tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1202382 2008-11-03T01:05:32-05:00 Stop that! This is education - it's not supposed to be fun TypePad Webuhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57928559 2008-11-03T01:05:32-05:00 2008-11-03T01:05:32-05:00 Blog Admin I took a day away from building our massive, bloody, code-spewing, chain-spanning, content management system to get back to teaching last week and spent some time with the Metroland Editors at their annual "off-site" in Markahm, just...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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