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I was in an internet meeting yesterday and brought up the Windsor Star to make a point and this story was leading the headlines.
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Windsor+nabbed+porn+bust/2666566/s
This morning, on the site, a news report from Global National appears.

Global National video: Child porn bust, Windsor man among the dozens charged.
Sometimes, the regular teaching in the classroom robs time, and [...]

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The Readability Test Tool
The Readability Test Tool provides a quick and easy way to test the readability of your work. It is the most flexible readability software for assessing readability formulas.
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Juicy Studio: Readability Test
Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how [...]

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Last night was the first opportunity to meet up with my university students after their second practice teaching placement.  Just like the return from their first placement, I devoted almost an hour for them to decompress and share their insights from their time out in the “real world”.  It’s amazing to see the difference in [...]

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Playing games in Google Earth | Google Earth Blog
Since Google Earth was first released, a variety of people (including myself) have looked for ways to use it for gaming. While it will never be a true gaming platform, there are still some fun choices out there to play with. Here are a few of the [...]

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Internet Evolution survey tries to get to the bottom of what irks “Digital Workers.” Anyone in IT could have guessed the first one (slow internet) but a close number two was the infamous “Reply All”.

Read the article here (See my previous blog posting on CC: and BCC:)

On another, related note, thanks again to Ray for posting this on his blog…I mean have you ever heard of the site “Internet Evolution” before today? How does he find this stuff?

http://themobilelearner.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/jerry-seinfeld-on-the-blackb

A little comic relief concerning mobile devices:

http://mathfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/running-dos-games-on-windows.ht

In my last post, I mentioned trying to get Colourful Math to work on Windows, collecting a few delicious bookmarks along the way.

Today, I downloaded dosbox after a bit of an internet search to get a sense of its reliability (since the zombie-like dude in the top corner did not inspire a lot of confidence). dosbox allows you to run all sorts of DOS programs under Windows, Mac and Linux - Doom and Railroad Tycoon (which is a free download now) seem especially popular.

When you run doxbox, type

• mount c: c:colourfulmath (where c:colourfulmath is the directory where the files are)

• c:
• dir
• cd clrmath
• 4colours (the bat or exe)
  

and voila!, you have a blast from the past in a nice tidy emulator (or virtual console?) window.



I received a very pleasant email from the Claude Laflamme, the developer (with Industry Canada funding) of Colourful Math. He indicated that his developer interest turned to lyryx.com and Colourful Math has not been ported to any more modern operating systems.

I was thinking that folks of a certain age (probably over 18) might like to know that there could be a way to play their favorite MS-DOS games on their current operating systems, using dosbox, if they are keen on having waves of nostalgia wash over them. My kids spent hours on the evaluation version of Soleau games like Wallpipe, Ant Run and Bolo Ball - which are still available - the rousing Sine Dancing-like antrun theme is playing on my speakers as I type (even after exiting!).

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCleverSheep/~3/7UOmp7KiGL8/its-ti

If the ideas you are about to hear are new to you, it's only because you haven't been paying attention. Voices scattered across the edublogosphere have been saying these things for some time. Maybe it just rings more true when a youthful learner says it?



Did you catch the sheep doing cartwheels at the end of this video?

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I had an interesting read and reflection on Peter Skillen’s blog yesterday.  A recent post “Deep Understanding & the Issue of Transfer” really resonates with me and I’ve been mulling over his words ever since I read the entry.
In one posting, Peter has been able to convey to me the essence of successful use of [...]

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Plancast
You've got plans.  Spread the word.
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Google Earth Resources (Google Earth In Education)
23 Interesting Ways to Use Google Earth in the Classroom . England Teacher, Tom Barrett started it,  several others around the world have contributed to it.
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