• Archive for April, 2006

    Too Late But Fun

    by  • April 29, 2006 • FILMS&TV, WRITING • 0 Comments

    During a marking break, I finally got a chance to experiment with the mashup tool that Yahoo created for the San Francisco International Film Festival. I was too late to be eligible for my video mashup to be entered into the contest and played on the big screen, but it was fun nonetheless. The...

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    Weirdest Recipe Yet

    by  • April 29, 2006 • PERSONAL, teaching in Korea • 0 Comments

    My Elementary Writing students were working with forms of organization, and we touched upon the structures of lists. Lists of items in which order doesn’t matter — say, ingredients in a recipe, where we just list with commas and an “and” before the last item, and sequence lists, where we outline a series of...

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    Plagiarism and Learning

    by  • April 29, 2006 • teaching in Korea • 16 Comments

    Reading “Why plagiarists do it” by Jack Schafer puts me in mind of the work of marking piles of essays, writing assignments, and exams. One of my students plagiarized in a way I haven’t yet seen. I could tell almost as soon as I saw the text — without reading it, even — that...

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    On Course

    by  • April 28, 2006 • PERSONAL, WRITING • 7 Comments

    Here’s the update: I’m now 100% definitely going to Seattle for the Clarion Workshop. I’ll fly out on the 17th, and I’m going to try to get a ticket that allows me to stop by my mother’s place on the way back to Korea, six weeks later. I’m now in the thick of marking....

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    Quizzically

    by  • April 28, 2006 • ASIDES, PERSONAL • 2 Comments

    You Are 50% Evil You are evil, but you haven’t yet mastered the dark side. Fear not though – you are on your way to world domination. How Evil Are You? Okay, I’m only half-wicked. You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you’re...

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