Something that hasn’t changed for us is that people die. And it’s not really news that more than occasionally they do so with bravery, dignity, and even humor. Over the past few days excerpts from Randy Pausch’s last lecture at Carnegie-Mellon have been circulating on the Web, and television; there have been numerous blog posts and articles in the press. As you may know Pausch will shortly die of pancreatic cancer and if you want the sound-bite it’s: “If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.” The real value of the Web is that it gives us access to the entire lecture. Here’s the link. It’s in Windows Media format so you may need to download it to get it to play. It’s long, close to an hour but more than worth the time particularly for learners and for teachers.