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starting the guitar (1)

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December 15, 2010

I have been fooling around with, playing, and practicing the guitar for nearly forty years. As week ago, in the midst of a couple discussions with old friends, the notion of my giving online lessons came up. As a consequence I have been doing a bit of online research to see what the current state [...]


my virtual guitar amps…

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November 20, 2010

While I have a few music apps to play with (see the previous post…), of greater importance to me is the fact that I have a variety of guitar ‘rigs’ to use on my iPad. First off, if you are interested in doing something like this, you need to consider how you will be getting [...]


iPad music apps…

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November 18, 2010

For the last month I have seen a growing number of coming to this site because they were searching for iPad information. I get people coming here who want information about iPad apps, reviews, and criticisms related to ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD), music, and some comparatively arcane topics (printing from an iPad, setting up Gmail, [...]


big countries and small countries

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November 8, 2010

A couple years ago I was teaching in a boy’s middle school in a small city in South Korea (Gimje). Part of my job as an English teacher was to conduct some one-on-one ‘lessons with the English staff (native Koreans). This was supposed to be a chance for these language teachers to hone their speaking [...]


teaching and learning…

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November 1, 2010

As a teacher I have spent a lot of time thinking about teaching and learning. I’ve spent time preparing lessons, lesson plans, and while these are appropriate things for teachers to deal with, I see there is more to do… I have had teachers as a high school student, and seem some lately who don’t [...]


what do most students really learn?

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October 30, 2010

As an itinerant teacher, I have spent a lot of time evaluating various state standards, the results of curriculum reviews, textbook reviews, etc. All of these actions are related to devising a list of the things which we want our students to learn (or rather, a list of what we will be teaching). There have [...]


iPad, college, online classes, et.al.

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October 29, 2010

My last few posts have been focused upon some of the emerging aspects of how learning may be changing. I am still in the midst of what could be seen as a (virtual) undergraduate class on the history of economic thought. I say virtual because while I will likely learn as much as if I [...]


some podcast accessories…

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October 26, 2010

From the previous post you can see that I have embarked upon a form of online learning. I started a podcast series from iTunes U covering economic history. Besides wanting to gain some of this knowledge, I had a few other reasons for taking this virtual class. In the last forty years, I have read [...]


…in which I take a podcast class…

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October 25, 2010

Over the last couple of years I have run across such online amenities as the Khan academy, iTunes U, TED, and a number of other sites which provide Information in such a manner that I can see a possible future on higher education. All of these sites are essentially free, and even from my position, [...]


teaching to the test…

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October 23, 2010

If you hang round with school teachers, this (i.e. teaching to the test) is a pejorative term you will hear quite a lot. It has gotten to the point that I hear this not as a meme (bad enough, as in unevaluated talking points), but as a sort of badge of identification. In any case, [...]


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