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ELA 20 Final Writing Assignment

dsader — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:11:44 +0000

Write a post in response to a text you read in ELA 20 in which you discuss 3-5 ideas the text creator suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self.

Consider the course focus:

The most profound discovery that we can make is our discovery of self. Our identity rests in the kind of people we are. To understand who we are and to develop fully as human beings, we must explore the nature of our humanness and the purpose of our lives.

Who and what are we?

What are the common human qualities and ideals we hold?

What roles do other people (e.g., friends, family) play in our lives?

What brings us joy, inspiration, and fulfillment?

What doubts and fears do we have? By examining our lives and searching for answers to these and other questions, we can find meaning and fulfillment as human beings.

Consider the rubric:

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My Favorite Plugins from premium.wpmudev.org

dsader — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:32:02 +0000

Here’s my list of a few premium WPMU plugins that have become an integral part of my WPMU install at iblog.stjschool.org.

This year, new users did not have an active email account assigned to them from the division central office until the second week of school. This made signing up for a blog on Day 1 and retrieving passwords from email accounts – well – impossible. The Remove Email Verification from Sign-Up was a perfect solution. The hundreds of bounced message errors from the email server every day was an inconvenience, but at least every user was blogging.
The Comment Indexer plugin is useful for two reasons. First, I now have a dynamic list of comments from the entire site on the front page of iblog.stjschool.org. Second, I’ve created a “SiteAdmin Sitewide Comments” page to be able to dig through all comments ever published. I’ve used it a couple times to track down a user leaving abusive/offensive comments.
A somewhat related plugin is the Content Monitor. I get an email whenever a word defined by the “bad word list” appears in a post. It’s a plugin I wish I didn’t need, but it is nice to demonstrate its power now and again to refocus users on the School Internet Usage Policy.
Finally, a new plugin I’ll use this year. If I wanted any post sitewide to remain “as-is” so a user can no longer edit it after a deadline I can enable the Lock Posts plugin. D’Arcy Norman at U of C has a plugin to display the post revisions “so students can’t sneak posts around submission deadlines by futzing around with the publish date.” Both plugins, like the Content Monitor above, shouldn’t be necessary in a perfect and honor-abiding blog site, but being able to freeze a blog to investigate academic penalty or to prevent “sneaks” altogether is powerful.

FYI: wpmu.org draw and plugin countdown

Macbeth Act 5 Quiz Hints

dsader — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:24:23 +0000

1. Macbeth puzzles over 2 “riddles.”
2. Thermoptic Camouflage
3. Macbeth hopes for an emergency.
4.
5. Lex Caesarea??
6. Lady Macbeth’s “slayer.”

Macbeth Act 2 Quiz Hints “What goes around comes around” “Pillow Talk” “Smear Campaign” “A…
Macbeth Hints: Act 3 Quiz 1. “No less material” 2. “Under [his] thumb” 3. “Kids…
Macbeth Act 4 Quiz Hints 1. Strange Brew 2. Cop Killer 3. “Your father… was…

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Macbeth Act 4 Quiz Hints

dsader — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:04:45 +0000

1. Strange Brew
2. Cop Killer
3. “Your father… was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force.”
4. I got a mojo, too.
5. A Confessor?

Macbeth Hints: Act 3 Quiz 1. “No less material” 2. “Under [his] thumb” 3. “Kids…
Macbeth Act 2 Quiz Hints “What goes around comes around” “Pillow Talk” “Smear Campaign” “A…
“Is it bigger than a breadbox?” I asked a student, “Is it bigger than a breadbox?”…

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Macbeth Act 5 Quiz Hints

dsader — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:24:23 +0000

1. Macbeth puzzles over 2 “riddles.”
2. Thermoptic Camouflage
3. Macbeth hopes for an emergency.
4.
5. Lex Caesarea??
6. Lady Macbeth’s “slayer.”