| Expert Sitings: Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is cofounder of Global Voices Online, an aggregator of blogs from around the world (globalvoicesonline.org), and founder of Geekcorps, a volunteer organization that sends technology experts to Africa. His blog can be found at ethanzuckerman.com/blog. .
Expert jazz improviser to play with trio at the State Theatre
Get ready to mix it up with a little bit of jazz, rock and soul. As a part of the Innovators Series at The State Theatre, the John Scofield Trio is performing tonight. "The Innovators Series is a loosely based conglomeration of all artists playing in the area. We thought it was a good way to group them together and a way to get the audience in. Plus, they are a bit radical and innovative," Joe Apfelbaum, programming manager for The State Theatre, said. .
Alfred State - SUNY College of Technology
Every class is taught by a member of our faculty, and every student can count on personal attention from our instructors. Youll always be invited to discuss your opinions, seek advice, or ask for extra help.
Evidence of our facultys first-rate teaching: 22 SUNY Chancellors Excellence in Teaching Award winners; 10 SUNY Chancellors Excellence in Professional Service Award recipients; 2 SUNY Chancellors Excellence in Librarianship Award holders; 1 SUNY Distinguished Service Professor; 5 Distinguished Teaching Professors; 3 NYS/United University Professions Excellence Award winners; 3 NYS Nurse of Distinction nominees; 1 NISOD (National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development) Award winners; and numerous Whos Who achievers. President Paul B. Orvis, who could appreciate one's efforts but was seldom given to warm and flowery expressions of gratitude and praise, had this to say in his annual message to faculty in June 1953:
The reason that Alfred has grown despite all obstacles; the reason that students will come to an Alfred without dormitories and live 12 miles from the campus; the reason the students apply for entrance in ever increasing numbers despite the lack of dining, auditorium, or laboratory facilities with classes in barns, basements and attics; the reason they will come and work with facilities that would have been condemned and closed years ago had they been operated under private auspices; the reasons, I repeat, are not tangible.
Young Koreans join the charge for freedom
At a small restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, in late February, my student and I ate spicy noodle soup and stared at a huge television showing an extravagant celebration for Kim Jong-il's 65th birthday in Pyongyang. Thousands of smiling people paraded across the North Korean capital and saluted their Dear Leader. "I was once there," my student said. "But even as I danced and smiled, I knew of a better life outside." She said this matter-of-factly and turned to stir her tea. Her search for that better life had brought her here, at age 13, to Seoul, and to my English class at a special school for young North Korean defectors. The school has more than two dozen students, members of a growing contingent of North Koreans who have deserted the communist country since famines in the mid-1990s killed more than 2 million people.
The Pilot's Lounge #112: Fire Your Instructor
A while back I was sitting in the Pilot's Lounge at the virtual airport wondering what the phrase "sit back and relax" means and why in the world the airlines keep saying it to me when I'm jammed into a seat designed for an eight-year-old. My reverie was disturbed when Tom, a thirty-something businessman, walked in. I'd chatted with him a number of times over the last year and knew he was working on his Private Pilot Certificate. More than once I had seen him studying or walking out to an airplane with an instructor. I'm not particularly astute but when he slammed his study guide and logbook onto the desk over by the pop machine I figured he wasn't particularly happy. "Rough lesson?" I inquired. "No." He said emphatically, "No lesson. That %$#@! instructor cancelled again.
Music lover is Carlsbad district's 'Teacher of the Year'
CARLSBAD ---- Karen Stencil, the 2007 Teacher of the Year in the Carlsbad Unified School District, said she believes in maximizing every teaching moment.On Friday, during the 30 minutes she taught 20 kindergarteners to sing and dance, no second was wasted. Stencil began strumming her 12-string guitar even before all her 20 kindergarten students at Jefferson Elementary School had seated themselves on colored dots on the carpeted floor. .
Family news and events
Family news: Webkinz, autism, the family events calendar and Ohio travel. Find family news and events here every Thursday. Tomorrow's entry features food. What's the difference between a child "telling a story" and a child lying? And what's the best way to teach children not to lie? .
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