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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Learning to Look, Embracing Complexity
Today’s LTC Lunch (weekly lunch-time presentations sponsored by our Learning and Teaching Center) featured a panel of professors from five different departments talking about how they use our vast arboretum in their teaching. These lunches are often interesting, sometimes inspiring, and always worth the time (and provide free lunch!), and today’s was definitely inspiring. I [...]
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Au Revoir, Uncontrolled Vocabulary
My good friend, Greg, has announced that Uncontrolled Vocabulary is going on a hiatus of undetermined length. While I’m selfishly sorry that I won’t be getting a new episode added to my podcast listening this week, I’ve got to admit that he has the best of all possible reasons for making this decision. So au [...]
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Canadian Census Data More Widely Available
It has historically been kind of a pain to get our South Of The Border hands on Canadian census data online. Students kept getting thwarted by the “yes you can have access if you just pay us” messages, and if we didn’t happen to have the right standing order to the right compendium, there was [...]
Minor Tweaks and Major Reminders
This past week, Dorothea sent a link to FriendFeed on the art of writing and designing for readers. It’s called In Defense of Readers, and it’s one of those pieces of writing that pulls me in, engrosses me completely, makes time stand still, and then leaves me thinking about it for days afterward. I loved [...]
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Thundersnow!!!!