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  • If you’re going to insist that students use technology to take your course, then learn to use the technology.
    • Scanning in 40 pages of an old textbook and saving it in a Word document does not count as on-line instruction.
    • Don’t worry, I saved your 73 megabyte file as a .pdf and pared it down to 11 megabytes.  I advised Girlie Bear to share that with her classmates.
  • When using a mandoline to cut up onions, be careful to not slice the end of your finger open. Onion juice in a deep cut is not fun.
  • Putting onions in the dehydrator smells pretty good, actually.
  • Nothing beats a call from the wife asking me to pick up a thermometer on the way home because Boo got sent home from school because he got violently ill.
    • He’ll be fine.  It’s just a stomach bug, and other than the occasional spell of being ill, he’s as chipper as ever.
  • I’ve been playing quiet classical for him all day, and it’s been nice.  One hint, though:   There is only so much classical harp that one man can stand in an 8 hour period.
by daddybear71 on August 27, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 27, 2014

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  1. oldnfo's avatar

    oldnfo

     /  August 28, 2014

    Seems like way too many are doing that today rather than actually TEACHING… sigh One can only wonder how out of date the material is…

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  2. Geodkyt's avatar

    Geodkyt

     /  August 28, 2014

    Used to get annoyed when i was on teh school board. They would format the “Board Package” for each meeting in a Word Doc, and distribute it as a PDF.

    Unfortunately, they did so by printing out the Word doc, scanning it, and emailing out the PDF that consisted of between 50 and 150 individual pages — each of which was a PDF of a GRAPHIC, not a “live” page. The bloat was amazing, and no functioning links (even when such were in teh opriginal document), no “text” (as far as the computer was concerned), etc.

    For four years, I asked why they couldn’t just “Save as” or “Print to” PDF format. . .

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