History and My Story

What do you think of this?  A new British education plan is calling for topics like Queen Victoria and World War II to be dropped from the curriculum in favor of teaching students how to Twitter and blog?  Don’t they know students can do both, lol?

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This part of Obama’s plan is being met with a lot of criticism lately.  Wondering why?  The Council on Foreign Relation’s website has an interview with several leading economists who give their opinions for and against “cap and trade.”  I also added this site to my blogroll.  Their website is (in their own words) “an online [...]

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Just a little Thursday morning humor:

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In the next few weeks we will be discussing the impact of WWI on Ireland. Remember, Irish boys fought in the Opium Wars, the British-Burmese Wars, the Boer War and were stationed in British colonies all over the globe. World War I was the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.” In addition, after WWI [...]

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I came across the Ricky Gervais video while on another website that didn’t have the embed code…so off to YouTube I went…and I discovered many video interview clips produced by an organization called Big Think who describe themselves as a “global forum connecting people and ideas.”  You can also see their work on You Tube.  [...]

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One of the reasons we struggle to understand concepts like totalitarianism is because it’s so foreign from the values that we as Americans have internalized. Comedian Ricky Gervais hits on something here when asked about differences in writing for UK and US audiences:

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It’s been a year since I started this blog and I really can’t believe I lasted this long. This little project of mine began as an assignment in a graduate course I was taking on using technology in education. The other assignments I never really pursued with much passion—Ning, anyone? Twitter still [...]

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A few of you mentioned this in class.  The trial is being run by the U.N. world court on behalf of Lebanon—so it’s a little different from what the world court normally does, but obviously still a very important function of a world court.
This CNN video provides some background info:

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