When I was in Mid-School, I was a member of a club called Peer Counselors. This club was made up of a group of kids who were taught how to listen. A box was set up on the school grounds where students could write requests to speek with one of the Peer Counselors, in private, about whatever they wanted with the understanding that what they said would never be repeated.
Reviews Can Be Fun To Read
August 25, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
(via: the Daily What)
Visual Thinking
August 24, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
There are many ways to communicate. Pictograms were the first forms of written communication. The unfortunate thing about that type of communication is that without the language culture and environment the images have lost nearly all context. As such this style of communication is best used on the fly to help people better understand and share complex ideas. Not as a form of record keeping.
Codecademy – Codeing 101, Simplified
August 23, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Codecademy Lesson One
I don’t consider myself a coder. I mean I build websites but what I do is scripting. I compare it to making things out of legos vs. making the lego pieces. Math was never my strong suit so I have a terrible time with coding. If your a web designer then HTML and CSS are just two tools in your tool belt. You have to at least know some Javascript, PHP or ASP, or Python. Stuff like that.
Enter Codecademy, a social networking, coding 101, online course. Instruction is broken down into bite sized pieces and you win badges for all to see by completing these sections. This theoretically provides a drive element to the learning process.
Procrastination With Charliesocoollike
July 29, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
I just recently found this Charlie’s youtube channel and I think He is hilarious. I am a terrible procrastinator and it is a constant struggle for me and I think most people.
Fear of Numbers
July 28, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome. What he’s talking about here is how culturally, Americans hold on to old number traditions that don’t make sense any more. Not when it’s supposed to be a progressive society.
Analog Blogger
July 26, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Alfred Sirleaf is a man with a chalk board which he calls Daily Talk. Since 2000 in the Liberian capitol of Monrovia, he has been curating Daily Talk since 2000. Right in the middle of a second civil war.
History of English
July 25, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
I find all languages fascinating. English being my native language, is especially interesting to me. Unlike Klingon, or Toki Pona or most of the other created languages, English has developed over thousands of years and has gone though many changes.
Toki Pona
July 22, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Sonja Elen Kisa
Ever heard of Toki Pona. It’s a language created by translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa, and was first published online in mid-2001.
Inspired by Taoist ideals, Toki Pona was designed to express maximal meaning with minimal complexity by making use of only 14 letters and 120 root words. It’s structure is based on the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which states that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers are able to conceptualize their world.
Word of the Day: Bobby (English Police)
July 21, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
English Police are called Bobbies, because they were formed in London, by Prime Minister Sir Robert (Bobby) Peel, in 1829.