Archive for September, 2006
06-09-19
Tags:Education Teaching Phonics in Proper Perspective (10th Edition): Books: Arthur W. Heilman
Some interesting quotes from the 2nd edition:
"… each [of the new approaches to teaching beginning reading] has the redeeming humanitarian virtue of attempting to temporarily protect the child from the vagaries of English spelling. … Each of the code cracking methods is in essence […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 0
06-09-18
Tags:Computing creative spelling imagemagick php Research Here is a tutorial for using the ImageMagick’s MagickWand PHP API. It differs from the current Imagic.php implement that is used on the creative spelling website, which calls CONVERT.EXE for every image operation. It’s becoming painfully slow. I hope the API approach will be much more […]
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(Computing, Research) | 0
06-09-18
Tags:Computing gmail Gmail Todo
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06-09-18
Tags:Computing disability eye movements gaze OddsnEnds Research
COGAIN - Communication by Gaze Interaction is holding a student competition Creative Gaze.
The objective of the competition is to boost the development of new, innovative applications that take benefit of eye input. COGAIN especially invites leisure applications, such as gaze-controlled games, that would […]
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(Computing, Research, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
06-09-15
Tags:Computing firewall vnc One of the web annoyances — ZoneAlarm won’t respond to key and mouse via VNC. If you don’t know that I am talking about, stop here.
It turns out it’s a feature rather than a bug. All you need to do is to go to the preferences tab and unckeck the […]
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(Computing) | 1
06-09-14
Tags:Chinese dyslexia Education Japanese media Research Teaching A student in my class dug out some pretty interesting news report on the rate of dyslexia in East Asia. According to: TIME Asia Print Page: Minds at Risk — September 8, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 9 Dyslexia is universal, […]
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(Research, Teaching, Education) | 1
06-09-14
Tags:Japanese Linguistics Paperville psychology Research University of Richmond CogSci lab
Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics […]
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(Research, Paperville, Psychology, Linguistics) | 0
06-09-12
Tags:Chinese Chinglish English flickr fun Linguistics OddsnEnds Comments
From Kidney top hormone. on Flickr picture taken by MFinChina, with my comments. For more amusements, subscribe to Chinglish.
Is that like stovetop stuffing?
LOL. It’s epinephrine (肾上腺素). The following is taken from Wikipedia, which explains the etimology of the […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
06-09-11
Tags:dog fun inhibition OddsnEnds Teaching Simon Says With A Dog Video, via Steve Asher.
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06-09-08
Tags:China duke Education OddsnEnds Dick Brodhead has a recent op ed on Washington Post, in which he looked back at his 4 Asian country tour this past summer and forward to the future of US higher education. His point is clear — our (imagined) competitions know our strengths better than we do. The […]
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