Friday, March 22, 2002
Random Thoughts 1 As I am riding on our great public transportation in Chicago, I can steal a few keystrokes to write some random thoughts on this trusty iBook.

I hope the best for the son of our principal at Whittier School. He has been very sick for over a year. Since she is now caring for her son at home, it makes one appreciative for the presence of our leader. One of her strengths is listening. She listens first, then she processes the information and then she makes a decision. That has been my experience. She is a class act.

Is the spirit of Commodus here at Whittier School? Beware the Ides of March.

One of the reasons I joined the Chicago Area Writing Project was the quality of the educators involved. I can say that I have met quality educators across the national writing project. Again, stuff that will not make the daily newspapers. Pat Delaney and Karen McComas are just two I have met. Check out thier blogs.
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Mobile K-Logging

Rapid mobility is the sign of the times.  In many organizations employees spend as much or more time on airplanes, in distant hotel rooms, and at client locations as they do at the office.  So, how can they contribute to a corporate K-Log when they are on the road and/or disconnected?  Here is my thinking on this.
 
There are three modes of remote K-Logging.  They are:
 
1) Remote access to a K-Log through a browser.   K-Log tools that are located on a server or desktop PC (through remote access settings) can be accessed while on the road as long as the systems can be accessed from outside the corporate firewall via a variety of connection techniques (VPN, VNC, Microsoft Terminal Server, Browsers equiped with certificates, etc).  
 
2) Mobile laptop with a local K-Log tool.  With a laptop K-Logging tool, employees can K-Log while on a plane, in a hotel room, and in a client meeting -- all while disconnected.  When they reconnect, the publishing process is fast and efficient as K-Log updates on the desktop are published to the host.  Additionally, news headlines are downstreamed to the laptop.  This is very similar in concept to the efficient e-mail replication found in Lotus Notes (and what made it successful).  This is also what I do personally.
 
3) Remote K-Logging via e-mail.  E-mail works great as a way to post updates to a K-Log tool on the desktop or server while on the road without a laptop.  Many employees now use e-mail enabled devices like Blackberries and wireless Palms.  These tools don't support high quality browsing, but they do a fairly good job with e-mail.  For those employees that want to make an immediate post to their K-Log via a Blackberry while stuck in traffic, the e-mail to K-Log feature is the best way to go.
 
E-mail is also a great way to build a group or team K-Log using a desktop PC.  In many respects, this is very much like a private Yahoo Group, but done with a K-Log tool on a desktop PC inside the corporate firewall.  All participating employees are given an e-mail address to send updates to.  All e-mails from these employees are aggregated by the K-Log tool and posted to the Intranet.  It would require a minor modification to the K-Log tool to send e-mails back to the participating employees on a per post or daily summary basis. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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CPS meets Manila.... About two years ago, i went to Chicago Public Schools downtown "Grand Central Station" and asked to have my school's Manila powered Mac Centered Tech Site to be a resource link on the CPS Intranet. I did a search on the CPS internet site for Macintosh technology resources and got practically nothing. I figured our site could fill the void. Simple enough, our edutech site is listed here at http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Library/Web_Links/Professional_Development/professional_development.html
For some reason we are not in the technology area but the professional development section. OK
By showing our Mac site, I was introducing Manila. True, the themes that exist now are better than those that existed at that time.

Our Mac Edutech Site has more info about the Mac and technology resources than the CPS online support sites. I have to admit that I do not update the site as often as I wish as I could, but it has a hell of alot of more info than CPS.

CPS didn't get Manila then and still do not.
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