… is responsible for those moronic Golden Crips nonsense talking commercials needs to be drawn and quartered. How or why any ad exec thought those ads were a good idea is beyond me. This is my fault, of course, for not observing TV Turnoff Week.

From Kerry (who got it here):

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Here’s mine: "Typically, the communities in which they lived had meager resources to devote to building schols and paying teachers."
— Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, David Tyack and Larry Cuban.

This should come as a shock to no one.

I’m writing this post using iListen software. It’s really nifty and so far it’s gotten every word right in this post. (Okay there was the first mistake). For me, it has already paid dividends as I was able to write twelve pages of a grad school paper last night when I had been stymied all week long. I imagine that as I get better at this, it will do a better job recognizing my voice but so far, so good.

I know the struggles I have with writing – blog notwithstanding – I can really see the power that this could have for students who struggle with writing. I think it’s a different type of writing, as I notice that I have to stop and edit much more this way that I might otherwise, but I’d do get more words on the page. And with grad school this year, that has been very, very hard task for me.

This is something to investigate.