A Parkdale Elementary student gives Superintendent Carl Ellinger a sign of approval during a school-wide assembly for mentioning his role in declaring a snow day early last week. Ellinger was at Parkdale to help present one of the district’s annual Distinguished Service Awards to Laura Peterson, pictured in the background.
Chris Leigeb reacts to an overzealous cheer from a colleague after realizing she was being surprised with a distinguished service award.
Leigeb is Northeast Middle School’s lead administrative assistant. The students and staff used their VIP assembly as a cover for the surprise award. The district honors four support staff members every year. Described as “the heart of Northeast” Leigeb was the first staff member presented with the award this year.
From my Flickr stream:
Dr. Jason Ohler presents to a gymnasium filled with Midland County teachers at the October 9 professional development day. Ohler’s keynote emphasized the importance of storytelling in education and encouraged teachers to “take the next step” with technology.
After the keynote, teachers had the opportunity to attend smaller, hands-on sessions about different technology topics.
Click on the photo to see a few other snapshots from the keynote. I helped teach the other sessions, so I only have photos from the opening keynote.
It’s worth mentioning that I helped organize this ambitious event. We had technical difficulties with the opening keynote (poor acoustics and overwhelming traffic on the Northwood campus), but the rest of the day went well. I helped teach a beginning and an advanced Moodle session, and I hosted a Moodle Q&A session in the afternoon.
I hope we’ll get to plan another event next year.
President Barack Obama, addressing a special joint session of Congress last night.
I think this quote should be included in every government textbook. It’s practical, realistic, and reaffirms my belief that I voted for the right candidate in November.
That being said, I enjoyed seeing John McCain in the audience. He makes incredible contributions to our nation’s legislature and I recognize he’s of a caliber and time similar to Ted Kennedy. Our current politicians should take note.
The most interesting part of the transcript on the White House web site, is that they included the shouting of Congressman of Joe Wilson:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: You lie! (Boos.)
John Gruber posted a nice screenshot of Congressman Wilson’s Wikipedia page soon after the President’s speech.
One of the most superfluous UI changes in Leopard is rounded corners. They look okay on system menus, but they look very awkward for menus that appear under round buttons. I hope Apple changes this behavior.
Stacks are growing on me. They’re handy. Except for long folder names. Just like in the Finder, long file/folder names are truncated in the middle. This makes distinguishing Adobe applications *impossible*
By the way, why can’t Adobe just call Photoshop Photoshop? I hate having it in a folder called “Adobe Photoshop CS3.” It messes up sorting. Just make it a package, Adobe.