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Re: SXSW PanelPicker®

butwait — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:37:39 -0000

A great opportunity for us to sit at the feet of some folks with serious knowledge & perspective on an emerging topic!

Re: Near Central Park

butwait — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:26:24 -0000

Gorgeous!

Re: sxsw-panelpicker-logo PanelPicker®

butwait — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 09:17:02 -0000

This crew accomplished things that most folks would have thought impossible... the more people who get a taste of their clarity of purpose and vision, the better!

Re: A Mother’s Confession: A SONG WITH FOOTNOTES

butwait — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 15:12:27 -0000

Thank you for this. Love that you thought of it and were able to pull it off and share it.

Our boy, who has now successfully survived outside my womb for fourteen years, fell down our hardwood stairs twice when he was about three. The first time, my partner Terri - whose mama name is Tama - happened to be standing at the bottom of the stairs. Her athletic instincts kicked in - her dad was a football coach, so she grew up in a family in which catching the ball was super-important - and she basically plucked the boy from the air as he fell. He was a little bruised and shaken, but it was pretty clear he would be okay.

A few weeks later he fell again (we had a gate at the top of the stairs, but we were transitioning into not using it because 98% of the time now he could navigate the stairs all by himself, no problem), only this time Terri wasn't around and I was around the corner in the living room, so I got there in time to comfort him, but not in time to stop him from falling all the way to the first floor. He looked up at me with tears in his eyes as I held him tight and said, "Tama CAUGHT me!"

You can only do what you can do. You're doing great. Be kind to yourself and make sure Ash sees that, because someday he'll need to be kind to himself, too.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

butwait — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:28:19 -0000

What a great & timely topic!

Re: The Oldest Schools | PrivateSchoolReview.com

butwait — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:23:50 -0000

Rutgers Preparatory School, in Somerset, NJ, will celebrate our 250th anniversary in 2016. (We were founded in 1766.)

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

butwait — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:46:21 -0000

These are some seriously fabulous thinkers on a vital topic... totally voting for this session and urging other folks to, as well.

Re: West Philly Mama: Bird Sanctuary

butwait — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:30:33 -0000

Have you been to Bartram's Garden yet?! One of my all-time favorite Philly oases: http://www.bartramsgarden.org

Re: Hello world!

butwait — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:00:11 -0000

W00t! Firsties! And SO excited to hear that this is all a "go!" Have y'all seen what Harto & co. are doing w/ behind-the-scenes tidbits over at http://chill.com/camp? Would love some backstage passes to what we're sure is an AWESOME creative process... go team!

Re: Gradient Lair

butwait — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:26:46 -0000

As the mama of a boy, this makes me want to talk to the mama of that very polite man and TAKE SOME NOTES.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

butwait — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:52:44 -0000

Just when I thought i couldn't love my library any more... go team!

Re: Guest Post: Fish? Fur? Furry Fish? A Guide to College Pets

butwait — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:34:20 -0000

Students hoping to bring a pet to campus might be interested in this list of colleges that welcome pets. (Well, SOME pets.) http://collegelists.pbworks...

Re: Questions for a set of Data Entry Rules and Style Guide

butwait — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:56:49 -0000

Whoa... nice find, Vasil!

As someone who has been crossing out "Father" and writing in "Mother" on official forms for the last 10 years, I would love to see the parent/guardian fields be less normative than the typical "Father/Mother" option. (Then again, my favorite form ever had three gender options -- "male," "female," and "working on it" -- so I recognize that I'm waaaayy outside the main stream on this one.) :-DIn addition to Peter's great "one field, one piece of data" rule of thumb, I would add the "and you'll always need more fields than you think you will" corollary. You may need more relational fields to handle things like "custodial parent," for example, and maybe even sadder stuff like "restraining order in place." Thinking of the special cases can actually be quite helpful.
Finally, in my experience there is often a disconnect between what the folks who initially input data (admissions?) need and what the folks who will be using the data several years later (departmental secretaries?) will need down the line. Expected year of graduation? Freshman year advisory section? Good to make sure that anyone who is running reports off a database now is consulted at some point.Hope that helps!

Re: Geeks at the Beach: 10 Summer Reads About Technology and Your Life

butwait — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:55:39 -0000

One more addition, which won't be out until closer to the end of the summer, but which I have been looking forward to since it was first announced:

Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
by Cathy Davidson (Viking Press, forthcoming: 2011)
http://www.nowyouseeit.net/

Re: Official OLS legislative map and breakdown of towns

butwait — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:35:44 -0000

It's an Excel file; should open fine if you have a current version of Excel. Although it lists the Princetons as District 25, which I strongly doubt.

Re: Personal Measures of Success

butwait — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:11:09 -0000

A friend of mine has moved towards taking the "long term" view on this.... thinking about how we will be remembered when we're gone...
http://selfpromotion.co/blo...

And I'd recommend following Andy Carvin (@acarvin) on Twitter (http://twitter.com/acarvin) for information about how to support victims of the Japan quake and their families...

Re: celebrating failure

butwait — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:28:07 -0000

Great description of what sounds like an amazing day. Absolutely LOVE the image of people throwing up their hands & yelling, "I failed... WOO HOO!!" I'm hoping that you might be able to check out http://www.prototypedesignc..., which will be live-streaming in a little less than two hours... seems like it might be your kind of thing.

Re: 501 People You Should Follow On Twitter

butwait — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:43:56 -0000

Also, these nominated folks in the EduBlogs 2010 "best Tweeter" category would probably be a good bet:

http://edublogawards.com/20...

Re: 501 People You Should Follow On Twitter

butwait — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:42:04 -0000

Brendan,

This is a cool idea! Here's my "baker's dozen" of suggested additions:

Michael Ebeling
@MichaelEbeling
Head of Summit School in Winston-Salem NC; “It's about progress not perfection.”

Angela Maiers
@AngelaMaiers
Author of The Passion-Driven Classroom

Laura Hollis
@laurahollis525
Technology Integration at Fieldston (NY)

Melanie Hutchinson
@melhutch
Curriculum coordinator in the Lower School at a K-12 boys school

Will Richardson
@willrich45
Former teacher and current “big picture thinker” on where we are going as learners

Jerry Blumengarten
@cybraryman1
Fantastic curator of resource pages relevant to all kinds of teachers

Tom Whitby
@tomwhitby
Professor of Education & #edchat founder

Shell Terrell
@shellterrell
Passionate educator, co-founder of #edchat & #rscon10

Chris Bigenho
@bigenhoc
Director of educational technology at Greenhill School (TX), Classrooms of the Future guru for NAIS

Demetri Orlando
@demetri
Director of IT for Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA, as well as chair of the NAIS technology & curriculum task force.

NAIS
@NAISnetwork
The National Association of Independent Schools on Twitter

Steve Hargadon
@stevehargadon
Educational Technologist, founder of multiple online communities in support of connecting educators

Shelley Krause
@butwait
K12 eduhacker. Helping people find their learning tribe. Curator of the College Lists Wiki. Trying to empower purposeful networks wherever I go.

Re: Are You Waiting Until You’re Popular Before You Start Being Relevant?

butwait — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:03:24 -0000

I work with young people, and I think they don't hear nearly enough of this perspective (or, if they do, they don't believe it). I'm thinking about putting together some profiles of people who are rocking their gifts and passions in their own way, in the hopes that it will widen the scope of some of my students. Better yet, maybe I'll ask them to help me curate such a collection. Thank you for thinking out loud here and for your belief in the strength that comes from being who you are.

Re: http://www.passengerhands.com/post/396949778

butwait — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:23:38 -0000

Thomas, have you been following the story of a PA school district recently accused of spying on its students IN THEIR HOMES via laptop webcams? See http://www.philly.com/phill...

Seemed you-ish, or at least relevant to your current project.

Re: Campfire

butwait — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:04:17 -0000

Nice work capturing the sights, smells, and tastes of a campfire, Michael.

Next time maybe get a friend to help you check your spelling... misspelled words can slow your readers down a little.

Shelley K.

(this comment also coming from Princeton, NJ, USA)

Re: Snow

butwait — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:59:02 -0000

Brrr! this poem really made me feel that snow, Sydney!

(this comment coming to you from Princeton, NJ, USA)

Re: 2010 Predictions: Can You Sum Up Your 2010 Goals In Only Three Words?

butwait — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:42:15 -0000

Empower Purposeful Networks

(hattip to @skap5)

Re: The 2009 Playoff Collection

butwait — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:56:41 -0000

How cool is this?!

We decided pretty early on that watching the Tweetstream during a game was a critical "add" to our enjoyment... and, in the absence of a TV, was actually a pretty good substitute. Thanks for all your work on this.