Amazing Infographics for Olympics Biathlon Shooting Rounds

If you’ve never seen a biathalon, part of the sport is stopping to shoot at targets. If you miss, you have to do and extra lap. You have to do this each time you miss so there is a strong incentive to hit the target. Here is a picture of what they did. It’s ingenius, … Read more

On My Birthday This Year

I got to see my photo hanging at a local show. My mother-in-law took this replica picture of me in front of it.

Musical Recommendations

In this episode of ‘today on Twitter’….just kidding. Although maybe ‘today on Twitter would be a fun idea, but that’s a side track. Today, I saw a couple of the people I follow on twitter discussing music. We had discussed music before and I knew I liked their taste. In fact, @A_Silvers had a stint … Read more

Up Late Again

In anticipation of a trip to the Virginia/Bethesda region of our country, I’m up late, again. I can’t help it. I get excited when I get the chance to get together with my co-workers. Adventures await, so I’m off to bed now – really – this time. Travel is an adventure indeed. Wish me luck.

Almost There

I’ve had a second job for awhile. It’s a volunteer job. I’m on year two of co-chairing the IA Summit. We almost have the program ready this year. It’s been a long road but I think we’ve pulled together a great event that people are going to get value from. Working at my second job … Read more

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Inspiration From a Childhood Favorite

Lately, I’ve been seeking sources of inspiration around drawing. I picked up some old Ed Emberley classics again and have been recreating the objects he teaches in my sketchbook. It’s been a very useful and meditative activity. The drawings pictured to the left are the images I made following the instructions from the book Ed … Read more

In Honor of Two Great Men

Two of the most influential educators in my life left this mortal coil in 2009. Professor James Gremmels and Dr. Raymond Lammers. My English and Theater professors at the University of Minnesota, Morris, MN. I took a class my freshman year of college that the two of them co-taught. It was a critical thinking class … Read more

And a Happy New Year

Of course I had to get a blog post in before the end of the year. I thought I would do this instead of sending out the holiday letter. The holiday letter is a good tradition as it makes you sit down and review the past year. The big trend I resisted this year with … Read more

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Alice Photos

Alice Slideshow

Conference Trip -Twitter as Diary

This is the stream of tweets starting when I left Chicago for the conference. I thought it would be fun to make a blog post to capture the stream of consciousness that captured my IDEA 2009 experience. It was the first IDEA I have been able to attend since its inception a few years ago. … Read more