this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
You enter some login information and then receive access to thirty-or-so tracks, most of them unreleased. It’s a lot of really decent ambient stuff, ideal tracks to run underneath your podcast or vodcast. Tell your friends.
Screenwriter John August’s just saying what you’re all thinking.
I’m not talking about just academic writing. I’m talking about all writing. I’m talking about email. Memos. Your blog. I’m talking about what you wrote on your friend’s Facebook wall. All that writing you don’t think you’re getting graded on—well, you are.
Whether you want to or not, you’re being judged on it. And you’re being judged differently because of the era you’re living in.
I’m curious how School 2.0 finds his distinction between authority and expertise:
But in order to become an authority, you have to participate. You have to offer your thoughtful opinion when appropriate, and you have to invite others’ responses. Remember: an expert is someone who knows something. An authority is someone with the reputation to back it up. You get that reputation from your peers. That’s why your professors publish articles in journals with peer-review.
I’ve been asked to present our site’s Moodle install, as well as my thoughts on what learning looks like in the future, to our school board. Of course I blame you for this.
Oh my word. ¶ This is the happiest I’ve probably ever been ever in my life. Ever. ¶ Me and my colossal TA Katy just spent the last fifteen minutes learning how to say “Hello, how are you?” in Japanese for English Speakers and English for Spanish Speakers. (That last one was a little tricky for Katy but she pulled through.) ¶ This has, honestly, no joke, spread one of those ear-to-ear grins ‘cross my face that looks a little cartoony. A little scary, even. I can’t wait to get into this.
On your Mac, you head into Universal Access in System Preferences and turn it on. One keystroke scales things up and another scales ’em back down.
So when you’re using the online version of your textbook up on the whiteboard and you want to direct focus to a particular problem, mash three buttons and you’ve got it larger.
I keep it on GoogleDocs so I can print a fresh one out whenever.
But I just figured out today that if I click through to revisions, I can access any past to-do list. It’s like a journal! Clicking back to April, I see I left myself a note to suspend two particular students, which, I mean, what a blast to the past! Imagine ten years from now, clicking back through to the days when I had to pencil myself a reminder to buy toothpaste.
You oughtta try it. Here’s my three column template. Just import it into GoogleDocs and let the good times roll.