I love the scary message from the State.
“In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in ‘inappropriate political activism’ could face the following consequences: […] Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.” (source)
My brothers and sisters, big scary liberal Austin ISD done already marked kids as an unexcused absence if they walked out.
With the Diocesan Campaign, some changes are in store. The campaign’s executive director was reassigned to a different project outside of the Diocese and someone else just moved in to take his place. Since I’ve never been involved with anything like this, I am interested in discovering how switching out the ED at this point…
For my service hours in PA 325, I have opted to volunteer for the Diocese of Austin’s Capital Campaign: Our Faith Our Legacy. I will post limited details as the campaign is still in the quiet phase preparing for a more formal kickoff. In reference to the previous post on the matter, I think logistically…
Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing (2nd Edition) by John R. Trimble I highly suggest this “writing manual”. I purchased this book for a class a few years ago and read it, yes read it, while commutting on my beloved Route 1 (which is now Routes 1L and 1M, but that’s not…
For my STS 321 course, our instructor asked for the reflections to be posted by noon on Wednesday. In all honestly, I’ll be lucky to hit that deadline. In the case of this week’s ready, I did it last weekend unsure of when the due date for it fell. On Tuesday, we learn more about…
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte After the first thirty-five pages, I’m left with a desire to find a connection between design and information. Today, I met with a web site consultant for the University Catholic Center, my employer. If you visit the homepage of the UCC, it conveys a lot of information (we’ll ignore…
If you look at the social interaction styles of UT students today and ten years ago, they are vastly different. In today’s student environment, we head home after a long day and turn on our computers. Almost instantly, IM opens up connecting us to many of our friends who are online at the same time.…
