An Interesting Find

I was surfing around the web the other day, cruising from one blog to another and onto different websites and I found a nice little gem.

Dr. Michael J. Tierney, Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary, has put together a playlist for topics of international relations. According to his website, he starts his Intro to International Relations classes with a song that he has tied to the topic of discussion.

I love this idea for two reasons: 1) I think the choices of song are great and really speak to the topics and, 2) I think this is a great idea for academics.

Art and media are great mediums to get messages across to people and have them start thinking about issues. Even more, I think that this idea is a great way to entice students into thinking about the different topics. I like the way Dr. Tierney is attempting to engage his students and make the subject exciting. I don't know what intro classes at the College of William and Mary are like but I know intro classes in Canada tend to be brutally boring and mundane so efforts like these are paramount to getting people interested, and keeping them interested. So I guess what I am saying is good work Dr. Tierney!

Make sure you check out the playlist,

- blenCOWe

Fiberals!

I love this.

I thought the website www.willyoubetricked.ca was good but this site was sent to me and I love it even more.

In my opinion, www.theshiftygreen.ca is a work of art. It looks extraordinarily similar to the Liberals' thegreenshift.ca. The template is similar and the buttons look the same but the message is contrary. It has been composed so well that at first I thought I had accidentally clicked on the wrong site.

And that is the pure genius of it. It can easily be mistaken as the Liberals' site, yet providing the opposing point of view for the reader. Also, its critique of the Green Shift plan is more subtle (and thus less polarizing) than the vibrant and hard line site created first by the Conservative Party.

Argue the politics all you want, I think this is a creative and clever response to the Green Shift plan announced yesterday. Somebody's earned their money today!

-blenCOWe