These are all my tweets.
I stand by them:
Science teacher: Twitter is creepy: “We wield phenomenal power over students. We forget this at our (and our students’) peril.”
So is teaching, really.
Life is pretty creepy if you think about it.
Maybe I should stop being offended when Michael calls me creepy.
Or maybe “…this is way beyond my remote concern of being condescending.”
Rock on.
I’m finally getting our “Harrelson Family Site” up and going.
What else/all should I include?
Harrelson Family | Anna, Sam, Mary Hudson, Laura, Schaefer, Macy and the Fish
Should I go the SweetCron route (here’s looking at you, Jangro)?
I’d like to do something that’s self-hosted and self-sufficient.
Decisions, decisions…
Thomas and I have rebooted the Thinking Baptists podcast:
Thinking.FM – ThinkingFM – Thinking Baptists 10: Tent Pole in the Temple
Here is the mp3 (btw, when is someone going to make a good HTML 5 enabled podcast player? I don’t want to waste time/resources on a Flash player since they aren’t iOS supported and you can’t play them on iPhones or iPads in the browser).
We’ll be doing the show on a weekly basis (looks like Monday or Tuesday night) again, so head over to the still-developing Thinking.FM site and grab the RSS feed if you’d like to subscribe. We should be back in iTunes shortly. I’ll keep you posted.
You all realize you’re just egging these folks on by making videos, tweets, etc right?
I know it’s good for smiles and yells (or clicks if you’re a “news” org), but as a Baptist with a couple of Seminary degrees under my belt, it always frustrates me to see the level of Biblical (and religious) illiteracy on both sides.
Of course Jesus didn’t want us to fear “Him” or him. Of course these people have a vested political and financial interest.
The issues of “righteousness,” “sin,” “love” and especially God have been debated by intelligent, compassionate and level-headed folks for millenia.
So let’s do our best to create an intelligent citizenry that realizes the ever-present existence of extremism in all cases.
Confronting these folks and giving them more exposure is just silly.
Thomas and I will be doing a podcast tomorrow.
You all should listen.
Then you should all do this.
Dr Seuss is the Steve Jobs of books:
Green Eggs and Ham – Wikipedia: “Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss’s publisher, wagered $50 that Seuss could not write a book using only fifty different words. The bet came after Seuss completed The Cat in the Hat, which used 225 words.”
I had no idea.
Cutting the fat works.
My first summer camp at Spartanburg Day School starts on Monday and I’ve lovingly titled it “Griffin Mythbusters.”
The setup goes something like this. The ~20 5-9th Graders that have signed up and I will start Monday by hammering out a good urban myth to examine. It might be something covered on the TV show or it might be something completely local (which is what I hope). I’m giving them the choice, though.
Then we’ll split up into a couple of build teams, a research team, and a supplies team. They’ll rotate through the teams throughout the week as we work on models to explore the myth.
By Friday, I’m hoping that we’ll have successfully nailed down the best way to do a major demonstration to either confirm or bust the myth in question.
We’ll be live blogging (and reflective blogging) the whole thing here:
Griffin Mythbusters – Spartanburg Day School Summer 2010: “We’re busting (or confirming) urban myths using science at Spartanburg Day School.”
I chose to use Posterous as the platform for our site since it allows for easy collaboration, team members can post quickly via their mobiles on the go and they can send things out to their Facebook or Twitter profiles if they’d like to share what they’re up to with their friends.
Of course the main reason to do all of this is to plant the seed of scientific method into their heads without making them memorize a chart. And to blow things up.
I’m excited.
Grab the Griffin Mythbusters feed if you’d like to follow along and see how things go on our one week adventure.
Thanks to Tim Maly for this pointer on Twitter (always enjoy his tweets):
Amazing @wired article about Mosaic written when the rise of graphical browsers was far from assured. http://j.mp/b4NPjs
Tim Maly
doingitwrong
Amazing historical piece on what we would come to know as the “open web” indeed.
Here’s the beginning:
2.10: The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun: “If this sounds wrong, consider Mosaic. Mosaic is the celebrated graphical ‘browser’ that allows users to travel through the world of electronic information using a point-and-click interface. Mosaic’s charming appearance encourages users to load their own documents onto the Net, including color photos, sound bites, video clips, and hypertext ‘links’ to other documents. By following the links – click, and the linked document appears – you can travel through the online world along paths of whim and intuition.”
In the age of increased suburbanization of the web via Facebook, mobile platform apps and video sites, it’s time to ponder what the third phase of the revolution will look like.
I’m pulling for the open web based on whimsical hyperlinks to once again rise to drive the same type of innovation and sharing that occurred in those silo’d days of CompuServe and Prodigy.
Oh, and a federated twitter built on RSS and real time pinging.
Here’s to the (non-silo’d) future.
Top of his game…
R.I.P. Mr Schorr and thank you.
I finally broke down and bought a reel mower today.
I mowed half of our property.
It was fantastic.
Then I ate a pear from one of the fruit trees on our property. It wasn’t quite ready, but it was still fantastic.
I think today will make me a better science teacher.