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RepairKit: Time To Reflect
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Ground floor discussion of education fact and opinion with a career teacher: leadership, instructional strategies, ed tech for digital immigrants, classroom assessment, and the missing assessment link, grading for learning. Wednesday, November 21, 2007. A Big Thank You to Eric Turner of Secondhand Thoughts. A Big Thank You to Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrelevant. 2nd Annual ETS International Sound Grading Practices Conference/Portland, OR December 6-7, 2007. Education Fact, Opinion, and Illumination.
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Hindu festivals across the world | The Boston Brahmin
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Just two of the identities that I grapple with. Hindu festivals across the world. September 9, 2009. Boston.com has published over 30 such spectacular photographs on Hindu festivals and rituals from different parts of the world. Here. H/t – Amitava Kumar’s excellent blog. From → Uncategorized. Larr; A world with borders. Hannibal imprisoned; Carthage moves elephant over the alps →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Changing Weather, even Climate, Bill Gates style | The Boston Brahmin
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Just two of the identities that I grapple with. Changing Weather, even Climate, Bill Gates style. July 13, 2009. Gizmodo recently reported about 5 patents that Bill Gates. Has filed. These patents call for a fleet of specially equipped vessels which can redirect any tornado by changing atmospheric pressure conditions, specifically by reducing low pressure zones by churning up cold water from ocean bottoms to the top. For those inclined to probe further, here is a nice Salon article. You are commenting us...
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Hannibal imprisoned; Carthage moves elephant over the alps | The Boston Brahmin
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Just two of the identities that I grapple with. Hannibal imprisoned; Carthage moves elephant over the alps. September 10, 2009. History repeats itself. Sort of. Hannibal was arrested in Switzerland for beating up his servants. So Muammar the Carthaginian has decided to dismember the Alps by requesting the elephant called the United Nations to act on it. The elephant refused but subsequently the Swiss (the Alps) apologized when threatened with the weapon of mass withdrawal (4 billion pounds) . Build a web...
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Earth Hour – What does it accomplish? | The Boston Brahmin
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Just two of the identities that I grapple with. Earth Hour – What does it accomplish? March 29, 2009. So, a while back, my significant other switched off the lights to initiate Earth Hour at home. Now in that process we got into a little discussion on what the Earth Hour truly accomplishes. And a brief google search revealed a whole host of misleading information confusing electricity consumptions saves with electricity generation. From → Uncategorized. Leave one →. March 29, 2009 3:02 am. You say that p...
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A world with borders | The Boston Brahmin
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Just two of the identities that I grapple with. A world with borders. August 23, 2009. Within probably the worst designed site I have ever encountered, is this gem of a map. Of course Ireland and Great Britain are outside the Schengen zone, but you get the overall drift of how precious it is to be inside the ‘zone’. Right? Source- http:/ td-architects.eu/. Via the good people at Information is Beautiful. From → Uncategorized. Larr; Changing Weather, even Climate, Bill Gates style. Enter your comment here.
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India likely to nearly double Oil and Gas production ? | The Boston Brahmin
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Just two of the identities that I grapple with. India likely to nearly double Oil and Gas production? April 4, 2009. In India encouraged me to look out further into the issue and do some back of the envelope calculations. As it turns out, the gas discovery in the Godavari basin by Reliance is far more significant than the oil strike by Cairns in Barmer in terms of energy production. Overall, these two finds are likely to nearly double India’s energy production by 2010. More India energy numbers. Changing...
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RepairKit: Why Zero Isn't A Grade At All
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Ground floor discussion of education fact and opinion with a career teacher: leadership, instructional strategies, ed tech for digital immigrants, classroom assessment, and the missing assessment link, grading for learning. Wednesday, November 21, 2007. Why Zero Isn't A Grade At All. Grades represent evaluations of learning. A zero, given for missing or late work, does not represent an evaluation of learning. Therefore, that zero is not a grade. So, what are those zeros doing in grade books? The Doc Is In.
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RepairKit: Don't Give a Zero! Try 50, 59, or 60. (Or not.)
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Ground floor discussion of education fact and opinion with a career teacher: leadership, instructional strategies, ed tech for digital immigrants, classroom assessment, and the missing assessment link, grading for learning. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. Don't Give a Zero! Try 50, 59, or 60. (Or not.). Here's the first in a miniseries about the folly of awarding a grade of zero for late work or work not turned in. Part 1: The Math of Zero in a Percentage Scale. No work, no grade! What do you mean, the math?