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Phantastical images!

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An old hornet’s nest

December’s green

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD,
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A gift of the season:
http://animoto.com/play/AeWmJ4rJZbMAaTWJ8dwiUw

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD – joanvc@jnthweb.ca
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I had an interesting experience. Yesterday when I tried to use 3G all I got was "Searching.." The same today – and I got worried because my parents call my iPhone, not my home number, when they have emergencies. I did some searching and checking FAQs but couldn't find anything relevant.

It took me a while on the Rogers site to find a Rogers' phone number to call. When I said the various words to get to the right line, a recording told me there would be a 15 minute wait. However, my call got answered by a live, and quite pleasant, person immediately. He got me to go into my Settings and turn off my wireless. Then in Settings, to click on "General" and, at the bottom of that, click on "Reset" and again, the red "Reset" button.

The screen went black and then, finally, showed the Apple logo. It took a while, which he explained was a good sign because it indicated it was repairing itself.

Now it's back to normal, and I'm getting my calls and messages. The Rogers help line was excellent.

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD – joanvc@jnthweb.ca
JNthWEB Consulting – http://jnthweb.ca/
Social Media & Learning
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Halton Peel Communicators Association – http://www.hpcaonline.org/

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Something strange is happening. At least two of my blog posts have had the language mangled and been re-published in LiveJournal and In Windows Live. My name was left in on what looks like a badly translated & re-translated version of what I originally wrote. I find this very strange, and annoying.

Has this happened to anyone else? What's the mechanism and the motivation?

Here are some screenshots and links:

How I found out –

Here's what was published in LiveJournal & a link to my original post – https://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/mad-women-what-the-1960s-sounded-like/

Here's the Comment blocked unless you join LiveJournal

Here's the Windows Live post and my original one – https://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/last-night-at-the-hpca-meeting/

Again, I can't comment unless I get an account in Windows Live, which I won't do.

This is what they have in common, sort of
 –  

Can anyone please explain, or point me to an explanation?

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD – joanvc@jnthweb.ca
JNthWEB Consulting – http://jnthweb.ca/
Social Media & Learning
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Sometimes I wake up in the dark and my mind begins to chatter. Sometimes I worry about painful things, but often I can redirect my stream of words into ideas, sentences that are planning rather than fretting. So at 5:00 I lay restlessly and thought about a new course I'm planning, about scripting and audio and documentaries culminating in podcasts. After I'd heard the furnace kick in and felt the air a little warmer, I got up and made some notes. Good ideas, if I do say so myself, including wondering if I should ask the students to learn a little about how the brain deals with sound as part of their thinking about audience. With that as an excuse, I woke up my computer and started googling. Many search terms, many sites briefly checked and rejected – and then a HIT! – http://www.learningthroughlistening.org/Listening-A-Powerful-Skill/The-Science-of-Listening/History-and-Overview-of-Listening/91/

I find the information clearly presented and it appears to be up-to-date. I especially love the use of the same video clip with different sounds to illustrate the affective impact of sound – http://www.learningthroughlistening.org/Listening-A-Powerful-Skill/The-Science-of-Listening/Learning-Through-Listening-in-the-Digital-World/How-New-Technologies-are-Changing-our-View-of-What-Listening-is/Helicopter-Videos/264/

Although it is aimed at teachers, especially those who teach dyslexic and/or disabled students, the information is valuable for a more general audience, in my opinion.

A little further exploring of this extensive and very rich site, and I discover that it advocate a Universal Design for Learning (or UDL). http://www.cast.org/research/udl/index.html

I quickly bookmark these sites (and write up this post) and wrench myself away from exploring further (later!) so I can get on with my planned day. (Sometimes insomnia can be valuable;->)

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD – joanvc@jnthweb.ca
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An amazing performance in a great venue with delicious food and richly companionable friends. Wonderful!

Hugh’s Room – http://www.hughsroom.com/ – worth a trip to Toronto

Dr. Draw – http://maplemusic.com/artists/drd/default.asp – think Russian, gypsy, happy Jimi Hendrix – throbs through your body and fills your mind!

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Saw this on http://robertpaterson.posterous.com/ and it resonated

It made me think of Phyllis Gotlieb’s Death’s Head

at 3 a.m. I run my tongue
around my teeth (take in a breath)
(give out a breath) take one more step
approaching death. my teeth are firm
and hard and white (take in a breath)
incisors bite and molars grind
(give out a breath) the body lying
next to mine is sweet and warm
I’ve hears that worms (take in a breath)
the coffin meat of human kind
and if they did I wouldn’t mind
that’s what I heard (take in a breath)
(and just in time) I think it’s all
a pack of lies. I know my flesh
will end in slime. the streets are mean
and full thieves. the children in
the sleeping rooms (give out a breath)
walk narrowly upon my heart
the animal beneath the cloth
submerged rises to any bait
of lust or fury, love or hate
(take in a breath) my orbic skull
is eminently frangible
so delicate a shell to keep
my brains from spillage still my breath
goes in and out and nearer death

and yet I seem to get to sleep

Most of Gotlieb’s poetry is free verse. Because of that I’d assumed this was, until a student in my poetry structure class insisted it was iambic tetrametre, and I heard the rhythm of breath, and the uneven gasping at hard awarenesses. Consciousness is difficult and painful.

Joan Vinall-Cox, PhD
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Social Media & Learning
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