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.
[Originally published related to INF312/STS311] According to Professor Elizabeth Lawley, it is almost standard practice for employers to do a Web search on job applicants. Assuming she is correct, what would a potential employer find out about you? Is your online presence an accurate reflection of the person you are? (and is that the person…
This is just a sandbox post to play with some new plugins I’m trying out on the site. I added a location plugin that adds the “from [location]” as part of the “posted” information after each post. If you click on the location, geourl will return with various websites that are located near me. I…
[Originally published related to INF312/STS311] A couple of nights ago, I attended my first “virtual class” for INF 312. The professor spoke to the students through a live video feed (either Real or Quicktime). The students interacted with each other and the professor by using a chat client. In this case, we used Blackboard‘s built-in…
[Originally published related to INF312/STS311] With the first summer session starting last week, I started INF 312 (Information in Cyberspace). This course in the School of Information is designed to give students a understanding of basic internet concepts hitting highlights such as Unix, proper XHTML coding, basic computer security and whatnot. The course is web-based…
The not-so-biblical biblical baccalaureate GetReligion, a blog dealing with religion in media, commented Tuesday on a story out of St. Louis that Lindbergh High School will be having two baccalaureates this year. Baccalaureates, traditionally, are religious services held before graduation. After the division between church and state became more defined, school-sponsored baccalaureates overall disappeared. Some…
I’m looking through the June 2005 issue of GQ and the Letter from the Editor is all about our good ole’ Holy Father. I just knew Benedict would get that pope job. One look at the guy and you could smell the namked ambition. The way he was traipsing around the Vatican in long flowing…
