Informal Academic Advising and Other Educational Resources
>30 Second Words fully endorses the Chumby as an interesting platform and effective approach to content delivery. After bartering for artwork in exchange for an authentic endorsement (which we would have given anyway) for SwagBot, I thought I would demonstrate the Chumby using Chumby’s Create a Virtual Chumby application.
In this demonstration channel, are a [...]
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A sucker is born every minute, and thankfully today, I am not one of them. I recently had a nightmare experience with a vendor from a trusted and popular Freelance site. I believe the vendor to be in breach of our $500 project plan after changing the project specifications without cost specifications.
I call [...]
For a brief period 6 months in 2006, I worked for a Charlottesville non-profit educational facility called Computers4Kids (C4K). In many ways, it was the best job I ever had simply because it allowed me to work within the world of technology while witnessing the tangible benefits to student learning. C4K describes themselves [...]
I am seeking to gain institutional support from my employer for blogging in local government. As I am still building my case and trying to explain the concept of link-building and content aggregators for developing a robust informational ecosystem, I am realizing the need for some sort of content aggregator that is localized.
When talking [...]
DICTIONARY: There are a large variety of online dictionaries. Dictionary.com is a standard dictionary with services including RSS Word of the Day, Translations, Medical, Legal and Foreign dictionaries. Other online dictionaries include Free Dictionary and WordWeb.
THESAURUS: Thesaurus.com and Synonym.com both host very good thesaurus services.
ANTONYMS: Thesaurus.com and Synonym.com both host very good antonym [...]
I once said I would never blog about blogging, yet today I am feeling like being a blog-o-vangelist. I have a friend who lives at Sheffield Court Apartments in Arlington, VA. He is a blogging naysayer. I want to demonstrate to him that blogging is about generating an audience of interested [...]
…the Low-Tech Times is reporting that students are taking horses to school in rural jurisdictions in the United States. As an urban planner, and professor-to-be, I will give automatic A’s to students who show up to class on horseback,
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As I am planning for graduate school, I want to show admissions committees a quick diagram of my educational and professional experience by title/role, time in position and skills used. For your own purposes, consider color-coding to demonstrate the positions you enjoyed to prioritize your discussion in your application essay.
These are my first two attempts [...]