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It's not prejudice if you bought and played the game before discovering that it's complete ****.
Lets be clear about something, there is a lot of prejudice against Civilization V, much of which is founded on actual observations and experiences, but it seems this is getting transferred over to Gods and Kings without any actual experience of the expansion.
First thing I noticed is the amount of details that went into this expansion, it's not simply "X amount of new Civ's" + Religion + Espionage, it is indeed a whole lot more.
Right off the bat I was pleasantly surprised to see the Intro was remade, but more than that, it loaded quickly, was bypassed quickly, (a peeve of Civ V), AND it can be disabled in the settings menu!
The settings menu now has a number of such options that improve the user's experience with the game. Nobody likes nag screens, or having to wait 5 minutes to load an intro that they've already been forced to watch a dozen times before, the recent menu fixes this. You can disable popup notifications such as "barbarian encampment found!" etc.
But there are so many detailed changes it's almost a different game.
For example, here's a small but hugely helpful change...
National Wonders require you to have a certain building in every one of your cities. Before you had to hunt down and look for that city, now it shows in the tooltip when you hover the cursor over the wonder how many cities, and names them!
There's a raft of changes with units and buildings, most of which are to make better use of new game concepts such as faith, but many are just plain better.
I love the way you can purchase certain things with faith, Missionaries, Inquisitors, and even Great People, and what's even better is that you can put this on auto-purchase. Nothing sucks more than having to micro your missionary purchases each and every turn!
There's new tech's, new wonders such as the "Great Firewall", new luxury resources including Salt.
There's the whole makeover with City-States, which provides a much wider variety of "quests" they give, but the best part is that now you can pay them gold to improve a resource which is as of yet undeveloped. This was always frustrating when you wanted to tap into a resource by becoming an ally of the City State that owned it, only to realize they hadn't yet developed that resource.
There's a lot more, but that's my first thoughts.
It's just simply a whole lot more than New Civs + Religion + Espionage that it would likely take a small book to document all the changes and differences.
Dan O.
It's not prejudice if you bought and played the game before discovering that it's complete ****.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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It is if you treat the game the same regardless of how much it's patched or what improvements have been made.
A lot of people haven't given the game a serious look since a few weeks following the initial release. There have been a large number of tweaks and adjustments made to the vanilla game since then.
Do those tweaks, patches, etc make the game wonderful and great? No.
Do those tweaks, patches, give the game a better experience than when it was released? Yes.
To treat the game as though it's exactly the same as when it was released is prejudge-mental. Period.
Dan O.
I certainly tried to give it a honest second chance but it still feels like a poor beta version of a game.
Didn't like civ5 on launch don't like it now.
It sucks a bit less now but the original version was so bad that it still is pretty awfull.
Quendelie axan!
I bought it at launch just like I bought every other Civ game (well, technically I didn't buy Civ1 but had an illegal copy, sue me), when I found it sucked I put it away and waited for them to patch it, it still sucks to this day. It takes a lot for someone who has been playing the series for 20+ years but I just can't lie... Civ5 is terrible. It's boring, the reason it is boring all comes back to the horrible 1UPT decision because that's the root cause for slowing down unit production (so you don't get the carpet of doom too fast) which means they had to slow down everything else (hammer production, food production, money production, etc...). 1UPT is THE reason Civ5 is boring and because it is boring the game sucks.
I could go into greater detail about why interface is horrible and a text book case of bad design, how 1UPT makes multiplayer unplayable, how the effort to "streamline and simplify" the game makes it even more boring, how the AI is one of the worst I've ever seen (BTS's AI is better able to play the game than Civ5's AI) and a host of other issues but other people like Sulla have already gone over this so why bother? Suffice it to say the game is fundamentally flawed at the design level because the project lead was incompetent and in way over his head.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
How can it feel like a poor beta version. Come on, that is so exaggerated. I propose that you play the game several times so that you understand the difference with the earlier versions and you will notice it will grow on you...Change is inevitable and yes often difficult...
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
One of the things I didn't mention is improvements in AI...
The AI in Gods and Kings has had a massive overhaul, and the game feels much different and better for it.
I do remember at Release Montezuma just sticking with 3 or 4 cities on Warlord difficulty, and by the time I had bombers he was still using longbows, that's all changed.
In terms of simplicity vs complexity, Gods and Kings is far more complex than Civ5 upon release. The Faith mechanic is fairly easy to use, but has an almost dizzying array of options. What should my belief be? What should my founder's traits be? My followers? Each of these questions has dozens possible answers. You can customize your religion, choose your own name, pick a symbol of your choice, though I admit you should be able add your own.
When you start generating faith, you've got more decisions... Should I use the Faith to purchase missionaries, or inquisitors, mosques, or Great People? If I choose Great People, which GP should I focus on?
The point is that this expansion changes the game so drastically that I'm frequently unsure of how to react, like it's an all new experience. The game is so different than it's vanilla form that to dismiss the expansion as simply an add-on on top of a faulty product is equivalent to saying Einstein is an idiot because he failed Math in the 1st grade.
Dan O.
The answer is they did both in order to slow down the number of units produced to prevent the dreaded carpet of doom. Sulla wrote an excellent article about this in his blog which I suggest you read. All of the game's problems, the whole reason it is so damn boring, always come back to the 1UPT decision. Even the AI's biggest problem, it's inability to effectively juggle units, comes back to 1UPT and that's why the civ game always traditionally had unit stacking to help compensate for the AI's short comings. Getting rid of 1UPT would allow for most of Civ5's problems and design flaws to be fixed.
That won't happen until Civ6 if ever but one thing is clear and that is that Civ5 has been a dead end for the series and they need to go back to the far better thought out and designed Civ4 approach. Sure, keep hex tiles, the organic growth of city boundaries, and a few other things from Civ5 but most of the game will have to return to its roots if it wants to actually get people addicted to it again. Civ5 has just been a failed experiment.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
It is exaggerated indeed. Lets call it a good beta version. (because it does not crash etc.)
There are still some really basic things that are not well done and it gives a feeleng of an unfinished product. For example when you hit end of turn and all units on auto move start moving there are usually conflicts and units that cannot complet their move stop. Then the game says that "a unit can still move" (or some similar message) but for some unexplicable reason this unit is not automatically selected and centered.
This might seem like a minor thing but it is a major interface shortcoming. This thing happenes every turn and anybody who has played the game for an hour would notice it and would want to fix it. The same goes for workers which stop working way too often and this makes each turn even more tedious.
The ideas in this game are not bad per se, but the implementation still leaves a lot to be desired.
Quendelie axan!
The game is not boring to me, I think 1UPT is an awesome idea. Of course you do not care about my opinion and that of serveral others who enjoy the game because you like to express your opinions as facts and think your personal experience/enjoyment the the game is the universal truth.
It does not surprise me poly is dead and people who actually enjoy the game and want to talk about it went elsewhere to find thriving and vibrant communities where to discuss civ stuff.
I do not know because the buildings I can build in about the same time as before, and by the end of the game a military unit can be produced in 4-6 turns in most cities, and while it is longer than in Civ IV (some cities could pump a unit in 1-2 turns), it is still reasonably fast. The thing is that you do not want to do it, because you would rather have more gold that you can spend on upgrading the units (I am talking about G&K, not Vanilla). By the end of the game, most of the main cities build up all the buildings that they want them to do so, I just can not say that production speed of the buildings was reduced, or if it is related in any way to 1UPT.
Can you provide link for that? And while I agree that vanilla Civ 5 is boring, G&K is not.
Let's just compare G&K to BTS. What is better in Civ IV
1) 1UPT, if you ignore your objection that it made the rest of the game worse, and focus just on the combat itself, it is better when AI is improved. Combat feels tactical now, without overburden of complexity. The only negative is the "storage" of the units during peace time (I do not know why they do not allow to keep multiple units in the city in "packed" form like bombers)
2) Hexes > squares (and I was so much against hexes before the game release)
3) The combat mechanics the fact that unit is not killed immediately makes combat even more tactical, since you can retreat and re-heal
4) Religion, it is SO much better than in Civ 4 it is not even comparable
5) Technologies and technology tree. I do like it better now, though I understand that some people like the old style. The reason why I like it better now is because I feel that in each era I would have to make the decision of what I am doing again and again. I do not feel as locked as in Civ 4 where I would chose to go for particular tec for long time. So, making more decisions and adapting as you go is what I see in Civ 5, and less so in Civ 4.
6) Civics. The situation is a bit reverse here, but there is so much more "civics" here that realistically I feel it gives more varsity in play style than civics in Civ 4, where it was more or less linear progression in each line of the civic from the top to bottom with very rare exception. More over, inability to predict what will happen if I switch one civic to another, like will I get more gold or less gold if I switch to mercantilism, always pissed me off in Civ IV.
7) Espionage. In Civ 4 it is like extra level of micromanagement with little or no fun. In Civ 5, due to city states, it is a bit more fun (though still it does not shine) and yet the micromanagement is removed. So, again Civ 5 wins.
8) CS. Big game changer. Huge fun. No even equivalent in Civ 4
9) Corporation. I never could "get" the fun out of it. Sure, you can benefit from them, but they were just not fun, and too "mathematical". I do not care if they are in the game or not. But I admit that some people do like them, and out of all items listed, this is the only plus to Civ 4. But let's wait for second expansion pack. After all, corporations appeared only in BTS.
So, yes, at least in my book, Civ 5 G&K is better and more fun than Civ 4 BTS.
AI significantly better now.
You do need to try G&K to judge it. It is not boring as vanilla, it is, in my opinion, more fun than Civ IV. Civ 5 (with G&K) managed to remove very tedious late stage of the game. The diplomatic interaction with SC via espionage and religion and other stuff makes game fun even then. Plus the late stages are shortened compared to Civ IV.
I am not saying that it can not be improved, but G&K did indeed wonders to the game by making it more fun.
Last edited by MxM; June 27, 2012 at 11:43. Reason: Comparison to Civ 4
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
Having played G&K for a bit now, I can say that it's a fun game in its own right. For me, it hasn't quite become as fun as a modded Civ4. The relative lack of content compared to Civ4 BTS is still somewhat disappointing. But I think G&K is decently balanced and has that "one more turn" feeling that Civ games have traditionally had.
Rather than compare features and bullet points on boxes, recognize that without a functioning AI, none of it matters. Civ5 AI is not functional because waging war --- a crucial part of the game --- is impossible for it. Thanks to the complexity posed by 1UPT, the AI does not know how to competently pose a threat to other civs, which ruins the entire game. It takes a major threat away from the human player and unbalances everything else. This remains true in Gods and Kings, where the AI is all too happy to march individual units into my cities in bizarre and very costly suicide attacks.Let's just compare G&K to BTS. What is better in Civ IV
I'm sorry, but "Combat feels tactical now" is just an embarrassing statement. The new rules are fine, but the tactical AI does not grasp their implications. It's like playing chess against an AI that doesn't think more than a move ahead.
Also, http://www.garath.net/Sullla/Civ5/whatwentwrong.html, a good article that focuses on other deficiencies in this terrible game --- specifically, how the change to the happiness system takes the strategy out of expansion and empire management.
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"The Great Firewall?" Please tell me this is slang for some non-dumbass endeavor, and they did not actually turn the Chinese government's ill-advised, hamfisted and increasingly ineffectual attempt to censor the internet into a wonder. If they did, I hope they were fair and included the Maginot Line and the Watergate Burglars as well. Presumptively all these things are only available if you select the Blundering Incompetence social policy...
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The current presidential election process also provides for stability and security. In most presidential races, the Electoral College outcome is more decisive than the popular vote result, making clear who is the legitimate president. The Electoral College also uses the states like water-tight compartments on an ocean liner to contain election problems: A dispute in one state doesn't sink the whole ship, and nation-wide recounts are never necessary.
Americans are fortunate that through debate and compromise, the framers of the Constitution created the Electoral College. While it doesn't work exactly as the founding generation thought it might, it probably works better than they could have imagined. It doesn't tip the scales in favor of Democrats or Republicans—but instead serves the interests all the people.
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kurosagi01 now that is a fine ass to me i love me a nice piece of ass i cant stand really skinny bitches although there are the few exceptions, i dont like BBW tho so no fat chick jokes
Can't you guys find something real? Those air brushed tarts, and the ones with more silicone than brains don't do anything for me.
find me some real scottish ass then because i have a hard time finding some decent shit even in real life in glasgow
jailbait no thanks i have a sister with friends that age glasgow is okay for decent looking chicks i guess probly ones that youd want to go out with but nothing outstanding, just the really hot ones are rare trust me im not a picky guy but its like austrailia has nice babes everywhere even england has a few gems what does scotland have? like miss scotland and thats it really the rest are all average hot, if it was people i would go out with then it would be different im NEVER going to get anyone like whats been posted
Plus take a lady friend shopping, and should she happen to walk into the right shops... plus the fugly boyfriend is no where in sight ^^
no what pisses me off to no end people who look like ass tards like NEDS or chavs down south but get hot birds/chicks, i know the type of girls that go out with those people you wouldnt want to go out with them becasue they act like tards themselves but still or them indie guys who act like real tossers and get pretty good girls i hate posers and people who are extremely outgoing like in your face bah dosnt matter to me im not looking for anyone just now post some MOAR PICS LADS! EDIT: i dont care what people say about Lucy Pinder because she is damn fine!
you know this is what i don't get,how can anyone use kurosagi in this forum?? i've putted "01" because someone used "kurosagi" and i'm the only one that uses it on this forum :S
Can we get this topic back on track please, maybe start chatting about UK stuff and not posting hundreds of soft porn pictures. Just because they are from the UK does not excuse the fact. If you want to start a UK hot babes thread, do it at GN.net The odd picture in context is fine, but this is in excess. I will be giving out infractions if you fail to heed this warning.
Not to argue with you Alex, but is posting non-rule breaking pictures of people from the UK against the UK thread rules? Yea, i agree it got slightly out of hand. But i don't think the UK ones deserve infractions... lol I can understand the non-UK ones, but not so much the UK ones. Kurosagi : I got Bioshock for £3 when it was on SteamWeekend afew months back. Didn't really like it... bit boring. I have no idea what Universe at War is... Anyone else get a day of rain yesterday? Watched snippets of t'Tennis yesterday and they had sun! We had rain!
Universe at War is just another RTS game to flood the market with fancy graphics and big stompy robots, thats about it.
Its called TPU being a technology and hardware gaming website and also staying on topic. I have no bones about you posting the contents of your hard drive, but not here, do it on GN.net This thread is a UK clubhouse not a UK whorehouse
Haha, you brought the OZ to the UK! lol. Hmmm... UK chat... I've just made myself a Coffee.. (1xCoffee, 2xCoffeeMate, 1xSugar)
Nah you got that all wrong, it should be more like 1x coffee, 2x suger bit of milk... then the same again shortly after, and thats just to start waking me up
well... i like coffee with milk, mate, with sugar and whitout. Same with tea. Im not fussy at all, ill eat owt tbh... lol
Boys, are their ANY good day time shows on TV? I mean, Scrubs / Friends / Top Gear / Music get repetitive when you've seen them all. So, what is there?


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Earlier this winter the pond in our backyard in Hamburg was completely engulfed by ice and snow. Now thanks to the warm weather over the last few days not only is it visible but all of the ice has melted away and the fish are able to stretch their fins if they want to.
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Eglin Air Force Base is now home to one more of the F-35B Lightning II aircraft as the 12th airplane made its way to the Emerald Coast.
U.S. Marine Corps pilot Lt. Col. Fred Schenk made the journey on May 15, leaving from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas at 10:02 a.m., said a spokesperson for Lockheed Martin.
The F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing jet now joins the other five of its kind for the USMC as well as six F-35A Lightnings with traditional takeoffs for the USAF at the 33rd Fighter Wing.
Chrissy Cuttita, chief of current operations for Team Eglin Public Affairs, said that the 33rd has already begun the prep work to get the aircraft off the ground and into the skies.
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If you had an online product that filled a significant nitch, would you let members use your site for free instead of following through on a paid model?
Inline with this question, assume that this site did 80-90% of what similar paid sites did whom charged considerable money to use their services. And that eventually you could make up the 10-20% difference. It was an interesting question posed to me and I thought I would ask the larger audience here to help me think this out.
Interesting aspect of this is that I would essentially be giving away the goods for free and would drive a lot of traffic to my site. Plus the large paid sites would probably not appreciate that a smaller company was giving key features away for free. I would say this very comparable to Mint and Quicken. One is free and one is not, but offer similar services.


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I like this comment - I never thought about it like this before!
As long as it is used as well as conventional medicine I see no harm in it.
But if mumbojumbo (including silly remedies like homoeopathy, exorcism, sacrificing a pig etc) is used INSTEAD of conventional medicine then the person that caused this should be held responsible for the outcome based on the local legislation for child neglect / murder.
No. No. No. NO. No. HELL NO!
If you want to pray, that's fine and dandy, but for the love of Basement Cat, get the kid proper medical attention!
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Hi you guys I wanted to post my diet plan for the past month. I know it is not perfect which is why I want you guys to input. I didn't write anything after 4 but YES, I eat after 4pm because by that time I am usually home from university ( have to take my meals with me, which is a pain in th a$$) and mom ALWAYS cooks things like rice, chicken, beans.
I am posting because I seem to be getting stronger for the past month but not bigger for example I started benching 70lb not including the wieght of the bar (40lb) to now 90 lb. I don't know if that is good or bad, but my set and rep range is 6-10 reps for 3 sets on everything except for legs I try to go 10-15 reps gaining muscle is my goal.
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Zahlman's rice-and-a-half pudding wrote:You require:
1 cup uncooked rice (and a whole bunch of water... I'll assume you know how to cook rice)
2 cups (1/2 litre) whole milk
1/2 cup chopped dates (that's about 16 of them)
1/2 of one of those small (170g) packages of creamed coconut
1/2 cup sugar
2 sticks (1/2 pound) butter (don't freak out! The butter isn't going in, just the milk solids)
Some cornstarch
Spices to taste
...and of course, moar vespene gas, but that isn't part of the recipe.
Set the rice to cook while you clarify the butter. Save the milk solids when you skim them off the butter. Both of these tasks involve low heat and little attention, so you can also chop the dates and mix them together with the coconut while this is going on. Get the rice nicely overcooked, then add a cup of milk and let it simmer. You want it really nice and pasty at the end.
Pour off the clarified butter, then return the milk solids to the pan. Add cornstarch to make a roux, then fold in the date-coconut mixture. (You may need to add a little water too.) Once you have a nice paste, gradually add the remaining milk and sugar, a little at a time, alternately.
Pour the resulting sauce over the rice, then add spices and mix it all together. I recommend a generous helping of cinnamon, a little ginger and a touch of black pepper.
Belial wrote:I once had a series of undocumented and nonstandardized subjective experiences that indicated that anecdotal data is biased and unreliable.
Blubb3r3ng3l wrote:try making a full tray of brownies, then pouring heated chocolate frosting over the top while they're still warm. Trust me on this one.
MacGyver'd Chocolate Drops wrote:1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup cane sugar
About 1/4 to 1/3 cup milk; you will have to fiddle with this.
1 bag graham crackers, crushed -- tea biscuits may also work, but you have to mess with it.
Combine sugar and cocoa in a bowl. Add crushed crackers or biscuits. Depending on what you use for this most essential dry ingredient (it soaks up the most moisture), you may have to vary the amount. Stir in the milk, mixing evenly until you get a slightly moist doughy consistency that will hold shape. If you get a too wet consistency, add more crackers or other dry ingredients, and add milk if your mixture seems too dry. Roll into balls, which you can (if you like) cover in any of the following:
Shredded coconut (the customary covering), sweetened or unsweetened
Chopped dried fruits
Very finely chopped nuts
Sprinkle/jimmy candies
Cocoa (to make them like truffles)
Place these finished drops into a container and freeze them. Serve frozen.
Totally Awesome Cheesecake Brownies
cheesecake mixture ingredients:
--1 egg
--8 oz full-fat cream cheese
--1/4 cup caster (superfine) sugar
--1 tsp vanilla essence (extract)
--(liqueur of choice is optional, but is totally worth it *grins*)
brownie mixture ingredients:
--4 oz baker's chocolate
--1/2 cup unsalted butter
--3/4 cup brown sugar
--2 eggs, beaten
--1/2 cup plain flour
--Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line the base and sides of an 8in cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
--To make the cheesecake mixture, beat the egg in a mixing bowl, then add the cream cheese, caster sugar, and vanilla extract. Beat together until smooth and creamy.
--To make the brownie mixture, melt the chocolate and butter together in the microwave or in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water. When the mixture is melted, remove from the heat, stir well, then add the brown sugar. Add the eggs, a little at a time, and beat well. Gently stir in the flour.
--Spread the brownie mixture over the base of the pan, and spread the cheesecake mixture on top.
--Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until just set in the center. (A good gauge of done-ness is sticking a toothpick or fork in the center and seeing if anything comes out stuck to it. If it comes out clean, it's done. If not, a few more minutes in the oven would not go amiss for your finished product. )
--Makes about 16-20 depending on how small you slice them, and given how incredibly rich they are, you'll want to slice them small. They're also just easier to keep a hold of that way.
If you want--as I inevitably do--you can mix in a splash your favorite liqueur to the cheesecake part for added flavor and awesomeness. Caramel Bailey's Irish Cream works REALLY well. The amount you add will depend on the liquidness of the liqueur, as you won't want the end result to be too soupy; also bear in mind all the alcohol *probably won't* bake out, so...yeah. Also, if you're feeling artistic, when you're putting everything in the pan, just add two-thirds of the brownie mixture at first, then the cheesecake, and after you've got that nice and smooth, spoon on the remaining brownie mixture in heaps. Using a skewer, swirl the mixtures together for a marbled effect.
Creole Summer Veggie Thing wrote:Here's an easy but delicious one I basically made up recently:
-Yellow squash
-Stuffing Mushrooms
-Green Pepper
-Dried Basil (actually, fresh would be better, but I didn't have it on hand)
-Dried Oregano
-Pick-a-peppa Sauce, or Worcestershire
-Butter or Veg Oil or both.
Slice squashes, mushrooms, zucchinis to around 1/4" thick. Dice pepper. Half-wedge tomatoes. Put your oil/butter in your wok and get it jumpin' hot (start out at 10/10 on electric, and then come down to 7 when you starting adding ingredients).
Add zucchini, stir-fry 1 min.
Add squash and pepper, stir-fry 1 min.
Add mushroom, spices, sauce, garlic, stir-fry for 5 min.
Add tomato, stir-fry until done (5 more min.?)
Impromptu white pasta sauce wrote:Melt some butter.
Throw in some (reasonably) finely diced onions.
After a while, add garlic. (Ideally, crushed; I use dried.)
When the onions are cooked, splash in some milk.
Keep the pan on low heat, and stir frequently. You don't want it to bubble.
Throw in some finely grated cheese (I used a Parmesan-Romano mixture).
Add salt and pepper. Go easy on the salt if you used a salty cheese.
Keep heating (but not boiling) till it coats the back of a spoon.
Add some pasta, cooked about a minute less than the instructions on the packet recommend.
Stir, cover, wait a few minutes.
Mustard fish curry wrote:Heat some oil in a pan.
Add some strong Dijon mustard: not the yellow stuff you put in hot dogs.
Add some chilly powder.
Add some garlic. (Ideally, crushed; I use dried.)
(The standard version of this recipe uses powdered mustard seeds, chilly powder and garlic, mixed into a paste with a bit of water.)
Prod your lump of mustard-chilly-garlic with a spoon for a while.
When you smell cooked chilly powder, add a can of tomatoes. You can use the stuff with added onions and/or chillies and/or garlic if you like.
Stir well, and let it cook for a while.
Add your fish. You can use fresh, frozen or pan-fried fish. Not salmon. (The original recipe uses fish seasoned with salt and turmeric, and pan-fried.)
Add salt.
Cover and wait till the fish is cooked.
Eat with rice (traditional) or as a soup with bread (not so traditional, but good with crumbly whitefish).
EsotericWombat wrote:You're... calling the Rolling Stones emo.
It might take a while to gather the lynch mob. no one really planned against this eventuality.
krynd wrote:That'd make an awesome sig. Unfortunately, I'm sure self-sigging isn't allowed...
Doctored Pasta Sauce wrote:1 lb Italian sausage (approx 6 sausages) -- A really good sweet sausage is best, but I have more consistent results with spicy (some sweet sausages taste like air).
1 jar good marinara-like spaghetti sauce (26 oz). Use something that has actual chunks of stuff, plus roasted garlic. Definitely not a kind that comes in a can! (or heaven forbid a powder!)
1/2 onion
1 bell pepper
1/2 cup red wine
spaghetti noodles
Serves 4. Doubles well if your skillet is big enough.
Take a large skillet, add water until there is a layer of water not quite 1/4 inch thick. Add sausage (whole).
Cook over medium-high heat, turning the sausages occasionally until all of the water is gone. [note: if your sausages aren't leaking any juices at all, add a very small quantity of olive oil and watch out for splatter, and next time buy less-healthy sausage]
While that is cooking, chop onion and cut pepper in to small slices. set aside.
When the water is gone, the sausage should look cooked on the outside. Take the sausage out of the skillet, slice them. do not drain the pan, do not discard the fat/drippings/juices Ideally the sausages should be almost-but-not-quite cooked. Place sliced sausage, onion, and pepper back into the hot skillet. If you lost tons of sausage juice when slicing, try to pour it back in to the pan.
When the sausage is browned -- basically as soon as it's done being "cooked", pour in the red wine. That'll start to boil off really quickly, let it go until it boils fiercely for a couple of seconds, then pour in the jar of marinara sauce.
simmer on fairly low heat. You can continue at this step for any length of time. It will be fine if you simmer for as little as 10-15 minutes (while you cook the noodles). It will be masterful if you cook it on low heat, stirring occasionally, for about 4-6 hours. It will also be thicker if you do that.
Now, in a separate large pot, cook the noodles according to the package directions. Add salt to the water after it boils, but before adding the noodles (I dunno, a small handful. not a pinch.)
When the noodles are done, you can eat! As a side note, this recipe reheats great. In fact, it is typically much better the 2nd or 3rd day than it is the first, because the flavors continue to mix after the fact. When reheating, I usually add about 2 T of water to the skillet before I put the sauce in, because the sauce really really thickens in the refrigerator.
Green Beans with Almonds & Bleu Cheese wrote:1 lb green beans
1 shallot
2 T butter
3 T slivered almonds
3 T bleu cheese crumbles
Cut the ends off of the beans.
In a large pot, boil some water. When it reaches a full boil, add about 2-3 T salt. While waiting for the water to boil toast the almond slivers. (place on a small hot skillet. stir frequently. it will take some time for them to start to toast, but they will go from perfect to black very fast, remove from heat, set aside). Also while waiting, mince the shallot.
Fill a bowl with ice water
Gently place the green beans in the boiling water, cook for about 3-4 minutes, or until the instant they lose the rubbery consistency (they should still be somewhat crunchy).
Remove them from the boiling water quickly, and place them in the icewater. Dunk them under the water to stop the cooking, then remove them from the icewater and set aside.
In a skillet, melt the butter. Add shallot, saute until translucent. Add the green beans, saute until the beans are hot all the way through. Turn heat to lowest setting, add bleu cheese and almonds. Mix together for about 5-10 seconds. Remove from heat. Top with a few more crumbles of cheese if you like.
Serves I dunno, 4-8? It's 1 lb of green beans, you figure it out
Unagi (eel) with noodles
1/2 lb grilled eel, chopped into bite size bits
10 oz cooked soba noodles
2 tbsp sesame oil (vegetable, canola, or safflower oil works, too)
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp mirin (opt)
3/4 cup sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup fine julienne carrots
2 sliced green peppers
1/2 cup chopped onion
Briefly heat a large frying pan on medium-high heat. Add the sesame oil and the vegetables and cook for about five minutes (longer if you like your vegetables squishy). Add the noodles, eel, soy sauce, and mirin and continue cooking until heated thoroughly. Remove from heat, serve, and enjoy.
Note - Mirin is a rice wine similar to sake but lower in alcohol content. It's typically used to help out fishy flavors like unagi. You don't have to use it, but it certainly helps.
1 loaf bread- Italian or French works well, though my personal favorites are Sesame or three-cheese semolina. The only important thing is that you can fit your hand into it.
Roughly 1 lb ground beef, depending on the size of the bread.
1/2 onion, finely chopped. (Add more if you're partial to onions)
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
2 tbsp olive oil
Italian Seasoning, salt, pepper, and rosemary to taste
Crumbled bacon optional
You will need:
A cookie or pizza tray
A large saucepan
A bread knife
A bowl
Cut off the end of the bread loaf and hollow it out. Collect the bread innards in the bowl- use for bread crumbs, croutons, or a pre-dinner snack. Make sure to leave the loaf stable enough to hold up it's own weight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Heat the olive oil in the saucepan with a little bit of the spices. Once hot, add the ground beef and brown with the rest of the spices. Add the onion and cook until onions are tender.
Add the cheddar cheese and stir until the cheese is melted. If bacon is desired, add at this step.
Spoon the beef, onion, and cheese mixture into the hollowed bread, stuffing it in well. Re-attach the now-stuffed end with the toothpicks.
Bake for about 15 minutes, or until bread is crisp, then serve.
parsonsb's spaghetti sauce
1/3 pound either hot or sweet italian sausage
1/3 pound of ham
1/6 pound of diced pepperoni
1/6 pound of bacon
1/2 large bell pepper
1/2 large onion
1/2 bag of spinach
3-7 cloves of garlic
2 8oz can of tomato paste
3 cans of diced tomatoes (basil, oregano, garlic vareity)
If the sausage is still in link form remove it from the casing, dice the ham and the bacon. Dice the bell pepper, onion, and garlic. Start browning the sausage and add the garlic. Then add the ham and pepperoni and bacon. When the sausage is about half way done add the onion and bell pepper and spinach. Once the onion and bell pepper are translucent add 1 can of tomato paste and 2 can of diced tomatoes. Let simmer for a few minutes. Add more tomato paste if too thin or more diced tomatoes if too thick.
Serve over noodles.
Serves a few.
Random magic stuff
Put a hunk of brei on a cracker
wrap said cracker with brei in procuto
put in a toster oven for a few minutes
enjoy the magic!
Wanderingcowboy wrote:Zohar... you missed an awesome opportunity to post a recipe for brownies in your last post (reply #420 to the thread)
Hawknc wrote:I don't know if you've never heard of trolling, or if you're just very good at it.
Torvaun wrote:For reasons unknown to me, 420 is associated with marijuana. Hence, brownie recipe.
Korvost's "Everything in the fridge"-omelette wrote:(Basic) Ingredients:
Eggs, as many as you like, depending on how big the omelette is going to be
Cheese, grated or sliced and crumbled
Sweet Mustard, can be substituted with other mustard too
Salt and pepper after your liking
Add other stuff
Cooking process:
Put everything in a bowl and stir for a bit, then pour it into a frying pan.
Pull up the edges of the omelette somtimes and tilt it against the edge you pulled up. When it's completely done, fold it in half and lift it out of the pan and onto a plate.
The 'when you're still awake at 3 AM and you're hungry' salad wrote:
Salad dressing of your choice
Plain croutons
1. Take croutons, put them in a bowl.
2. Mix in a comfortable amount (so that all of the croutons are slightly moist) of your favorite salad dressing (mine varies between Ranch and Caesar Dressing).
3. Enjoy?
Random832 wrote:crowey wrote:[converted to non-metric by Random832]
1 large onion, diced
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
olive oil
2 cans tomatoes (you could also use fresh if you want)
2 tablespoons tomato paste
herbs- I use basil, origano, marjoram and parsley. dried is ok, but fresh is best. grow it in a pot on your windowsill!
a bayleaf
salt and pepper
dash balsamic vinegar
500g packet of pasta, any sort you are in the mood for. I am going through a fetucini phase at the time of writing...
Heat oil in a medium sized frying pan and saute onion untill softish then add garlic. After a minute or so, I push the onion and garlic to the side and quickly fry the herbs (except parsley) for 20 seconds. This helps to bring out the flavour.
Chop your tomatoes finely and add to the pan, along with the bayleaf and the tomato paste. Stir well to combine the paste and add balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper.
Bring to the boil, then you can turn it right down to the lowest heat you have and leave it for ages while you are doing other stuff (at least 20 mins)
When you are about to cook the pasta, get it simmering again and add the chopped parsley
Drain pasta and serve with the sauce, cheese, spring onions and roasted nuts if you feel like it.
Serves 4
souldelay wrote:I tried it on my campus and totally got busted for "inappropriate use of cookware"
I just want to know how the hell cakewaffles are inappropriate.
Random832 wrote:IN REPLY TO ANGRY RED TEXT: in my defense, you didn't say anything when crowey made his post.
Azrael wrote:Random832 wrote:IN REPLY TO ANGRY RED TEXT: in my defense, you didn't say anything when crowey made his post.
Yes, it's red. No, it's not angry -- very clearly not angry, actually, when you read it in context.
Since there is no accusation, there need be no defense -- which is a good thing, because "But *he* didn't get caught!" is a terrible one.
crowey wrote:3- I changed the recipe anyway, his has cocoa powder in, but I found it made them too dry so removed it from the recipe.
hermaj wrote: Also try to keep in mind that this thread is really for sharing your own ideas and recipes, so the issue of directly copying an existing recipe should not really be coming up here.
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PhotographerDave CotterellLocationCastleton, ON, CanadaDate2009 03 21, 1:56pm EDTEquipmentCanon XSi, 10mm lens f/3.5, ISO 100, 1/1000sec.DescriptionSingle Solar Halos are fairly common when the sun shines through high thin cloud layers. The second, outer halo is much less commonly seen due to lack of contrast with the clouds and is also more difficult to photograph due to its large angular extent which puts it outside all but the widest lenses. Notice that the 'rainbow' colour effect which can be faintly seen is reversed in the secondary halo due to the double refraction. Also it can be seen that there is more scattered sunlight between the two halos than inside our outside them. |
PhotographerShawn QuinnLocationOn the coastal lava plain within Hawaii National ParkDateMay 2006EquipmentCanon 10D on TripodDescriptionWhile hiking to a surface flow within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park under nearly a full moon, a brief shower moved through the area. I was able to capture the 'moonbow' over a lava flow. Image enhancement including the removal of thermal noise and CMOS sensor hot spots was performed with Photoshop. |
PhotographerEfrain Morales RiveraLocationAguadilla, Puerto RicoDate03/18/09 04:58utEquipmentLX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x, Astronomik LRGB filter set.DescriptionSaturn on a very clear night in Puerto Rico, After a month of periodic rain showers. On the lower images oversaturated to show the very dim moons Tethys and Dione. |
PhotographerHunter WilsonLocationLexington, OhioDateMarch 30, 2009EquipmentSBIG ST-4000XCM APM/TMB 130/780 Mach1GTO MountDescriptionM106 in Canes Venatici - 24x600sec, Imager Temp -20C. M106 (NGC 4258) is a Seyfert II galaxy in Canes Venatici. It lies at a distance of 22 to 25 million light years from earth and is receding at 537 km/sec. NGC 4217 is the bright edge-on spiral in the lower right of the frame, and may be a companion of M106. NGC 4248 is the small galaxy just to the upper right of M106. |
PhotographerChris KotsiopoulosLocationAthens, GreeceDate27/3/2009 19:22 - 19:36 (UT +3)EquipmentCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi 27/3/2009 19:22 - 19:36 (UT +3) Shutter Speed 0.5 sec Aperture Value 5.0 ISO 100 - 200 Lens Canon EF70-200mm f/4L USM Focal Length 200.0 mmDescriptionThe 2500 year old Parthenon and the New Moon (just over a day old). Good seeing and transparency conditions contributed to success in capturing the thin crescent from inside the heavily light polluted city of Athens. The photo is a composition of six stacked shots taken at 12 minute intervals. Note that the Moon hides behind the temple and then partially reapers just before it dives below the horizon. The shot is taken from the top of the Panathinaiko ancient stadium. |
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PhotographerElias ChasiotisLocationMarkopoulo, Greece.Date3/242009, 16:58UT, 3/25/2009, 04:14 UT.EquipmentCanon EOS 450D, Canon EF 70-200 F2.8, Canon 2x converter/ at 400mm F5.6.DescriptionTo the left it is Venus as photographed last evening just after sundown. It had an altitude of only 6°at sunset (lat. 38° Ν) and was visible to the naked eye. This morning i tried to locate it again (altitude 5°at sunrise from my site). Managed to photograph it (right photo), but this time it wasn't visible to the naked eye due to haze. With better transparency conditions i am sure it could be located with the naked eye on both evening and morning. This evening and tomorrow morning there is a last chance to try again. |
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PhotographerJames MaxwellLocationCaldera Rim Observatory, NMDateFeb. 27, 2009, 11:53AM to Feb. 28, 2009, 1:23AM MSTEquipment10" F/4 Schmidt Newtonian (Meade) with Baader Coma Corrector. 5" Guidescope with autoguider. Losmany G-11 Mount. Color Astro 400D (Canon Rebel)cooled DSLR. Photograph taken at Minus 10 to Minus 12C and at 8300 ft. elevation. Dark and Flat frames applied. Processed in Nebulosity and Photobrush.DescriptionTwo views of Comet Lulin, after passing by Regulus, one tracking with the comet, the other tracking with the stars. Total exposure time is 70 minutes, a composite of 60 second exposures. Two small spiral galaxies can be seen near the front of the comet tail, with additional galaxies in the upper left hand corner. |
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My mother a Devout Catholic for years since I was born. We have strong Catholic Faith. Every year she has placed a Nativity scene on her porch and through the years it has been stolen, vandalized etc. This year on the Feast of the Three Kings I prepared a presentation of gifts to the manger and the Camel to my Mama. She had no idea it was a surprise. It worked so well.
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Avril's song Smile has been nominated for a MuchMusic Video Award! It's International Video of the Year by a Canadian and she's up against Justin Bieber, Nickelback, Simple Plan and Drake ft. Rihanna. Unfortunately we can't vote so we're just going to have to keep our fingers crossed.


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This is like…the only thing I've made in AGES. But I'm becoming less lazy these days. Don't you hate it when the more you have to do, the more you feel compelled to add to your load?
Shirts are actually pretty easy to make. The collar is the only thing that jams up the process.
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Do you know what a Six-Word Memoir is? Six word memoirs are sometimes sad, often funny — and always concise. See additional examples
Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."
I've used 6 Word Memoirs with both students and teachers. I will post some examples.
Write a Six-Word memoir about yourself as an Intel Teach educator. If you choose to use this activity with your students or other teachers, come back and post some examples in this thread. Feel free to share pictures that match your 6 words.
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I love this. I can even envision the students making word clouds out of their memoirs. It would be fun to see if other students could match the "story" with the student who wrote it. This is a great, simple activity that would bring writing into every subject, but yet requires some higher order thinking skills.
This sort of ties in with something I found to use in a class I taught. I found this online site that allows students to create an "I Am" poem. http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/iampoem.htm. I know there are a lot of poetry sites out there, but this one was used in conjunction with Voicethread so it really jumped out at me.
Thanks for starting this post.....now off to write my memoir.
Thanks for the poem resource. I will check it out. On the same note, I actually had students and teachers do a "Who Am I" 6 word memoir for our community stories project. We used Wordle to make a word cloud out of their memoir. We also used Picnik in another activity. Students drew pictures of themselves, uploaded them to Picnik and then added their 6 Word Memoirs to it. With the students, I used PBworks and gave each student a student page and their 6 Word Memoir and their picture was the first thing they had on their wiki page. They then used it as an electronic portfolio throughout the year. I've also done it with students and teachers in science. They had to describe themselves as a scientists using 6 words.
I love the idea of the learners using a picture of themselves combined with a six-word memoir. I wonder if my Grade 3's could manage a memoir? I'll try it next term. Great idea.
My kids just wrote "Who Am I or Where I am From" poems. This would be a great way for them to summarize. I loved the poems and think this would be one more way for the kids to think about themselves. Don't you know it's harder to write something short than something long? Or maybe for the twitter, texting generations it is not.
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Hey Vanessa,
I love this. I had never heard about six-word memoirs. I have seen them in many places but never knew what to call them. Here is mine:
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This was fun and I will definitely share this with our teachers. Thanks for sharing.
Great Sandy. Thanks for sharing with other teachers. Maybe you can share some of their examples here.
Thanks for this thread Vanessa. I enjoyed reading the offerings. I have recently facilitated and Essentials course fraught with connectivity problems (See "My First Engage Group"). In the light of this here is my offering:
Enthusiastic facilitator, no connectivity, now deflated.
Hang in there, you are great!
The one you just posted describes me. Thanks for saving me the work. This is a great little activity especially for a Do Now. I will share this too.
Bonnie, I really like the idea of putting the memoir in a word cloud!
this is more than six words. . . .
I created this Wordle to help students understand the process of Photosynthesis. I've found students often struggle with the idea that more molecules of Water, Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen are involved than molecules of Sugar. The Wordle (IMHO) shows by size of the terms how much more these terms are found in the process. Photosynthesis is shown as: CO2 + H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2.
I appreciate the thinking you put into the concept of "Eager 2 Learn ... Eager 2 Share." Students who enjoy their learning experience so often are excited to share that learning with others. As educators, it is important that we identify methods that will encourage students to become eagerly involved in learning and motivate them to share that learning with others. I'm interested in methods you have found successful in helping students become eager learners.
I try to allow them many different opportunities and venues to display their knowledge and creativity. I want movies and wikipages in response to literature and not worksheets. We are lucky and have had the opportunity to Skype with a class from New York. We are sharing wikipage space with students from Germany. They are creating online games as test review, etc.
these are great! you truly inspired me!
These are looking really wonderful. Feel free to create more than one and use other Web 2.0 applications for creating great graphics. One idea is to use Picnic to create your 6 Word Memoir.
I love this activity Vanessa! I might use it in an upcoming workshop
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always learning, always improving, always fun
Great. Don't forget to come back and share some of the examples.
What fun! As an Intel Teach Educator I am...
energized with thinking tools and best practices
What a great activity Vanessa! I am going to use this in a workshop across the pond in a couple of weeks. Thanks so much for sharing
Energized, enthusiastic, enthralled to keep teaching.......
Hmmmm, or
Tootin' technology-integrated teaching around the world......(a hyphenated word counts as one, right??)
Hey Shelley!
Just a quick FYI. Your teachers can embed their Wordles here within the commuity. Just follow these steps:
That way everyone share at the same time without having to save images and such. Easy Cheesy Lemon Squeezy. LOL! Have next week.
We heard that you are traveling for the next few weeks. Wouldn't it be great to create Memoirs in different languages and share them in this thread.
Since my family is multi-lingual I challenged them to create six-word memoirs in their language. I've included them here for you to consider. (In order they are Dutch, Russian, and Portuguese.) I like the idea of Foreign Languages as Vanessa suggested. I'll be sharing this with our Foreign Language department tomorrow!
These are always hard for me to do. I guess my 6 word memoir would be----Creative educator that loves to learn
Kimberly that is a good one that you could share with students and other teachers. I plan on doing this with students during summer school. I will post examples of their memoirs later.
I'd print that memoir in BIG PRINT and post it outside my door. That should help parents see you value education!
I'm always looking for creative ideas to help students enjoy writing. The Wordle is illustrative and fun, and it ignites the thought process. I'll share it with my fellow teachers and students.
Gwen, Thanks for sharing this resource with your teachers and students. Don't forget to post some of their examples in this thread.
Remember that Wordle is fun, like all Web 2.0 tools. As an educator, I am always looking for ways that these tools can enrich my student's learning. One of my favorite activities is to have students take notes during a video and "tally" the number of times a term is used. These words are later entered in Wordle (copied and pasted to match the tally marks.) When the Wordle is printed, students have commented "Look at what is most important!"
A peer has his students paste their essays into Wordle. It is quickly evident what words are used most often - and if some should be changed. Several students commented "Wow ... look 'Like' is the biggest word on this page!"
As someone who is consistently looking for ways to extend pedagogy, I interested to hear how others have used Wordle to extend student.
Glen, I had a colleague who had students put entire paragraphs into Wordle. My question would be, is it as accurate, as say, the writing reviser in the SAS Curriculum Resource site. I know Wordle is not developed for that same purpose, but do you think it is a viable option for some. And besides, it really is more fun than the writing reviser.
I've not used the writing revisor on the SAS Curriculum site. Wordle (and all other word cloud generators) were probably not designed with this intent ... but if it hooks a child on writing . From what I can tell ... unless the message has too many words, these Wordle is pretty accurate in sorting words based on the number of times each is used. I think any teacher who uses such "engaging tools" with his/her classroom is bound to have students excited about the process they are involved in.
Besides "fun", "writing check", and "importance of word usage" what other ways do you see Word Cloud generation being helpful in the classroom?
Vanessa, on the lighter side, for those of us who live and train in the "middle of nowhere", mine would be "Praise the Lord for Verzion Modems".
Neil that could be the theme for your training. Everyone could create a 6 word memoir with that background.
Vanessa - Thanks so much for the link to NPR's Six Word Memoirs! I'm enjoying these stories. Somewhere way back, I read Hemingway's six word memoir: For sale baby shoes. Never worn. I enjoy projects where there's limits. Creativity happens when you're in "the box", when you have restraints. I find that student work is much better when they have limits. One minute is more than enough time for most student movies.This project reminds me of Flickr's Tell a Story in Five Frames http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/ . Here's the guidelines for that project:
1st photo: establish characters and location.
2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.
3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.
4th photo: build to probable outcomes
5th photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.
Thanks again Vanessa, you provide us with and endless supply of wondrous things.
Tom, I hope you don't mind if I use this in a Digital Storytelling course I will be teaching. Great stuff!
This is an excellent example of telling a story in five picture frames! I think this demonstrates how much information can be conveyed using just images. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. I'm now considering how this might be applied to my science class this year.
Great. I will put a link to this in the Digital Story thread. Thanks for sharing.
Vanessa, I really love the idea of writing a six-word memoir. I think this is a great activity to use with students and teachers! However, I'm not very creative, so I'll need to think of one to share!
Thanks Charlisa,
No pressure, but we will be waiting to see your Memoir. I know it will be great.
Vanessa, despite the Digital Storytelling course I took with you last summer, I was still not confident enough to use the tools with my students. I believe that participating in this course will provide me with the reinforcement of those skills, and more, to tackle this challenge full on.
BTW: "hafa adai" is the customary greeting in CHamoru, the native language of Guam.
Actions speak louder than words.
Now that most of us have started school and have established new goals and expectations, let's post some new Six Word Wordles for the new year.....What is your?
I was thrilled when recently I saw a teacher have parents figure out Wordle Puzzles that students had created. This was done at back to school night.
I have been an Intel Teach Educator in Victoria, Australia, since 2004. What has this done for me? Here's my six-word memoir:
Computers? Tools? No! Exploration vehicles? Yes!
These six pictures shows the evolution of educational technology which I encourage my student to tell a story out of this pictures.
check this rebus to have an answer on it's pix
I am EXCITED to use the technology that ENGAGES my students to EXPLORE their world so that they can EXPLAIN their thinking and EVALUATE their findings, thus EXTENDING their new learning. I used Big Huge Labs for my 6 word memoir.
This is my new six word memoir, now that we are more TechnoScientists' learners in my campus.
Here is my wordle. We've seen how technology can be used to create revolution. We've seem how technology can be used to gather people. We still haven't see the peace that is possible if technology is used.
Here is my Six-Word Memoir. I used Wordle.net and Smilebox.com site to add additional photos and music.
Several of you used Picnik to create yoru 6 Word Memoirs....News..
Win an iPad 2 with your six word memoir... http://www.studentsfirst.org/pages/essay
Entries must be submitted by Jan. 27.
Road warrior spreading gospel of education
You all are way ahead of me.
I just did this activity with 1st year teachers and I used the bighugelabs.com billboard tool to create a visual for my Six-Word Memoir.
Learner, Facilitator, Collaborator, Encouraging Change Enthusiastic.