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Randomness is cool and interesting... and randomness can be important too, from biological diversity to artistic innovation. Here, have fun with 10 random pages from Serendip. Does "mixing" them together create some new ideas? Feel free to return another day to find another random walk, or play Chance in Life and the World for a new perspective on randomness and order.
Gina Kim
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Elistism, Teacher-Student Relationship and shaping our classroom.

"Professor contact is reserved for graduate students, or undergraduate majors, or honors classes, or for students at the most costly yuniversities, where money is invented in small classes for the elite." -Ira Shor, Pg. 98

Reading this quote for the first time gave me an inkling feeling that I myself, am a secret elitist. When I think about Bryn Mawr and the relationships I have with my professors, I feel incredibly priviliged and spoiled.A prime example of these relationships is this...

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Say Copyright, Say Creative Commons

February 21, 2010

You Say Copyright, I Say Creative Commons: Cory Doctorow

Let’s introduce Cory Doctorow: a self proclaimed author, blogger, and activist; his work is available for free on the Internet. Downloadable with one click, just the way he wants it—you own his work and can remix or reshape it within his Creative Commons license. And while this means that technically you...

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Ian Iqbal Rashid
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Field Notes 1 (2/18/13)

Attached are my first field notes from the semester. Because I got started late, I have gone twice this week. 

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The "Seeds" of Your Essays

What is the seed of your essay: the image or idea, the knotty problem or unanswered question from which it begins? Stay with the energy and aliveness of this seed....Make a representation, in words and/or images, of the seed of your essay.

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Oregon TRAIL!!!!!!!! :DDD

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

HAVE FUN!

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Jennifer Phang
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Image and Metaphor: Alice James Revisited

 

At the beginning of this semester in House of Wits, I was amazed by how struck I was by Alice James’ diary. I immediately felt an inexplicable affinity with Alice, her commonplace book-cum-diary, and her infectious use of language. It...

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Lesson Critique
The lesson I chose is from The School District of Philadelphia's Curriculum & Instruction's website. http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/offices/curriculum/

Click on science, click grades 7&8, go to the right & click on MSP Companions. You will see a list of 7th &8th grade topics per report card period. I chose 8th grade-2nd report card -Inside the Restless Earth. Click this & look for Learning Resources/...
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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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