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Ignore the facts, just look at the babies
Try and watch this demo video of Apple’s FaceTime for iPhone and tell me that they don’t know how to use emotions to sell a product.
Don't burn the books
a student told me his book had bad words in it. I asked if they were written in the book or printed by someone else. He wasn’t able to answer the question so I asked him to bring me the … Continue reading
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CBC: The Nerve
CBC has started airing a new six part series on CBC Radio 1 and CBC Radio 2 about music and the human experience. “The Nerve”:http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/features/theNerve/ explores the relationship between music and the brain, war, spirituality and more in each of … Continue reading
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We Share Everything
I was reading a story to a grade 1/2 classes yesterday and read the Robert Munsch book, “We Share Everything”. I had the students reciting it along with me when the repetitive part comes in the book. So after the … Continue reading
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MediaPortal: MP-TVSeries
I tried a few different software packages including Windows Media Center and MythTV before I settled on MediaPortal. There were a few reasons why I chose MediaPortal over the others including a balance between ease of use and installation and … Continue reading
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MediaPortal: My Smart Playlists
Since I started using “MediaPortal”:http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ nearly two years ago, I wished there was a way to play a playlist of random music. The problem was the library was too large to load the whole library and shuffle. Thankfully someone was … Continue reading
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2007 Podcasts
This American Life This American Life started to podcast their show near the end of 2006. Episodes take a theme and uses stories and interviews to explore the theme. This show got me through a lot of long carpool drives. … Continue reading
Married != Related
Today when a student realized that my last name was the same as a teacher at his school last year, he asked if I knew her. I said that she is my wife. A few minutes later he says, “you … Continue reading
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Sodium/Water Explosion
I used sodium in class to demonstrate an exothermic reaction. I follwoed the directions the high school teacher gave me, but it was too much sodium and it caused the beaker to explode. Atleast it wasn’t 20,000 pounds of sodium.
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