Flash forward . . . a year later.

November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe that it has been more than a year since I posted to this blog. A lot has happened in that time.
To begin with, shortly after that last blog post, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Happily, it was in the early stages (Stage II) and I am now through two surgeries, [...]

Nov

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Getting serious now

November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I feel like now I’m in full swing with the semester. Lots going on both in this class and STAT 508 as well as work and family. I feel like the guy on the Ed Sullivan show spinning the plates on sticks (Ok, so I’m showing my age again). Got a bunch up there spinning [...]

Oct

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Finding the Words

October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

Had a great class on recognizing and dealing with resistance this past week. Pam and Megan took us through Block’s steps to recognizing, naming and countering resistance. I thought remembering the names was tough and sometimes I still find it difficult to fit the situation into the proper category. Then it really got interesting. Coming [...]

Oct

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Johari Window

October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

We talked about the Johari window in class tonight and worked through an exercise. It was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. I did little web research and came across the following website:
http://kevan.org/johari.
It it an interactive Johari window and gives users a chance to [...]

Sep

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Internal vs External Consultants

September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

As I continue to read about the business of consulting another of my previous notions of consultants bites the dust. I have always through of the consultants (since we were assuming the role of expert) to be someone from outside the organization. How many times have I heard/told the old joke, A consultant is an [...]

Sep

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Trying to add a WebWidget . . .

September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Oh Wow! Oh Boy! Oh AWESOME!
Can you tell I’m excited about this? I figured out how to add WebWidgets that aren’t the ones typically associated with Edublogs. This is VERY cool and has FAR REACHING consequences for blogging in a community of practice, I topic I’m quite interested in and fond of . . . [...]

Aug

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Undecided

August 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

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OK, so I keep changing the design of the this blog. There are just SO MANY that I CAN’T DECIDE!!!

Aug

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Explanation of the Title

August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The title of this blog is an homage to the Broadway show, [title of show]. I’m really not just being lazy. Please take a minute to click on the link to its home page and PLEASE, if you’re in NYC, check it out. It’s a wonderful show!

Aug

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My first entry into the world of blogging

August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

Well, this is my first blog. Nothing like a college course to make you step out of your comfort zone and that’s just what is happening to me. I wonder if anyone is really interested in what I have to say and I guess this is one way to find out.
I’ll keep this front page [...]