Tech

A Writer Reviews

Sun, 07/08/2012 - 15:14 — conor_o_reilly

For those of you who may be interested in writing, tools to help your writing, writer and writing related new media and technology, and even literature, webzines, websites, I’ve started another new blog where I plan to review these. I’m quite interested in this kind of stuff and I’ve been thinking about it for a while so I decided to just get on with it. If you think there’s anything worth reviewing, please get in touch with me.

I’ve only one post up so far but drop by again and see what’s going on. I’ve linked it to my twitter account so if you follow me there the links should be posted directly from there.

Of course, before I forget…

Club Fix

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 15:32 — Club Fix

Website:

http://www.clubfixkorea.info

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Our day lounge boasts an impressive setting for all occasions with live performances, bands, DJs and VJs providing a friendly, fun atmosphere around the clock.

The Day Lounge offers a tantalizing Italian inspired menu and exotic cocktail list till 10pm weekdays.

For reservations please call- (051) 905-5777

Education in the news

Tue, 02/01/2011 - 21:07 — surprises aplenty

This time I’m not apologizing for the weak content but rather for storing links I want to check out more fully when I return to my own computer. I guess these links seem important to me so I am attempting to provide value in my posts. The content is good, but it is not mine and I cannot comment fully upon it.

Scientific American describes instances of under and over education. Or, about cowardly teachers and insufficiently attentive teachers: American biology teachers are avoiding evolution content and French teachers are making GMOs.

I like the Donga Ilbo

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 07:30 — surprises aplenty

But seriously, Tweeter? (My bolding)

Paperless teaching at ChungKang College

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:29 — surprises aplenty

The Joongang has an article describing ChungKang College’s plan to ride a fad to fame use iPads in all aspects of their education delivery.

From the article:

The university said yesterday that it will start the “i-College,” a system of education featuring the use of the iPad, starting next year. The university said the system will be used in all aspects of education, such as homework assignments, lectures, the submission of homework, test-giving and student evaluations.

The goal is to improve communication between students and professors and make the relationship more interactive.

It’s interesting that they are using a platform that is almost entirely new to Korea, but i definitely applaud the idea.

tools for writing analysis online

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 08:19 — surprises aplenty

As a conversational (sometimes controversial) English teacher in Korea, I don’t see a lot of writing. What I do see is short and simplistic. My students see more writing from me than I do from them, I think. Huh, I should look into the volume of written input vs output…

At the Six Things Blog, Lindsay Clandfield lists six writing analysis tool available online. Four of them are mostly for entertainment value, “Which famous writer you write like”, but one is a ‘vocabulary profiler‘ and another is a ‘text content analyzer‘.

Another internet oddity

Sun, 08/15/2010 - 12:21 — surprises aplenty

Of the spam form, that is.

I recently did a Google search for “Busan Department Store” - I probably left out the capitalization.

The second link was for Asia rooms , which gave me this paragraph:

Still not quite ready for an eBook reader – so close, though

Thu, 07/29/2010 - 22:18 — surprises aplenty

The new Kindle looks great and is entirely in my price range…well, not quite.

Okay, it does look great and the features are about where I want them to be and the price is fantastic.

On the other hand, I checked out a few books I am interested in:

A Charlie Stross science fiction novel:

Ken Robinson: The Element:

Cry me an iRiver

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 20:40 — surprises aplenty

I’ve blogged in the past about my interest in ebook readers. I finally got my hands on one for a few moments today.

I liked it. The screen is plenty big enough and the device is small enough that I could easily see myself carrying one around. The page change is fairly slow – I think that is common to all eReaders – and I could see myself getting to the second last line, then clicking and racing through the final line before the screen changed.

Boingboing on Language Learning

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 06:37 — surprises aplenty

In 2002, before going to work at a university in Gangwondo, I interviewed for a job with a Korean military intelligence school just outside of Seoul. The university position had more vacation time and gangwon was more inviting but I was able to look around the school a little and see the texts they used. They were, I think, old US military ESL books- perhaps made to teach allied troops, I don’t know. They were relatively old, even for 2002, and I would have been expected to use more modern supplements.

At BoingBoing, there is a post about the military’s more modern language acquisition programs.

Matching students to classes, lessons to students

Fri, 06/04/2010 - 09:59 — surprises aplenty

Two articles caught my eye this morning: TeachPaperless’ decision to not plan out classes until he meets his students and Freakenomics’ recent discussion of matching students to schools at Maastricht University.

Both articles discuss optimizing the match between class material and student. The Freakenomics post is a bare-bones mention of the problem and a request for help. It does link to a study by one Alvin Roth: see if you note any familiar names in the ‘cited by’ list.

Teach paperless for Earth Day

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 18:49 — surprises aplenty

It’s a long way off yet (April 22), but tomorrow I will be planning my semester so its time to plan how and what I am doing for Earthday.

At the blog, Teach Paperless (author anonymous), I found some information on the subject. That blogger uses student blogs as notebooks and, well, enough other things to convince him/her to set up a blog.

I am not sure if using a computer and other devices, particularly including a projector, will put less stress on the environment than using paper. Further, students have already bought their books – I suppose I can tell the students to leave them at home so that added mass won’t be carried up the mountain my university is situated upon.

Still, I am also interested in using technology in the classroom, so I am likely to have a paperless day for that reason alone.


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