Thoughts

thoughts, ideas, questions, and rants

skills…

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November 28, 2010

I was taking a road trip last week, and got a chance to try out using GPS as a ‘map replacement’. I was quite impressed, and considering how much time I have spent with maps and compasses, I found this new technology to be a real labor saver… But then I started thinking about it… [...]


enclaves

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November 16, 2010

I was considering writing a post about some of the more ‘obvious’ strange things in political geography, and the topic of enclaves came to me. There are certainly plenty of oddities related to this concept. Regarding nation states, there is Lesotho (inside South Africa), which along with Swaziland has caught my interest going back to [...]


the plot thickens in Central America…

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November 14, 2010

My post about irredentism alluded to what looked like a rather strange point of conflict between the nations of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. From what I could gather, this armed incursion resulted in no deaths (I would hope), and that there are some long standing issues to resolve between these two Central American countries. Imagine [...]


irredentism

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November 11, 2010

I have been getting a lot of searched on this blog for a small post I put up (6 months ago) called geographical oddities. I presented a few of the many strange and interesting places and related occurrences I have learned about over the years. One aspect of this post was to quickly examine the [...]


in the eye of the beholder…

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November 7, 2010

I suppose that this isn’t that important a topic, but over the years I have noticed a few things worth mentioning with regard to aesthetics. If you consider what can now be called the canons of classical painting, almost everyone I have ever talked to seems to vastly prefer the works of the 19th century [...]


I have some catching up to do…

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November 6, 2010

As a randomly occurring event, I sometimes find myself with too much on my plate. Over the years I have found myself in the situation where I was concurrently reading over 25 books at the same time (such is the stuff of my nightmares…). Lately I have found that I am in a comparable situation. [...]


different ways to provoke thoughts

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October 11, 2010

When confronted with the banality of most of Facebook, Twitter…OK, almost all social networking, as well as online commerce sites, it’s nice to see that there are a few sites which are a huge source for thought provoking ideas, and imagination. Of course, I am talking about such sites as TED, and some others such [...]


online apps for the classroom

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October 4, 2010

Every time I come to a different classroom I am struck by the amount of technology that is in place. Almost every classroom I have worked in as a student teacher, a substitute or as a teacher have had at least one computer, a DVD player, and a projection TV and/or a projector. The simple [...]


iPads in the classroom

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October 2, 2010

I read in the local newspaper yesterday that a 7th grade social studies class was involved in an experiment. It seems that all of the students and the teacher will be using Apple iPads in the classroom for the school year. I (personally) have been using an iPad for several months now, and the prospect [...]


Online U

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September 29, 2010

If you have looked over some of my posts regarding the big picture in education, you would see some rather pessimistic views… Beyond the small scope of my blog, a reasonable perusal of the web (i.e. many education blogs, and education related current events) would lead you to see that there are some huge structural [...]


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