Question 207 of 365: What is the moral of the story?
Be supportive and supported at the same time as often as you possibly can.
Author: Ben Wilkoff
Advance Online Learning Day 1: #synclinkpost
Every online course I have taught has been pre-packaged, with known outcomes. While I have felt as though others needed me to provide that kind of an experience because of their apprehension about online learning, it wasn’t the type that I knew they would learn the most from. Because this …
Question 206 of 365: Where is the open book?
Image via Wikipedia Every time I put my son down for bed, he sees fit to be totally uninterested without a good amount of singing of songs and reapplying blankets. In between each one of these tries at sleep during which he may or may not actually close his eyes, …
Question 205 of 365: Why don't we clear the board more often?
Image by MarkyBon via Flickr I have been to a few emergency rooms, mostly for highly nervous new parent reasons. Near each one is a board with names on it. Ussually this board has ailments, procedures, and where patients are at any given time. It tells of upcoming surgeries that …
Question 204 of 365: When do we almost die?
Image by jef safi via Flickr It strikes me that we almost die far more often than we actually do. Most of the days that I drive to work I think about what it would be like if I made an enormous right turn into oncoming traffic or into the …
Question 203 of 365: Should writing be harder?
Image via Wikipedia Access to information never gets old. I coveted it when all I could access was the universal search on AOL. I still covet it now that nearly every good piece of information comes directly to me through the various networks I take part in and blogs I …
Question 202 of 365: What are the limits of a mobile office?
Image via CrunchBase I have few requirements left for being connected. It used to be that I needed a single computer, my computer, in order to catch up with all of the things that are most important. Then it was any computer connected to the internet. Then it was a …
Question 201 of 365: How hard and how fast should we jump on the ice?
Image via Wikipedia The Chagrin river never froze over completely. At least, not in my memory anyway. It was always halfway frozen in the winter, allowing for a few ducks to sit on the frigid water as it took them closer and closer to the falls beneath the Popcorn Shop …
Question 200 of 365: Are we on a roll, taking roll, role models, rolling the dice or just rolls of toilet paper?
Image via Wikipedia We worry about being fathers. We worry about being sons. About being employees and entrepreneurs. We worry about the things that we are and what we will never be. But I don’t care abut the roles we are prescribed or the ones that we take on over …
Question 199 of 365: When do we stop asking for medicine and band-aids?
Image via Wikipedia I had a favorite medicine growing up called Triaminic. It was the wonder cure-all. Pretty much anything that was wrong could be fixed with a little Triaminic. It had this syrupy sweet cherry flavor that wasn’t overly thick. It didn’t have the aftertaste of a Robitussin or …