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Apr.18.2013
April 18
In Training
Like a faithful dog that was hard to train, patience is a thing hoped for yet peevish during the breaking in. Stanch companionability is hard won, but worth the cost of acquisition. And what is the price I truly paid in the end;...
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Jan.31.2013
Pasi Salhberg, in Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, doesn’t pretend to have a universally applicable solution to the problems we face in providing effective learning opportunities. But the wonderfully produced snapshot he provides of the Finnish school...
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Nov.26.2012
As I write this, my plane has just taken off from Heathrow, seven hours after its scheduled departure. I spent six of them on the tarmac, trying to soothe the part of my brain that was spinning a story about British Airways’ incompetence. That was fairly challenging: during the previous hour,...
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Nov.01.2012
Welcome to 2012 National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo) and the 2012 Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) challenge!
I’m going to start WNFIN off with some cold hard facts about becoming published. I don’t care if you want to become a freelance journalist, a ghostwriter, a corporate...
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Oct.02.2012
I used to write a lot about my checkered past in the music business, interesting mainly to me, like most bores. I always loved football (soccer) as a boy and so rediscovering my love of the game at age 60 has revealed itself as a far healthier way to relate the past to something I'm passionate...
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Sep.14.2012
There’s a marriage waiting to be made in heaven for trainer-teacher-learners reading learning technology innovator Ben Betts’ Social Learning: Answers to Eight Crucial Questions, published this week by the eLearning Guild.
In his concluding remarks within the 36-page document (...
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Sep.13.2012
There are times when something crosses our desks (or, in this case, our computer monitors) and absolutely makes us sit up straight, amazed that what we so strongly believe has been supported so eloquently—which is what happened when I saw the "School Transformation Through Arts Integration at...
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Sep.13.2012
Those of us fascinated by learning and how we are affected by the places where learning occurs find ourselves exploring a wonderfully unexpected learning space in Annie Murphy Paul’s Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives: the womb.
It is Paul...
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Sep.13.2012
As a long-time blogger who believes part of the blogging process involves reaching new audiences, I'll be using my Red Room blog as another conduit for the pieces I routinely publish on my Building Creative Bridges blog (http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com). Those pieces tend to be...
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Apr.16.2012
April 16
NAPPING
Too often, I have lifted the edge of the lawn in an attempt to join the worms for a bit of a dirt nap. Or I crawled into a self-constructed cave to bear my feelings and hibernate from life. The times I sprint with the deer, jumping the fences in...
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