Share Bottom line: You’ve got to take RESPONSIBILITY for your own education! What do I mean by that? I followed up my recent posts to The Orlando Blog with a post on my own blog on how I would encourage the use of technology to: Assess learning Accountability Advocate I was motivated to do that [...]
Share I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about education lately. Since my last post was received so well, I was encouraged to post again so an article about virtual learning in the Orlando Sentinel prompted me to start this post. Many of the comments on that article reveal much hostility to the use of [...]
Share Look, I may be cynical, but I just basically see something wrong with the idea of a Caylee Marie Anthony / Missing Children Memorial on Suburban Drive. Suburban Drive in East Orange County is off Chickasaw Trail. Near the end, is a wooded wetland lot, where the remains of Caylee Marie Anthony were discarded [...]
Share Democracy itself is under attack in Florida. Those opposed: our very own politicians. It appears that the wave of democracy ushered in by the overwhelming approval (63%) of amendment six, which appeared on the 2010 ballot, by the people of Florida – known as the Fair Districts Amendment – is being stalled by the [...]
Share OPD v. OBT: When the Police Politics Hits the Pavement and the Problem of Revitalization While driving south of downtown on South Orange Blossom Trail, affectionately called OBT, my car begin to overheat – sadly a common occurrence with my older car combined with a desperately hot Florida summer - and I was compelled [...]
Share The Orlando Blog : Opinion Our Purpose, Orlando/Central Florida Promotions, Politics & Potpourri Purpose: We finally broke ground in having the first of what will surely be many new ‘O’pinions (as in Orlando Opinions & Political ‘O’Rena ) within the site. It’s funny, … our name is ‘The Orlando Blog’ but truly we are [...]
Share Recently, I was among the fortunate 151 “tweeps” selected by NASA to witness its historic final launch of the Space Shuttle program: STS-135 Atlantis. In the vernacular of Twitter, the social media service, this event is called a “Tweetup” and up to now, there have been over twenty such events (don’t worry, there will [...]
Share Buddy Dyer’s Food Fight Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has an issue with food. Not only evident by his somewhat plump contour, but by his battle with the Orlando Chapter of Food Not Bombs, Dyer’s issues with food have ventured from the dinner table to Lake Eola Park and the Fifth District Court of Appeals. [...]
Share Dickens wrote in Tale of Two Cities, “ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, …”. Saturday I experienced both. It was the worst of afternoons, it was the best of evenings. My friends called me this morning and asked if I’d like to spend some time with them. [...]
Vote: It’s Not Just A Right, It’s A Privilege!
Share I know we’ve all seen and heard professional wrestlers get in the ring, grab the microphone and start telling all kinds of bad things about their opponents. Of course, all the information they tell is the ‘truth’ according to them. This sometimes reminds me of a lot of our political candidates. They may seem [...]