I'm fascinated by social networking for personal reasons, spiritual reasons, and professional reasons. Social networks can be a schizophrenic experience: I've got profiles all over the web, and would like my Virb personality to be broad and unfocused for now. Let's just say that, for now, if I like something, I'll put it here.
Jul 22, 2007
I stumbled on SlideShare this morning, while poking around the blogsphere (thanks to David Armano at Logic + Emotion). My greatest delight is that it allows me to share presentations I've created in Apple's Keynote, rather than having to convert them to PowerPoint, …
Jul 22, 2007
At our weekly unschooling families dinner, we were at the rant phase of the conversation, probably sparked by a reference to national testing of school children. Like the sound of a clear and finely cast bell, this off-hand comment continues to ring in my …
Jul 22, 2007
'But it's a competitive world!' I am told again and again. Certainly it is, and a very messy one I should say. Look around. And I should add, 'It was also once a disease-ridden world and we are curing it.'
--Dorothy De Zouche 1945, teacher
with thanks to Alfie Kohn, who cites ...