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What kind image interactions have value in history (or anywhere else for that matter)?
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New York man sharpens pencils for $35 a pop – New York News
I wonder what kind of interactive images we might make as ITRTs as part of history content.
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William Shakespeare’s Terminator the Second – Neatorama
“re-wrote the script for the movie Terminator 2 using only lines from the works of William Shakespeare.”
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World’s Quietest Room Will Drive You Crazy in 30 Minutes : Discovery News
“The key to the level of silence is the fact that the walls, floor and ceiling absorb all sound, rather than reflecting it, as most surfaces do. Thus the term anechoic: no echo. It’s so quiet, you can hear your own organs: your heart, stomach, even your ears, which make a tiny amount of noise. It turns out that it’s not an especially pleasant experience, especially in the dark. The longest anyone has ever spent alone in the chamber? Forty-five minutes.”
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My Little Bag of Writing Tricks – Do Your Job Better – The Chronicle of Higher Education
“I’m not convinced that studying grammatical labels would help my prose, though it might make me a more intimidating teacher. Neither am I convinced that I’d have more fun outdoors if I knew the Latin names of different plants, though I have learned—the hard way—not to pitch my tent in a patch of poison oak or stinging nettles.”
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So many beautiful educational possibilities lurk in the truth behind jokes.
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“In the jungle you come to realize that death is a part of life. The bat eats the moth. Then the giant moth sucks the life out of the bat. Then the monkey eats the giant moth, pulling the wings off first, because he doesn’t like that part. Then the monkey gets a parasite from the moth that slowly eats his brain. It’s all part of the beautiful circle of life.”
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This is the joke: “I came here in peace, seeking gold and slaves.”
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The entire “Martian” piece is great, but the line “I came here in peace, seeking gold and slaves” is even better on its own. It has a perfect setup and punchline, which are exactly the same length, creating a pleasing symmetry: five syllables of set-up and five syllables of punchline. The line isn’t iambic pentameter, but the ten syllables give it that Shakespearian feel. The language is simple, and the contradiction is massive. I dare you to write such a short, plain, ridiculous line.
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“I came here in peace, seeking gold and slaves” is the mantra of every conqueror, imperialist, colonizer, and oppressor ever. Handey, the forever-young little boy, aims his slingshot at real evil, smack dab in the middle of a bizarre essay about Martians. There have always been people “seeking gold and slaves” while professing peace and treating innocents like Martians: there probably always will be. Handey not only made a funny; he summed up world history.
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My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me – Karl Taro Greenfeld – The Atlantic
I wonder how doing a generic student’s homework for a week might impact teacher/principal views on homework.
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We went from piling on the homework because of fears of a science gap brought on by Sputnik in the late 1950s, to backing off in the Woodstock generation of the ’70s amid worries about overstressing kids, to the ’90s fears of falling behind East Asian students.
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It’d be pretty easy to create some interesting CYA projects that would be good for writing, narrative flow, logic etc.
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Crowdfunding real-life, citywide choose-your-own-adventure stories – Boing Boing
I still really want to make something that blends digital and face to face elements with a decent narrative.