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When it comes to "e-learning", I have to think about Christina's comment: "Fast and dirty", meaning quickly produced and not well-planned. So-called "rapid learning applications" as screencasts, Adobe presenter flick (formerly known as "Macromedia Breeze") etc. seem to be very attractive, but somewhat useless, if not well-produced. But could there be a format that is quick, enlightening and (ideally) entertaining?
O'Reilly, the publishing company that gave us the term "web 2.0" and hundreds of clever computer books, organizes a series of events called "ignite". Everyone can give a talk there. There are no restrictions regarding content. All rules apply only to the mode of presentation:
- Every talk lasts 5 minutes.
- Every presentation consists of 20 slides,
- which auto-advance (usually) every 15 seconds.
Is it possible to get a message across? I think, yes. Here is an example (by Tim O'Reilly):

Ignite has a channel on youtube, where more presentations can be found. I think, these presentations are really great.

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Dear reader,
normally, I blog in English here, but now I decided to note down the experiences we have working with studio d. Therefore, posts in this category will be in German.

Christina Kuhn hatte eine gute Idee, ich sollte doch mal meine Erfahrugen mit studio d systematisieren und ein Blog führen. Da ich nicht noch ein weiteres Blog aufmachen wollte, beschloss ich, dieses Blog einfach auf meinem schon vorhandenen "beruflichen" Blog zu realisieren. Künftig werde ich also die Erfahrungen, die ich als Lehrer mit diesem Lehrwerk sammle, mit Euch teilen.

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Very often, the Ig Nobel Prize is misunderstood as a prize for researchers who wasted their time with complete nonsense investigations. But in fact, the Ig Nobel Prizes acknowledges research that makes people laugh in first place and think in the second. But this year, the Chemistry Ig Nobel Prize is very odd indeed. It was actually awarded to two teams:

CHEMISTRY PRIZE. Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA), Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA), for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not.
REFERENCE: "Effect of 'Coke' on Sperm Motility," Sharee A. Umpierre, Joseph A. Hill, and Deborah J. Anderson, New England Journal of Medicine, 1985, vol. 313, no. 21, p. 1351.
REFERENCE: "The Spermicidal Potency of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola," C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang, Human Toxicology, vol. 6, no. 5, September 1987, pp. 395-6. [NOTE: THE JOURNAL LATER CHANGED ITS NAME. NOW CALLED "Human & experimental toxicology"]
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Deborah Anderson, and C.Y. Hong's daughter Wan Hong

(Improbable Research; Highlightings in bold face: MD)

One Singaporean won a Ig Nobel Prize, too. Ziv Carmon from INSEAD is one co-author of a prize-winning study that shows that expensive placebos are more effective than cheap ones.

Improbable Research: Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize. Retrieved, Oct. 6 2008 from: http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008.

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Die Lecture Notes für Lecture 10 sind jetzt online.
http://www.martin-doepel.de/4students/0809_1-G3-L10-LN.doc

One thing:
Think about the sentence:

Meine Mutter schreibt meinem Vater einen Brief.

What, if you want to substitute the Dativergänzung with a personal pronoun? Then you get the sentence:

Meine Mutter schreibt ihm einen Brief.

So, the Dativ- and the Akkusativergänzung swap positions only, if the Akkusativergänzung is replaced by an personal pronoun.

Meine Mutter schreibt ihn meinem Vater.

And do you think it would be good German to say

Sie schreibt ihn ihm.

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Well, it would be correct. But almost impossible to understand, unless you know the context pretty well. Have a nice recess!

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