Academic Writing Part 2
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This is a follow-up to my previous entry on this subject.
If you are looking for a website to help you teach academic writing to university students (whether EFL students or native-English-speaking students), I recommend those by Gavin Budge (Writing for the Reader), and by Andy Gillett: Academic Writing.
As many of my students don’t [...]
Online photo editor
I just bought a new computer (Windows Vista) which comes with some very basic photo editing software (I’m also playing with Picasa to see if that will do the resizing and cropping that I want), the rather clunky Windows photo gallery (at least that’s what it’s called in Japanese), so when I read Larry Ferlazzo’s [...]
Read more »Online grading
Last month, after making one too many errors typing in my grades into Excel, I decided to try an online grading system: I’m using MyGradeBook.com’s 1-month trial, and so far have been pleased.
Today, I also found Engrade Online Gradebook but did not sign up for the free account after the guided tour balked at [...]
Roundup August 26th, 2007
From a comment Larry left, I discovered his blog, and from there this page of resources for students. An impressive list, although there are lots more resources than student-produced pages.
One of the links was to Dandelife “a social biography network”.
One of the stories I clicked on at random referred to sleep apnea [...]
Video day
David St Lawrence lives in Floyd County and writes about a festival held there. There I found a link to Spiral Hoop Dancer Vivian.I could watch this for hours. She is having such fun, and she apparently did not know she was being videoed. Plus it doesn’t hurt that she’s very sexy. (This vid is [...]
Read more »McAfee’s Phishing quiz
Chris Craft at Crucial Thought posted a link to McAfee’s Phishing quiz. Ten questions that test how good you are at spotting fake (phishing) websites and emails.
This kind of skill or knowledge is, unfortunately, necessary these days. A neat tool to use in class with students.
Bonus question: how can you tell if the [...]
Too much work, not enought time
While some are on vacation, we in the land of the falling yen are still slaving away, some of us until the beginning of August, to ensure the students get their money’s worth of 15 classes per semester. I’ve been keeping a log of how many hours I spend on non-class work. Being a salaried [...]
Read more »Safety online revisited
A while back, I posted about some “safety online” videos that Quentin D’Souza had posted. One of them shows a photo of a girl lying on a bed; the photo is posted on a bulletin board, and every time someone pulls the photo off the board, it magically reappears there. The moral: once you post [...]
Read more »Vigilantism a poor response to cyberattack
Wired magazine has an interesting article on cyber-attack and possible responses, particularly a wartime and peacetime responses:
Last month Marine Gen. James Cartwright told the House Armed Services Committee that the best cyberdefense is a good offense… The general isn’t alone. In 2003, the entertainment industry tried to get a law passed (.pdf) giving it the [...]
Plagued by students plagiarising?
I’ve been using Snagit, a Windows program that takes screenshots including grabs of scrolling windows, and they send me a newsletter every now and then. Today’s a link to a website that allows you to input some (student-written) text and see if it’s been plagiarised or not. I’ve no idea how it works, or if [...]
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