I was just thinking
Kent Brooks thoughts on educational technology, open source and enduring disruptions caused by technology use.
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Posted by Kent Brooks on January 27, 2012 at 12:42am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
I was asked awhile back about leaving a job gracefully. It was somewhat related to a graduate class one of my colleagues is taking. I guess I was pretty convenient for an interview since I had just changed jobs. Interesting topic. In the past year I left a position which I had held for the previous 15 years. That is pretty amazing in itself considering the average life span of an IT manger is almost always in the range of 4 1/2 years.
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Working as chair of the technology committee at Casper College makes my third go around as the chair of the technology committee at an institution of higher education. Working in the chair capacity and with technology committees at other institutions (K12 & higher ed) in the role…
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Lorena Nugent Caroll was born Nov 2, 1911. Her mother was Narcissa Melissa Looney Nugent (Aunt Millie)and her father was William Thomas Nugent(Uncle Will). Uncle Will died from a gunshot wound in the back when Lorena was six months old.
Lorena was a first cousin to my mother, Juanita Brooks as her mother Rebecca Suzanne (Suzy)and Aunt Millie were sisters. On the Huckaby side they were second cousins. The Huckaby’s were friends of the Looney’s in Texas and were and were also…
Posted by Kent Brooks on December 15, 2011 at 11:30pm 0 Comments 2 Promotions
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure - Mark Twain
The Cape Bear Light House at Murray Harbor Prince Edward Island has an amazing story of technology and Life and Death. It is the place that received the first distress signal from the Titanic as it was sinking. Great technology from the times sending a message of horror. How would you have liked to be the recipient of that message? Below are the Brooks Kids looking out over the Atlantic…
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