February seems to me like a natural candidate for the worst month of the year Award. After waiting forever for winter to come this year now it seems like winter will go on forever. No holidays (this really bugs me we need a long weekend in February!!). . . Grey skies. . . Slush . [...]
Category Archives: Community
Speech Accent Archive
Posted by Mike Whitla on November 5, 2006
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I have always been interested in how accents of speech develop and change. I was very interested to discover this website that features English accents from all over the world. This is a fairly systematic study of the way English is pronounced using the same text sample. You can hear accents from Mongolia to California [...]
A Holistic Approach to Learning Music
Posted by Mike Whitla on October 11, 2006
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the Rainbow Songs approach to teaching and learning music. I have come to realize that there is interconnectedness between music, movement and language that support each other though the learning process.
First Steps in Open Source
Posted by Mike Whitla on September 24, 2006
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Firstly, for those that have not heard of open source: Open source is software developed to be distributed for free with free permission to add, subtract, or modify the code to suit the user. (I’m sure I’ll get corrected on this definition by someone) Secondly, off hooray for Word Press!! who make the software that [...]