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In case you missed yesterday’s broadcast of Jonathan Lim, Julian Wong and myself talking to Stanley Leong and Pamela Ho about Own Time Own Target, you can listen to a recording here:

Alternatively, you can download the file if you want to listen to the MP3 or keep it for posterity.

Guess who has a mention in it! (via no1crush)

Once upon a time, the simple life comprised waking up, making a nice cuppa tea and having lunch while tuning in to podcasts/The Simpsons/South Park for three hours.

If that was the simple life, then life has become infinitely more complicated – I just had to limit myself to watching/listening to three podcasts.

Very surprisingly, I complied. There’s work to be done, so even blog posts have to be constructed hastily.

Anyway, I’ve either been very deprived of entertainment, or the three podcasts I caught were really good. In any case, do catch them if you can:

1. Midwest Teen Sex Show Episode 23: Vaginas.
2. the mrbrown show: drive safe below
3. the mrbrown show: new media gahmen

Also, do consider being friends with @yandao1957 if you can. He’s a poor chap, take pity on him.

Or, why communication skills are important for teachers.

So as I was busy being wowed by how podcasting is used in education, I discovered a lecture by Professor Lawrence Joseph titled “Why Poetry Matters”. The tagline for this was “Does law get to the bottom of things? Writing poetry – not an alternative but a necessity.”

This had me wow-ing even more, and I was determined to find out what the lecture was about. So as the podcast was downloading, I made breakfast for myself and when I was good and ready, I plunked myself down on my chair to commence breakfast and what I thought would be an interesting lecture.

Well, let’s put it this way – breakfast was interesting enough. Or maybe I should be slightly more transparent – the lecturer left much to be desired in terms of his communication skills.

Because I spent half the time trying not to be bored by his monotone, that was half the time lost to what would’ve been a very insightful lecture. I had to play back several portions of the lecture several times, so much so that I just gave up on watching the damn thing and decided to do a Google search instead.

I found a document that I think pretty much sums up his thesis and argument, but then again, I could be wrong, because I didn’t catch the entirety of what he was saying.

It’s kinda sad because it only serves to show that even the greatest technology won’t be able to help any teacher if her/his lesson or the way s/he conveys it is completely not engaging at all. Moreover, to have to use a text-based Internet source in place of the video is retrogressive and a complete waste of technology, time and effort.

Now, physician, heal thyself! *chuckles* I have to go create a lesson plan now!

Thanks to the Utah Education Network, students at the Utah Electronic High School get to watch weekly science fiction films, many of which would be perfect candidates for Halloween. That includes films like Black Dragons, Curse of the Aztec Mummy, The Devil Bat, or Werewolf in a Girl’s Dormitory. Though iTunes U can’t show you the films, SciFi Friday can bring you the reality behind the fiction in them.

Via.