A year or two ago (have I been dealing with this for so long?), I did something that has essentially turned my neighbors against me. Or at least, it feels that way.
Something happened, and I didn't handle it well. I frequently don't handle social things well. Its paradoxical, considering that if people - specifically, my neighbors - took the time to really get to know me (and vice-versa), they might understand why I don't handle these things well.
It was just a year ago that I was writing about closing down my consulting business and joining ownCloud as an employee. And now I've moved on to new digs.
ownCloud was a great opportunity. I really love open source software - software that is written and distributed with the source code and the ability to change and re-release that source code. I've been a contributor to open source projects for a long while, and have even started my own. So the opportunity to get paid to work on such a project was a great find for me.
This summer we took a week long family vacation - the first in a long while - to the Poconos.
We packed our things the week before and headed out on Saturday morning to Ken and Kate's mountain house. It only took a couple of hours to get there, and having been there before, we avoided the crazy gated entrance that had thwarted prior visits.
Hello internet.
I hope you have come here because you've seen my pleas on social media and want to know what I'm raving about. I will explain my concept to you simply:
I read a piece by Cory Doctorow called Standardized testing and schools as factories: Louis CK versus Common Core which talks about a comedian who dislikes the application of Common Core.
I'm not writing to defend Common Core, at least not fully. People around our district that talk about it seem to have a limited understanding or a skewed perspective on what it is. I think the problems with Common Core are often not what people most frequently surface.