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Friday, June 12, 2009
The Daily show meets the New York Times
This 6 minute segment is not merely smart and hysterical, it is littered with stomach turning truths and prescient commentary on the reality of printed news. The "Aged News" exchange about 3 minutes in is a brilliant reporter/subject exchange that is almost unbelievable to watch.
"'End Times': Jason Jones visits the the New York Times' offices to find out why the last of a dying breed prefers aged news to real news."
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=230076&title=end-times
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"'End Times': Jason Jones visits the the New York Times' offices to find out why the last of a dying breed prefers aged news to real news."
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=230076&title=end-times
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| End Times | ||||
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Friday, May 01, 2009
Rocket camping
Laura and I are back from an adventurous and somewhat challenging canoe camping trip in a unsung wildlife lagoon right north of Cape Canaveral, Fla. where the rockets blast off from.
Took the train to tiny Deland, Fla, picked up by friends. Park service rents canoes and gives you a good part of your own lagoon island. It's only a few feet deep except for 6' channels, only a licensed fishing tour guides and tours allowed. Fish, birds, dolphins, manatees, crabs, plants, all protected, and the ocean to swim in at the ranger station (with fresh water hoses and shade picnic tables).
The pics below are unfiltered and chronological, but if scan through them there's some good ones in the middle of the lagoon. It's about 5 miles wide by 26 miles long and you can drive into town, or canoe to one bar, or the intracoastal.
We had a brilliant idea with our genius camp raccoon who came every night to engineer his way into our food and leave muddy paw prints on our hanging clothes. We gave him 1/8 of a Benadryl in peanut butter and he only came to the camp once that night, then unlike other nights, didn't rummage any more 'till dawn.
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Location; Green Island/slippery creek camp site #1: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Cape+Canaveral+national+seashore&sll=28.391772,-80.608261&sspn=0.050816,0.063772&gl=us&g=Cape+Canaveral,+FL&ie=UTF8&ll=28.910963,-80.831223&spn=0.050565,0.063772&z=14
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Took the train to tiny Deland, Fla, picked up by friends. Park service rents canoes and gives you a good part of your own lagoon island. It's only a few feet deep except for 6' channels, only a licensed fishing tour guides and tours allowed. Fish, birds, dolphins, manatees, crabs, plants, all protected, and the ocean to swim in at the ranger station (with fresh water hoses and shade picnic tables).
The pics below are unfiltered and chronological, but if scan through them there's some good ones in the middle of the lagoon. It's about 5 miles wide by 26 miles long and you can drive into town, or canoe to one bar, or the intracoastal.
We had a brilliant idea with our genius camp raccoon who came every night to engineer his way into our food and leave muddy paw prints on our hanging clothes. We gave him 1/8 of a Benadryl in peanut butter and he only came to the camp once that night, then unlike other nights, didn't rummage any more 'till dawn.
Highpoints
- The train during the day with cafe and diner. We drove to NYC and took one train to Fla. and one back, which enabled us to arrive in the mornings in a totally different state of mind then a plane trip. As someone said, "planes are for getting places, trains a for the art of travel." Bad part was "sleeping" in train seats. Next time, one day layovers in a cool town, but still the train if possible. So much more relaxing and sane.
- Our own secluded beach because we snuck through the dunes by the ranger stations where there's no parking lots for about 5 miles or big public access, and we could swim naked in the ocean
- Floating above curious Manatees bumping our canoe in shallow lagoon waters.
- Low point, bugs. Next time, February break.
Location; Green Island/slippery creek camp site #1: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Military behaviorism
I just read in the magazine "Educational Technology" (Jan/Feb 2009, pg. 49, D. Hlynka) about the 1943 classic 20 minute military training film "Identification of the Japanese Zero," staring Ronald Regan and narrated by the famous voice of Art Gilmore. It's been popular lately and I guess, but I must have missed the buzz.
It can be an emotional and negative experience to think of the military as a great and innovative teaching organization, but it's true. The military has been, and is, a leader in effective instructional design and in a large part helped make ed tech into the vibrant professional and academic field it is today. This is due in part to their position of having to train a lot of people, very quickly, who often right out of high school, how to do complex tasks under incredible pressure. And their budget too.
The issue is WHAT they teach, not HOW. In the "how" we can learn a lot from them about how to make educational technology better. As my friend Phil points out, lots of famous artists got their start when the entire country converted to all things war supply and training related, including Frank Capra and Dr. Suess. See, "Private Snafu" Wikipedia entry.
The Japanese Zero film is cited in the journal as an excellent case study into how the behaviorist model was applied to "teach a task quickly, efficiently and with guaranteed results."
I watched it closely all the way through and I have to say, I think I learned a bit about what a Zero looks like. The combination of graphics with no text, voice, illustrations and then a fictional vignette that gave me tangible empathy and visualizations about how it would feel to make a mistake, and to not make a mistake, was solid. And I watched it on my iPhone! Which made me think a lot about mobile ed...I know the Coast Guard is doing a lot with "m-learning" and I bet the entire military is using phones for on site reference and learning.
"Identification of the Japanese Zero"
It can be an emotional and negative experience to think of the military as a great and innovative teaching organization, but it's true. The military has been, and is, a leader in effective instructional design and in a large part helped make ed tech into the vibrant professional and academic field it is today. This is due in part to their position of having to train a lot of people, very quickly, who often right out of high school, how to do complex tasks under incredible pressure. And their budget too.
The issue is WHAT they teach, not HOW. In the "how" we can learn a lot from them about how to make educational technology better. As my friend Phil points out, lots of famous artists got their start when the entire country converted to all things war supply and training related, including Frank Capra and Dr. Suess. See, "Private Snafu" Wikipedia entry.
The Japanese Zero film is cited in the journal as an excellent case study into how the behaviorist model was applied to "teach a task quickly, efficiently and with guaranteed results."
I watched it closely all the way through and I have to say, I think I learned a bit about what a Zero looks like. The combination of graphics with no text, voice, illustrations and then a fictional vignette that gave me tangible empathy and visualizations about how it would feel to make a mistake, and to not make a mistake, was solid. And I watched it on my iPhone! Which made me think a lot about mobile ed...I know the Coast Guard is doing a lot with "m-learning" and I bet the entire military is using phones for on site reference and learning.
"Identification of the Japanese Zero"
- Part #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiL5Xl9UFa0
- Part #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TUCcy0JX0&feature=related
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Reggie: Final Presentation. Web Design #1, Fall 2008. Marlboro College Graduate Center
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Final presentations for Web Design 1, a graduate class at in the Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology program at Marlboro Gollege Graduate Center, taught by Caleb Clark. Fall 2008. Students developed a personal learning environment (PLE) as an early draft of what will become their online professional portfolio as they progress through their degree and then look for work. The course covered online video, PDF, Audio, and photo production and publishing, as well as full usability testing and Web design trends. The text used was "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug. More Info: Master of Arts in Teaching with Technology at Marlboro College Graduate Center: http://gradcenter.marlboro.edu/academics/mat/
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Tina Fey is that good...
Tina Fey's Sarah Palin Impersonation is seems to have confused at least one news site for real. I stumbed upon this Canadian news site, (screenshot below from Sept 14th, 3pm, 2008) covering Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live and I noticed that they seem to have been faked out by Tina as well! They have the photo caption with Sarah Palin on the right, but if you look at this Washington Post photo of the SNL skit (Screenshot below), you'll see the right photo is Tina Fey. I she's that good...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Finally! I know shit from Shinola
Confession. I never knew shit from shinola until today. I mean what is a "shinola"? How do I even know that phrase? Who says that nowadays?
Now at least I know, for today while cleaning out my 96 year-old grandmother's closet I came upon a box of shoe polishing gear, including a mint condition bottle of - Shinola! (Wikipedia entry).
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Now at least I know, for today while cleaning out my 96 year-old grandmother's closet I came upon a box of shoe polishing gear, including a mint condition bottle of - Shinola! (Wikipedia entry).
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
School blog
I'm blogging mostly classwork lately, take a look.
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