Interpretation

We often think we know the 'truth' of a situation, but the reality is our 'truth' is colored by the interpretive inflections given by others. In that swaying, our reality is developed, and our response to the world around us is cast.

Check out this example of how interpretation makes all the difference.

Ready, set, go!

Haven't been using this blog much at all, but I've decided rather than having students create both a web site for their research projects and a blog for journaling, we'll just do blogs and add pages to them. This should reduce the amount of stress students feel, as well as make it easier for us to keep track of one another.

I'm excited about this research project and hope the students find it interesting to delve into some aspect of digital living. We'll see. :) The project will have several parts, so having a place early on to store them will be more efficient than trying to put them together at the last second.

One-day wonder - The Boston Globe

How does a word become a "real" word? Does it have to make it into the OED, or is it enough to simply be used? One-day wonder - The Boston Globe

150 Resources to Help You Write Better, Faster, and More Persuasively | OEDb

150 Resources to Help You Write Better, Faster, and More Persuasively | OEDb

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Glider

I'm betting Wayne will do this more than once!

Don't confuse them with facts

A wall is, in fact, a wall!

Read the article to see the sad state of critical thinking and how it's begun to affect the way we act.

Editorials & Opinion | Don't confuse them with facts | Seattle Times Newspaper

Visualizing Information

Here's another example of how a well crafted image can give more information than a ton of words:

http://www.rasmussen.edu/articles/haiti-by-the-numbers.asp