“And where’s the undo feature in Facebook, when you’ve messed up your life? The internet is like pissing in a pool - once it's out there, it's damn hard to take it back.”
“The truth is, effective teaching is a complex art that requires the practitioner to be part subject matter expert, part psychologist, part instructional designer, part expert communicator, and part performance artist. While teaching and wisdom do seem to come more naturally to some than others, what is important to consider is that good teaching ultimately happens by design. The trouble is this design sense is often implicit in teachers. Many good teachers know how to effectively work with their students without being able to describe what it is that they are actually doing. This is turn sheds light on the trouble with many teacher education and staff development programs: teachers are not educated explicitly to be designers.”
“Many people don’t know this, but Google Docs has a built-in equation editor that natively uses LaTeX! You can build up your equation with the WYSIWYG functionality and it updates the corresponding LaTeX in real-time, or you can enter LaTeX directly, and it updates the typeset math in real-time. See this screenshot: http://cpbotha.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/google_docs_ss1.png Personally I type math equations directly in LaTeX, but the Google Docs equation editor is very useful if you quickly need an equation typeset, or you want to teach someone else how to use LaTeX math. One could also use it in addition to a normal text editor, purely for doing the math bits in LaTeX.”