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Gary Brown

Top News - School of the Future: Lessons in failure - 0 views

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shared by Gary Brown on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • School of the Future: Lessons in failure How Microsoft's and Philadelphia's innovative school became an example of what not to do By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor   Primary Topic Channel:  Tech Leadership   Students at the School of the Future when it first opened in 2006. <script language=JavaScript src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/vj?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=6&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/cc?z=eschool&pos=6"><img src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/173768/0/vc?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=6&abr=$imginiframe" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></noscript> Also of Interest Cheaper eBook reader challenges Kindle Carnegie Corporation: 'Do school differently' Former college QB battles video game maker Dueling curricula put copyright ed in spotlight Campus payroll project sees delays, more costs <script language=JavaScript src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/324506/0/vj?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=2&abr=$scriptiniframe"></script><noscript><a href="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/324506/0/cc?z=eschool&pos=2"><img src="http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/324506/0/vc?z=eschool&dim=173789&pos=2&abr=$imginiframe" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></noscript> When it opened its doors in 2006, Philadelphia's School of the Future (SOF) was touted as a high school that would revolutionize education: It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, technology, and community involvement. But three years, three superintendents, four principals, and countless problems later, experts at a May 28 panel discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) agreed: The Microsoft-inspired project has been a failure so far. Microsoft points to the school's rapid turnover in leadership as the key reason for this failure, but other observers question why the company did not take a more active role in translating its vision for the school into reality. Regardless of where the responsibility lies, the project's failure to date offers several cautionary lessons in school reform--and panelists wondered if the school could use these lessons to succeed in the future.
  • Gary Brown on 25 Jun 09
     
    The discussion about Microsoft's Philadelphia School of the future, failing so far. (partial access to article only)
  • Gary Brown on 25 Jun 09
     
    I highlight this as a model where faculty and their teaching beliefs appear not to have been addressed.
Joshua Yeidel

Microsoft's SharePoint Thrives in the Recession - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 31 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 31 Oct 09
     
    ""We don't claim we do everything," said Chris Capossela, a senior vice president at Microsoft. "If we do 50 percent of the functions that these other companies do, but they're the ones customers really want, that's fine. The magic is that end users actually like to use the software." This strategy seems to have worked even during the recession. "
Gary Brown

Microsoft researcher converts his brain into 'e-memory' - CNN.com - 6 views

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shared by Gary Brown on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • In sum, this mountain of data -- more than 350 gigabytes worth, not including the streaming audio and video -- is a replica of Bell's biological memory. It's actually better, he says, because, if you back up your data in enough places, this digitized "e-memory" never forgets. It's like having a multimedia transcript of your life.
  • Gary Brown on 29 Sep 09
     
    ePortfolio X-treme
Joshua Yeidel

Silverlight & WPF Chart - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 23 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Feb 09
     
    Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft® Silverlight™ & WPF...Visifire can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. Visifire is independent of server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML. No radar charts, but for some things, this might be useful.
Joshua Yeidel

Google Embraces Partners to Straddle Desktop-Cloud Divide - PC World Business Center - 2 views

www.pcworld.com/...addle_desktopcloud_divide.html

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 12 Jan 10
     
    "Google has unveiled plans today to allow Google Docs to store any type of files, and revealed a new tool from Memeo to enable users to access, migrate, and synchronize files between their desktop and Google Docs. " (Snc tool is for Google Apps Premium only). Getting to be a more attractive option...
  • Matthew Tedder on 13 Jan 10
     
    Yes.. That is something I'd really like to use. My laptop warranty is out, they won't sell me any more extensions, one hard disk is loosing more and more sectors (and Maylee pulled off the right ALT key last night). Now only if Google Mail enabled me to build a number of views (filters) of my email (not just one), and Docs had inline revision viewing, I'd be ready to use it more. As it is, I use a variety of office apps because each seems to have strengths in different areas. I sometimes even move between apps with the same document. Mostly, I use OpenOffice, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, and LyX. LyX is the most philosophically advanced, I think.... but none escape the subjectivity of the matter. LyX removes any concern for how the document looks. You tell it what each information element is, not how it should look. Then you export to various formats and styles. Information search is vastly more powerful when all information elements are tagged according to what they are. And it produces just very beautiful content. OpenOffice has the broadest set of import/export capabilities and also with the best quality results, I'd say. All tables in all document types being accessible as database tables is also sometimes useful, as well as a variety of other capabilities. Google Docs is obviously best at collaboration but I find it sometimes frustrating to get formatting I want or working with revisions from others and myself. Microsoft Office is pretty high quality and full featured, as most realize, but lacks in import/export quality in comparison with some alternatives.
Matthew Shirey

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Shirey on 02 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Shirey on 02 Jul 09
     
    Developer / Debug Tool for Internet Explorer. This doesn't work for IE8. Internet Explorer 8 includes its own developer tool though.
  • Matthew Shirey on 02 Jul 09
     
    Joshua and others have requested this in the past. I'm throwing it here in Diigo so others can benefit as well. It isn't Firebug by a longshot, but it is much better than nothing at all. I prefer to use this over Microsoft Script Debugger when debugging in IE. As noted though, it doesn't work with IE8. IE does however include its own developer tools. -- Matthew
Joshua Yeidel

Learn More about Pivot | Live Labs Pivot - 1 views

www.getpivot.com

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 21 Apr 10
     
    "Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web."
Gary Brown

How to Prepare Students for Careers - 0 views

www.convergemag.com/...pare-Students-for-Careers.html

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shared by Gary Brown on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Educators and industry partners can help students learn these skills through the following three practices:   1. Involve the community
  • Combine academic and technical knowledge That means educators must play on the same team.
  • . Make learning relevant Students need to see the tie between concepts they're learning and their application in life, said Allyson Knox, an academic program manager for Microsoft Corp.'s U.S. Partners in Learning program.
  • Gary Brown on 20 Apr 10
     
    walkiing the fine line
Matthew Shirey

nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation - 0 views

www.nliteos.com

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shared by Matthew Shirey on 10 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Shirey on 10 Jul 09
     
    This awesome little application will walk you through creating windows install CDs that you can tune in hundreds of ways. It makes slipstreaming SPs a piece of cake. You can also preload drivers for targets installs. Making unattended install discs is simple. I've found it quite useful for trimming out all of the $#!+ that you really don't need making for an install of XP that really screams.
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