer literacy /numeracy /
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/teacher_faces_40_yea.html
teachers at this school were prohibited by policy from turning off school computers, which would answer the “why didn’t she just shut down the PC?” questions. Amero testified that she told four other teachers and the school’s [...]

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