Comments for Ed-Tech Junk Drawer http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com I can never find anything in this *&%@# drawer! Tue, 27 May 2008 17:28:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Office Online: Clip-Art’s Worst-Kept Secret by Punch up your presentations with Creative Commons images | Hello http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/office-online-clip-arts-worst-kept-secret/#comment-31 Punch up your presentations with Creative Commons images | Hello Tue, 27 May 2008 17:28:39 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/office-online-clip-arts-worst-kept-secret/#comment-31 [...] So, we all know by now that adding pictures to your presentations make concepts doubly likely to be remembered than text alone, right? (You didn’t know that? Check out Dr. John Medina’s Brain Rules–or at least Garr Reynold’s slide-based summary of three of those rules–before moving on.) Sure, you can use PowerPoint’s built-in clip art, but that doesn’t do much to help your visuals stand apart from everyone else–those stick figures are overused. [...] [...] So, we all know by now that adding pictures to your presentations make concepts doubly likely to be remembered than text alone, right? (You didn’t know that? Check out Dr. John Medina’s Brain Rules–or at least Garr Reynold’s slide-based summary of three of those rules–before moving on.) Sure, you can use PowerPoint’s built-in clip art, but that doesn’t do much to help your visuals stand apart from everyone else–those stick figures are overused. [...]

]]> Comment on English as She Is Spoke: The International Dialect Archive by John Lemley http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/english-as-she-is-spoke-the-international-dialect-archive/#comment-30 John Lemley Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:29:55 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/english-as-she-is-spoke-the-international-dialect-archive/#comment-30 Excellent source for both text and original recording of 100 great modern speeches. Useful rhetoric, theatre, quantum physics . . . http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html Excellent source for both text and original recording of 100 great modern speeches. Useful rhetoric, theatre, quantum physics . . .

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

]]> Comment on More Free, Printable Graph Paper by John Lemley http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-free-printable-graph-paper/#comment-29 John Lemley Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:06:11 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-free-printable-graph-paper/#comment-29 i kept making my comment to the computer and it just frickin' ignored me!! i kept making my comment to the computer and it just frickin’ ignored me!!

]]> Comment on English as She Is Spoke: The International Dialect Archive by Bill White http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/english-as-she-is-spoke-the-international-dialect-archive/#comment-25 Bill White Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:49:47 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/english-as-she-is-spoke-the-international-dialect-archive/#comment-25 Sorry, wrong link try this one: http://web.ku.edu/idea/index.htm Sorry, wrong link try this one:

http://web.ku.edu/idea/index.htm

]]> Comment on English as She Is Spoke: The International Dialect Archive by Bill White http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/english-as-she-is-spoke-the-international-dialect-archive/#comment-24 Bill White Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:48:42 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/english-as-she-is-spoke-the-international-dialect-archive/#comment-24 Dear Welbes, Nice blog. The link is broken so please update with the following link: http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm Cheers, Bill White Dear Welbes,

Nice blog.

The link is broken so please update with the following link:

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/index.htm

Cheers,
Bill White

]]> Comment on More Free, Printable Graph Paper by Todd http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-free-printable-graph-paper/#comment-19 Todd Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:13:27 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-free-printable-graph-paper/#comment-19 Hi Gloria, Sorry for the wait--I was on vacation. If you scroll down about 3/4 of the way on the incompetech site, you will find a link for "Music Notation." Or you can just follow this direct <a href="http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/musicstaff/" rel="nofollow">link</a> Hi Gloria,

Sorry for the wait–I was on vacation. If you scroll down about 3/4 of the way on the incompetech site, you will find a link for “Music Notation.” Or you can just follow this direct link

]]> Comment on More Free, Printable Graph Paper by gloria http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-free-printable-graph-paper/#comment-16 gloria Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:41:23 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/more-free-printable-graph-paper/#comment-16 "Aaah"!, I thought. At long last!", upon reading the below: "Musicians can snare (sorry.) staff paper..." So...I did a search for "staff paper" and came up with nothing. Confusion reigns. g “Aaah”!, I thought. At long last!”, upon reading the below:

“Musicians can snare (sorry.) staff paper…”

So…I did a search for “staff paper” and came up with nothing. Confusion reigns.
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]]> Comment on Printfreegraphpaper.com lets you… print free graph paper… dot com. by More Free, Printable Graph Paper « Ed-Tech Junk Drawer http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/printfreegraphpapercom-lets-you-print-free-graph-paper-dot-com/#comment-9 More Free, Printable Graph Paper « Ed-Tech Junk Drawer Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:58:36 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/printfreegraphpapercom-lets-you-print-free-graph-paper-dot-com/#comment-9 [...] Printfreegraphpaper.com, mentioned previously, Incompetech’s site has a huge variety of grids, lines, and angles to choose from. Each style [...] [...] Printfreegraphpaper.com, mentioned previously, Incompetech’s site has a huge variety of grids, lines, and angles to choose from. Each style [...]

]]> Comment on Printfreegraphpaper.com lets you… print free graph paper… dot com. by Tayla Appleton http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/printfreegraphpapercom-lets-you-print-free-graph-paper-dot-com/#comment-6 Tayla Appleton Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:58 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/printfreegraphpapercom-lets-you-print-free-graph-paper-dot-com/#comment-6 hello, thanx 4 the great website it's great bye hello,
thanx 4 the great website it’s great bye

]]> Comment on Printfreegraphpaper.com lets you… print free graph paper… dot com. by Andrew http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/printfreegraphpapercom-lets-you-print-free-graph-paper-dot-com/#comment-5 Andrew Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:46:11 +0000 http://techjunkdrawer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/printfreegraphpapercom-lets-you-print-free-graph-paper-dot-com/#comment-5 Brilliant... maybe you could just devote your blog to finding genuinely useful websites, something that is becoming more and more like finding a needle in a haystack. Cheers, Andrew, Rokko Island, Japan (just a freak coincidence) Brilliant… maybe you could just devote your blog to finding genuinely useful websites, something that is becoming more and more like finding a needle in a haystack.

Cheers,
Andrew,
Rokko Island, Japan (just a freak coincidence)

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