So there’s a contest put on by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. I entered it with this submission.

The goal was to personify Spanish a bit and make it a bit ghostly. This is almost entirely student-done, with only minor help from me in shooting it. I was allowed to help with some of the finer technical details, so I did.

One note, it had to be 2 minutes or less, hence the shortness. I’m thinking about making a longer version, but my time to do so runs thin.

You’ll want to turn the sound up to get the full creepy feeling.

Below the Youtube is the TeacherTube embed. Enjoy!

Youtube direct link
Teachertube direct link

Update: Added suggestion to turn sound up, moved links to above.

Tagged with: mysteriousmiddleschool • student video entry
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Interesting piece about a Forbes editor doing without his cell phone and Blackberry for a week, oh and no email either.

It made him cry.

The money quote is that when he had to disconnect it wasn’t just cutting off communcation, it was cutting off connection. He meant that to indicate connection with other humans, in that at one point he wanted to connect someone in Bangalore with someone in Hong Kong, which he could not do without email.

Watch it and see what you think…

Embedded below or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEErhy7AIc 

Tagged with: lifewithoutcellphones
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I was searching FlickrCC for pictures of overloaded folks. I’m working on a presentation about cognitive overload and how to prevent it when giving a presentation. Imagine my surprise when I saw a familiar face on the first page!

Back to your regularly scheduled twitting…

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Saw this pop-under ad today while working on some stuff here on the happy Mac.

So am I in danger? Heh. Silly popunders, you only work for the Windows crowd!

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