Introduction to open education
Despite my new status as a graduate, I’m taking a class this semester, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education, taught by David Wiley at BYU. Obviously, he practices what he preaches – this course is available to me (and you, and anyone else) for free. While plenty of free educational materials are available on the […]
Western dragon
My boss generously gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card as a graduation present* (thanks, Melissa!), and I blew it all on a new origami book: Genuine Origami: 43 Mathematically-Based Models, From Simple to Complex, by Jun Maekawa. I’ve made several things so far, but this Western Dragon is the first one that I […]
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary
Happy new year! Something I want to do this year is post here more regularly, especially to share the interesting educational tools I find. So, here’s the first one, although I may be a bit late to the party on it: Visuwords™ is an online (English-only) dictionary that graphically displays the relationships between words. The […]
Using Google Reader for Professional Development
I made this slideshow, Using Google Reader for Professional Development, as a supplement to an article I’m writing for HITESOL The Word. Check it out, and let me know how to improve it!
MyTweetSpace
I tend to use Twitter very little because I don’t find it very interesting. Maybe I would find it more interesting if I knew more people who used it (follow me–I’ll follow you back!), but it seems like most people I know use their Facebook status message in much the same way. In fact, some […]
Facebook connect added
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been a bit of a Facebook addict lately, so no one should be surprised that I’ve added Facebook Connect to this here blog. Thanks, Sociable! You can check out the widget on the right. (You might need to scroll down to see it.) However, I’m not convinced that it’s working properly. […]
A second helping of MoFuse
The kind folks at MoFuse helpfully removed the ads from the mobile version of my site, and you can check it out here. I like it much better than the ad-plastered version. I like that I can include my custom logo and change the color scheme. However, you can only view the blog portion of […]
Mobile version of this site!
Thanks to Google and Cliotech, you can now view this site on a mobile phone: http://is.gd/9GdJ I tried MoFuse, too, but I didn’t like the ads–which they don’t show you in the preview! It also only really works for the blog, not for the rest of the site.
One complete online course is up!
I finally had some free time to work on getting some more content up here, and here’s the result: one complete online ESL course is up! I’d be happy to hear your comments on it. But please be kind–this was my first attempt at such a course, so it definitely is rough around the edges. […]
My final translation project
It’s my last semester as an MA student, and one of my last courses is on translation between Japanese and English. One useful thing I’ve learned is the value of more than one head working on a translation, so as an experiment, I’m going to post the pre-final draft of my final project here. It’s […]