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Twitter facts
The Pew Internet and American Life project conducted a recent survey addressing U.S. citizen use of Twitter. Here are some of the facts I find most interesting. About a quarter of those surveyed say they use Twitter. This means Twitter … Continue reading
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Amish Greenhouse Stats
In 2019 we took a Spring trip to the Amish greenhouses near St. Charles, MN, to purchase flowers and vegetable plants for our gardens. I wrote a blog post about this trip. While the lifestyle of the Amish people is … Continue reading
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Urban Agriculture
I just wrote a post yesterday about school gardens and then Cindy found this ad for a school-based plant sale. The sale was in a nearby suburb so we decided to check it out. It is getting close to planting … Continue reading
Spring is garden time
School gardens make a lot of sense to me. Gardens can be a learning experience out of their room and offers “making” opportunities related to nearly every area of the curriculum. Often overlooked is just the amount of work involved … Continue reading
Improving social media
This is an interesting discussion by those who want to understand and improve social media. As I understand the position of the guest on this podcast, two things are important for improving social media. First, we need more options with … Continue reading
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Automatic Summarization
Summarization is one way to encourage better reading comprehension. It is an external process (an assignment) that causes a reader to act on the information a reader gathers from a document. The idea is that this external activity encourages productive … Continue reading