This photo has not been doctored. Each half of this cheeseburger from Solly’s in Milwaukee is covered in butter. Thanks to Drew for the clogged arteries.

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Mimetic and Transformative Traditions

September 8, 2009 admin Leave a comment

Are you up for some quality pedagogical analysis? Of course you are. This week I take a stab at justifying why I use both mimetic and transformative traditions in the German classroom in response to Philip Jackson’s book entitled The Practice of Teaching. I also legitimize using the term “Grammar Nazi.”

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A Special Taco Zeitgeist

September 5, 2009 admin Leave a comment

Just doing some late night browsing of the interwebs on Consumerist. Something about that t aco photo looks awful familiar. Yup. It’s mine. It’s cool though because photos in my Flickr stream are Creative Commons licensed for use.

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Open Content Curriculum

September 4, 2009 admin Leave a comment

As part of one of my grad courses I have to blog about education. This week I tackle open content in the classroom. You can read about it here if you are so inclined.

Utilizing open content in the classroom demonstrates a dynamic shift in education. Expensive textbooks cannot compete with minimal cost content sources that are continuously updated, corrected and improved upon. Rather than rely on a monolithic textbook source for information, open content communities rely on member research and exptertise.

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Taco Zeigeist

September 3, 2009 admin Leave a comment

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We Now Resume Your Regular Broadcast

September 2, 2009 admin Leave a comment

The site went down for about a week and a half.

Just as I was ready to manually fix the issue plaguing my website the hard drive in my iMac completely died. It was replaced by Apple for free, but my latest backup was from two months ago. It took a whole day to get back up to speed on that.

Then students started moving in at UW-Whitewater and I was occupied all weekend. Oh, yeah I work for UW-Whitewater now as a ResNet Technical Support Analyst. It’ll pay for grad school while Kaela and I are here for the next two years.

I finally had time tonight to get the database reconfigured. There are some other minor things to reset, but that can wait. Expect more photos of tacos in the near future.

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