Monthly Archives: October 2008
Going Digital
My children heckle me for my inability to figure out how the VCR remote works . (I can work the one for the DVD player.) “And you call yourself technologically savvy?” they say with tones of derision. Then, one of … Continue reading
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Get With It, Education
I feel passionate about what happens in the classrooms of today. In many of them (especially at the university level), the environment is still in the 19th century: the professor lectures, student crams for the final, student forgets within a … Continue reading
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What Gives???
So in my previous post, I had fun with the site Spell with Flickr. I used it to spell out my name with photos from Flickr. When I made the post, everything was A-Okay. Just moments ago, when I checked … Continue reading
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Cool Site
Have you ever found a site on the Internet that brings glee to your lil’ ol’ technological heart? I have. And I just came across a fun one. It is Spell with flickr. Just type in a word (or name … Continue reading
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Font Freak Now Theme Freak
In the 1990s, I fell in love with fonts. I downloaded countless free ones. A plethora of them. For Christmas one year, our oldest son gave me a CD with 1,000 fonts. After loading them on my computer, it crashed. … Continue reading
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