Comments on: Toolbar Buttons Revisited… http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/07/24/toolbar-buttons-revisited/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toolbar-buttons-revisited Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Thu, 23 May 2013 11:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gary http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/07/24/toolbar-buttons-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-155020 Gary Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:44:40 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2144#comment-155020 It’s in Australia too. My son, turned nine on Saturday, has had to do a couple for school. But they are teaching grammar rules too. My daughter (six) has now started raising issues with the reading stories she brings home from school. It really puts you off the flow of a story.

]]> By: David Aldridge http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/07/24/toolbar-buttons-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-155015 David Aldridge Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:03:55 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2144#comment-155015 Oh, now you got me started on kids and Powerpoint. I had hoped that the practice of schools getting kids to develop powerpoint presentations for homework was an insanity confined to America, but alas not. It makes me furioius that they are forced to chop their thoughts into tiny corporate bullet points, and that they spend five times as much effort on formatting and arranging their text as they have done on the truly educational and creative part. There seems to be no thought of getting them to actually write a coherent set of ideas in an essay.

And then when they lose it because they forgot to save …

]]> By: Kevin Fries http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2011/07/24/toolbar-buttons-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-155013 Kevin Fries Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:07:17 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=2144#comment-155013 For some people it’s easier to call it the Honda symbol.

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