Pardon Our Dust…

I’m in the process of enabling Custom CSS on this hosted WordPress blog, so that I can get a good theme with graphics in the header (which I love) that is also flexible width.  There are less than a dozen choices for flexible width themes, and of those, only a couple offer a customizable header.  [...]

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Garden Wrap-Up

This is the time of year when we take apart the garden and put it back together for winter gardening. We were so busy doing that, and getting sticky and dirty with sap, compost, mud, etc, that we forgot to take pictures! So I did catch-up pictures of the items left over, minus [...]

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Blast From the Past?

Regular readers will notice some back-dated posts showing up. I’d created a number of drafts, ready to post, and for various reasons haven’t been able to do so. I’m just clearing the backlog, and soon we’ll be back to our regularly sporadic updates.

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The Self-taught Autodidact

My results on the test previously were interesting, big skew towards global (vs sequential) and reflective (vs active). Some of the stuff about how to cope with one style of instruction if you are the other style of learner were things I already do, some weren’t. Cool.
This next one goes into orientations, [...]

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Learning Styles

This looked interesting, and includes a little test you can take. Relevancy? We’re in a field where whether you’re a lion or a gazelle, when the sun comes up you’d better be learning, so every little bit helps…
ILS page The Index of Learning Styles is an instrument used to assess preferences on four [...]

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