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    • Archive for December 31st, 2006

    The Holy Grail in Teaching

    Sunday, December 31st, 2006

    The Holy Grail, in teaching, would be the development of an assessment tool that has the following properties:

    It accurately reflects the actual learning that has occured.
    It cannot be spoofed by students who don’t learn/prepare/read etc.
    It is fair.
    It is easy to grade.
    It is, in like manner, easy to administer.

    Review: Eragon

    Sunday, December 31st, 2006

    Eragon (the movie)
    fantasy/adventure
    Cast details, etc., are in the IMDb entry.
    InstaRating: 2 out of 5
    Having little else to do while school is out, I decided to see Eragon, this season’s epic high fantasy. I went with some trepidation, as the commercials made it seem overwhelmingly, well, cheesy. In hindsight, I had no idea…

    Makeover for 2007

    Sunday, December 31st, 2006

    Yesterday I spent more time than really justified in playing around with the look-and-feel of The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach. It began innocently enough: I finally reached my breaking point on the comment spam, receiving two blocks of 48 spams within an hour. (And yes, they came in discrete quanta of 48. [...]