For several months I’ve been working to raise funds for the Life is Good Kids Foundation to support children struggling to overcome life-threatening challenges. I pledged to raise $1000 and have successfully met that goal, even slightly exceeded it. Though I’ve not raised it to $1500 and there is still time to help, I thought it a good time to publicly acknowledge those who’ve helped me so far! The names below are listed according to the order in which I received their donations. Those who were the earliest to support me at at the top, and it continues on through the most recent.
I hope all of you on this list know how much this means to me. Thank you for supporting a good cause, but thank you, also, for responding so generously to my request. Continue reading
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We are the World I and II
This is the video for the 25th anniversary version of “We Are the World”, made for the benefit of earthquake victims in Haiti.
This is a noble project. The disaster in Haiti is certainly one of the worst in recent memory. As of February 10 the reported number of deaths was 230,000. Stalin once said “”A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,” and I confess that 230,000 is a difficult number for me to wrap my head around, so I went looking for points of reference. Comparisons are hard to find.
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Academic Freedom Media Review, February 12-19
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Resources for Teaching about the Earthquake in Haiti
Here are a few teaching resources that may be useful for faculty and staff when teaching about the earthquake in Haiti. It’s just a few things I happen to have come across, so feel free to suggest others.
This page from IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) contains a number of resources for helping students understand what happened geologically. There are downloadable PowerPoint presentations, videos and animations such as this one explaining why the quake didn’t produce a tsunami.
MusicForRelief.org // Download to Donate for Haiti
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via MusicForRelief.org // Download to Donate for Haiti.
My Top Ten Tweets of the Last Seven Days
My Twitter Feed
Here are my top 10 Tweets that contain links shortened using ow.ly during the past 7 days. How many typos can you spot? I really need to proof better before hitting send.
I didn’t post often this week, and yet the hit count was high. Perhaps because the disaster in Haiti increased twitter use overall. Indeed, the tweet with the highest number of hits was to a video of Pat Robertson idiotically attributing the earthquake in Haiti to a Haitian deal with the devil to break free from colonialism. I’ve said elsewhere that this shows heartless he is, but the more I think about it the more it really shows how stupid he is.
The fact that the increased total number of hits on my tweets is due to interest in Haiti is also supported by the fact that the second, third in fourth most popular tweets are separated from this one by a meaningful margin, and are very closely bunched with one another. They are links to a story about the death of Teddy Pendergrass, a call for sessions in the NITLE Tools for Teaching in the Global Age series, and a story about VoIP in the UAE. On the other hand, other tweets about Haiti are in the next eight.
Anyway, here’s the top 10: Continue reading