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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Aug. 30 (Sa), 2014 Where are the fathers?? :)!

Where is the Daddy Opossum? 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFkdcsgPke4

Some may say - He is a SuperMale !
I might say - A puzzling male mystery?

Mommy Opossum Carries 15 Babies
My daughter's grandfather captured this video of a mother opossum transporting 15 baby opossums on her back....


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Tammy Campbell That IS amazing,considering that they only have 13 teats!
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Crystal Huang That's amazing, 13 teats? Why - this unique number? In this case, two of the babies have to be on the waiting list???
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Tammy Campbell I have no idea,but the babies are not developed when they are born,they are the size of a bee and must attach to a teat for several weeks/months. So this opossum must have been born with 15 teats,otherwise there is no way the extra two could have lived!
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Tammy Campbell http://opossum.craton.net/faqs.htm
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Crystal Huang Thanks, Tammy.
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Crystal Huang An old clip - repost. The Eternal Mother Love - The Dead Opossum mother IS still nursing her orphan babies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSbTR3xv02c



Dead opossum mom with live babies, Animal Advocates, Mary Cummins
Someone called about an ill opossum mom with babies. By the time I got there hal... See More
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Crystal Huang As the Males Sow, so the Females "Reap"  . How many males are really needed ??? ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik9Kzh5Ju78



Movin Mama! Opossum from Golmers house

Opossum with babies hanging on in my yard

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Aug. 28 (Th), 2014 Why are the Techno-Corporate interests so pervasive? Crystal's Teaching-Learning-Sharing#43


Crystal Huang shared a link via Renee Smith.
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Who dominates to whose best interests by what and how?

The LA School iPad Scandal: What You Need To Know
www.npr.org


The Los Angeles Unified School District has shut down a half-a-billion-dollar deal with Apple and Pearson to provide classroom technology. Here's what happened.


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Crystal Huang This event could be another "told" anecdote ...and I am not a Luddite (in fact, with a Computer Science minor degree and a background in Learning technology- previously Instructional System and Technology)- just feeling uneasy for some (not all) techno-Corporate, technocrats'/TechnoHypes' directing the techno- artificial/ forced over-consumption...without proper justification to why and how TechnoCorporate Interests are so pervasive??? - my personal bias.

Don't get me wrong - I fully understand the throat-cutting competition among corporate companies and pursuing proper profits is the legitimate driving force behind the capitalistic world.

Could the whole one-way digital train running through the edu-landscape be a mixed-blessing?  Time might tell?

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Crystal Huang Thanks, Renee Smith.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Aug. 26 (T), 2014 The difference between Privilege and Entitlement :)! Crystal's serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing#42

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The 2nd exciting day of the fall semester, 2014! So far, I have met
2 classes of Face to Face (f2f) 200 level transfer track of Introductory Sociology
1 class of Compressed Hybrid Introduction to sociology night class
2 classes of Online Introduction to Diversity Studies
another 1 Compressed Hybrid Introduction to sociology will meet in October...

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Crystal Huang So happy to meet many traditional young students (in the transfer track) who are keenly aware of the issues of multi-dimensional justice and environmental challenges. One of them intended to take sociology as a major that made me smile...mmm, perhaps, relating to my pink T-shirt today...???

By the way, during the warming-up, joking around with students regarding the difference between Privilege and Entitlement -
To have opportunities to learn and understand Philosophy- History - Sociology is a tremendous Privilege (without tightening the belt ). To be in a classroom led by an instructor who is deeply in love with these 3 subject matters plus a charming accent is a HEAVENLY Entitlement :) :D   !

But, then... this luxury is too cheap to be affordable to many, and too expensive to the few to enjoy.


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Crystal Huang I told yesterday and today's classes, when I was typing the Day One survey with their name tags before school began in every semester during last 11 years at CVTC and 4 years at UW-Stout, I always lost in the Sociological Imagination - among them, I imagined, who would like to pick up the Sociological Torch and passing on this marvelous Prometheus FIRE, and Keep on burninnnnnnng and shinninggggg !
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黃麗月 早安吉祥^_^
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Lisa Reeve Wish I was in one, maybe another semester. Love your classes!
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Aug. 20 (W), 2014 The future job creators.

Crystal Huang
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Re-post. Old pictures are worth millions of words. Thanks to fb friends' sharing. Just curious, how much do you embrace Technocracy with the repressive techno-consumption? How much the techno-hype do you concern about before jumping on the hypie-wagon?




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Crystal Huang Re-post : the original version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8XZ-_EgWB8



Trickmousing [Original]
My intelligent mice doing amazing tricks. Visit them on facebook: http://facebook.com/smartmice
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Crystal Huang E. Thorndike might surprise that the Rodent Majesties could do better than the Feline Majesties for the law of effect ! Why did the Skinner Chamber reduce pigeons into homo sapiens?
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Crystal Huang Chatting with a couple of IT students - Don't worry, be happy. Some jobs are obsolete, but fortunately, the two index-finger tips and the nearsighted eye-balls take on the job creators' roles ! What are they??? ohh well, such as we need more and more jobs from people who fix our all sorts of tech-gadget induced eye problems; and the pipeline of fingers, elbows, arms and shoulders which support to our multi-functional index-fingers on the tinier and tiniest repressive-consumptuous devises.

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Aug. 20 (W), 2014 The Edu-Leviathan! Crystal's serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing#41



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Her journey here, is quite simple and pretty much focused - "finding a job to continue paying her high tuition cost/debts"- Don't be jealous of her, O.K.? - A Wonderful Life !!

Last semester she paid $1363 for a Credit to contribute to her 24 credit dissertation fees. Just know she got the new tuition and fee bill- $1402 (constantly growing to aim high :D) Per Credit based on a generous and thoughtful "Reciprocal Act"-similar to the instate rate– and this is NOT a “PRIVATE” school. She has been paying almost 1 to 3 credits per semester due to being a LUCKY part-time student at a university of a neighboring state with a unique teaching load at a local college.

Optimistically, she has been highly motivated to continue to pay her 80th credit for a total 84-credit Degree Cost (She vividly remembers- the very first credit she paid was $560 - how cheap it was a while ago!) – a delightful edu-prosumer: earning from teaching and spending on learning ! - exactly, no more no less, hehehe....

Obviously, the whole message is about Business/Enterprise.  Indeed, the Educational Business is an enormous Business, no matter big schools or small schools - mainly , are edu-businesses.

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Crystal Huang A couple of years ago, friends kindly recommended her to transfer to some “Proprietary" Online Schools... She Almost Agreed with them… And she is such a die-hard "informal/serendipitous Learning" believer ! Would you deny that Credentialism is not an adorable Edu-Leviathan? Otherwise, dear MOOCs, where are you - Come to rescue her!!!???

Fortunately, thanks for all almighty gods to privilege her - She still has a job to pay her learning cost/debts - a lucky few: You know this "entitlement" has been denied to many people !

By the way, James Morrison prophesies that the University is dead (or will be dead?)... But the worshipers say- Long live the Ivy League, Long live the Big Universities... !
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Crystal Huang Who says that she is not RICH !? - just learned to appreciate that tightening the belt - sometimes, is good for health ! ! One the other hand, once in a while, her "unbelievable" capacity of paying such humongous tuition, fees and the rest (close to $60,000 so far) makes her feel like a Proud "Upper-Class" ! - Indeed, that feeling is soooo gooood.


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Renee Smith Learning is a great investment!!
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黃麗月 書中自有黃金屋! 雖辛苦,樂在求知! 世上第一等人!
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Crystal Huang 書中恣有惶驚嗚? !
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黃麗月 take easy !
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Aug 14 (TH), 2014 Don't Shoot! Crystal's serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing#40

Crystal Huang shared Occupy San Francisco's photo.
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Picture taken today at Howard University.
#solidarity

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Crystal Huang On Aug 6 (W), 2014 during a tech blending/integration workshop, here is my project presentation- : http://prezi.com/.../the-learning-journey-of.../



The learning Journey of Introduction to Diversity Studies

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Crystal Huang Click the above the forward/backward arrow keys or any part of the canvas for a specific scene ( ZUI- zooming user interfaced with an Imagined background music).
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Aug. 13 (W), 2014 A Little Garden of Delights






"The Last Rose Of Summer"

'Tis the last rose of summer left blooming alone
All her lovely companions are faded and gone
No flower of her kindred, no rosebud is nigh
To reflect back her blushes and give sigh for sigh

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, to pine on the stem
Since the lovely are sleeping, go sleep thou with them
Thus kindly I scatter thy leaves o'er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead

So soon may I follow when friendships decay
And from love's shining circle the gems drop away
When true hearts lie withered and fond ones are flown
Oh who would inhabit this bleak world alone?
This bleak world alone