Further notes from #lbc10
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Year: 2010
Notes from #lbc10 roundtables
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Question 176 of 365: When is networking just drinking with friends?
Image by willfree via Flickr The largest technology and education conference has come to Denver. Is the one time of the year when people from all over the world get together in a single space and talk about the issues that are most important to them, whether those are of …
Question 175 of 365: Where does arrogance come from?
Image via Wikipedia It is impossible to know everything, or to even know all of the things that there are to know in one particular area. We all know this to be true, and yet there is a certain level of arrogance for people in positions of power that seems …
Question 174 of 365: What is our coallition?
Image via Wikipedia My name is Ben Wilkoff. I claim it as my own. Here are the other things that I claim: I claim a space that allows people to come together and air their grievances. A space that allows for all of us to learn from one another. A …
Question 173 of 365: What should an interview be?
Image via Wikipedia I am on a panel to help choose the next Director of Online Learning at the Colorado Department of Education. The panel itself is an cross-section of interests, from higher education to non-profits to multi-district online programs, each of the people who are interviewing the candidates is looking for something different. …
Question 172 of 365: Who is our fairy godmother?
I have been reading a lot of children’s stories, as might be expected with a soon to be two and four year old in the house. Many of these stories have incredibly vague morals about finding happiness, or a singular figure who seems to have everything figure it out. This …
Question 171 of 365: When is the old stuff just as good as the new stuff?
Image by ibookpaul via Flickr I owned one of the first hard-drive based mp3 players, the Archos Jukebox 6000. It has a full 6 gigabyte hard drive and the most hideous blue bumpers on the four corners. The firmware it was released with played the same “random” order of your …
Question 170 of 365: What is the benefit of rubber handled safety scissors?
Image via Wikipedia The inconsequential saved my daughter a lot of pain today. It probably saved us a trip to the hospital. It definitely saved us finding out the hard way if electrocution is possible using nothing more than a pair of scissors. Frankly, that is not something I ever care to …
Question 169 of 365: What should we do in the hour before?
Image via Wikipedia In the middle of the sixth grade, I realized that I didn’t care much for doing my math homework. Instead of waking up early to figure out the “Advanced Applications” that were assigned to me (which was the name of the class I was taking), I would …