Sunday, June 20, 2010
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Basecamp, E-mail and Projects
By Joshua Kim June 20, 2010 9:11 pm
Will we ever get beyond e-mail as the main tool to manage our project communications? Everyone I know believes that e-mail is a terrible tool to keep track of all the tasks, to dos, milestones, decencies, and people related to projects. We are all overwhelmed by too much e-mail, and therefore likely to miss key communications related to our projects. E-mail makes it difficult to achieve a holistic view of the entire project process, forcing us to wade through numerous screens to see project communication. Nor does e-mail allow us to place project related messages with project related documents, links or materials.E-mail for project management is also sub-optimal when it comes to communicating
'Am I Crazy?'
By Susan O'Doherty June 20, 2010 6:47 pmHello, Mama Ph.D.,I love your blog and have found it to be quite helpful as I consider a career in academia. I am 28 years old with a family and a house, but I am fairly disenchanted with the "real world" despite the financial stability that it offers for my family. I have not found the proverbial passion in the corporate world that career counselors would encourage me to follow, and the one thing that I do truly love is higher education. I am considering a career change to either become a higher education administrator or to pursue a faculty position following a Ph.D. program (my preference would be for the latter).Given all of the negative information concerning the pursuit of tenure tA Grating Exam
By Herman Berliner June 20, 2010 8:11 pmAnytime a semester ends, there are always multiple conversations about final examinations. And final exams come in all sizes and shapes. Not surprising, faculty focus their attention on the quality of the student work be it in response to short or multiple choice questions or in response to essay or term paper assignments. Students tend to talk about whether an exam was “fair”: in other words did it cover the materials that the students were responsible for. After that, the students tend to focus on whether the exam was clear or confusing and whether it was easy or hard. Certainly there are extremes in all these categories but for the most part, faculty view the students’ work to be reasonable and responsible and students view the examination to also be reasonable and responsible.
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This year I had the pleasure of serving on the Career Day committee and on June 16, 2010 our school held its first ever Career Day (we are a rather new school.) As Career Day came to a close, I was struck by how this time-honored tradition still holds relevance for the students of the new millennium.
First, having outsiders visit our campus is in and of itself quite a feat. Being located in an industrial part of town that few of our visitors would have ever had the need to visit, did not work to our advantage. Yet the speakers took on the challenge and found themselves pleasantly surprised with the cleanliness of our campus and the campus design itself. Our speakers were greeted by the most personable, vocal, and charming students on campus: the Advanced Studies students. These students became one on one escorts for our speakers from the moment they arrived campus and were able to give the speakers a sense of the school community and student life.
Having strangers repeat the same exhortations to students (“be on time,” “work hard,” “do your best”) all of a
This year I had the pleasure of serving on the Career Day committee and on June 16, 2010 our school held its first ever Career Day (we are a rather new school.) As Career Day came to a close, I was struck by how this time-honored tradition still holds relevance for the students of the new millennium.
First, having outsiders visit our campus is in and of itself quite a feat. Being located in an industrial part of town that few of our visitors would have ever had the need to visit, did not work to our advantage. Yet the speakers took on the challenge and found themselves pleasantly surprised with the cleanliness of our campus and the campus design itself. Our speakers were greeted by the most personable, vocal, and charming students on campus: the Advanced Studies students. These students became one on one escorts for our speakers from the moment they arrived campus and were able to give the speakers a sense of the school community and student life.
Having strangers repeat the same exhortations to students (“be on time,” “work hard,” “do your best”) all of a
NorthJersey.com: Hispanics say N.J. Gov. Christie's proposed budget cuts would hit them hard
Hispanics say N.J. Gov. Christie's proposed budget cuts would hit them hard
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Hispanic leaders are warning that Governor Christie's proposed budget cuts will devastate their communities by leaving little or no funding for programs that assist the unemployed, disabled and the destitute, among others.
Leaders are particularly concerned about the pending elimination of the Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development, which funnels funds to some 40 agencies that they say serve about 300,000 mostly low-income Latinos annually. The 35-year-old department, they note, is the only state agency that focuses on Hispanics.
The cuts are the latest source of frustration among Hispanics over Christie. They were angered by his decision to drop legal immigrants who are not naturalized U.S. citizens from NJ FamilyCare, a health insurance program for low-income parents, and by the possibility that he would eliminate the Commission on New Americans, a long-awaited initiative by his predecessor to address immigrant issues in New Jersey.
"This is not shared sacrifice," said Guillermo Beytagh-Maldonado, executive director of the Hispanic Directors Association, an umbrella group, referring to the proposed cuts. "He's cutting our head off. So many people in New Jersey are talking about how Hispanics are going be profiled in Arizona because of the new immigration law. But right here in New Jersey we're being profiled, we're being treated outrageously."
Hispanics say Christie seems indifferent to the problems and needs of their communities, though Hispanics are now the state's largest minority group, making
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Buy this photoImmigrants at the Hispanic Information Center of Passaic discussing Governor Christie's proposed budget cuts.
The cuts are the latest source of frustration among Hispanics over Christie. They were angered by his decision to drop legal immigrants who are not naturalized U.S. citizens from NJ FamilyCare, a health insurance program for low-income parents, and by the possibility that he would eliminate the Commission on New Americans, a long-awaited initiative by his predecessor to address immigrant issues in New Jersey.
"This is not shared sacrifice," said Guillermo Beytagh-Maldonado, executive director of the Hispanic Directors Association, an umbrella group, referring to the proposed cuts. "He's cutting our head off. So many people in New Jersey are talking about how Hispanics are going be profiled in Arizona because of the new immigration law. But right here in New Jersey we're being profiled, we're being treated outrageously."
Hispanics say Christie seems indifferent to the problems and needs of their communities, though Hispanics are now the state's largest minority group, making
School Tech Connect: People Like Nice Facilities
People Like Nice Facilities
Oh look, a shiny new facility that people are clamoring to get their kids into. What lessons can we learn here about public school infrastructure? Is there any way to give incentives to billionaires and foundations to invest in these kinds of projects, or does it all have to go to charter schools?
Kyron Horman, Skyline Elementary School Second Grader
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