Mr. Benesh’s Online Community

Technology making my life easier:
1) Being able to do a multimedia presentation in lieu of a 15 page paper for EADM.
2) Completing and filing my taxes last night in 20 minutes, for free using ufile.
3) Being able to take a course entirely online, instead of having another 32.5 hours in a classroom at some [...]

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What you are about to read is a book review about deeply rooted in Humanistic properties, which I am very much in favour of. Since you are not supposed to discuss religion or politics with friends, I warn you beforehand. This is a mix of information about myself and how this [...]

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A favourite topic of mine in the past, as some of you may know, is the subject of wireless internet – WiFi, as it is often called. I may not be as dumb as this gentleman, and Google “How to commit murder” before killing your wife, so everything following this is purely hypothetical.
Suppose a hypothetical [...]

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Read this quick article snipit – “We keep seeing ridiculous stories about how much productivity is lost through things like employees watching March Madness or personal surfing at work. However, the latest report on where companies are losing out on productivity actually makes some sense. It seems that basic IT illiteracy is a [...]

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I have no problem sharing the fact that I am struggling to deal with my alcoholic father. Tonight, it came to a head when in three hours of me being away, all he had to do was screw ten screws into some boards, and he got only six done. I came home, and he was [...]

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Well, if you were captivated by this title, I’m sure you’re expecting to hear about how bad cell phones are in schools, and how they are banned in various areas, and should be outlawed. However, I love cell phones – and more importantly, so do today’s youth. Why we spend so much time and energy [...]

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I just wanted to have an exciting title that would get people’s attention. I recently heard a story about an intern who was almost thrown out of his internship, and would have been out of the faculty, I’m sure, if the story ended up being true.
What happened was some students thought it would be funny [...]

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I’ve recently been using Moodle to create an online course, based on the Saskatchewan Curriculum. It is for an Accounting 10 course, and it has lead me to some interesting thoughts lately. The first one has been about the majority of people teaching in their first year of school. All you typically hear is stories [...]

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I find I get incredibly discouraged by blogs that post multiple multiple multiple MULTIPLE messages daily. When I come to my bloglines and I see that there are thirty new posts from one page, and I just checked it two days ago, I make an assumption. My assumption is that there is no way in [...]

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I bought a laptop a few months ago, and I have been using it in all my classes to take notes. Along with this, however, comes a bonus – games, MSN, email, and other such distractions. This article, http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/perspectives/2007/2007-02-22-staffed.htm, talks about who is really responsible for laptop usage. Should individual teachers ban laptop usage in [...]

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