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Thanks for the spontaneous fund-raiser, Aging Hippie!

Just wanted to give a shout-out to long time friend of the site, “Aging Hippie,” who I ran into today for the first time in what seems like months.  He reached into his pocket and handed me $20 toward the EMUTalk.org effort and I had it in my hand before I could even really say [...]

EMUTalk.org news: Calling for contributors, sponsors

Regular EMUTalk.org readers will notice that there’s been some changes around here in terms of layout and such.  A lot of this is technical and is based on my long belated update in the wordpress software that supports this site.  I will spare you the details because the details are technical, but I wanted to [...]

While I was away…

… I came across many things I thought about posting about here.  I don’t have the time nor the desire to make these all individual posts, but here’s just some of what I thought was pretty interesting EMUTalk-wise during the holiday break (in no particular order):

Judge Mathis spoke at EMU graduation. Based on the AnnArbor.com [...]

Don’t adjust your sets– some EMUTalk.org reconfiguration underway

I’m installing a long overdue upgrade to the software around here, so there might be a few changes here and there.  Remain patient and calm….

The year that was at EMUTalk.org

I just posted something kind of like this on my own blog, so I thought I’d do the same here, a sort of “greatest hits” of posts from 2009– at least the most popular based on the number of comments and/or posts I liked and/or thought were important:

“Faculty council wants info on athletics and Jan [...]

Remainders of the term

This may very well be my last post here of the year. The holi-daze is upon us, and sitedad will be traveling to see various relatives, as per the custom. I won’t have a computer for much of my time out of town (though I will have my iPhone, which does allow me [...]

Happy Thanksgiving from EMUTalk.org (and don’t do this)

After school today, sitedad and family will be off to an undisclosed location to visit family for Thanksgiving. My assumption is that we won’t be deep-frying a turkey. I have to say that I’ve always been kind of fascinated and tempted by the possibility, but watching videos like this one makes me think [...]

Making EMUTalk.org even better is easy!

Just ask Kayne West to help!

Actually, you can do this with any web site by visiting http://kanyelicio.us/

Oh, when I get some free time and the weather is bad, I really am going to update the EMUTalk.org web site look and some of the other features, too.

While up north, I’ll give you a topic: changes you’d like to see to EMUTalk.org for the fall?

Sitedad is currently “up north” in Traverse City– working, believe it or not. I’m teaching a course about teaching with technology as part of the program the continuing education has had up for years and years. So, when I combine this much of the day class with the other class I’m teaching online [...]

I kinda like a parade (and does anyone want to be in it next year?)

But I didn’t love it this year– and by “it,” I mean the annual July 4 parade. I thought it was a little on the short-side, it featured too many cars with no decoration or indication at all why they were in the parade (perhaps they just got stuck in traffic), and it had [...]