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Illustrations RSS FeedsPentagon creating civilian Language Corps to help in times of war, emergencies - (Associated Press) The Pentagon is setting up a civilian Language Corps, a cadre of some 1,000 foreign-language speakers who can help the government in times of war and national emergencies. In a three-year pilot program, the Defense Department will recruit volunteers and do testing to see if such a program would work. If successful, a permanent corps could be developed, said Robert Slater, who heads the Pentagon personnel office's security education program. -- [Via --DGJ] ...Feed Source: jerz.setonhill.edu Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo
- (Yahoo! | AP (will espire)) They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety. --
[This is a news article about a high-wire competition that involved crossing a body of water called the Han River.
A tip of the blaster-shield-fitted helmet to a very clever headline writer. --DGJ]
... Teaching through Text Message; Cell Phones Emerge as Learning Tool
- (Rebel Yell) Some linguists are worried that the proliferation of text messaging among students may hurt the development of formal English. Johnson does not agree.
"I don't buy it," Johnson said. "I think students can distinguish between different contexts. What they would say with their friends is different from what they would say to an instructor."
Text messaging may be an important tool to help students learn the difference between different English and behaviors that are appropriate for different situations.
"Sure, text messaging can help teach that difference," Johnson said. "I would put the emphasis on explaining the importance of context."
In fact, Johnson says that text messaging may have a positive effect on language, especially with English as a second language students.
[I tend to agree. If instructors teach that text-message lingo and academic English are two points on a sliding scale (not necessarily the most extreme points), that's a good way to help students learn ... Textual Pleasure: Parsing the Annual IF Competition
- (The Escapist) But I should have expected that. The IF Comp, an annual contest to see who can write the best text-based game, offers a vast treasury of interactive fiction, and many of the entries over the past 13 years are truly fantastic. Some, like Vespers, are lit-geek works of art, putting the bulk of commercial games to shame.... Calif. Student Arrested in Shooting
- (AP | MyWay (will expire)) Police arrested a college student Tuesday suspected of opening fire in an off-campus apartment during a dispute over a video game console, killing one man and wounding two others.... The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III
- (Ludwig von Mises Institute) Imagine Gilligan's Island without the Howells and their paper dollars. Without money, commodities exchange directly: coconuts for fish, fish for bamboo, etc. But even with barter, some commodities are more "marketable" than others. Perhaps one of the castaways might eventually buy one of the Professor's books, but they will more often purchase Mary Ann's coconut cream pies -- or the coconuts themselves. Coconuts are more marketable than books.
Over time, the commodity that is most marketable becomes popular for indirect exchange: the Skipper trades his fish for Ginger's decorative shells, not because he wants shells, but because he knows he can trade them for Gilligan's coconuts. The price of a commodity is its exchange ratio for the most marketable good, e.g., 12 shells per coconut. The value of the shell money is based on the goods it traded for yesterday -- since we can't know what prices will be today. Right now, the Skipper is willing to trade one of ... Slouching Toward Something
- (Why Not Sneeze?) Why can't anything fun ever be slouched toward? I mean, what about Slouching Towards Deliciousness, or Slouching Towards Balloon Animals?... The readiness to deconstruct is all
- (Philadelphia Inquirer) When we refuse to "budge an inch," excoriate "rotten apples," or admonish slackers to "sink or swim," we speak in his voice. Although the arts sections of newspapers teem with products from self-anointed "artists" who will not survive their publicity budgets, Shakespeare after roughly four centuries still pleases general audiences, challenges intellectuals, and provokes academics. How can we not presume that such a stupendous orchestrator of character and insight operated with a coherent, multifaceted theory of human nature?
On the other hand, our ignorance of Shakespeare the man - he left no diaries or letters in his short life of some 52 years - and the clashing multiple versions of some of his texts, have always dovetailed with a contrary belief that his greatness arises precisely from utter openness to the varieties of human behavior, emotion and thought, his ability to render in concrete scenes and daring metaphors more non-reductionist nuances of the hear... atari-and-controllers
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[Via . --DGJ]
... To Do
- (Jerz's Literacy Weblog)
[5: The number of proposals I've sent off in the last 24 hours. (Well, one I had drafted weeks ago, and another consisted of me answering the phone and saying "Yes," but still . )
Feels like a pretty good day.
To do:That last item won't take the most time, but it will be the hardest.
--DGJ]
... How other countries deal with gun control
- (BoingBoing) This article from The Week has statistics that bolster and weaken arguments frequently used by people on both sides of the debate.
[Blogging this for future reference. I'll be teaching a news writing course in the fall, and one of the most challenging units involves getting students to think critically about statistical claims made by advocates of a particular issue.
After reading The Tempest and reading a student's paper about Gulliver's Travels, I'm thinking about creating a unit that involves students writing reports about interviews with people from fictional countries. There might be a society that promotes free file-sharing and has a legal drinking age of 17, but where women can't vote. There might be glossy tourist brochures that offer one view of the country, but refugees and people from minority groups would offer a strikingly different view of the country. (And some of those minority views would be wildly inaccurate.)
The idea would be to get students to pra... Vetting Comments Strangers Post to Class Blogs
- (Jerz's Literacy Weblog)
[I always enjoy telling my students when I start noticing comments that people who aren't in our class start posting comments on the course weblog or individual student weblogs.
Sometimes the poster is someone who took the course in the past and is recalling with fondness (or horror) a particular assignment. Other entries attract comments from other people on the Internet who happen to be interested in the same subject.
Here is an example of such a comment (posted to a 600-word blog entry that discussed the nature of heroism in Huck Finn) that I don't bother to approve:But here is an excerpt from a 700-word comment (posted to ), which I did approve:See Also: --DGJ]
... Take Several Tablets for Teaching: Interactive Scribbling Draws Students Into Classroom Presentations
- (Chronicle of Higher Education) "You present an engineering problem, like a fighter plane that's returned to base shredded by antiaircraft fire, and ask students where they would put extra armor," said Mr. Tront. Students circle various parts of the plane that took a lot of hits. "You can show their solutions one by one and discuss them," he said.
And if no one catches on to the trick -- this was a plane that made it back safely; the damage was irrelevant, and it's the undamaged areas that were probably hit on the planes that went down, so those areas need protection -- the professor can discuss the logic behind that, too. --
[I blogged this because I like the cool engineering example. That's like the curious incident of the dog in the night -- the dog that did bark (thus indicating that it knew a particular night visitor).
I am a fan of technology, but in this example I can see it being just as effective if you pass out printouts, have students mark them up in pencil, then use a ... LOL Trek
- (Live Granades) --
[I was vaguely aware of the lolcats phenomenon, which involves remediating the famous "Hang in there, baby" cat poster as if the cats themselves were writing the captions.
Never did I expect it to be unleashed on the beloved Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" (which has earned it a spot on my blog.) --DGJ]
... Fort Bend school trustees put off video game appeal
- (Houston Chronicle) A Chinese student was transferred from his high school to an "alternative education center" (?) after his parents found he had designed a Counterstrike mod with maps based on his school. Two parents learned of the map he made from their kids, and they informed his parents, who in turn reported him to the Fort Bend Independent School District administrators.
[It's important to note that it wasn't just the fact that the student designed a game map that depicted the school, but that the investigation turned up swords. Further, the parents reported their own son and gave the police permission to search his room. Police found nothing worthy of a criminal charge, but without any evidence that this young man had any unusual (ore even typical) anti-social tendencies, I hope all parties can resolve this quickly.
The fact that this kid happens to be Asian wouldn't have anything at all to do with it, would it?
It does look like some members of the school board feel the bo... Information for Senior Portrait Session - A photographer can provide more value to the high school seniors he serves by gathering appropriate, relevant information prior to the session. The information helps determine how he shoots and edits.... Taking Pictures of Children in a Home - One fun aspect of children's photography is taking pictures of children in a home and using the homes furniture and walls as the backdrop. This may involve taking pictures of children in your own home, but if you are a professional photographer, or have access to a nice home other than your own, you will need to spend some time scouting out the best places in the home for pictures. When arriving at the home ask to show yourself around.... Helpful Information for a Newborn Photography Session - Gathering information is key to a successful newborn session. 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