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The darkness that night seemed particularly black, the kind of black that has a density, a weight. I fought the dark. Later, when I wrote about what happened, I couched it in the most delicate of terms. He fussed, breathing heavily through a stuffy nose, truffling for the breast and then pushing it away. I didn’t have an urge to drop the baby. I sought help from a psychiatrist, but I downplayed the grimmer details. Of course I wasn’t. I didn’t have any more psychotic episodes. Prof. Nixon’s Fall 2010 Syllabi. LolGrads. Campus Overload - Overdoing the dorm move-in. This is the week when thousands of college students move into the dorms. Most of them show up with a moderate car full (or two) of stuff. But then there are the epic mover-inners -- college students who bring stuff that surprises residence hall directors and staffers who think they have already seen it all. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune had a story this weekend about a frosh who showed up to his Minnesota college (that went unnamed) with a semi.
This was the same student whose parents asked if they could send an interior designer to take measurements of the room and do a complete makeover -- without asking for the roommate's opinion. It's not the only odd move-in. At Albright College in Pennsylvania, a student once hauled his dorm stuff in the family Winnebago. At Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, a student tried moving a full-size refrigerator into his 14-foot-by-14-foot dorm room. What not to pack: Skip anything that you don't use all of the time, the Star Tribune suggests.
A Framework for Teaching with Twitter. Faculty are increasingly experimenting with social media, and it’s exciting to find more and more courses incorporating Twitter, a ProfHacker favorite. Just last week on ProfHacker Ryan provided an excellent introduction to Twitter, while earlier in the summer Brian reflected on his use of Twitter in the classroom during Spring 2010. As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter. I’ll address my own pedagogical use of Twitter in a future ProfHacker post, but for today I want to share a general framework for Twitter adoption in the classroom, originally sketched out in late August 2009 by Rick Reo. Rick is an instructional designer at George Mason University, and he’d been keeping tabs on the different ways instructors were using Twitter in their teaching. Even a cursory glance at the matrix reveals the myriad ways Twitter might be an effective tool in and outside of your classroom.
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Secondly most people consider it breaking blogging etiquette and a form of plagiarism. Yes, publishing content online is about sharing and collaborating but it’s important to remember it can take considerable time for the original person to create that content. It might be harsh words but think of it as no different than copy and pasting a school assignment. Attributing Another Person’s Content Please note: Final Thoughts. Floral Photos :: In Memory of Barbara L. Anderson.
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The 37-year-old, who has not been named, was clocked driving his Mercedes sports car at 170km/h over the limit. Under Swiss law, the level of fine is determined by the wealth of the driver and the speed recorded. In January, a Swiss driver was fined $290,000 - the current world record. Local police spokesman Benoit Dumas said of the latest case that "nothing can justify a speed of 290km/h". "It is not controllable. It's easy to find the Office Supplies, Copy Paper, Furniture, Ink, Toner, Cleaning Products, Electronics and Technology you need. Most Impossible. CAPTCHA. Ever. (from Twitter.com) - jakrose's posterous. For Immediate Release | Internet Radio.
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And it can be terribly easy to be that speaker: You know, that high-maintenance one, or that boring/irrelevant one. Learn as much as you can about your audience before you speak. So in a large nutshell, these are my 14 best tips on how not to suck as a guest speaker for an organization. Great Video of the Old Spice Campaign Case Study - Barb Gibson's World.
HOW TO: Get Tweetable Moments from Your Presentations. Dan Zarrella is a social media and viral marketing scientist. You can read his blog and follow him on Twitter. Be sure to attend Dan's free webinar, The Science of Presentations on August 19th, and download the accompanying eBook. Twitter is here to stay but there is some science to creating a perfect, "tweetable moment" during a presentation. That is, a memorable moment that sticks in the mind of your audience long after the presentation is over. How do you get those moments to happen? How do you get an audience to tweet it? A few months ago, I started to analyze why people share content from presentations and how marketers can leverage those motivations to deliver more contagious talks. From that information I've collected the essential elements you need to create Tweetable moments in your presentations.
Priming Before you deliver your Tweetable moment, you should spend some time priming your audience to get them ready to Tweet your ideas. 1. Delivering “AHA” 1. The Sound Bite 1. 15 interesting facts about Wikipedia [infographic] Preparing for the Semester « PRactical Issues. Last week I had the “opportunity” to help my sister (in-law) move-in to her new apartment. While moving her stuff into the apartment complex, with no elevator, it got me thinking about what students should be doing to prepare for the upcoming academic semester. Below are a couple of tips to get you started, but I would love to hear from you. 1. Check your university e-mail account-I haven’t printed a hard-copy of my syllabi in about three years, and I’m not alone. In an effort to decrease copies, and of course additional paperwork, many professors are e-mailing or posting their syllabi prior to the first day of class. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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