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Found this while cleaning up some junk today. 2002 was, of course, the Year of the Horse.
Staffan feels the XKCD influence:
A good name for a blog, or a band?
For some reason, Aina decided that she liked the Kung Fu Lollipops. We are pretty sure that she means some lollipop variety, but we are pretty skeptical that she was set on Kung Fu — especially as we have no idea where she acquired that particular vocabulary item. In any case, a quick Google reveals this:
So there you go.
When one considers the brief given implicitly to most student writers, but NEVER examined, it goes something like this: You don’t know much about the recent history of Madagascar but your task is to write about it AS IF you do know something about it (you will get the vast bulk of your knowledge from sources, of course) and AT THE SAME TIME you should write as if you are not a person and must never use the first person. The brief is doubly incoherent at root. No wonder students hate writing essays…
Map Head has a great preview of a book by Keith Harrison: Echoes of “Godel Escher Bach” applied to the theory of teaching writing.
Staffan’s next show is Children of Eden, at Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center May 9 – May 11. There are four shows, two evenings (9th and 10th) and two matinees (10th and 11th). Apparently it is a very good show, with challenging music and a great variety of instruments played on stage. In addition, I’m told it hits the perfect balance of religious content for my taste: it is heretical enough to offend the biblical fundamentalists and true enough to the Genesis story to offend the atheist fundamentalists. Double win!
Hi! This blog previously lived at homepage.mac.com, but WordPress has better tools. Hope I can post more often.
