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Here is an image I used at my communities talk at e-fest. A couple of fun loving community facilitators: 29th March 2006 This actually comes from an old talk for Physics teachers. I used to wonder why physics teachers were often so grumpy. Continue reading Community Talk at e-fest In my search to find a good tagging utility to work on my HDD files (something like comes built in with the Mac) I came across this is a cool, lightning fast HDD search utility: Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) version 1.6 I have yet to decide if there is overhead from using this, there doesn’t Continue reading Hard Drive Indexer/Searcher The Fordham Institute: suggestions for rebuilding after Katrina: 1. Build from the bottom up. Rather than re-creating a school system, New Orleans should create a system of schools. This is a chance to keep the central office minimal. The early focus should be on creating new, excellent, autonomous schools and figuring out what services . Continue reading After Katrina This is a little thought about managing a personal history as well as taking part in corperate discussions in a closed commnity space. Living in an online community environment – postings in forums are still (sigh!!) central – and we have several kinds of postings: Our personal/public life, things that we are doing, things that Continue reading Personal and Corporate History Still interested in Chris Whittle. Found this article written by him in The Concord Monitor: What if we did design our schools on a clean slate and in an orderly and seriously funded way? Would there really be any difference? I believe so. To give you just one example, we might find a Continue reading More on Chris Whittle A very interesting article in Aug 29th Time Magazine, extracted from the book Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education “Class size is not everything” (see Japan) and four other Bold Proposals: Give teachers a big raise Build a West Point for Principals Let kids help run the school Bankroll R&D for schools Continue reading “Crash Course” Chris Whittle This little gem of a school is based in downtown Wellington, has gone from zero to 80 pupils in 18 months. I’d always associated Montessori with wooden kids toys. I was wandering along Willis street last week during my prowl around the MoE in Wellington when I first saw the sign, wandered in the open Continue reading Athena Montessori College Been too busy to go online. Lots of interesting people to meet. Terry Stewart (Massey) -very interesting scenario creator. http://www.diagnosis.co.nz/
From George Orwell (1946) Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give appearance of solidity to pure wind From the National Safety Management Society pages. E-mail address manager. Update things over the web to keep contacts current. http://www.plaxo.com/ Carol Cooper is using it. Looks really cool. |
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