The Answer Sheet
Scenes from the Battleground‘s Twitter feed points me to this Washington Post article: The Answer Sheet – teaching without gimmicks. Except for the misguided notion of targeting learning styles, none of these techniques is wrong in itself. But together they raise a barrier. Instead of bringing the subject closer to the students, this heap of [...]
The sexiest woman on TV
Image via Wikipedia Christina Hendricks in Mad Men. Season 1 is out in Tsutaya video rental stores in Japan. The series has some memorable characters; Don Draper is merely conventionally mysterious (tho his suggestion for advertising Kodak‘s slide-projector wheel is unforgettable), but son-of-the-founder Roger Sterling is witty and charming, throwing zinging one-liners like they are [...]
Scenes from the Battleground responds
Image by Getty Images via Daylife OldAndrew, blogger of Scenes from the Battleground, took the trouble to comment on my earlier post (his comment is here, my original blog post is here). Thank you, OldAndrew. I’ve been reading more of his blog posts. At first, it was horrified fascination that kept me reading his stuff, [...]
Robin Hood of Las Vegas
Image via Wikipedia So reads the Telegraph headline, but it’s a little misleading (woah! says you – a newspaper that writes attention-grabbing headlines, even if they’re not quite accurate! That’s a new one!). The gambler is not actually stealing from the rich. Still, it’s an interesting story about a remarkable man who gambles for good [...]
Unchuffed, or how to double an mp3 file size without trying
Image via CrunchBase I tried posting a rather long (2 hours) mp3 file, but WordPress told me the maximum size was 24 mb (the file size was 32 mb). So I downloaded Audacity and cut the file in half and saved the 2 chunks, then tried uploading them. Would you believe it? Again, WordPress, unimpressed, [...]
Podcast #2: People who sparkle
Image via Wikipedia I’ve finally figured out how to podcast, or at least how to add an audio file to a blog post using the nifty plugin Audio Player. It only took me an hour! Chuffed, I am. OK, so here’s podcast #2 (actually the first one I recorded). It’s about a Japanese soccer player [...]
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What is the value of schooling?
Image via Wikipedia I have been visiting the Mises.org website daily since I discovered it a few months ago. Today, I came across this blog entry by Tim Swanson, Is there a future for b-schools? (= business schools) which led me to this article Did Joseph Wharton Cause the US Financial Meltdown?(Oct. 21, 2008). I [...]
