This is my personal chit chat blog — Katarzyna Potocka — all over the place.
Probably my most favorite TED Talk ever – Julia Sweeney – a solo performer, comic actor and mother – performs an incredible TED Talk about “The Talk” with her 8-year-old daughter. It’s inspiring, funny and also it’s great to see, that you probably never can be prepared for such a talk 😉 I think I [...]
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Moodle 1.9.9 – there seems to be a problem if you have eg 10 choice options, some students make their choices and you change the choice options after they have made their choices, in the way that you delete the choice options some students have decided for. The problem is, that within the database the table mdl_choice_options is [...]
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Wow Claron McFadden shows what a human voice is able of!!!! “The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal.” With these words, soprano Claron McFadden invites us to explore the mysteries of breathing and singing, as she performs the challenging “Aria,” by John Cage. TED Watch the TED Talk.
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Wow, just wow. An incredible talk about self-expression, doing the impossible, expecting anything unknown and just believing in ourselves. A performing poet since she was 14 years old, Sarah Kay is the founder of Project V.O.I.C.E, teaching poetry and self-expression at schools across the United States. Watch the TED Talk
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Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn’t go quite as expected — but that taught him a big lesson: Don’t wait to be a hero. [www.ted.com] A talk about saving someones shoes – don’t wait with helping other people till you got your first million. Do it now. Watch the TED [...]
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Reinventing education is a great idea. But how? Salman Khan presents in his TED talk, how he used to reinvent education and how it is possible to do it for anybody. He dowsn’t only talk about how he started the Khan Academy but also about possibilites how we all can reinvent education. Watch the TED Talk
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