English Education Professor

“i carry your heart” by e e cummings.

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If you don’t have their attention, you can’t be teaching.

It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical. Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances.5 creativity tips from Steve Martin « Getting Things Done in Academia

Introducing the Twiller.

Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels — in real time, just a few characters at a time. Our medium is Twitter, a service that lets you broadcast bursts of 140 characters at a time to be read by people who subscribe to get your updates.

In my case, I’ve for the last two months been using Twitter to write a real-time thriller. Hence: Twiller. (Cheap word play is what you get when you disintermediate, as they say, your agent and editor). Introducing the Twiller

Screen Capture

ScreenFlow – Screen Capture Software for MAC users
As an instructional designer, I had to create video tutorials for learners or instructors. Always I had the same problem. I had to use Camtasia ($299) or Articulate ($999). Software that have been created for PC users and not for MAC users like me. I tried several screen capture software for MAC but no one was similar or better than Camtasia/Articulate. But this belong to the past…

Health Benefits of Cinnamon

In one fun (but unpublished) study, researchers found that sniffing cinnamon resulted in improved brain function -– subjects did better on memory and attention tasks when taking whiffs of cinnamon as opposed to other odors or no odor. However, the potential health benefits of cinnamon that have received the most attention have to do with its effects on blood glucose and cholesterol.

mimesis |məˈmēsis; mī-|
noun formal or technical
imitation, in particular
• representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature.
• the deliberate imitation of the behavior of one group of people b

Jim Burke makes everything very print-and-use friendly. Bookmark.

The following Faq from Identi.ca are pretty convincing. Plus, Identi.ca is clean-beautiful & fast. I like how the service plays well with others.

How is Identi.ca different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others?

Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.

The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.

The goal here is autonomy — you deserve the right to manage your own on-line presence. If you don’t like how Identi.ca works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one).

Twitter is GREAT for getting opinions. 50 Ways to Use Twitter

Don’t Prevent Participation in Social Software Says Gartner | SocialComputingMagazine.com

Leading IT research firm Gartner reported today that organizations should not try to avoid Web 2.0 applications based on social participation, such as social networks, blogs, wikis, and lifestreaming services such as Twitter and Friendfeed.

Instead, organizations should “anticipate it as part of the social experience and formulate a multilevel approach to policies for effective governance” that allows organizations to access the value inherent in better communication and collaboration while managing risk.