Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Blogging Learning Curve Today I had to repost the items I posted last evening because of the way that I was controlling my weblog from two different computers. Things seemed to work ok, but when I got in today and looked at my main machine the posts I had made from home were not there. I thought I had discovered a way to do this on Mac OX X by mounting and running the application remotely, but apperently that does not work. I have turned on and am now using the remote access feature of Radio. It works quite well, so far. 10:28:36 AM    comment [] The State of the State Last evening I listened to Governor Leavitt's State of the State address while driving home from work on the way to Varsity Scouts. Over all it was a well prepared, well delivered and moving address. I tuned in especially for what Mr. Leavitt had to say about education and the current state of the State budget. I was encouraged and motivated by what he said to say about the economic outlook of Utah and the changes he is proposing for Utah Education. In a bold move the Governor and the Utah Board of Education is proposing moving away from the century old Carnegie credit system--based on credit for time sitting in a chair to a new system based on a competency-measured system and using a Weighted Competency Unit to determine the funding for education. I applaud this move and feel that it will greatly improve the quality of education and will give Utah a much needed change in values as far as education is concerned. You can read more about the "competency standard" "Weighted Competency Unit" and the like at the Utah.gov Site. 10:22:36 AM    comment []

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

My First Blog As I type this it is 55 Degrees outside here in Salt Lake City. This has been a very strange winter. My friends and colleagues here at UEN where I work have recently discovered this phenomenon of web logging or blogging if you want to get the term right in geek speak. I thought I would jump on the trend as well. If and when I have random thoughts or ideas worthy of sharing (or not) I will post them here to my web log (blog). 4:00:24 PM    comment []

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