tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227880022011-04-21T21:13:56.244-07:00This is Dave's blog for the Unworkshop.Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1142034872778677572006-03-10T15:34:00.000-08:002006-03-10T15:54:32.793-08:00

I meant to ask Jay about the different aggregators he'd been playing with, but had (billable) work to do today. Naturally I didn't want to overdo on that, and I ended up stumbling across www.netvibes.com.It's worth a look. While you find a bunch of (potentially annoying) present feeds in the middle of the page, you can easily get rid of them. What's more, you can add your own chosen feeds.

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1141943818028506552006-03-09T13:56:00.000-08:002006-03-09T14:36:58.046-08:00

As the noted learning theorist Tom Lehrer said,Plagiarize!Let no one else's work evade your eyes!Why do you think the good Lord made your eyes?Don't shade your eyes --Plagiarize!But, please -- call it "research."Since I haven't been a regular reader of blogs, I've researched some of the sites that my unworkshop colleagues have mentioned. I've found this very helpful, both the direct sites (the

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1141751502690872322006-03-07T09:11:00.000-08:002006-03-07T09:11:42.703-08:00

As Chaucer said of the clerk, "gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."BackgroundAfter majoring in English and sociology, I joined Teacher Corps (a Great Society program like the Peace Corps or VISTA), earning a master's in education through an experimental teacher-training program.One good outcome for me was training in independent study; another was exposure to Robert Mager's Preparing

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1141492397962655092006-03-04T09:00:00.000-08:002006-03-04T09:13:44.170-08:00

After trying to figure out why I wasn't seeing in Breeze what Jay was seeing, I thought that I'd try capturing some of what I learned in the group wiki. That gave me the opportunity to work with the wiki.I have done a little bit of work in Wikipedia, where I learned about "project pages." I think of these as a kind of meta-content. They're not really the main content of Wikipedia, but rather

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1141342238668985352006-03-02T15:26:00.000-08:002006-03-02T21:08:07.673-08:00

A discussion I found on CogDogBlog, on the communities that keep wikis going.

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In theory, you can start your post in the purported WYSIWYG interface and then fine-tune it in HTML. My advice is: don't.I was fiddling around for too long in compose (WYSIWYG). When I previewed the posts, the font type kept switching on me. I tried cleaning things up, but that didn't seem to help. So I went into the HTML, after which Blogger kept complaining about tags that didn't

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1141132510251261762006-02-28T04:25:00.000-08:002006-03-01T15:44:52.203-08:00

A stream-of-consciousness post explaining how I created Cousin Agam Fhéin, a site for family stories.The family side: people in my family, most of them born in Cape Breton (meaning on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) are great storytellers. But these oral stories are gone as soon as they're told. A year or so ago, during a phone call, I taped my parents' recollection of how we came to the

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Wasichus [white men]...were determined to find out which redskin had killed their hero [Custer], so they asked and they asked. The Indians got tired of this and at a 1909 council they resolved to end the matter.They themselves had no idea who killed him, but after discussing possible candidates they elected Chief Brave Bear of the Southern Cheyennes. He had been with Black Kettle at the Washita

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1140711927104130282006-02-23T08:02:00.000-08:002006-02-28T19:16:43.733-08:00

Agam (a as in hat) is Scots Gaelic for "my." Fhéin (f is silent; sounds like hain) means "self." You can read it as mine (not someone else's).

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All of DNA is a twisted rope ladder let down from heaven to draw us up from the abyss of not-being. We do not lift a finger without three kinds of information: the information we are getting from our senses at that moment; the information we have gotten from our senses in the past; and the information our ancestors have acquired since life began on Earth -- that is, the information that is

Dave Fergusonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22788002.post-1140543074859269372006-02-21T09:30:00.000-08:002006-02-21T09:31:14.860-08:00

I've just set up the blog, and it seems I need a post in order to view it. That's the current theory. "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."

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