Oh… Go on then (Taken with instagram)
“I like the expression “the orchestration of experience” as a description of what teachers do”
“The fact that the rioters have no programme is therefore itself a fact to be interpreted: it tells us a great deal about our ideological-political predicament and about the kind of society we inhabit, a society which celebrates choice but in which the only available alternative to enforced democratic consensus is a blind acting out.”
Pilgrimage to the spiritual home of my favourite beer (Taken with instagram)
The path… (Taken with instagram)
Elements app
Testing Elements for iPad Markdown Publishing to Tumblr and Facebook Sync with Dropbox Sounds perfect
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From further along the arcade could be heard shouting, whistling and general sounds of excited hubbub. Further examination revealed a 100-yard queue of people. Every so often, a steward would motion the 10 people at the head of the queue to enter a store. As they did so, the staff applauded them.
Many of the customers took photographs of themselves as they entered. Inside they were greeted by more applauding staff and given a white box containing a complimentary T-shirt, after which they proceeded into the seething centre of the emporium. As they left, a smiling staff member thanked them. And from the expressions on the departing faces, it was clear that they had had what in marketing cant is called ‘a great retail experience’. This was the only shop in the entire arcade that had generated any excitement.
”—John Naughton, The Observer, Sunday March 30 2008
Final Cut Pro X Tutorials
I’ve just been learning about Auditions and Storylines in Final Cut Pro X – they’re incredible, so powerful and really easy-to-use.
Goodbye Premier, goodbye iMovie… Final Cut I love you!
If you want a quick primer on FCPX then these tutorials, from Izzy video, are really great.
I’ve been a Minimal Mac fan for a LONG time now. If you’re into Macs, minimalism, beautiful design and using your Apple stuff efficiently (and you’re a Tumblr fan) then you have to follow Patrick’s posts, right now. Go ahead, click through and hit FOLLOW. You won’t regret it.
desk (by aint life grand)
Look, if you combine good photography, a clean rustic desk, and any iDevice, I’m going to post it.
Beautiful afternoon in the secret garden (Taken with instagram)
Storytelling as a theory-building activity
Ochs, Elinor; Taylor, Carolyn; Rudolph, Dina; Smith, Ruth (1992). Storytelling as a theory-building activity. Discourse Processes, Vol 15(1): 37-72.
Abstract only. From:
through the process of story co-narration, [subjects] drew on and stimulated critical social, cognitive, and linguistic skills that underlie scientific and other scholarly discourse as they jointly constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed theories of everyday events … Storytelling among familiars constitutes a commonplace medium for socializing perspective-taking, critical thinking, and other intellectual skills that have been viewed as outcomes of formal schooling.
Puja time
