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Another criticism of standardized tests is that they cannot measure the sort of understandings we expect the schools to be teaching such as writing and scientific inquiry. As Audrey Qualls, a co-author of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, one...
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| 23:48:55 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Katabasis |
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Have you ever seen a dialog that scrolls out from where the system tray is and gives the user some...
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The testing is the most contested part of this whole program. One of the first things to understand is the difference between the sort of tests your teachers made in high school and standardized tests. When teachers make a test,...
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| 23:42:25 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Katabasis |
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As some of you may know I bowl on a bowling league on Tuesday nights. You are not going to believe this but I just rolled a perfect game in bowling tonight. Thats right I rolled a 300 game! Twelve...
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well in spite of my deciding not to add any new functionality to esriAdmin, i've added one (last) new function, "freshenAXL" to allow users to edit axl files and have esriAdmin freshen that map service with the new axl contents (as jason and kirk both asked for this, how could i say "no"). i also...
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Petya says "geeks rock! more geeks!", so I'm obliging (and using the opportunity to dredge my Geek Talk post up from the archives). First off, I'm somewhat amused by the etymology of the term: Geek is actually a very old word. It is a variant of geck, a term of Low German/Dutch origin that dates in English to 1511. It means a fool, simpleton, or dupe.Later, in 19th century American usage, the connotation of offensive and undesirable is added and then, in 1928, it starts being used to describe "a sideshow performer who bites the heads off chickens or snakes." How "geek" came to mean what it does today, I have no idea (man I miss having free access to the OED). If you're looking to broadcast your geekdom to the world, you definitely need to start adding Geek Code to your e-mail signature. Of course, if you ever e-mail non-geeks, you might want to only use that sig selectively. The first time I saw a geek code block on someone's message board signature, I was mightily confused. And ...
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An excellent educational resource is the one that Lisa Neal (editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine), as a project leader, carried out for Plimoth Plantation's new site: "You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving." The site does an excellent job of guiding children to an understanding ...
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Here is a sad depresso article about Wal-Mart. Like other people have said though, I don’t really see this as walmart’s fault, more globalization. I don’t think that, without wal-mart, we would be in a completely different place with regards to jobs moving overseas; it would just be fueled by another company, or several smaller companies, or take longer....
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Well, I've been comment-spammed, and am now left with the insanely fun task of using MT's meager editing tools to...
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| 23:07:19 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Zach's Blog |
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So Hyatt is discussing the reasons people give for why a bug must be fixed. How about this one I...
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| 23:03:44 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Zach's Blog |
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Here's a report on how Music Labels are benefitting from and actually paying for research that mines and tracks music trends in peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa. "Despite their legal blitzkrieg to stop online song-swapping, many music labels are benefiting from and paying for intelligence on the latest trends in Internet trading. It's a rich digital trove these recording executives are mining. By following the buzz online, they can determine where geographically to market specific artists for maximum profitability. "The record industry has always been more about vibe and hype," said Jeremy Welt, head of new media for Maverick Records in Los Angeles. "For the first time, we're making decisions based on what consumers are doing and saying as opposed to just looking at radio charts." "Traditionally, labels had relied for market research largely on commercial radio, MTV and music store sales. Label executives waited weeks to get feedback based on limited audience sampling ...
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Since Ben and I are in Toyko this week, Six Apart and Neoteny will be holding a Movable Type/TypePad user...
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| 22:48:11 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Six Log |
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The bills basic mechanism is to set standards and then test to see if schools are meeting them. Not surprisingly the two most contended parts of the policy are standards and testing, and that is where most of the research...
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| 22:47:44 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Katabasis |
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It all started back in 2001, right around the time of September 11th. Times were tight and travel was something that a great many of us stopped doing. At least for a while. The travel industry was having DESPERATE economic times, and in their own short-sightedness they created a new scam called "Energy Surcharge". Hotel "Energy Surcharges" are about one thing: lying to you about what the room rate is. They quote you a nice rate to get you to stay there, but then expect you to pay a "surcharge" for a standard amenity (like the lights!) to get a...
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It all started back in 2001, right around the time of September 11th. Times were tight and travel was something that a great many of us stopped doing. At least for a while. The travel industry was having DESPERATE economic times, and in their own short-sightedness they created a new scam called "Energy Surcharge". Hotel "Energy Surcharges" are about one thing: lying to you about what the room rate is. They quote you a nice rate to get you to stay there, but then expect you to pay a "surcharge" for a standard amenity (like the lights!) to get a...
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NCLB went into effect two years ago, meaning that each state should now be 1/6th of the way to having all students proficient in all subjects. Schools are starting to fail and be put on the underperforming list. In New...
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| 22:46:49 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: Katabasis |
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Joining the other major search engines, Gigablast now has a spell checker which makes suggestions for correct (or just alternate)...
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The buzz aggregator says that, this week, Paris Hilton was the top query at both Yahoo and Lycos. Sadly, Google hasn't updated Zeitgeist in the past 2 weeks, so we can't tell what's going on there. I just thought this was interesting. Plus, if I put "Paris Hilton" in my blog, there's a chance that desperate, porn-thirsty searchers will end up here instead. Poor things.
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This afternoon I got a message on the Ground Zero mailing list about the Pittsburgh Poetry Slam. What was described...
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This afternoon I got a message on the Ground Zero mailing list about the Pittsburgh Poetry Slam. What was described...
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(5E We looked over the pictures of the famous African-American musicians on the page before the article we read, but people only knew a couple of them. If you would like to know more about them I ...)
5E We looked over the pictures of the famous African-American musicians on the page before the article we read, but people only knew a couple of them. If you would like to know more about them I am sure you can find sites about them on the web. The singer I was trying to remember was Diana Ross. She played Billie Holiday in A Lady Sings the Blues.
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So, I ordered Shure e2c headphones after my third pair of Sony MDR-A35s in as many years had one ear stop working when the cord got yanked. I'm a little wary about owning a $99 pair of headphones, especially for running (we are talking, after all, about the guy who broke 2 minidisc players and an mp3 player in the past 5 years), and the noise blocking seems to verge on dangerous for running on streets (assuming, of course, my knees are ever up to it again). Maybe I'll get another set of Sony's for running, but recommendations on iPod lounge and Joi Ito's blog (which turned into a fascinating impromptu customer relations forum) have me pretty convinced. Score one for decentralized product reviews....where's my review search engine when I need it? I'll report back on how they work once they turn up. (And Shure turns out to be very good at responding to private queries, too: when I asked about the sweat tolerance of the e2cs via email, they wrote back the next morning explaining "the ...
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This here site is hysterical, and this particular article keeps me chuckling each time I see it....
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A un año los asesinos siguen impunes.
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Continua la lucha contra el genocidio.
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(1K Mai has been absent two weeks in a row, so I hope she can make it next week. Also Mineko hasn't been back since she went to Kyoto, so I hope she will be here next week, too. Satoko used a ...)
1K Mai has been absent two weeks in a row, so I hope she can make it next week. Also Mineko hasn't been back since she went to Kyoto, so I hope she will be here next week, too. Satoko used a Japanese word in class today that I didn't know how to say in English. Her special homework is to check the dictionary and post the meaning in the comments section. We continued practicing making plans and did the and Ensemble exercises. The homework for next week is to do the Solo part 1 one and to send me an e-mail inviting me to do something.
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Hiya. Please check out my latest revision at www.evolvingblue.com yeah. thats it. it really is a nice revision though....
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P.J. completely buys the idea that one might build a baseball diamond in a corn field in order to give a baseball ghost a place to play. He is less convinced, however, that Joe Jackson should be accorded this treatment. First he approached the question from the traditional four-year-old's maxim: gather all the information you can. "Why is he playing here?" Because they wouldn't let him play baseball for a very long time. "Why didn't they let him play baseball?" Because he broke a rule. "Why did he break a rule?" Because someone was going to give him money to do it. "What rule?" He gambled on his games; it doesn't make anyone hurt, but it's still bad. "Did policemen take him away?" This went on for ten minutes. Finally, with all the facts in, the other traditional four-year-old's maxim kicked in: nobody gets mercy except the four-year-old. "If he broke the rule, they shouldn't let him play." Even after he said he was sorry? "Sometimes saying 'sorry' isn't enough." It was one time, ...
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| 21:49:50 November 18, 2003, Tuesday (PST) |
Source: RaptorMagic |
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I spent Sunday afternoon with my mom, watching over our first kitty in his final hours. His sad little eyes are haunting me. I left to go home around six in the evening, and Mom was planning on taking...
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