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Sleeping and Universal Design For Learning (UDL)

Teddy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:53:00 GMT

“When I wake up in the morning and the alarm gives out a warning I don’t think I’ll ever make it on time”

To anyone who grew up in the 90s and was overly ...

Video Game Designer Ian Bogost Discusses The Educational Power Of Video Games

Teddy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:49:00 GMT

Too often, I hear politicians and pundits reflexively saying video games are bad or kids should stop playing games. While I agree, a kid sitting around for 10 hours a day playing games and not getting exercise is not ideal, we should also look at how even games that are not specifically published for the education market by companies like Nintendo, Microsoft Sony, Sega, and EA can in many ways be education. ...

Text of The Health Reform Bill

Teddy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:37:00 GMT

One of my pet peeves is that main stream media rarely ever points people to primary source information that is freely available to the public. Hence, I am linking to the actual text of the health care reform bill: http://rules.house.gov/bills_details.aspx?NewsID=4606 ...

If I Was The Celtics, I Would Be Bored Too

Teddy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:10:00 GMT

Lebron James recently said he thought the Celtics were bored, and I agree with him. Not only that, but if I was the Celtics, I would be bored too. It is damn hard to keep your intensity up for an entire year in the NBA and the NHL for that matter. In baseball, only 4 teams from each side make it to the playoffs so it is easier to keep motivated. Plus, baseball is such an individual game everyone wants to finish with good stats to get a big contract and for the most part lots of players ...

Final Four Predictions

Teddy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:05:00 GMT

Syracuse, Ohio State, Villanova, and Kentucky. Kentucky beats Syracuse in the finals. ...

Check Out Palmdale

Teddy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:02:00 GMT

Former Letters To Cleo front women and Boston legend Kay Hanley is releasing a new album by her new band started out in LaLa land with Linus of Hollywood at the end of the month, March 30. You can give it a preview listen here: http://oglio.com/webs/pages/artists/Palmdale.shtml ...

Great Day For New Music: T.I., MGMT, She and Him, and Bright Eyes

Teddy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:00 GMT

Lets start off by talking about the most important song that leaked today T.I.'s "I am Back" What else could it be called when dude just got out of prison: http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=72576

It is more of a mix tape track and the loopy beat sounds like a southern fried version of Black Rob's Whoa; but whats evident right away is that nearly a year in jail has not hurt T.I.'s flow or and lyrically he is ferociously going at anyone who talked shit about him while he was away.

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The Pats Should Go After Thomas Jones

Teddy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:45:00 GMT

I don't want the Pats to waste a draft pick on a running back, thus I hope they go after a solid veteran like Thomas Jones. He is durable, averages a little over 4 yards a carry, and for the past 5 years has averaged about 1300 yards a year. He is getting older, but the Pats being a past first offense would not over use him.

http://www.nfl.com/players/thomasjones/profile?id=JON755755

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Let Students Sleep In

Teddy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:42:00 GMT

“When I wake up in the morning and the alarm gives out a warning I don’t think I’ll ever make it on tim”

To anyone who grew up in the ...

My top 10 Dr. Seuss Books.

Teddy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:40:00 GMT

In honor of his b-day, my top 10 all-time favorite Dr. Seuss books in descending order:

10. Green Eggs and Ham

9. Bartholomew and the Oobleck

8. The Sneetches

7. Fox in Socks

6. The Cat in the Hat

5. Oh the Thinks You Can Think

4. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

3. Horton Hears A Who

2. The Lorax

1. The Butter Battle Book

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Good Game, Eh

Teddy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:39:00 GMT

It is fun to mock Canadians sometime, but it is hard to get mad at them. (well except, the Montreal French Speaking ones because they are fucking annoying) That is why even though I was routing for the USA in the gold medal game, I did not feel to bad when Crosby put in the game winner. In some ways it would have been kind of sad to see the Canadians all depressed after choking on their home ice. In terms of marketing of hockey, it was probably the best that Crosby was the guy who put it ...

New Music You Should Check Out:

Teddy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:39:00 GMT

If you want a quick laugh, check out Ludacris' new "Tiger Woods" song: http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=70998
She & Him who are releasing their follow up to their classic debut next month just had a second song hit the internets and needless to say it kicks ass: http://stereogum.com/274692/she-him-thieves-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Janelle Monae is like a female Ceelo or Andre 3000 and Puffy's most important signing to Bad Boy since the son of the current president of Belize (Shyne) Her first single just leaked and while it is not as classic as Andre 3000's Hey Ya or Gnarls Barkley's ...

5 Great Non-Cliché Karaoke Songs

Teddy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:20:00 GMT

Too many Karaoke songs have become cliché. I am looking at you Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing” and Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” Thus, I have created a new list of 10 non-cliché Karaoke songs that Karaoke bars should have on their playlist and that people should begin the process of running into the ground faster than you can say “Living On A Prayer.”

1. Nookie by Limp Bizkit: Remember Limp Bizkit? Of course you do. They had 2 albums that nearly sold 10 million copies each. But in many ways ...

Glad To Have Nate Robinson: We Need Head More Head Cases Around Here

Teddy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:39:00 GMT

First off, good luck to Eddie House. He was an entertainingly player to watch and will always be part of Celtics lore because of his help in winning our 17th Championship especially his raining 3s in game 4 in against LA. That being said, I am glad we got Nate Robinson on the Celtics. He is a talented dude that some have called a "head case" and I for one like it when we have "head cases" on our Boston sports teams. I don't mean "head cases" where guys do serious things wrong like beat their wives, but ...

Annotated Bibliography : Biographies of World Leaders For Junior High School

Teddy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:37:00 GMT

This is an annotated bibliography of world leaders. The intended audience is junior high English teacher or teacher of social studies/history. Many times historic events and ideas can be given more immediacy when they are attached to actual people; thus, my hope is a bibliography like this will arm teachers with a collection of books to get their students more interested in history and politics.

In creating this bibliography, I initially wrote down a list of 25 current and historic ...

Entertainment Weekly Plagiarized My Blog Post

Teddy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:25:00 GMT

About a week ago, I posted about how social networking sites are helping T.V. ratings; especially the ratings for big events or shows with a cult following. On page 42 of this weeks Entertainment Weekly, (Feb 26) they have what is pretty much a rewrite of my blog post. It is most likely a coincidence because it is an easily made observation about social networking and ratings, but I think I may have to sue them for plagiarism mostly because what this society ...

Prediction: Babies is Going To Be One Of The Biggest Money Making Movies of 2010

Teddy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:36:00 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=by-fND0L5hI&v=NBCNgnaFVI8
If you click the above link, you will see a trailer for the movie babies. It is a simple premise of a documentary of 4 babies in different parts of the world followed for one year as they develop. It does not look like an academic documentary, but more designed to pull at the heart strings and get laughs. I have seen many women watch the trailer (thats Sufjan Stevens music) and the number of aaahhhhhsss per minute is extraordinary. This movie is going ...

Percy Jackson Can Go Fuck Himself

Teddy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:12:00 GMT

Percy Jackson is a book that was turned into to a movie about a boy who is half greek god. I have never actually read it, but his name drives me crazy. It is the most un-greek name ever and Percy is kind of a terrible name in general. I understand for marketing reasons the name could not be Thanos Stephanapolos or something like that, but at ...

Research Review: The Efficacy of Computer Games In Reading Instruction

Teddy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:04:00 GMT

Introduction and Theoretical Backgroung

Computers and similar devices such as cell phones and video games are a staple of modern existence and their continued advancement into every aspect of our lives shows no signs of abating. Reading instruction falls under this umbrella of computer use in all aspects of life. Many classrooms now feature computers in the class and or have computer labs located in the school which the students can access. There is a wide array of computer games ...

Weathermen: Epic Fail or Conspiracy?

Teddy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:25:00 GMT

February is a T.V. sweeps month and nothing drives up local news ratings like a big snow story. Was today's bad weather report just an epic weatherman (and weatherwomen) fail, or did they collude to overhype the story to get better sweeps month ratings? It is most likely the former because other weather services said it would hit us as well, but I still say it behooves the T.V. people's bottom lines to overhype a storm. ...