PowerPoint is the new Filmstrip: Nothing funny. Nothing new. Blawg Day 4 – We. 6/16/10

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I love a good Powerpoint as much as anyone, and that is all I am going to say about that.

Nothing funny. Nothing new. However it is odd having the new folk here. I sat this morning and listened to a conversation among three young ladies (one from Oak Ridge and the other two from Metro Atlanta) who sound much like we did last summer. It is an odd feeling to move perspectives so quickly.


EDL 822, Ind. & Org. Development – We received a new assignment list because Dr. Carter had to make adjustments. Apparently we are leaving by noon on Friday, and she originally had something planned for that last Friday. Today, the topic is Prisoners of the System or Prisoners of Our Own Thinking and we will learn more about the Left-Hand Column activity which is due tomorrow. Class discussion got me to thinking, so I wrote this poem for you.

those: without the ousity and ness

i m everything i ve ever known
from mother s heart to fog this morning
how we re different s opaquely clear
enough to know but depth curious
a silhouette provokes androgenous
sex, culture, shared ambiguous
slow to write from guilt
why s it hard to value difference
we hide our parts like eve & adam
arbitrary choice excludes aquellos
just in case avoids the confrontation
slow to intimate from guilt

child or adult comfortable

Apparently, we have more similarities than differences. It seems as if we have a tendency to find differences which can be a difficult exercise. We add suffixes…I think from a sense of guilt that we will be judged harshly for getting the offensive joke, or maybe even liking it.




BREAKING NEWS: Apparently we have to read Team of Rivals to do an assignment for the Development (Carter) class and write a 10 page paper that is due 11 days (July 7) after the last day of the summer session. There is a bit of concern regarding the practicality of such an assignment; it has 900 + pages. Dr. Carter implied that Team of Rivals is required reading and we should have known that.





BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: No worries…The program is buying twenty copies that will be located in the library. Only have to read the first four chapters to complete the assignment (case study). We will see. Due date is the same.

I am about to start feeling negatively. I will try to omit the tone of that as I write.





EDL 831, Doctoral Seminar II –

The topic of the day: Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r)

Dr. Brown’s quote of the day: “When you don’t understand something, you say, ‘I am not satisfied with what I found.’”

Brown highly recommends a book for quantitative researchers…Statistics in a Nutshell by Boslaugh and Watters. He says it is the best one he has ever found because it is readable. Something else (he sais today) makes me wonder why it is so difficult to talk about students with disabilities. I just don’t get that. I understand that it is beneficial to me to be careful how I phrase things (modifier first, nominative first). I liked it when people who did stupid things were just stupid people. If I wanted to structure my speech they way Spanish speakers, sorry I mean speakers of Spanish, do, I would have chosen to be born in Mexico.

I sincerely wish that I would have taken this class first. It may have made a difference in some of the decisions I have made concerning my dissertation. For me, the explanations have


LUNCH – not good

























EDL 823, Change and Entrepreneurship – Again, from Wikipedia Knowledge management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practice.

SWOT – Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
































PLP/Field Study

Edited to remove the yawn. Groups met to discuss skits based on MBTI. Fun...interesting. Our two groups consist of good people. They are funny. But refrain from the use of certain expressions like crack pot.

Research Groups

To boycott or not to boycott. That is the question. Apparently Qualitative and Quantitative are meeting together to focus on Quan. Qual is feeling a little left out. We are actually running correlations with data from the Florida DOE website. A yawn for me, ,but I hope to not even have to number my pages.

Evening

I would love to have some time to work on my diss. Have you ever taught two classes at the very same time? I feel like I am taking two at the very same time. The trick is figuring out which one to focus on.

I miss Anna, Chesni, Leejay, Chloe, and Celie….badly.