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Padula melted into rage. According to a competing restraining order Avidor filed, Padula grabbed a nearby glass and warned, "I'm going to cut your throat." The incensed Italian pressed the glass against Avidor's nose, until witnesses wrenched him free. "I'm going to kill you," he told Avidor. Minutes later, Padula, screaming, again thrust the glass into Avidor's face.
The next day, Avidor claimed he thought Padula might attack him with a gun, and he feared for his life. "I did not do anything to provoke" Padula, he said.
This climactic confrontation had seeds deep in the past. Avidor, 45, who speaks in a low guttural growl still flecked with his Israeli upbringing, grew up in Haifa, northern Israel's largest city. There, he told New Times in a brief chat, he met his future business partner A.J. Yaari "when we were boys." The men, who declined formal interviews, landed in Fort Lauderdale with an adroit sense of what it takes to conquer a beachside, tourist-driven economy: sex, alcohol, and aggression. They opened their first shops in the mid-1990s, each carrying a name that's almost a caricature of ocean-side existence. First came L&A on the Beach in 1993. Next was See the Sun. Finally, in 1995, they opened Sex Appeal Swimwear.
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In 2001, Avidor met Padula, who had come to local prominence through his stewardship of Il Tartufo and Café Europa, successful Las Olas spots. Padula knew Avidor and Yaari only as two guys "selling T-shirts and screwing tourists," he recalls, when they hatched an ambitious plan that would enact a near-monopoly of the hottest strip of real estate in Broward County.
In 2004, after the businessmen opened Cafe del Mar, they inked another contract to open Spazio. Padula sank $350,000 into that restaurant and became a 50 percent shareholder, with Yaari and Avidor splitting the rest. Then, over the next three years, the men widened their sprawl: Rock Bar, Sangrias Café, Dirty Blondes, Exit 66 — all under the agreement that Padula act as "operating manager," according to a 2008 lawsuit Padula filed against his partners.
"Padula was a restaurateur," explains a person familiar with the agreement, who requested anonymity. "And [Yaari and Avidor] were not. As long as they had the agreement of Padula managing, they were fine."
But on November 12, 2008, Yaari and Avidor changed the locks on all of the restaurants, banned Padula from the establishments he once managed, and froze his pay, according to Padula's lawsuit, which alleged, among other claims, minority oppression and freeze-out.
One week later, on November 19, the men and their attorneys huddled in a conference room at a mirrored office building on Corporate Drive in Fort Lauderdale. During that conversation, like something out of a Rocky movie, Avidor stood up and, in an outburst of anger, announced he planned to "break [Padula] in two," according to a deposition of Avidor's attorney, Craig Sherman. Avidor, who was "animated, angry, loud," then said, "We're leaving," and he and Yaari stormed out. Afterward, in a civil lawsuit Avidor filed against Padula, he claimed the smaller man had attacked and threatened to kill him during that meeting.
The next day at Cafe del Mar, Padula alleged in a restraining order that Yaari "jumped on me and punched me in the face, saying [he wanted] to take my liver out."
Soon after, the partners split. They eventually signed a nondisclosure agreement and dismissed the lawsuits. Padula, who declined in a brief interview to specify what spurred the sudden fallout, got Cafe del Mar, and the Israelis netted the rest. In the chaotic aftermath, some staff were swept out under the new managers in what one former employee described as a "coup."
One afternoon in 2009 during those chaotic weeks, staff members filed into a conference room at Exit 66 and found a seat, according to two separate managers who were present. Seated before the confused employees were Yaari and Avidor. "They had time sheets for what everyone was owed," one manager remembers. "And they said, 'We're not paying you this.' One by one, we all had to negotiate what we were rightfully owed. It had been weeks since any of us had been paid."
John Guerrero, a floor manager at Exit 66 at the time, recalls that meeting vividly. "I said, 'Where's my check?' And they gave me this whole story. And it was pretty much, 'Either you take what we give you and still work for us. Or if not, goodbye.' When I came on, it was actually a functioning situation, but everything turned. It became a bunch of jacked-up dudes getting into fights, other guys getting sucker-punched for talking back to bouncers, and slutty girls getting wasted and doing drugs."
Also around this time, there was one more change. Avidor and Yaari began hiring off-duty cops to work security.
That Fort Lauderdale Police once again face criticism over their undefined off-duty detail policy shouldn't come as a surprise — least of all to the cops themselves.
They've known it poses problems since at least July 15, 2005. On that day, a New York-based investigative firm called Safir Rosetti castigated the policy in a report obtained by New Times.
investigate the owners with criminal connections,and sale of extasy that is controlled by the israeli-russian mafia,and yes the local fbi office needs internal investigation.
if it's such a terrible place why aren't there ON DUTY police officers? Seilier is a tool
Ok, Mr. Mayor you cant hide on this one! What are your plans for this corrupt activity ! Maybe just lose the City is an option
This is one of the things that killed Baja Beach Club in the Grove as well. As a former bouncer I can tell you with some validity that there is really no need to be douchebags like the ones at Dirty Blondes to do the job. Sure you have to deal with drunk assholes, so you get them yank them out of the club and goodbye. I never got paid enough money to exert myself that much in dealing with an asshole.
So why hasn't someone gone to that club and murdered those bouncers? That is what I would do. Nut up or shut up, is what I say!
...........................i would also offer that since "boys will be boys" and that alcohol and bath saltz and who knows what other mind and mood altering substances are injested by patrons and bouncers and bar owners operators................LET THESE places simply go somewhere else - GET THEM OFF THE BEACH = period - let the animals and savages and neaderthals have at each other under a bridge or down a dark alley SOMEWHERE ELSE in ft liquordale - then they could kill each other altogether and the CIVILIZED society can enjoy the beach without fear
URBAN WEEK got out of hand and police shot 106 bullets into a car two years ago - MORE POLICE are not the answer, bringing in the National Guard is not the answer, having the SWAT TEAM on the roof of the ELBO ROOM is NOT the answer, putting a police sub-station in the lobby of the RITZ CARLTON is not the answer = the answer is sweeping away these "stages" of insanity to some other location where they can pursue their savage and uncivlized clashes of the mental mindless and egotistical steroid-fuel physical combatants
Count me in. Constantly looking over my shoulder for uneducated meat-head hooliganism is not really my vibe when I'm trying to chill with a few drinks and a few friends. I will never enter into one of these establishments again. There's only one reason people become "bouncers" instead of joining any reputable security establishment (PD, Brinks, etc), and that is: prior arrest records. They are basically just thugs trying to eke out a living by doing what they do best: acting aggressively and without any type of tact or thought.
................................well now we have become ground zero for all the neanderthals to come here and challenge the status quo with upcomming SMACKDOWNs and HOULIGANISM from the savages from all parts of the globe
why the FT LAUDERDALA POLICE department bungled the initial investigation and took over a week to "change their tune" when the video came to light is a disgrace to the department which has no other reason than COVER-UP to explain its action - WHICH we should ALL hope is not the case
Off-duty policy. All you need to know. Essentially no police reports will be filed because they threaten you (victim) with arrest for trespassing, disorderly conduct and public intoxication. Protects the bar against lawsuits because there will be no police records of the incident. Only you the victim being told to leave.
@JohnnySwift Only in the movies, but it's a movie I'd watch and I suspect so would a lot of other people.
@MrGumsandals - Only in the movies?!? That kind of stuff happens all the time. Some dude gets kicked out a club, gets mad, and comes back with a gun and shoots the place up. If I was ever treated like that I would shoot those guys dead. I ain't afraid of jail. been there, done that. I ain't about to get punked by dudes like that, though.


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Serve anyone famous in Key West?
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Love how David suggests that gambits aren't real openings.
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First hybrid was very good and picked up some pointers. This one was of only moderate interest. Easy win for white. Speaking for myself, nothing special or particularly instructive was going on. How about crafty French Defense or Caro-Kann with players at this level ?
I find the new format very engaging. Instead of watching in awe at one of the chess gods, I am learning how to avoid the same kind of mistakes I would make.
i like the concept behind IM David Pruess video here. it's interesting ... and instructive and fresh; it's sort of like a reality chess show.
Yeah I too could watch these type of videos all day, very good to hear the Master's thoughts over a lower-rated game than usual, I could do with that on my live games lol :)
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When they came in, they had the first five minutes of class to "draw the Internet." I got a lot of quizzical looks. "What do you mean?" "You can't draw the Internet!" I said, "If someone asked you what the Internet looked like, what would you draw?"
There were a variety of concepts including connected dots, a globe, drawings of homepages and Internet logos. A few students drew computers, one drew a phone. A few got their phones out and sketched a browser page on their phone.
I explained that while preparing for the lesson, I had been searching for a diagram of how the Internet works to show them and that all I found were pictures of computers connected to a grey cloud that said, "Internet." I did find a fairly useful, short video that I showed them instead. Many people, I explained, that use the Internet, don't really even understand what it is.
After watching the video, I asked them who their ISP was and they named Comcast, Verizon and Clear. We then reviewed the concept of IP addresses and the fact that all computers have them. We also discussed how IP addresses are changed into website names. It was, I admit, a lot to swallow and will require follow up lessons, but it was a crash course nonetheless.
After sharing their drawings with each other and comparing and contrasting them, I had the students count off into groups. They were then tasked with creating a chart that included at least one idea from everyone in the group. On the chart had to be two columns. One that said, "I use the Internet to…" and one that said, "I wish I used the Internet to…." They recorded their thoughts on the chart paper. After about 10 minutes of working, I then had each group walk from table to table to see what the other groups had written. We then debriefed and
talked about what we saw. I told them that they are in the position to make the things in their "wish" column a reality. I told them that most people use the internet for all of things the students said they did (social media, pictures, music..), but very few people actually make stuff for the Internet. I told them I want them to be makers and builders. I think they dug the idea.
Another fun part about the activity was walking around and listening to them talk to each other. "I wish I could talk to my computer." "But you can, you can use Siri!" "Siri sucks. It's not really talking to you." I also overheard conversations about what they use the Internet to do and discovering common ground. Overall, I think it was a great start to the year and I look forward to digging deeper into conversations about Digital Citizenship and the rights and responsibilities that coming with going online.
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I am so exhausted I can barely keep my eyes awake, but it's a good kind of tired. After weeks of team building, inquiry into our own pedagogical practices, building units, discussing and working out details on school operations from scheduling the first day to student flow through the building, loading up UHaul trucks with furniture and carrying a conference table up three flights of stairs, today was the ultimate truth. The kids arrived.
I couldn't have wished for a better first day.
There were smiles, nervous looks, timid questions and laughter. We had hiccups (including me being locked out of my classroom for 45 minutes), but it was humbling to see how all of the hard work that each member of our team has done pulled together today. There's something unique about creating a plan and seeing it through until the end. I've never opened a school year with such ownership over the process.
I know that this year will not be perfect. I know that there will be times when we will not always agree on how things are done. I know that we will make mistakes….and learn from them. I also know that we are dedicated to doing great things for kids and that is the underlying force behind everything we do. I have complete confidence and trust in the team that has worked so hard to get to this day.
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As I reflected on the events of today, I began to think of my journey as a teacher here in Philadelphia. I began to think of all of the red flags that have gone up over the last ten years before getting to this point. Here is a run-down:
The State takes over the School District of Philadelphia and puts in an appointed board to run the District called the School Reform Commission (SRC), which is made up of appointees chosen mostly by the Governor and some by the Mayor of Philadelphia.
August 2002
I move to Philadelphia immediately after graduating from college. I really want to be a teacher, but am not certified.
I apply to be a "Literacy Intern" with the Philadelphia School District. I am called in November and am placed at an elementary school in Southwest Philadelphia. My role is to support classroom teachers whose classrooms have gone over the legal limit. Basically, rather than hire certified teachers and make class sizes smaller, the District hired teachers with Emergency Certifications to "reduce class size" by pushing in a few hours every day. I worked in a Kindergarten room with 34 students. The teacher only had my help for about 2 hours a day. My official teaching career in Philadelphia begins.
I complete my student teaching in an unruly 1st grade classroom with a first-year teacher because my principal placed me there and learn quickly the steel and flexibility it takes to be a teacher Philadelphia. I learn that many teachers who were "vocal" in the school had been "written out of the budget" in previous years. That year, at least 4 of my colleague transfer out or quit because of the school administration.
I go to the District office to pick my first official "solo" teaching job and am told that there are no more positions available in the District. I am offered my choice of school from a list of a schools with a "high teacher turnover rate." I look quickly at a map and pick a school.
When I arrive at my new school in West Philadelphia, I find out that the school lost 50% of their teachers from the previous year because the school was slated to enter the new (and short-lived) Corrective Action Region. With 3 positions still unfilled 3 days before school starts, I sign up to be the Science Teacher. We start the year with first-year teachers making up about 30% of the staff. During my second year, a first year teacher walks out and never comes back and never officially resigns. Myself and the other specialist teachers take turns covering the class for months.
Our school community inhabits a crumbling building with mold that causes asthma in some staff and a malfunctioning heating system that causes 2nd degree burns on a student who leans back on a hot radiator pipe. We survive a poor school climate with fights breaking out regularly and many unruly classrooms. We are designated an Empowerment School by the District, which means we are held under tighter scrutiny and must implement specific programs.
February 2009
Our school community goes into turmoil when we are told that our building is being demolished and that we are being relocated and have 3 1/2 months to pack up a 100 year old building. Teachers are expected to teach and pack their rooms at the same time.
September 2009 – June 2009
My students are uprooted from their neighborhood and their school to be bused from the area of 58th and Media Streets to 59th Street and Baltimore Ave. They survive being forced into many hours a week of scripted Corrective Reading and Connected Math instruction whether the program works for them or not. Teachers are told that if the students aren't learning what they are supposed to, it's because the teacher did not stick to the script.
Students make do as Kindergarteners are forced to use bathrooms built for middle schoolers, as 4 busses running two routes bring 600 students to school and home every day, and as elementary age kids eat lunch in a cafeteria that can seat over 500 students. Students share the building with a "no excuses" charter school and find that their former classmates are not even allowed to say hi to them if they see each other in the hallway.
As the school year progresses, student behavior deteriorates and teachers have little to no support in a huge building with which they are not familiar.
January 23, 2010
The District teachers survive the shady approval of the new PFT contract, which sells the teachers out for Race to the Top money and brings in the era of Renaissance Schools.
January 28, 2010
We are alerted through a District letter in our school mailboxes that our school is on the list of possible Renaissance Schools and could be shut down and reorganized.
March 2010
Our school community barely holds it together when our school's name appears on the final list of Renaissance Schools. We aren't even really sure what it means yet. There are a number of models presented to us. We eventually find out that we will be converted to a charter and will all be force transferred and have to re-apply for our positions if we decide to apply to the charter operator.
March-May 2010
Our school's parents barely survive the convoluted process of forming a School Advisory Committee and the marketing pitches by a variety of charter operators. We do not know who will be running the school, who will be teaching our students or whether the new building would be done in time. We will never get to teach in the new building as it will be turned over to the charter operator for the following school year.
June 2010
My colleagues and I survive a number of meetings with various District staff who have no answers about the future of our jobs or our school community. We begin to pack up the building once again with no idea what the future holds.
Despite interviewing within the District, I make the hard decision to leave the District so I can keep doing what I love– teaching kids with computers. I take a 5 year Charter School Leave of Absence.
September 2010 – June 2013
While I have 3 great years of teaching, I also survive teaching with no contract as an "at-will" employee in a school staffed with a huge percentage of teachers under the age of 30 with very little teaching experience. I watch as my SDP colleagues continue to struggle with the new programs and requirements imposed upon schools and teachers by Superintendent Ackerman. I watch irate parents speak out about school closings. I watch students walk out of their classrooms in protest. I watch as the Renaissance School movement, a child of Washington, D.C.-style reform, turns more and more District schools over to "no excuses" charters. I watch as communities are torn apart by school closings and as some neighborhoods are left without a neighborhood school for their child to attend. I empathize with their fears and frustrations and I am glued to The Notebook everyday. I watch as Arlene Ackerman is removed by the SRC and walks away with a huge severance package, leaving a huge leadership hole. I watch with hope as William Hite is announced as the new Superintendent. I watch as Ackerman's plans continue as planned and meetings about school closings are held at schools all over the City.
June 2013
I ecstatically accept a position at the Science Leadership Academy's new Beeber campus and am actually thrilled to come back to the District.
August 15, 2013
I attend the last minute meeting of the SRC, announced only 24 hours ahead of time, during which the SRC suspends entire sections of the Pennsylvania School Code and gives themselves all the power they need to break the union. I listen to community members and teachers tell the SRC that we can't give our children the bare minimum, that this is a manufactured crisis and anyone who was paying attention knew we would end up here. They say that it's unconscionable for students and their families and teachers to bare the brunt of the mistakes of others. I watch the SRC sit, stone-faced, until everyone had spoken and then proceed, without fanfare, to pass all but one of the resolutions to suspend parts of the school code. I knew, as I did in the 2010 contract approval, that the decision had already been made and nothing we said or did would stop it.
So why the trip down memory lane?
The point is, teachers, students, their families and entire communities here in Philadelphia have been on a rollercoaster of education reform for over a decade ever since the State took over in 2001 and put in the School Reform Commission. Teachers and community members have spoken out when they've seen problems. We discuss them in the teacher's lounge or in our classrooms with colleagues or with our families at home. The problems with funding and managing the District have been in plain sight as long as I have worked in it. We are not at this point solely because of students, teachers, parents or community members. We are here because the people entrusted with the financial and educational well-being of Philadelphia's children dropped the ball in a big way. Now, teachers have been made out to be the villains for sticking up for not what is in their contracts, but language that is written in the sections of the PA School Code that were just suspended. At the same time, students have been promised the bare minimum for their education and, in turn, their futures.
My question is, can the systems in place here in Philadelphia survive another 10 years of this?
I don't have a lot of answers. I had to write this all down just to get my head straight after all of these years. One thing is for sure, this governing body that State put in place has not done its job. The people of Philadelphia feel helpless when it comes to the education of their children. We have thousands of young professionals who have made the choice to live in the City, to have children and buy homes here. Without a safe and strong public school to send their child to, we will watch these new neighbors flee in droves. Our city depends on strong public neighborhood schools. Let us elect our own school board and take back our City schools.
I recommend you check out the post, The Crisis in Philadelphia Schools…or Not by Chris Angelini for some great ideas and thoughts on this, too.
As I prepare for the last day of my 5th ISTE adventure (and nurse the sniffles that I blame on 40 degree indoor temperatures and 95 degree outdoor temperatures), I have been reflecting on the dozens of conversations that I have been lucky enough to have on this trip. For me, this ISTE has been about making connections and sharing experiences in a way that has not happened prior. Perhaps I've arrived at the "veteran ISTE attendee" status of not even noticing the huge crowds or feeling the need to be at a million parties. Or perhaps, over the years, I have developed more specific interests or deepened relationships to allow for deeper conversation. Whatever it is, I will leave with a renewed sense of practice and purpose a new energy for the challenges ahead.
With all of that said, I did find that there was also a missing element to this year's conference. I was thrilled by the large number of "maker"-related sessions and conversations, but I was dismayed that ISTE did not highlight the MakerSpace right in downtown San Antonio. I visited the VentureLab MakerSpace right here in downtown San Antonio with some colleagues and was blown away by the vision that Mark Barnett has for bringing these kinds of experiences to kids.
The missing element this week was that link between creativity and technology that Steven Johnson spoke about this morning. "EdTech" should not be solely about building fun toys that "trick" students into learning the same things they were learning before. To borrow a phrase from Will Richardson, EdTech should not focus only on using tech to teach and learn better than we did before, but rather, it should focus on using tech to teach and learn differently.
If we unleash kids to do real problem solving with real materials and technology and allow them to experiment, fail, and try again (this is the essence of makerspaces), they will <gasp> learn skills such as perseverance, communicating ideas, prototyping, measuring, reading directions, writing with an audience in mind, along with a number of other skills related to using specific tools. This, to me, is what we need more of in EdTech. The students engaging in these kinds of experiences are walking out of high school as mature, independent and employed young adults. I look at the robotics team I spoke to today whose mentors now work for Lockheed Martin or Toyota, but used to be on the team. The high school student I spoke to said he would be working for Toyota soon but can't wait to return to help mentor the next group of students on the team. I watched 3 teams of high school students in a live cybersecurity competition, scanning computers for viruses and checking and re-checking firewalls. The student I spoke to told me that he would have a job right out of high school doing exactly what he loved to do.
These students aren't using technology to do math better or learn vocabulary better, but I am 100% sure that they are using technology to make their world a better place and discovering their passions while gaining applicable skills that will help them transition into a career that they love.
I am not saying that we should stop using technology to teach and learn better, but at this point, we need to consider how technology can help us teach and learn differently. Our students will thank us for it.
Just last week I helped organize and attended Edcamp Philly at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the conversations in which I took part was about what works when planning and implementing professional development. It was moderated by Kristen Swanson and Tom Murray. We were split into two teams to create our ideal professional development day. As my team discussed the format of the day, I began to reflect on the hackathons that I have attended and helped organize over the past few months. I began to see a correlation between the way hackathons are organized and how we as educators could learn from the intentional structure for doing and building that hackathons are based on.
First, you ask, what is a "hackathon?" While the name makes them seem nefarious, a hackathon is simply a group of people who come together for a shared purpose with the goal of building or creating a product, idea or solution. Hackathons have their roots in computer programming and coding, though I have attended hackathons where no technology was present, and I have attended hackathons during which teams form and create technological solutions. Hackathons, like telethons, are usually non-stop and last a few days (usually Friday to Sunday). This is not a requirement, however, as some hackathons may last only a day or even a few hours. The main purpose is to bring people together to come up with innovative solutions to every day issues in a short period of time.
This is why we need more professional development to look like hackathons. Some of the biggest criticisms of professional development is that it is often not interactive enough, that it cannot be applied to the classroom, or that there is no "end product" or "deliverable." If we model our professional development after a hackathon, we have already squashed all three criticisms.
Our team came up with this model as our nearly perfect professional development day:
Hold edcamp-style workshops where participants self-organize around topics that interest them.
Groups form based on the morning's conversation with the goal of really delving into the topic deeply and fully understanding it in preparation for implementing aspects of the discussion and learning into their classroom that week.
Each person in the group stands up and shares his or her plan for implementing what they have learned and discussed that day with the rest of the group.
Follow up
Teams will reconvene briefly to revisit their goals and plans and share their progress at the next professional development meeting.
While not all professional development can be replaced by this format, the idea of self-selecting an area of focus and leaving with a concrete plan that has been shared with our colleagues creates a culture of learning, growth and even accountability to each other.
This format could even be used to come up with solutions to school-wide problems and issues such as bullying, scheduling or parent engagement.
How do you see hacking professional development working in your school?
For those of you who may have been wondering where I've been for the last few months, I can tell you, I haven't been resting. Over much of the last three years I have taken on endeavors outside of Philly, but I have spent this past year entrenched in the tech community in my home city. Much of the motivation for this was my dream of bringing a student hackathon to Philly.
This weekend, that dream becomes a reality.
Back in August, I invited Andrew Coy and Shelly Blake-Plock to come share their STEM League project with a group of highly engaged and respected educators and technology folks here in Philly. After the presentation and discussion at the Science Leadership Academy, I then went on a 2-3 month binge of all things technology in Philly. Along the way, I joined up with Donna Murdoch to co-organize the Philly EdTech Meetup, connected with Tracey Welson-Rossman of TechGirlz, attended a Philly Tech Meetup, and a GiveCamp, co-hosted an amazing panel at the Science Leadership Academy, attended TechCamp, and co-hosted a Philly Tech Week event with Technically Philly, and attended (more like crashed) a few Code for Philly Workshops.
Over this time, I was able to recruit 4 amazing Philly educators and 4 technologist mentors to work with 5 student teams from district, charter and independent schools. I was lucky enough to pair up with an old friend (who also happens to be an event-planning guru) to host the event at New Foundations Charter School in Northeast Philadelphia.
Our first meeting of teachers & mentors was on April 7th at National Mechanics, and from there we hit the ground running. I am so thankful for the passionate, energetic and dedicated teachers and mentors who have been working hard with their student teams these past few weeks and I have been elated to watch each link to student work come through the @STEMLeaguePHL mentions. (A big HT to Ivan Chang for showing us JS Fiddle!) You can see what student have been working on by checking out the Student Teams page of the website.
This Friday night, students will meet their clients, local non-profits, to discuss the design and content strategy for their new site. Then all day Saturday, students will work side by side with the non-profit to build an attractive and functional website using WordPress. The websites will be judged by three well-respected members of the tech community, Mark Headd, Youngjin Yoo and Yuriy Porytko, and the winning team will win year of free hosting from the DHF. In addition, we have volunteers coming out to help with coding, set up and overall operations (feel free to stop by, wink wink).
Thanks to Comcast, we will be able to purchase food for all of our hard working teams and volunteers, and thanks to NFCS, we will have access to all if the space and technology we'll need. Technically Philly has also been supportive, running an article on WebSLAM during Tech Week. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the guidance of the Digital Harbor Foundation in Baltimore.
It has been quite a ride over the last few months, but I feel closer to the heartbeat of Philly than ever before. After spending three years connecting to educators across the globe, it has been rewarding & inspiring to see the amazing work being done here in my home town.
If you've got some time this weekend, stop by and check us out!
WebSLAM: Philadelphia's first hackathon for high school students
When: May 11th, 9:00am-7:00pm
Where: New Foundations Charter School, 4850 Rhawn St, Philadelphia, PA 19136
I am thrilled to have been invited again to Discovery Education's Beyond the Textbook discussion at Discovery's offices in Silver Springs, MD. Last year's event was an inspiring and energizing experience, and I am excited to continue this conversation a year later.
A lot can change in a year. One of the biggest disruptors I see in the text/techbook realm are MOOCs (Massive, Open, Online Courses). These courses, which can have thousands of students enrolled in them, are usually free and are built from online resources of all types, including video, screencasts, online articles, PDFs, slide presentations and audio recordings. Professors for these courses create their own units and course content while also sourcing from free content online. This is very similar to the way many of us at last year's event imagined a digital textbook. We discussed a kind of portal for students and teachers that could be easily customized with free content. MOOCs have taken that concept and expanded them to thousands of students across the world.
While we have come a long way toward that vision of teacher curating their own courses from online resources, I have not seen the textbook industry transform their vision of their product to meet this changing learning ecosystem. A comment on fellow attendee, Frank Noschese's, blog post on the Techbook refers to a site called Net-Texts. This iOS app essentially allows users to access open courses through their iOS devices. Frank brings up what is, for me, the most important aspect of any re-imagining we do for the traditional textbook. He stresses that textbooks need to be more than just consumption tools. I, too, worry that as textbooks get more 'flashy' by going digital, they will just continue the trend of students consuming rather than creating content. I am even more concerned by the quickness with which textbook companies have been regurgitating the same kind of texts and stamping them with "Common Core Ready," as if that makes them bright, shiny and new.
I learn tons from doing internet searches, watching videos and reading books and articles. Most of the time, the reason I am accessing content is because I am grappling with something and I have hit a wall in my understanding of it. As a learner, I don't access content in a vacuum. I might need to know how the compressor on my fridge works because everything in it is frozen, so I look up the make and model of my fridge and check out some of the diagrams and troubleshooting tips. Or, I might be wondering if the article I'm reading is giving me a trustworthy portrayal of an event or a concept, so I seek out articles and books on the topic. I might need help with the vector drawing program I am using, so I seek out an online video tutorial. This is how most of us learn once we leave school, there are many students still in school who learn this way outside of school, and a small percentage of students learn this way as part of their every day school experience. Very rarely, when students want to learn something, do they say, "Hey, I bet there's a great textbook on this somewhere!"
All of the learning experiences I describe above were directly related to a real world problem. The learning led to solving a problem. Learning that is tied to experience and real world application is learning that sticks, and learning that sticks is often non-linear. For that reason, the non-linear aspect of many existing digital books is promising since it allows learners to access content whenever they need it rather than following someone else's sequencing of content. Think of the many times a teacher you had assigned chapters out of order or skipped some all together. Content should be accessed when it is applicable to something tangible.
The text/techbook of the future should include the above considerations in its design. It should be modular to meet the learner's needs. It should be tied to experiences and chances to apply learning in real world ways. I imagine a techbook looking like a science notebook or journal. It would be a place where students can take notes, pin articles and videos, record experiments and discussions or lectures, organize data tied to these experiences sketch out ideas in words and pictures, and send and receive emails or other messages. Articles should have highlighting capabilities, and the 'book' should have a built-in, editable glossary. All of the content within the 'book' should also be shareable with classmates or teachers. Most of this technology already exists in some form. I often find myself using a number of apps or tools to do all of the tasks that I need for working and learning. What would be truly innovative and useful for learners is to create a device or platform in which these functions are all in one place, and in which learning is constructed through content that is closely connected to real world experiences and often created by the learner.
To follow the conversation about the future of the textbook, follow #BeyondTextbooks on Twitter.
You can also share your vision of what a "techbook" could/should be below.
A little over a month ago, fate brought me and Jonathan Leung from University of Pennsylvania together at a PhilaSoupevent. I was sitting next to Jonathan at the event and when I found out he was a Computer Science major, I began to share the details of an exciting project I've been working on. We discovered that we had a lot to talk about and we continued to talk about opportunities for student mentorship over email and a phone conversation. Fast forward to last week when Jonathan introduced me to the head of the Dining Philosophers the UPenn Computer Science club.
I have been working with two 7th graders on developing an educational math app for Kindergarten and 1st graders. They have been in desperate need of guidance with the programming side of the project, something I do not have the expertise to do. However, through my email communication with Jonathan, I learned that the Dining Philosophers would be holding a HackJam at a local venture capital firm, First Round Capital. During the 6 hour window, anyone could come in and get advice and feedback on any project they were working on.
Long story short, a few days later, my students and I were sitting at an oversized picnic bench as Jonathan guided our programmer, C, through the ins and outs of HTML and JavaScript. It was magic. C was beaming as he told me, "it's getting easier!" and I marveled at Jonathan's ability to challenge C while at the same time modeling the language syntax for him. Watching the two, who are close to a decade apart in age work at solving a problem and to listen to them speak to each other in what an outsider might consider a foreign language was a beautiful thing.
I feel blessed to have been able to give my students the opportunity to step into a hacker space, and to experience what a"work day" might feel like. Even more powerful, C now has a living, breathing mentor who is just a phone call away when he gets stuck or needs guidance. I could have never been able to provide such a deep learning experience on my own.
Mentoring like this matters. For one, everything C had learned about coding up until today was completely on his own. School doesn't provide him the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge that he is passionate about. Second, there are few teachers, through no fault of their own, that he comes in contact with that would even know where to start in helping him develop this talent.
It is time for schools to see that students are learning on their own and that this learning is often completely missing from their school life. It is time that schools, educators and the technology world (read: the business world) connect so that school, student passions and talents, and business leaders are all on the same page. I would argue that the skills that C is learning on his own outside of school will actually prepare him more for his future than the skills he learns in the classroom every day.
One way to make that connection is through mentoring. It is not just the students who need mentoring, either. The more educators are made aware of the skills required to be successful in today's world and the future economy, the more likely they are to embrace changes in technology and the more likely they are to incorporate these skills into their classrooms. Teachers need mentors, too.
I was able to make this connection today through attending a local event and striking up a conversation. So the next time you are out at an event, bring business cards, ask for business cards or contact information. begin to build your own database of mentors. You never know when one might come in handy.
On Saturday, I had the wonderful opportunity of leading a workshop on Digital Citizenship at the National Liberty Museum here in Philadelphia. One of the most important conversations to have at the start of the day is about the meaning and importance of citizenship in general. We spent the morning coming up with a common understanding of citizenship and why it matters. This conversation provided us with a place to hang new information on various aspects of our digital lives and to put our digital lives in perspective.
I was inspired by the conversation and the deep thinking that went into the definitions the participants created.
What we discovered was that there are a lot of parallels between face to face citizenship and digital citizenship, though the biggest differences are based upon the tools we use to communicate.
You can read the various definitions created by the participants and make the comparisons yourself between analog and digital citizenship.
After we pulled some common themes from these definitions, we were able to refer to them throughout the day. Many participants reflected that this kind of conversation was something that they could easily do with their own students.
After a brief 'gallery walk,' the participants used stickers to vote on the definition that spoke to them the most as well as the sentence describing why citizenship matters.


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On Friday, Jackson was limited in practice with a hamstring injury, no change in his status from Thursday. Coach Greg Schiano said he and Jackson will talk before the
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Modern Tales Changes Business Model
- Posted by Johanna on January 3, 2006 at 12:14 pm
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Modern Tales, the premier (imo) webcomics portal, has announced that in the new year, its business model is changing. It will be moving from a primarily subscription-based model to an ad-supported one.
That sounds like good news to me. Free comics means more readers means more people to buy merchandise and eventual print collections. Plus (from the selfish side), I can easily block ads, while I can't break through password screens.
Also, Eric Burns has accepted a position as Editor for the free site, tasked with handling submissions and growing the number of strips that are part of the site. Good luck to both him and Joey Manley, publisher.
Update: Eric has posted the submission guidelines for Modern Tales Free (which will have a better name).
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- James Schee Says:
December 31, 2005 at 9:05 PMCool. So any tips on what to try? I just don't know a heck of a lot about webcomics.
- Mark Says:
January 2, 2006 at 7:57 AMthat's a bit of a problem, isn't it? I'm blocking most ads myself. is this model really going to work, if more and more people start using ad blockers like for example proxomitron?
I really like the notion of free content, but it seems like a shaky income model to me.
- Johanna Says:
January 2, 2006 at 8:30 AMNot to sound thoughtless or careless, but I don't really consider that my problem. (I do the same thing with TV, by the way, using TiVo to watch shows sans ads.) If people start trying to find ways around ad-blocking, then I'll quit visiting those sites. They can have me as a viewer (and potential consumer of products like collected versions) on my terms, or not at all.
They aren't due my attention and they can't take me for granted as a consumer.
In this particular case, Joey Manley has shown himself to be a really smart guy. If this model doesn't work, then in another couple of years, I'm sure he'll find a new one that does.


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Grammy Award-winning songbird Alicia Keys and White Stripes rocker Jack White star in the World Premiere music video for their Bond theme duet, "Another Way To Die." The song will be featured in the upcoming 007 feature the Quantum of Solace, opening in theaters this November. Do you like the video?
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White Stripes frontman Jack White and Harlem-born singer Alicia Keys will premiere their duet, "Another Way To Die," during a live performance on a special Bond-themed episode of Britain's The X-Factor talent competition. The single is being used as the theme for the latest 007 movie, Quantum of Solace, in theaters this November.
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Amy Winehouse is planning to release the song James Bond bosses rejected as a potential them for the new 007 action-thriller Quantum of Solace.
Jack White Alicia Keys "James Bond: Quantum Of Solace" Theme "Another Way To Die"
Winehouse is out and Alicia's in. Multiplatinum-selling Grammy winner Alicia Keys will make history when she teams up with White Stripes rocker Jack White to perform "Another Way To Die," the theme for the 22nd James Bond movie, the Quantum of Solace, which hits theatres in November.


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South Of The Border Chicken And Rice Bake
This one is going in the regular dinner rotation. Tasty but not too heavy. Just enough veggies to balance out the cheese. YUM!
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Andy Palmer, Sire Of Boom Youngster Disraeli Finds A New Home
The sire of boom youngster Disraeli has found a new home amongst the greyhound stud ranks.
Andy Palmer, the former dual Bendigo 545m track record holder has been placed in the astute hands of leading Victorian studmaster Bob Douglas, who stood Bombastic Shiraz at the height of his popularity.
And the move couldn't come at a better time for the under rated stud dog. From just the one litter to race Andy Palmer has thrown one of Victoria's most exciting young prospects in training in Disraeli. Disraeli comes from Andy Palmer's very first mating to the Just The Best bitch, Redburst.
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Behind The Scenes At Tasmania's Feraro Park Kennels
It's not common that someone trains a greyhound to win two feature race wins with the first dog they train. But this was precisely the case for Tasmanian trainer, Susan Gittus. After learning the tricks of trade from her father, Susan has been able to enjoy more than her fair share of success.
"It is fantastic to have consistent top grade performers, Feraro Tiger, Feraro Jet, Exalted, Jumbo Elm and Always Believe are probably the most consistent top grade performers I've had through my kennel"
"Winning the Breeders Classic, Gold Collar and two races at Olympic park with the first dog I trained, Feraro Tiger, rates very high. He really kicked started my training career so it was fitting that our property is named after him." Susan explains.
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Jim Gannon Inducted To Hall Of Fame
Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) tonight launched its Victorian Greyhound Racing Hall of Fame at Sandown Greyhound Racing Club.
Dr Jim Gannon has tonight been announced as one of the inaugural 36 inductees in to the Victorian Greyhound Racing Hall Of Fame.
Hall Of Fame Inductee : Jim Gannon (Veterinarian)
Born in 1930, James Richard Gannon graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Science from the University of Queensland in 1952.
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The Race Of The Decade Is Just Six Sleeps Away
Like all great triumphs through the ages, the stage has been set, the players are known and greyhound racing fans have another six sleepless nights before one of the most anticipated clashes in recent history will take place at the Wentworth Park thunderdome.
Miss Elly Mint vs El Galo. New South Wales vs Victoria. The glamour girl of New South Wales greyhound racing and perpetual record breaker versus the hottest property on the track right now, the seven time group winning bad boy of Australian greyhound racing.
And the prize? The most coveted race in Australian group greyhound racing, the $150,000 to the winner Group 1 2009 Golden Easter Egg.
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Primo Uno, Hallucinate, Thai Again & Go Shoopa Top January Breed Rankings
Through sheer weight of numbers Primo Uno has taken an early lead in the AGRA Sire Rankings for January 2009, just ahead of Hallucinate** who had a stellar January with Lilley Criminal and Fedex both scoring group wins.In the AGRA Dam Rankings the super producer Thai Again has taken the lead through the deeds of Magnifique, Hendrix and Radio Star, while Go Shoopa is second by just 1 point, mainly through the ultra consistent efforts of Gunnadoo Magic.
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The Dawn Of The New Corporate Greyhound?
The greyhound racing industry has been rocked with news that the publicly listed Genetic Technologies (GTG) has bought out John Newell's New South Wales based Frozen Puppies Dot Com.
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Betty's Angel Misses To Spiral Nakita
Former speed queen Betty's Angel – rated Australia's greatest female sprinter of the noughties – has failed to conceive following a frozen semen insemination to Irish stud sensation Spiral Nikita.
Betty's Angel was due to whelp today, but a recent ultrasound revealed she wasn't carrying any "little angels" – a term of endearment for the highly anticipated litter considering each pup would have commanded a $20,000 price tag.
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McIvor Road Meltdown Causes Frozen Panic
A failure in one of two frozen semen storage devices at Bendigo's McIvor Road Vet Clinic has caused panic amongst Australian studmasters and breeders. The AGRA licensed storage facilty, had a storage canister fail last Wednesday 9th April 2008. That failure meant that over 100 valuable straws of frozen semen defrosted rendering the semen worthless.
A spokesperson for McIvor Road Vet Clinic said that the error was discovered late Wednesday afternoon. They state that since that time they have been working closely with the AGRA, who register and track all frozen semen in the country; to "identify each frozen semen straw and its registered owners". Continue reading McIvor Road Meltdown Causes Frozen Panic


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Race Preview Organiser's Press release UCI Women's Road World Cup Makes UK Debut - Wales to host world class women's professional road race One of the most prestigious races in the international women's professional road cycling calendar will take place in the UK for the first time in Newport, Wales on Saturday 20th August 2005. Officially launched today by Alun Pugh AM, Minister for Culture, the Welsh Language and Sport at The Celtic Manor Resort, the UCI Women's Road World Cup will feature Wales' own rising star, Commonwealth champion Nicole Cooke. As part of the celebrations surrounding the race, there will also be BikeWales, a major bike ride open to the general public, taking place on Sunday 21st August. The Celtic Manor Resort, a venue that's fast becoming synonymous with top class sporting events, will play host to the 3 lap, 71 miles (114km) 2005 World Cup race, the 8th of the 11-round series. Broadcast live by BBC Grandstand, there will be over 30 professional teams from around the globe competing in Newport. Racing at the highest level is promised, with plenty of excitement and supreme effort from the cream of the world's top women cyclists who will be aiming to take vital points in the bid for the prestigious title. Nicole Cooke, who in 2003 became the first British rider to win a World Cup series, is currently 4th in this year's standings. She had a strong start to the series, winning first place ahead of the pack at La Fleche Wallonne in Belgium. Looking forward to extending her record of wins, she is delighted at the boost to British women's cycling that the Newport World Cup will mean: "I've competed twice before at the Celtic Manor and it will be a fantastic venue for the first International standard women's race in Britain for nearly a decade. Cycling continues to go from strength to strength and to race against the best riders in the world in front of my home crowd will be very special. The Newport World Cup is definitely going to be one of the highlights of the season for me and hopefully it will develop into one of the classics of the racing calendar". The event is being supported by the Welsh Assembly Government, Health Challenge Wales, Newport Unlimited, Newport City Council, Sports Council for Wales, UK Sport, Welsh Cycling and British Cycling. All are delighted to welcome major sporting events such as the World Cup to Wales and will be working with organisers, Sport for Television, to ensure that as many people as possible can enjoy the excitement and atmosphere that the event will bring. Alun Pugh AM comments "Wales is fast building a reputation for hosting major sporting events and we're delighted to welcome the UCI Women's Road World Cup to Newport. Cycling is important both as an exciting spectator sport and as an activity that many of us can enjoy. In addition, Health Challenge Wales will be supporting BikeWales, the public ride event taking place on Sunday 21st August, which promises to be great fun for all ages and levels of ability". |
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