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The official rule is that punctuation for a sentence goes on the inside of the quotation marks, right?
example: Eminent Scholar writes, “quotes go on the outside.”
But punctuation goes on the outside of parentheses, unless it’s part of the parenthetical phrase, right?
example: Eminent Scholar (2007) writes, “quotes go on the outside” (p. 124).
This never made sense […]

I want to be an RML.Isn’t a PhD in Educational Technology enough? No.
Here’s why: I want as much flexibility in my career choice as possible so I can move wherever I *want to live* rather than wherever I *need* to move in order to get a job. I’m currently well-positioned to work at what I […]

Title: Place-based Learning with locative technologies: situating learning in the cultures of place.
©2006 John Martin
Abstract: All human activities are constrained by the interconnected and overlapping factors of: biological abilities, time, space, and social narratives. My research focuses on how the interplay between two of these factors, space and narratives, can be mediated with the cultural […]

Early this semester, I was invited to give a talk in Dr. C.K. Lemley’s Young Adult Literature class, at Grinnell College, on October 6th, 2006. They were considering the radical changes in YA Literature, so I presented on the technological evolution of the accessibility in producing and distributing verbal, visual, and aural arts (i.e. from […]