gah

wireless at home = so awesome. But it has kept me up too late catching up.

Homer is GInormous in that picture! And so cute with the bendy left ear. Does it do that all the time?

Yay, Alibelle's Tivo.

Thanks, Plei!

Kat, I'm still going. You should go, too. Also, you should come to NY. That'd be awesome.

No one has said anything about Dancing with the Stars yet, so I will. That show is PERFECT. And I LOVE IT. So, so, soooo much fun.

Hey Alibelle!!

I'm thinking about new york.

ita, check for skirted men. Not my entire collection at all. But some.

Research! For a good cause!

Hey, you know Right Click Lick is shutting down, right?

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A whole slew of men in kilts.

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links to more.

Hi, Kat!!

DO come to NY. Pretty please.

Cool map of our galactic neighborhood. [link] You can right-click and pivot the thing.

Oh Jesus. Not what I wanted to wake up to today. Or ever.

My thoughts with all who have peeps in London.

In double-plus exciting news, remember Breakit? [link] While I bet you people have gone on with your lives, I have finally beaten all 50 levels.

Oh Jesse, I have not yet played this, and since I finally sussed out a move in Stack-the-Cats that nets me 256,000 (not a typo) points in one blow, it just hasn't been the same. Also, my cats died long ago, so I have to make my own fun.

I guess I should just pick one and go with that, but it's kind of hard to come up with "qualities that made the learning environment effective" other than, "well, the teacher was pretty nice." This would be much easier if it was meant to be about a particularly ineffective learning environment. I seem to remember those more clearly.

Emily, if it's not too late, maybe you could work backwards from the bad experience. Identify (for yourself, just in a list, not formally) what was wrong with one of the ineffective environments, then look at your good experiences. Chances are the bad things from the ineffective environment were absent from the good experience. And you can flip the negs into positives. I hope this makes some modicum of sense.

Examples: If, say, in the bad environment, maybe the teacher was either incompetent or bored with the subject matter. So, it is likely that in one of your good experiences, you had a teacher who had mastery of the subject and enthusiasm for same.

Or say, if in the bad environment, you didn't have enough books, equipment, or space, then it is likely those things were present in the good environment.

Another example: If in the bad environment, part of the problem seemed to be that the students weren't into it, perhaps it was because it was a required course, and maybe in the good environment, students were there because they chose to be.

Or you could totally wing it.

Mark Valley is very short.

I imagine they had to concentrate the pretty, to get it at that strength.