I am fortunate enough to enjoy learning. I should rephrase that as: “I am fortunate enough to crave learning in order to help others.”
Being in higher education has, in my opinion, shown that there really is a need for all this debt that students rack up. I chose to post something to my blog and share it with the class to show part of my Idealist life. I leave all of my posts open to comments and choose to moderate them due to spam alone. I have deleted a couple comments these two years, not due to them disagreeing with me but due to the comment being inappropriate.
For my choice of further resources I could use to improve my grammar, I chose http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml . I found that out of all the choices, it would prove the most useful since I could easily use it with an iPhone app called gFlash+ . The best thing is that you do not need an Internet connection to use it, so you can be in the middle of nowhere (aka 2 miles out of town in WV) and take a quiz where you will not accidently see the answers. The simple format of questions and answers could be easily manipulated into the template spreadsheet using the programming language Python.
I have used gFlash+ while standing in line at the store, waiting for a customer to finish talking on the phone or while waiting for someone to give my car a jumpstart. So far, I have just used it as a quiz tool for learning new words but dailygrammar has such a common format for answers that I can program a macro to split and copy/paste entire blocks of answers.
I intend to do such a program and enlist my wife to help me, since she is starting school soon too.
1Franklin on Sep 9, 2008 at 6:42 pm:
Dear Mr. It Forx (I am not sure if you like your real name on your blog.),
This is Franklin from PF321 at Franklin University. This is a very nicely designed (and active) blog, and looking at it makes me cringe at my half hearted attempts at blogging.
The feature you mentioned is intriguing, but I am afraid I am not techie enough to be able to try it . No Iphone here, and I only know the most the most basic bits of Java. Python, Ajax and all the new languages just befuddle me. I am glad you can easily manipulate and format the questions and answers of Daily Grammar. I did not like it too much, but if you can have the question/answer and on the go features you mentioned, it would actually be a very good resource.
By the way, how are you finding Spore? I spent much of Sunday watching people’’s posted cell stage videos on Youtube. Do you think it is worth the money?
2phreaki on Sep 9, 2008 at 7:41 pm:
Thanks for being the first to read my blog post and the nice comments regarding style. I have only changed the blog once to this new design.
Google’s Android phone will support Java I think, so that might be a route for you later. I use the iPhone for lots of homework, I can login to Franklin if I want and easily read when I have nothing to do and no computer.
I have not finished the next to last stage of Spore but find it a refreshing change. You take such pride in the work that you do on the design of your creature, it makes you really think and be creative.
Is it worth the $49? My wife and I both agree. With what little time I have had to play, at least there is no online charges like with EQ, WoW, or AoC.