archive of blog posts
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Article: Sci-fi, Inventors, and the value of Story
Why should you read sci-fi? Well, if you happen to be an inventor or someone who aspires to be an inventor, you might just find that the scientific flights of imagination common in good sci-fi writing will spur you to prototype ideas in your mind, consider new solutions to old problems, and foresee downsides to…
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Bees. They’re Cool. This proves it.
Bees. They’re Cool. This proves it. If you don’t think bees are possibly the coolest thing ever (from a distance at least), you definitely need to hit this Flickr photostream. The USGS keeps a photo record of all the different kinds of bees they run across. Macro photography and all that. So so cool
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How to make your teacher so very very happy
Next time you’re asked to do a “group project” to “show what you’re learning,” consider this a model….
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Concert Review: Gentlemen of the Road, St Augustine
Man, THAT was a music festival. I always come out of epic experiences thinking, Gee willikers! This will make an amazing blog post! Then I get home and life eats me up and that’s the end of my verbal aspirations. So before the evening gets away from me completely and I turn into a pumpkin…
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Link: Nimble, In a Box, and Jumping Over a Candlestick | Learning Out Loud?
Nimble, In a Box, and Jumping Over a Candlestick | Learning Out Loud?. ^ Enjoy. My friend Jack, who is one of the most talented and gifted teachers I’ve ever had the privilege of working beside, finally broke his blogging silence to muse about how views change, how he’s changed, how his learning has changed.…


