Google Teacher Academy coming to Chicago

K-12 teachers--Here's your chance to become a Google Certified Teacher! The next Google Teacher Academy, a free one-day professional development opportunity from Google, is coming to Chicago on September 24, 2008. Hurry--applications are due by August 24, and your application must include an original 1-minute video. Click here for details. 

Wikis for internal collaboration

The New York Times today has a brief interesting article about Diplopedia, the internal wiki developed and used by the US State Department. If the State Dept can successfully use a wiki to encourage modern collaboration among its employees, why don't more schools and universities embrace wikis as a tool to promote change, map curriculum, encourage professional development, model 21st century skills, strengthen missions and strategic plans, and, perhaps best of all, reduce the number of face-to-face meetings we all attend? 

Wikispaces makes it easy to add internal wikis to an organization using their Private Label service. 

Font Conference - Hilarious!

This is a really funny video for you font connoisseurs--or, actually, anyone who's ever used a word processor. If the video is clipped-off below, then use this link to view it.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Mr and Mrs Kaminsky

Congratulations, Maciej and Erin Kaminsky, married July 19, 2008. So happy that Magda and I could be part of your special day. Let the party begin!

Update: More pictures are now available--click here. Love this one of Magda, Lucy and me.

New great stop in Stockton, IL

We're on our way home from a great 4th of July weekend in Chicago, and we just stopped at a great new pit stop about half-way. Stone Cabin Coffee recently opened on the East end of Stockton, IL, along HWY 20. It's a really nice coffee shop with two levels of comfy seating (big leather sofas and coffee tables), free Wi-Fi, and good drinks. It's a really nice place to take a break and feed Lucy. I predict this is going to become a regular pit stop for us in the future!

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