Ed
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Introduction | I'm working a number of efforts to bridge to the new educational marketplace. From a couple of standalone core curriculum apps to some frameworks for empowering teachers, students, and other developers. I spent the last two years haggling on the educational inovation environment with Deb Myers ans Diane Ravitch, and teacheing myself Rails and Web programming. Fund me, Hire me! I love where I work and live; love my customers; love the parks system where I am a County District Commissioner; love the time it gives me to write on education; and love the cool things we do to raise a little money for charity now and then (tossing weinies in a parade etc.). But, money's money, and this is Appalachia! |
| Interests | Professional: Urban Minority Education, and how we can possibly have 50% drop-out rates and not think it a national crisis; National Security, and how education affects the ability of a people to properly employ its Army; artificial intelligence and other comp-sci wonders. |
| Favorite movies | Lord of the Rings (1&3), The Great Escape, We Were Soldiers. |
| Favorite music | Irish, folk, Scots, college radio, Pandora, Fanfare for the Common man, bagpipes on a summer afternoon, the Boss, jazz, blues, blues, and blues if its at a bluesfest! |
| Favorite books | Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Kim, Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century (Macgregor), L.O.T.R., Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach (Michalski,Carbonell,Mitchell), An Education for Our Time (Bunting), Quantum Physics of Atoms Molecules Solids Nuclei and Particles, A Bright Shining Lie (Sheehan). |
Describe the sound of a moist waffle falling onto a hot griddle.
"And in the Mornin', I'm makin' WAFFLES! - Donkey to Shrek