word(le) cloud

I finally decided to create my own twitter wordle…words have great significance, even when taken out of context, wouldn’t you agree? Here is what is important to me evidently

7 facts about me

I have been tagged by Seth Dickens for the ‘Seven Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me’ Edubloggers thing. I’ve done a couple of these in the past so forgive any repetitions for those who’ve read my past lists.
The rules say you have to:

Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog
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to learn italian or english? both…

One of the greatest rewards of teaching is when your students teach you something. I have taught one of the most challenging courses in my 4 years here this spring semester: Advanced Italian Grammar a.k.a intro to Italian linguistics. I attempted to present students to the scientific study of language, from phonology to morphology to [...]

about what do you tweet?

P.S. on tweetclouds.com, it even gives you an occurrence count, and the option to include or suppress @replies (not included on mine).

more twitter!!!!

OK, way to cool, thanks to my Pescarese twitterers, Googlisti. Must work now but will definitely comment later!

i keep warning my students about online translators

UPDATE: As of Jan 25 (9:25 when I checked), the correct translation now appears.
Less than 12 hours ago an interesting article appeared on gawker.com about Google translator & Heath Ledger’s death. Notice the translation image (from the site) translated Heath Ledger as Tom Cruise! Ha!

Needless to say that the error has not yet been corrected. [...]

Something new for me

Through friends and their blogs, this novice blogger has discovered many things…and unearthed some unknown talents while so doing. Much earlier this year, a friend posted a quiz on American geography. After taking the challenge (which truly was a challenge because I am not American ), I started to investigate the script of the [...]