My husband I were having a discussion of our child hoods. Everyone knew about The Walton’s, The Partridge Family, Disney’s Sunday night movie and Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. With only 4 channels or so on TV (no computers, electronic gaming, before the VCR, DVDs and iPods) we had a more common cultural thread. As kids we were more limited in our exposure to different ideas and media. Most of us had a very similar cultural entertainment experience here in…
I was reading Will Richardson’s post on School 2.0. It refers to the future opening of two new schools. I am envious of these schools. They have a new vision, they are being created with the idea to be different, to try new things. They are starting from the ground up, hiring staff who share the vision and have the skills necessary to carry out the goals. I wish them well, I hope they are successful and that they pass…
Well after a few days of monkeying around I made the move to wordpress, hosted on my own site. Still not as integrated with my site as I’d like but really it is the blog that is the focus and where change occurs. It will do for now. Special thanks to my good friend Julia for her help, encourgement, and excellent skill.
If any one has visited my website you will notice that things keep changing. I received the website and domain in December, threw up a quick site to sort of hold my place and well now it is summer. This is my time to play. So I have been trying different styles and tools. With the help of a good friend I will try to get Word Press up on my webserver and try that out – I do like…
I have been trying to keep up on the happenings at NECC. There are so many sources of information. As I am reading the blogs, new post keep appearing I could do this all day and night it seems. Two of the posts got my attention, Kevin Clark’s REMC Ramblings and Wesley Fryer’s Speed of Creativity. The general tone of these posts is that there are lots of tools, so now what do you do with them and what is…
I received a domain name and website for Christmas last year. I am not very much into self-promotion, I am almost embarrassed when someone stumbles on the blog or website but my husband convinced me it was okay to share my thoughts and ideas with others. So I do. I recently purchased Rapidweaver to create my webpage and it has a blogging feature. So I will keep two blogs for a while one at Blogger and on at my site….