(Mostly Edtech) Resources for English Education Professors & English Teachers by Todd Finley
I’m a believer!
Two weeks later, back in Brooklyn, I saw a sign: “Cold-Brewed Iced Coffee Served Here.” Fine, then. I threw down two bucks and took a sip. Though it pains me to admit, the difference was considerable. Without the bitterness produced by hot water, the cold-brewed coffee had hints of chocolate, even caramel. I dropped my sugar packet — no need for it. The best brews hardly need cream. - New York Times
One common method was to fill the page and then to turn the paper ninety degrees and continue writing over previous text. This is called “cross-hatching.” The example shown here is from the Elia
Source: Cross-Hatching
Like Twitter, but different. Free,with ads.
What is it?
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know
and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Source: Pownce
Thaw your brain!
Too much Chipwich too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much as you can. “Since the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing, too,” says Abo. “In compensating, it overheats, causing an ice-cream headache.” The more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside.
How David Allen mastered getting things done
The management guru has learned to relax, go with the flow, and market his mysterious elixir of success.
By Paul Keegan, Business 2.0 Magazine
June 21 2007: 9:57 AM EDT
(Business 2.0 Magazine) — David Allen sits in his small office in a cottage behind his house in Ojai, Calif., talking business with a visitor. Suddenly he stops. “That reminds me,” he says. He scribbles the words “bird feed” on a piece of blank notebook paper and tosses it into his inbox.
It’s an ordinary moment in an ordinary day. But for Allen and his legion of followers, it holds the key to salvation. He has emptied his mind of a nagging task, placed it into a trusted system for processing, and casually returned to his conversation. That’s GTD, short for “Getting Things Done,” the prosaic title of his best-selling book.
David Allen wants his company to succeed. But he’s not in it just for the money. What he really wants is to spread the gospel of GTD (“Getting Things Done”).
Source: David Allen: The master of getting thing done – July 1, 2007
