Broken Scales
Source: Pete Reilly
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5 Temptations of a CIO
I'm reading this book by Patrick Lencioni...fascinating story and the points it make are right in line with Robert Quinn
Blogging Yin Yang
Over at Bump on a Blog which I'm now reading via Google Reader...I gave up blog
Creativity Burns
Before I allowed myself to acknowledge my creativity, my particular brand, it burned in me...I carried it around like a hot brick, too dumb to slap it down, to dumb to know that I
Dante's Inferno
Recently, I was reminded of Dante's Inferno...and the inscription: "Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs
Essence
The newspaper has to learn what its real value is and that is, indeed, reporting and its editors have to stop defending raw numbers of bodies. They need to boil themselves down t
Jesuits in MySpace
My first exposure to the Jesuit order was in the movie Shogun, which was based on the book by James Clavell. I was fascinating by the priestly order that appeared to have milit
Learning Theories
Bill Kerr has an interesting post over at his site. I'm not sure I understand it all...as a proponent of co
On the Mountain
It was in one of those reports about that group fondly referred to as "The Youff" where they said that as a sixte
Scarcity vs Abundance
In an engaging blog entry entitled Abundance and 5 Years of Blogging, Ross Mayfield makes the following point: When I
Transition Techie
i remember now the value of constant movement. It allows one the illusion of progress without actual change. As an ed tech administrator, I live with these questions: Unrated Wha
Unleash Your Souls
I just finished reading this post over at Scott Olson's blog. The entry is entitled "[How the Public School System Crushe
Disturb Your Universe
"And let us also resolve that our new technologies — the Internet and the World Wide Web —will be used as
Unlocked
This conversation reminded me of the "set yourself on fire" post I wrote some time ago but now can't find...sigh. Abject Learning
Change the World
When I worked as a teacher in Cotulla ISD, Cotulla, Tx same place as Lyndon Baines Johnson
Absolute Surrender
It's only by surrendering that we win, you know. Jesus surrendered himself. Gandhi and Bonhoeffer did. Mother Teresa surrendered. Anyone who has had something to lose (don't we all
Never fail to protest
There may be a time when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel, as quoted in [Survival and resis
Powerful Beyond Measure
We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been drenched by many storms. We have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretense... Are we still of any use? [D
Students Writing
Yesterday, I spent my entire day at a UIL competition. All day. No connectivity. No computer. No internet...and, I had a GREAT time. One of the frustrations I have had with the way
What's a blog?
I've struggled with how to best define a blog...to me, it seems so much like just an empty book of white pag
Entering the Zone
I remember the moment as if yesterday. I was sitting in a darkened technology lab at the Education Service Center, Region
3 Easy Ways to Bypass Filters
So as to provide easy ways to bypass district filters on the word "MySpace.com" or any word that has been banned via an access control list try these approaches: 1) Use Google
PDFtools
Although 99% of what I do with PDF files is to create them, I'm occasionally called upon to manipulate them, whether to delete pages, merge PDF documents, and stuff like that. On t
Government and Open Source
Two pieces of news caught my eye this week regarding open source. The first is how the Homeland Security is investing in evaluating open source and how it might be "hardened."