http://stevendkrause.com School, work, life, and everything else Fri, 16 May 2008 17:08:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe it's just a temporary thing, but I'm a little miffed right now: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation sponsored a great series on "Digital Media and Learning," and worked out a deal with MIT press where you can order the print version or you can download the open ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/16/is-the-macarthur-foundation-series-on-digital-media-and-learning-still-open-source/ I was talking to Annette the other day about various family plans and such, and I floated the idea of going camping not this weekend but next, you know, before I was off to this conference. She thought it was a potentially good idea. Then, the next day, ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/15/just-to-let-you-know-how-crazy-my-life-has-been-lately/ Here it is then:  Books At Home.  It would appear that the blogger in question has also started a blog recently on Books in New York.  Via Johndan. http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/13/why-yes-i-would-like-to-read-a-blog-just-about-bookshelves/ It's been a couple of long seasons/years on Will's soccer team. Last spring, they didn't win any games. Last fall (I was an assistant coach of sorts on this team), we didn't win any games. And we started this year (again, I'm an assistant of sorts) by ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/10/quakes-win-quakes-win/ I am startlingly tardy in posting about Inside Higher Ed's article "Voltaire Wasn’t Cut Out to Be an Iowa State TA" and the videos that are the subject of this-- linked on Facebook here and here. Frankly, for all the excitement over things like the Graff and Birkenstein exchange ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/08/long-belated-post-on-videos-from-the-english-ta-experience-by-iowa-state-students/ If you ever doubted that newspaper editors ran letters from readers that were goofy just because they (the editors, that is) found them funny, then look no further than this wisdom from today's Ann Arbor News "letters to the editor" page: Hangover medicines should be banned I believe that hangover medicine should ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/05/thank-you-for-the-advice-grace-l-phillips/ You read it here first-- well, maybe not first, but you read it here now:  this handy list of ultra-portable computers.  Something along these lines might be the next laptop I buy, frankly. http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/03/ultraportables-are-what-will-be-next/ Been too busy around here lately, what with planning classes for spring, Estabrook Science Olympiad (that's tomorrow), kiddie soccer practice, general cleaning/preparing for the in-laws to visit, and the various fireworks on that other blog I maintain. But I do have some other things I want to try to ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/05/02/go-see-young-at-heart/ Annette watched this video on Facebook this morning and said "you know, this is the kind of thing that Sophie could do if we trained her: Yeah, right. Maybe if we both quit our jobs so we could both do it full-time. As it is, I think Sophie's main ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/04/28/sophie-could-do-this-yeah-right/ Email clean-out blog post #2: Here's a link to a report from the CCCCs called "Top Intellectual Property Developments of 2007 for Scholars of Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication." It includes some links and information about, well, the title of the site: IP issues for the comp/rhet world. ... http://stevendkrause.com/2008/04/28/2007-ip-issues-to-remember/