Well-Swept Yard

Origin: 1740–5 0; inter-  + act interact. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged . Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interact (accessed: June 13, 2012). I like the division because it emphasizes the "act" part. The first time a taught an online class with Blackboard I learned a couple of things about interactivity. First, I had a student that had taken a class from me before. He sat at the back of the room and never said a word. I noticed that he was quite active on the discussion board. When I saw him at an art opening I remarked that he was more active on the discussion board than he had ever been in the classroom. I asked him why. His response was short. "I don't like speaking in public." The second thing I learned was by accident. I had to be out of town for a conference and I posted an announcement telling the class that I would have limited access to the Internet but that they should continue the week's

Gmail is pretty clever at placing ads next to messages--ads that pertain somehow to what is in the message. I've noticed recently that when message from or about my university show up that an add for the University of Phoenix appears. I wonder if this means that Gmail thinks that I might want to work at another place or that it likens my university with UPhoenix. Hmm . Well, yes.