Sunday, June 22, 2008

Ratiocination and PDFs

I was experimenting with posting pdfs to the web. Here's a cool tool I found on www.scribd.com
They host your pdfs, and you can even then get an embed code to put it in your blog.

This is a copy of a proofing activity that students can do on their own papers to methodically and logically (hence the term, "ratiocination") go through their own writing.

Download the pdf here.
Read this document on Scribd: essay RATIOCINATION

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

I'm still here...but incognito...

So, I know I've been fading on posting here, but I have a real good excuse. At my new school, blogspot is blocked. Can you believe that? So many great tools and resources in the blogging world (of which blogger is a large supporter), and it's blocked. So, I've been depending on my bloglines aggregator to stay on top of my reading, and have just put off any posting.

The school uses wordpress, so I may make that shift ultimately, but in the mean-time, I've been busy being a new father. Yup, that's right! We've got a little one.

All that said, I'm posting this from school...through the firewall. I know, I know... I've stayed away from the whole proxy server craze, but was reading about a little google hack to get around the district web block to blogger, and thought I'd try. It works!