Monthly Archives: September 2009

September 17, 2009

Stealing From Geeks, Part 2: Educators need to geek out, big time

Other people’s presentation slides used to drive me crazy. “You’ve got Arial and Times New Roman and fifteen lines of text in 14-point font! Those colours are hideous! Stop with the serif fonts already! Are you going to read aloud … Continue reading →

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September 11, 2009

Retweet Culture

This week, my Twitterstream brought me the very wonderful Little People art project, so I retweeted the link. Then I get a message from Harvey: One of my favourites. But hey, I already sent you that link, after our first … Continue reading →

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September 8, 2009

Stealing From Geeks, Part 1: Educators need heroes too

When I was at school, geeks were social pariahs. They were clever, but not usually overburdened with social skills. Being a geek was pretty uncool, a fact only slightly ameliorated by the general loveliness of my final-year physics class. But … Continue reading →

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