- My name is Katrin Becker. This is my blog. It is about Digital Games, Educational Technology, Computer Science, Academia, and sometimes Rural Life and other notions. Comments are welcome but will be edited as necessary to maintain relevance.
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“Audio without image crosses a wire in my brain.”
“Audio without image crosses a wire in my brain.” via Utilizing My Aversion to Phones • Another Passion. This is wonderful. And here I was thinking it was just me and my aunt. I have an aunt who doesn’t like … Continue reading
Easy-Bake Oven Is About to Become Hard to Use – DailyFinance
Easy-Bake Oven Is About to Become Hard to Use – DailyFinance. AND…. home-made incubators. I have instructions for building your own incubator that relies on the fact that light bulbs give off heat. You also can’t use the ‘new’ bulbs … Continue reading
Fun with Google Docs (Part 1)
OK, this is just too much fun. It also has the potential to shift how we work together in some interesting and fundamental ways. This is the first of a multi-part post outlining my experiences with Google Docs in the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Distance Education, Doing it Right on the Web, Education, Educational Technology, General, Google Docs, Higher Education, Teaching & Learning
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My old alma mater confirms its rightful membership among the ranks of the despicable.
It’s thoroughly disgusting when a University fires someone who has worked for them for more than 35 years. Their ‘crime’? Getting sick as a result of being abused at work. Despicable! (note: I am NOT talking about Mount Royal). What … Continue reading
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How are You Helping the Planet?
We are making a mess of our planet. Whether you are a “believer” in the so-called ‘settled science’ of Climate Change or one of those heretics that the Movement derisively refers to as a ‘denialist’, most people would agree, however … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Life, General, Global Warming, Living with Nature, Uncategorized
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Profiling via web presence (or, the company you keep tells us a lot about you.)
I’ve always told people that they should assume that anything they put on the web should be considered public, whether it is on a public site or not. If you don’t want the information known, then don’t put it out … Continue reading
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Verschränkung: The Internet is a Schrödinger Device
The Internet is a Schrödinger device. On the interweb, after a while, things are simultaneously there and gone. They might be there, or they might not, depending on some earlier random event. On Kindle, when we look in the box, … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, General, Silliness, Uncategorized
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More Trouble in River City
Here’s a well-written explanation for why most of the media-effects studies really don’t tell us anything: WHY VIDEO GAME RESEARCH IS FLAWED By CHRIS LAVIGNE Studies that spread the idea that video games are harmful to children are conducted by … Continue reading
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