RhetoricVille

On Friday, I went to a small conference at UM-Flint on engaging students in on-line learning. The keynote speaker was Fred Goodman, a professor emeritus of Education from the Ann Arbor campus. He is a game maker, and his ideas for teaching revolve around games and the insights that playing — and especially designing […]

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http://www.thinkbabynames.com/
This site is the best I’ve found for finding names. You can generate random names, browse lists of male and female names (organized by country, popularity and era), and find out what names mean.

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I’ve been a hobbiest computer programmer almost since the day we got our first PC in 1984. Not quite since that day, though, because the computer (a Zenith with two 5.25 floppy drives and a green-screen monitor) did not come with any programming software, unless you count DOS batch files as programs. In those days, […]

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www.ajaxwrite.com
This is an online word processor — fast, free and easy to use. You don’t install anything. You don’t have to register to use it. It reads and edits all the major formats, so if you get a WordPerfect or OpenOffice or MSWord file and can’t open it because you don’t have the needed program […]

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From AFT Higher Education:
Free Exchange on Campus, a broad coalition of student, faculty and civil liberty groups that includes the AFT, has launched its first campaign for free speech and described its activities at an audio news conference on March 16.
Free Exchange outlined its plan to protect academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas […]

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