Category: Pingo Lingo

  • Who Are My Friends?

    No one would choose to live without friends if he had all other goods. When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. We conclude, therefore, that to be friends, men must have good will for one another, must each wish for the good…

  • 40 Questions to help you wonder … about everything!

    Values 1. Are you a fair or a just person? 2. How do you know who your friends are? 3. Should you be rewarded for your efforts in school? 4. Should you let little things bother you? 5. Is it your duty to give to charity? 6. Will having fun make you happier than studying?…

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  • How to Create an “iPod App” of Your STJ iBlog

    Yes the title of this post is a bit misleading, you won’t really be creating an app. You will be creating a web shortcut to your STJ iBlog with a custom Apple touch icon that looks like an iPod app … in two steps. First step, get yourself a snazzy gravatar with the admin email…

  • The Medium is the Message

    According to Marshall McLuhan, television is a “cool” medium because it provides little information and makes the user fill in what is missing. How do the House Hippo and Media Monkey ads make the user fill in the information? House Hippo [youtube video=”TijcoS8qHIE”] Media Monkey [youtube video=”i9fSLdG2uYU”] Do young people accept what they see in…

  • Gender role reinforcement in children’s toys

    I have three boys aged 9, 7, and 4. It should be no surprise that we all like Star Wars. Well, we were all watching another episode of “Clone Wars” last week when all three of us reacted to a couple of toy commercials. The first commercial we reacted to was for a Mommy Look…

  • Our relationship with technology » The Problem with Anonymous Commenting

    Consider this article by Michael Kessler from the Washington Post. It is the current trend to see anonymous comments attached to news stories at any popular news or sporting news site. Click on any hot topic and you’ll soon see the comments turn to ridicule and nonsense soon enough. Michael Kessler in the Post article…

  • Book Talk Intensifies at STJ

    How do we write more, while at the same time we write less? This paradox occurred to me today while talking about writing with a student at STJ. I also thought about the popularity of Twitter with its 150 characters “tweets” compared to the effort to maintain a blog with its posts in the 3-5…