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Month: October 2008

  • Canadian Mysteries: Developing Critical Thinking

    I was watching the game, but Tampa was up 4-0 on the Phillies so I started “surfing-the-net-on-my-laptop-on-the-couch” again. I’m in search of a word or phrase that describes the often endless evening hours I spend, well “surfing-the-net-on-my-laptop-on-the-couch”. If “couch potato” was the 20th century term for spending too much time staring at the TV, there…

  • dsader Wins 2008 WPMU Plugin Competition

    Today, I won first place in the first WPMU Plugin competition for a plugin called “Toggle Admin Menus“. The plugin allows SiteAdmins to reshape the core user menu system for WordPressMU. Here at STJ I needed the plugin to simplify the admin menus for students for a couple of reasons. First, some core menus had…

  • Better directions for In The News assignments for L.A. 9

    Pick a question(s) from “The Human Condition” course focus questions. Read a news story(or 3-5 related stories) that in some way explore “The Human Condition.” (adding RSS widgets from cbc.ca/rss/ is a great way to do this.) Write about the news while at the same time responding to the focus question(s). Make sure your writing…