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by Matt Caputo Junior High School #22 in The Bronx was in foul trouble ... of leadership and team building activities. The players interacted with students in exercises designed to emphasize the importance of teamwork both on and off of the court After the fun and games, SLAM spoke [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 20:40:20
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London DCSB: Catholic Students Raise Funds for Service Trip to Monte Christi Orphanage
Written by John Borst on February 11, 2009 – 4:00 am#3 in the OCSTA “Good News in Ontario’s Catholic Schools” seriesThe St ... students have participated in numerous activities including a team building dinner, a Christmas tree sale fundraiser, and a spiritual retreat. Other activities planned for the Mission Program include [more...]
Date: 2009-02-11 04:00:17
March Madness
March Madness March Madness, aka the countdown to Integrated Project presentations in May, ... , designed, oversaw, and assembled the Administration Building's showcase. But in fairness to all concerned, this extra credit activity was a team venture; these students are aces at collaboration [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 23:46:23
On Building Community At One Private Uni.
A reader encourages us to check out this article about Quest University, a very new private university north of Vancouver BC. Here's a little flava ... consists of team building and leadership exercises, preferably outdoors. Some of the activities today included trust exercises and the raising of a student-made Quest flag (we first had to dig a hole [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 10:54:00
Appalachian’s science enrichment program for high school-age students open for fall admission
BOONE— Appalachian State University is accepting applications for its free after-school science enrichment program called AppalSEED Academy ... in team building activities and work with professors, including participation in research projects [more...]
Date: 2009-02-12 16:03:21
Alliance Virtual Library and other library activities in Second Life this week
Engaging with Students in Second Life On Friday, October 17th, from 4:30pm to 7: ... ) for a tour of the Special Library Association building. 4:30 pm SLT, Tour of SLA with Jill Hurst-Wahl ... . Plautia Corvale, Librarian in Colorado and Team Member for the Emerald City Project in Second Life Scott [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 14:47:58
Alliance Virtual Library and other library activities in Second Life this week
Engaging with Students in Second Life On Friday, October 17th, from 4:30pm to 7: ... ) for a tour of the Special Library Association building. 4:30 pm SLT, Tour of SLA with Jill Hurst-Wahl ... . Plautia Corvale, Librarian in Colorado and Team Member for the Emerald City Project in Second Life [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 14:54:05
End of Hillary Term
An update is long overdue – so much has happened over the past few months in my volunteer work, extracurricular activities, and my school life ... this summer, with new board members, team members, and grant money buoying our efforts. Photos ... and schooling to AIDS and civil war orphans. We’re in the process of building a campaign around this school [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 23:08:37
Most Effective Freeby used by Promoters
Being one of the most efficient giveaways used by marketers, custom attire serves as a multi-functional promotional tool as it cuts across industries ... and styles to suit your company logo and image. Printed t-shirts are frequently used in team-building ... . Commonly used for company activities such as trade displays, conferences and fund raising events [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 22:20:38
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/20/2009
We don’t have a TV, so I was spared the inauguration. This morning, during a skype conversation, someone started telling me about the events as they were then unfolding in Washington.My response: “LALALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”I’ve got four (or more likely eight or more) years to get used to Obama. So I’m going to take my time.Thanks to C [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:50:00
Green College Spotlight: Cornell University
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York officially set a goal this year to integrate sustainability into all major operations, ... progress in areas like recycling, green building, waste, energy use and transportation. About 4,100 ... students take the bus into town for free and ride their bicycles on a campus that includes two LEED [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 11:00:15
Something New And Challenging
on March 8th, 2009 Full Name: Travis ModisetteLocation (City, AA): Washington, DC (metro region)Phone Number: 5104322871Email: mustang67@gmail ... and has advancement opportunities.RESUME:QUALIFICATIONS •Outstanding communication and team-building skills • ... SKILLS •Actively participated as a part of a multi-disciplinary treatment team which includes [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 10:34:27
Philadelphia Freedom Schools Servant Leader Intern Application
Servant Leader Intern Job Description Philadelphia Freedom Schools™ summer programs are staffed by young-adults who serve as positive role ... Servant Leadership Training ™ in areas of child development, academic lesson planning, team teaching and facilitation, team building strategies, and positive conflict resolution. This inspirational [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 16:16:58
Mission Clarksville partners with schools, business to launch youth initiative
Harvesting the season's lettuce crop “…to develop a thoughtful and productive community of young people who can change the world in a lasting and positive way…” With a $5,000 matching gift from the Dandridge Trust, “Mission Clarksville” made its formal debut Monday evening with a video presentation and a “meet and greet” with program [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 11:00:15
Austin Event: Hot Science Cool Talks
Interesting topic and free pizza: Indoor air can be much more toxic than the air we experience outdoors, but isn't regulated by any agency ... the event, tailored to provide background useful for the classroom. CD-ROMs with lecture materials ... building disinfection chemistry in the wake of anthrax attacks in the Fall of 2001 [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 15:33:32
The Intel Story of Engagement
Intel is another technology company which is leveraging Social Media in order to engage well with its consumers around the world ... everyday life. This is an excellent step towards building it’s brand and giving an opportunity ... IntelPRUK - Intel UK PR team intelevents - Information about conferences & events Intel [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 19:53:50
Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, March 6, 2009
Market Cafe inside the Wegmans store on Peach Street received their Pennsylvania restaurant liquor license and will begin selling beer today ... by Linebacker Seth Fragale. No matter what the Erie indoor football team is called it seems more like a money making scheme to sell tickets, advertising and cheerleader calendars than a sports team [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 11:59:00
Wailing Wall Messages from Budget Workshop #4
The participants of last night’s budget workshop, held at the Pinn Memorial Baptist Church, posted their messages to the mayor on the “Wailing Wall ... importation into Philadelphia. Cutting funding to the kids is giving them to the streets. Without ... . Summer jobs for youth. Maintain Health Department budget. Mural Arts is building programs [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 22:38:07
Grandma, Jimmy and Wonderful Spring Breakers
Jump to CommentsThis morning I walked along the promenade after hosting my port adventure talk to find a group of three or four teenagers huddled ... ..If they like a TV program, they go online and download the whole series. If they want to go to the movies ... me he recently downloaded a program called Spotify, which gives you pretty much all the music [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 02:18:26
Played Like a Fool: Campaign Manager Cashes in on McCain’s Cold War Mentality
By Mark Ames and Ari Berman, The Nation. Posted October 14, 2008. He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain’s advisers have advanced Putin’s imperial ambitions and made good money on the side. Over the course of the presidential campaign, John McCain has repeatedly emphasized his willingness to stand up to Russian Prime Minister [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 16:42:21
FRITZWIRE: What's Going On In DC This Week
You can get the FritzWire weekly here, or sign up and get it every day from Fritz directly. It's free, it's chock full of all sorts of education stuff -- legislation, events, jobs. Today's edition includes new stim guidance. Scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see there are even restaurant recommendations and online [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 14:23:27
E-learning seen as innovative solution for VET
A new international report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ... and recognition of prior learning, is establishing VET as a preferred education option and allowing students ... this by tailoring our activities,” Mr Davidson said. “During 2008, a range of national industry sectors [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 00:39:42
Pacific Standard Time: Art of the Woman’s Building
I just completed a grueling, intense, and edifying week of study with a team of feminist scholars who have been commissioned by Sue Mayberry and ... and exciting charge. I knew none of the scholars, nor few of the many alumnae of the Woman’s Building ... about Woman’s Building video screened at their 1983 At Home show comparing it (favorably) to the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 19:28:41
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009
Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share.Also, in case you haven’t been following the story, Obama will close Gitmo shortly after he takes office. The interesting thing will be what he decides to do with the Gitmo alumni…Thanks to Frontinus, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00
Employee Ownership Research Award from the Aspen Institute
As longtime readers of this blog know, one of the 9 themes we uncovered among the 15 Top Small Workplaces for 2008 is that their workplace team ... items? What do you do as part of your team building and employee engagement activities to encourage ... building and employee engagement best practices geared toward instilling an ownership mentality [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 02:58:05
More on the CG Building Legal Capacity in Africa…
Continued from yesterday’s post … Initiatives 4-6 as outlined by CAPT Chuck Michel: 4. Coast Guard assets ( ... ’s current role is to supplement the navy VBSS team and train them in: o Maritime Laws o Boarding ... shipriders to enforce law in the region. 5. The Coast Guard’s international training team offer [more...]
Date: 2009-02-22 13:00:19
Dershowitz's floor at Harvard Law School is evacuated following delivery of suspicious white powder
What follows is an email sent out to Harvard Law School this afternoon. Hauser's fifth floor is where Alan Dershowitz has his office ... that the building can once again be accessed freely. Any students and staff presently in Hauser ... Environmental Health & Safety team. There is no indication of adverse effects to any [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 22:09:02
Employee Ownership Research Award from the Aspen Institute
As longtime readers of this blog know, one of the 9 themes we uncovered among the 15 Top Small Workplaces for 2008 is that their workplace team ... ? What do you do as part of your team building and employee engagement activities to encourage your people to think ... building and employee engagement best practices geared toward instilling an ownership [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 21:58:05
Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/30/2008
USABlack Racists Recruited to Guide the JihadCAIR Tries to Censor California PoliticiansIslam Convert Gets 35 Years in Plot to Attack MallLocal Muslim Scouts Celebrate RamadanPolice: No Evidence of Hate Crime at Ohio MosqueProsecutors on Obama ‘Truth Squad’ Sound RetreatSocialist “Bailout” Could Spark CollapseUS Publisher of Muslim Novel Closes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 00:58:00
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/19/2008
One story to notice tonight is the one from South Africa about the local municipal council that has decided that it will no longer do any business with white people. Obviously, that’s not racism.Thanks to AMDG, C. Cantoni, El Ingles, ESW, Insubria, KGS, TB, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 03:32:00
Cables, dispatches and memoranda
A brief world news roundup for 5 March 2009. United States & the Americas El Universal - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Tuesday ordered expropriation of a rice plant owned by US food giant Cargill because it was not producing rice that is subject to government price controls [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 06:49:09
Walt Whitman’s Democratic Spirit Lives on in City Tech Professor’s Multi-Campus Digital Humanities Experiment
Brooklyn, NY — March 10, 2009 — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Matthew K ... , classroom activities, and online learning environments. At the center of the project is an open ... share work from their own locations. Faculty members will encourage cross-classroom interaction [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 14:51:24
All eyes on the flatclassroom conference
A flatclassroom f2f Words cannot begin to describe the amazing experiences that we had whilst in Doha, Qatar, ... , featuring middle Eastern style buildings, crazy traffic, constant building activity and white sand ... some angst as to the Gaza situation in Israel. (Parents had been concerned about going to the Middle East [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 05:05:10
Media & Politics (one section only today)
Permanent link to MTA daily media newsGibbs: “Danger” if Obama does too little (Politico) ... building, laying out the high points of President Obama’s speech — and handling questions on how to spin ... the name of last night's Anderson Cooper program at 10 pm, following Obama’s address to Congress [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 21:08:12
DrumBeat: September 18, 2008
Refilling fuel tanks after Ike to take weeks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil refiners and producers on Thursday rushed to restore Gulf of Mexico production following Hurricane Ike, but energy traders and analysts warned it will take several more weeks to refill U.S. fuel inventories, increasing the risk of shortages [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 13:19:59
Conspiracy of the Lemmings: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis; Part II
Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook By Jim Simpson Note: I am indebted to the incredible efforts of many bloggers, who did the yeoman’s work of ferreting out many of the hard-to-find facts in this article. I particularly want to thank David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks team, Trevor Loudon of New Zeal [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 14:25:21
I got permission to print this recent email conversation for those of you getting started with Wikis this year ... about wikis the previous summer and set up one for my team and a couple for me to use with my students ... work through lab activities at their own pace with my support as needed. When they are finished a lab [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 16:30:00
Most Effective Freebies used by Promoters
Being one of the most efficient giveaways used by marketers, ... to suit your company logo and image. Printed t-shirts are frequently used in team-building, tree-planting ... used for company activities such as trade displays, conferences and fund raising events, custom [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 19:20:58
Skills West Midlands
Skills West Midlands Ricoh Arena, Coventry 18, 19 March 2009 Improve your performance At Skills West Midlands, the region’s biggest careers event, ... . There will be over 50 organisations there delivering lots of interactive features, from building a brick ... entrepreneurs, gain feedback and win prizes. . VT Training will be bringing a team of West [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 21:19:24
Review: International Relations In Action
Review of: Brock F. Tessman, International Relations in Action: A World Politics Simulation (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007). 138pp ... materials, and scenarios required to conduct an international relations simulation in the classroom ... tensions, trade and other economic issues, multilateral institution-building, and even the environmental [more...]
Date: 2009-03-08 10:43:43
University searching for Fall Welcome Ambassadors
Brianna Clabin Western Herald Leaving home for the first time can be scary, but when coming to Western Michigan University, ... . Building on the foundation created at summer orientation, Fall Welcome will connect first-year ... Ambassadors will be doing numerous activities with their students,” Pankow added. “ [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 05:52:37
A smorgasbord....
Being quite busy lately, I accumulated a lot of links to stuff I wanted to comment on but never found time. Well, it does not appear I will find time any time soon, so here are the links for you to comment on anyway (just because I link to them does not mean I agree with them - in some cases quite the opposite) [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 04:23:59
Creating a union at KIPP
Russo got this story right from one of the veteran teachers in the middle of the UFT's organizing drive at KIPP : ... . The faculty revisited the KIPP core values, and did team-building exercises to bond founding faculty ... coming up again in the new school year, however, the mood changed quickly despite the change [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 21:11:00
Public Diplomacy: Books, Articles, Websites #44
Below the fold is the latest list of books, articles, and websites on public diplomacy from Bruce Gregory, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University. Intended for teachers of public diplomacy and related courses, here is an update on resources that may be of general interest [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 04:39:29
Edgewood News - March 2009: Incinerator, Cordish, Foreclosure
EDGEWOOD News EDGEWOOD: Better with EVERYONE’S Help! A Thriving, Diverse and Compassionate Community that Welcomes All Citizens! March 2009 Edition What’s in This Issue Councilman Dion Guthrie’s News Cordish Company Waste-to-Energy Facility Home Foreclosure Assistance Edgewood Schools News Young Author’s Writing Contest Awards [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 11:32:24
professional obligations of outside consultants (like myself) who work with educational organizations. Today’s post will offer some of my thoughts on the responsibilities of the school organizations that hire outside consultants. J. Dellicolli helpfully pointed us to the National Staff Development [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 16:12:11
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/18/2008
More immigration news tonight: Lampedusa figures prominently.Also notice the New York Times article about the young woman from Turkey whose wearing of the hijab makes her a “youthful rebel”. Compare it with what I posted earlier tonight about the state-sanctioned enforcement of Islam on an adopted child in the UK [more...]
Date: 2008-10-19 03:54:00
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Date: 2009-02-22 13:50:41
Updates
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Date: 2009-02-23 22:10:41
Updates
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Date: 2009-02-28 17:30:41
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