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By Ruby Rennie on Jun 6, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
A mix of musings, thoughts on education and a diary to help me remember things
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By Ruby Rennie on Apr 19, 2009 in personal | 0 Comments
Should I volunteer? For some time I’ve been receiving news and reading the “Seeing Hands” blog. It’s an inspirational look at helping blind people in Nepal to gain education and a paying job - not easy in a country that assumes blind people cannot contribute to society. I’ve been wondering about volunteering to go - it would be a worthwhile use of my massage training and it would give me a chance to see Nepal, a country I’ve always wanted to visit.
Should I?
By Ruby Rennie on Apr 19, 2009 in Learning, research, student life | 0 Comments
I was recently pointed to some software that is now in beta - called Mendeley - which gives you a way to store research citations and then access it from any computer. I’m still working on seeing the ways it could help with research, but so far it looks really promising!
What I like about it:
I can work online or offline, and then synchronise my references with the online version; then I can go to my office computer andsynchronise also, which means I don’t have to keep sending myself emails to rememebr to update!
By Ruby Rennie on Mar 3, 2009 in language | 0 Comments
A link to podcasts created by Steven Fry - sent to me by a former student who somehow survived the course!
Fry introduces “langue and parole” with examples, gives a whirlwind tour of the history of English, moves to a critique of Barthes, and revels in the “pleasure of language”. It’s quite a heady mixture!
By Ruby Rennie on Feb 22, 2009 in Links, personal | 1 Comment
After reading a post by David on using twitter polls, I decided to try it out and create my own:
There are various applications being developed by twtapps,
and here’s David’s orignal poll - you can vote on this too:
The twitter poll website is easy to use (if you have a twitter account already set up you just add your twitter name). The code is produced for the poll, which you can copy and paste into a blog post. It was easy to add this to my edublogs blog - I’ve also got several Wordpress blogs but despite trying all sorts of ways to embed the code, I simply can’t get it to work! Any suggestions welcome …