After several days of solid marking, I’m relieved to say that I have finished all 100 exam papers from my nursing students. On reflection it was too easy, some of the sections getting 100% correct answers in every paper; either that or I have exceptionally gifted students, or they have an exceptionally gifted teacher.
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I’m halfway through an Outlook training day for which I signed up after Outlook 2010 was introduced at our university over the summer, replacing the previous Groupwise system. I had hoped for a sleek overview of an ultra-efficient workflow, but instead we’re working our way along the toolbar, stopping every now and then to
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As if I didn’t have better things to do, including 48 assignments to review on Moodle, I got distracted — intrigued then captivated — by a nifty java applet to represent my Last FM recent listening into a wordle, or text picture. Here it is:
Image of my recent listening
Now back to
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News just in: seven out of ten Dutch people have participated in a poll about Geert Wilders.
Whatever issue Wilders addresses becomes the discussion of the day, and in such a way that Wilders himself becomes the issue once again. I’m not usually one for conspiracy theories, but I read somewhere that someone’s brother-in-law
Continue reading Thanks a lot, Voltaire
Since the start of classes in September, I’ve had very little time to blog. In addition to teaching and its concomitant demands, I’ve been getting busy with developing a learning management system (LMS) for the modern languages department. It’s based on Moodle, one of the most popular LMSs around, and offers almost infinite possibilities
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