Room With A View

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This looks like a good use of Google Forms in a PE class. Personally, I find opportunities for enhancing instruction with ict limited. I think I’ll follow this blog for a while to see what other good ideas float to the surface.

I’m amazed when I travel to Canada each summer just how expensive and lacking in service the cellphone industry is. Michael Geist has written about this before and in a recent post entitled Why Canada Lags on Wireless. In it he argues that the industry is held back by four things.

• Lack of competition
• Lack of wireless net neutrality
• Lack of transparency in cellphone plans
• Length of consumer contracts

Wired has a relatively new post entitled 10 Photography Pet Peeves We’d Throw Down a Black Hole. It’s got some good ideas and goes beyond a list of techniques like use the Rule of Thirds.

Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in their Creative Spaces is a site created by photographer Kyle Cassidy. On the site Cassidy does just what the title suggests, he photographs authors where they write. Personally I find the photos fascinating and it is a good site to use with students when one teachers about authors and the writing process.

I have always justified my messy work spaces as being part of my creativity. Unfortunately, the photos do not support my rationale. Though the majority of the author’s work spaces are somewhat unkempt there are others that are monk like in their sparsity and simplicity. Oh well, please don’t tell my wife about this.

Joel Tenenbaum lost his music sharing case–the one I posted about on Wednesday. He was ordered to pay $675,00. You can find more links to the story here, here, and here.