Sunday, March 30, 2008
BLOG: TODAY'S CIRCULAR LETTER
Lately I have been dabbling with a free course from MIT. MIT offers about 1800 of these free courses. You get no credit, and how much you do depends on your interest. Lectures are for the downloading on the site. I download some of them. When I work on these courses, I become more and more aware of the absence of, and the importance of the professor to straigten out questions. I find, also, that assumptions of how much the student already knows are sometimes made. Anyway, it is free and something I read for a course is the suject of this posting.
I have been reading about Harriet Beecher (Stowe) in connection with slavery. She was still living in Cincinnati, and would come to Hartford later. Her family, while scattered, kept their communmication open by means of letters which went from one to the other and were commented upon. At least that's what I am getting out of it.
Our blog is intended to do the same thing. The members are free to comment on what other members have entered, or to enter their own thoughts. That's what should be going on. Otherwise, it becomes Bob's journal. I hope people will accept the concept, and begin communicating better.
http://www.MIT.edu/OCW for the MIT course offerings
I have been reading about Harriet Beecher (Stowe) in connection with slavery. She was still living in Cincinnati, and would come to Hartford later. Her family, while scattered, kept their communmication open by means of letters which went from one to the other and were commented upon. At least that's what I am getting out of it.
Our blog is intended to do the same thing. The members are free to comment on what other members have entered, or to enter their own thoughts. That's what should be going on. Otherwise, it becomes Bob's journal. I hope people will accept the concept, and begin communicating better.
http://www.MIT.edu/OCW for the MIT course offerings
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
PAUL GETS NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Here are Paul and other executives from his company featured on the cover of a nationally distributed printing publication. From what Pat tells us, this is significant recognition, and Paul is getting calls from all over the country. Congratulations, Paul.
Monday, March 10, 2008
THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER?
No, but this might be the last snow pile of the winter. This pile resulted when our plow driver pushed a big load off the driveway. For a long time, the ground was covered with a foot of snow, or so. In the past few weeks, we have had unseasonably warm weather, and two large rain storms--probably a total of four inches, which is a lot of rain. The snow melted. This pile of snow defies laws of something, and should be gone, too. But it ain't gone. Lo0k at the rest of the area.. No snow.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
March 1, 2008
