I’ve noticed that the edublogging space is getting increasingly crowded. Seems like anyone with a blog is now an education expert. A related problem seems to be a lack of imagination when coming up with post titles, snappy catchphrases, and edugeek similes. The often quoted “markets are conversations” cliche is getting hackneyed with a proliferation of other things also being conversations. Then there’s the future predictions. The best prediction I saw recently was “… In the future of media, which is now, …”. Classic. The future is now, so what’s tomorrow? Two days after yesterday I suppose, or the day before the day after tomorrow.
So anyhoo in order to help budding edubloggers I’ve created a little edugeek simile generator which may even help you come up with ideas for your post titles.
If your web browser doesn’t like iFrames then try this link.
That is classic Dr D. Classic. I have been rolling over my desk for the last few minutes giggling at these.
Well it’s only a bit of fun and I hope everyone takes it as such but it’s spooky how close to home some of these are 😉
When I saw this from Steven’s OLDaily , I’d read it as “smilie” generator.
I’ve had a good giggle with these, but am now wondering what we’d have as edublogger’s smilies 🙂 (not only the keyboard shortcuts, but also the images that you’d have too … )
Hi Emma, it is ‘simile’ as in “a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like’ or `as’) “.
But I like the idea of smilies for edubloggers too. Maybe a permanently puzzled look?
I’d not expressed myself clearly enough the first time – once I’d realised that they were similies, rather than smilies, I was fine. I was just expecting images, rather than words of wisdom 😉
As to the smilie generator – I like the puzzled one, but can’t remember the code for it. 🙁
It may depend upon where you’re typing it but I pinched that little smilie from the list here.
My favorites so far: “In the future YouTube will be the future”. Amazing.