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Michael L. Umphrey
Apr 9, 2008, 3:00:44 AM4/9/08
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Would someone who is using Internet Explorer 6 mind glancing at my blog and letting me know whether or not it's broken (the side navigation column overlapping the body text)?
I got a report that it was, but the only browsers I currently have are IE7 & Firefox.
(To see which browser you are using, click Help and then on the dropdown menu select ABOUT and it should open a window that gives you version information. . .)
Gracias, Merci, Dank dir. . .
M
Would someone who is using Internet Explorer 6 mind glancing at my blog and letting me know whether or not it's broken (the side navigation column overlapping the body text)?
I got a report that it was, but the only browsers I currently have are IE7 & Firefox.
(To see which browser you are using, click Help and then on the dropdown menu select ABOUT and it should open a window that gives you version information. . .)
Gracias, Merci, Dank dir. . .
M
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Jeff Gruber
Apr 9, 2008, 9:29:09 PM4/9/08
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Mike,
Yes, it does overlap. I have been highlighting the text, then pasting on Word to read your stuff.
Jeff
Yes, it does overlap. I have been highlighting the text, then pasting on Word to read your stuff.
Jeff
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:00:44 -0600
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Subject: Anyone using IE6? Please help
Michael L. Umphrey
Apr 9, 2008, 10:51:33 PM4/9/08
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Thanks to everyone who answered. It appears to be confirmed. I have a
problem.
Now how to figure out how to make anything work with Microsoft's buggy browsers. Darn. It worked with IE7 so I hoped it would work. I wish everyone would just update their browsers.
Hey Jeff, that's true dedication, or maybe just a perverse form of foolishness. Maybe I could put directions at the top of the website on how to get access to the words.
I'm not often enchanted by anything Microsoft.
I did some FEMA training last night, trying to learn the internal processes and names of the various centers and commands and systems that are coordinated, interrelated, operationalized etc during various configurations of unified commands or multiagency resource system dispatches etc. etc, and I began to get very suspicious that FEMA had actually been created by Microsoft--it seemed to "work" according to similar principles--and then I started to feel pretty certain that Osama what's his name in Pakistan or Iran or wherever he is now is probably going to win. But this keeps me going:
(Just playing around with High Dynamic Range photos).
Now how to figure out how to make anything work with Microsoft's buggy browsers. Darn. It worked with IE7 so I hoped it would work. I wish everyone would just update their browsers.
Hey Jeff, that's true dedication, or maybe just a perverse form of foolishness. Maybe I could put directions at the top of the website on how to get access to the words.
I'm not often enchanted by anything Microsoft.
I did some FEMA training last night, trying to learn the internal processes and names of the various centers and commands and systems that are coordinated, interrelated, operationalized etc during various configurations of unified commands or multiagency resource system dispatches etc. etc, and I began to get very suspicious that FEMA had actually been created by Microsoft--it seemed to "work" according to similar principles--and then I started to feel pretty certain that Osama what's his name in Pakistan or Iran or wherever he is now is probably going to win. But this keeps me going:
(Just playing around with High Dynamic Range photos).
Renee Rasmussen
Apr 12, 2008, 5:50:52 PM4/12/08
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Mike: IN my next life, coming faster than anyone thinks, I want to play with "High Dynamic Range Photos"
Renee Rasmussen
Superintendent
Renee Rasmussen Superintendent
Wibaux Public Schools
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:51:33 -0600
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Subject: Re: Anyone using IE6? Please help
Michael L. Umphrey
Apr 12, 2008, 6:02:34 PM4/12/08
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Don't wait. That other stuff you are doing is not important--only
urgent. I don't know what it's like today in Wibaux, but I think this
is the first weekend this spring when it isn't snowing here. Sunshine.
And seventy degrees.
HDR is really easy. You need a camera that will take take bracketed photos, then you take three exposures of the same scene (one underexposed, one exposed correctly, and one overexposed). Then you merge them in a $99 program (photomatix) which takes thirty or forty seconds.
Then you tweak them in photoshop to your individual taste.
I imagine that capabililty will be built into $100 cameras in the not so far away future, assuming there is no tsunami or bird flu pandemic or nuclear attack. . .I imagine the next life to be pretty much like this one only without arthritis or diabetes or school politics.
Say something wise, Renee. I'm slipping into the habit of thinking school administrators are mostly lost in the cosmos. Say it isn't so.
HDR is really easy. You need a camera that will take take bracketed photos, then you take three exposures of the same scene (one underexposed, one exposed correctly, and one overexposed). Then you merge them in a $99 program (photomatix) which takes thirty or forty seconds.
Then you tweak them in photoshop to your individual taste.
I imagine that capabililty will be built into $100 cameras in the not so far away future, assuming there is no tsunami or bird flu pandemic or nuclear attack. . .I imagine the next life to be pretty much like this one only without arthritis or diabetes or school politics.
Say something wise, Renee. I'm slipping into the habit of thinking school administrators are mostly lost in the cosmos. Say it isn't so.
Renee Rasmussen
Apr 12, 2008, 6:19:04 PM4/12/08
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I've lost wisdom. School administrators seem to be as they are from keeping their hands in front of their faces in order to not be hit--yet again. They have no vision because the hands in front of their faces block the view of the future.
Actually, I'm beginning to see that the job I do is different from what I did. As a teacher i was a craftsman--working with raw material (in some cases used material) in order to create beauty. As an administrator I would like my job to be that of clearing out all the obstacles so teachers can do just that. Of course it's not that easy once a few teachers, students, parents, etc. have taken a few pokes. Some days I just code the bills. Some days I talk to kids about choices. Some days I settle disputes between teachers who are insecure and flare at one another. Most days I try to make sure that I do no harm.
That's hard. This job is lonely. I can have no friends among the staff and there is no one else who understands the job. No one tells me anything because I'm already supposed to know. I am needed only when others have already failed: then I'm called in to be wise and build something meaningful from ashes.
Actually, I'm beginning to see that the job I do is different from what I did. As a teacher i was a craftsman--working with raw material (in some cases used material) in order to create beauty. As an administrator I would like my job to be that of clearing out all the obstacles so teachers can do just that. Of course it's not that easy once a few teachers, students, parents, etc. have taken a few pokes. Some days I just code the bills. Some days I talk to kids about choices. Some days I settle disputes between teachers who are insecure and flare at one another. Most days I try to make sure that I do no harm.
That's hard. This job is lonely. I can have no friends among the staff and there is no one else who understands the job. No one tells me anything because I'm already supposed to know. I am needed only when others have already failed: then I'm called in to be wise and build something meaningful from ashes.
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:02:34 -0600
Michael L. Umphrey
Apr 12, 2008, 6:42:31 PM4/12/08
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Okay, that was pretty wise: they have no vision because the hands
in front of their faces block the view. . . .
I think superintendents need to focus on not telling fibs and seeing that people get justice, which is harder than it sounds.
One of the things I liked about this school last year was that nobody was trying to do anything, so we could focus on getting the work done, which is actually pretty simple and straightforward though not easy.
This year we have a $150,000 consultant talking about change and paradigms and blah, blah, blah and trying to fake some wisdom or distract people with catch phrases, so everything is turbulent and noisy and the important things are hard to get to or are actually attacked. Lots of fibs as people pretend all sorts of things. Some injustice as people maneuver for cover.
I do like being the age I am though, since I don't have anything I'm worried about and I don't feel inclined to prove anything, so I can focus on (1) advocating for young people and (2) practicing candor (which often are the same thing).
Do other supes in the area ever get together to chat?
I think superintendents need to focus on not telling fibs and seeing that people get justice, which is harder than it sounds.
One of the things I liked about this school last year was that nobody was trying to do anything, so we could focus on getting the work done, which is actually pretty simple and straightforward though not easy.
This year we have a $150,000 consultant talking about change and paradigms and blah, blah, blah and trying to fake some wisdom or distract people with catch phrases, so everything is turbulent and noisy and the important things are hard to get to or are actually attacked. Lots of fibs as people pretend all sorts of things. Some injustice as people maneuver for cover.
I do like being the age I am though, since I don't have anything I'm worried about and I don't feel inclined to prove anything, so I can focus on (1) advocating for young people and (2) practicing candor (which often are the same thing).
Do other supes in the area ever get together to chat?
Renee Rasmussen
Apr 12, 2008, 7:49:14 PM4/12/08
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Yes we do get together. Often times those get together times are the only days we can breathe freely. Other sups are the only ones that sups can share with. I wouldn't have believed that before I became a sup. And we don't give one another meaningless awards. At least, that only happens once a year. What we do is be there for one another when the days and weeks have been tough.
I went to our local sups meeting last week. A sup from not to far away was there when I arrived for the meeting. He is never early. I asked him a question about his week, and he said he had to be, needed to be, there that day--he had been cleaning up messes and he needed to get out of his school. Needed someone to understand, someone to sympathize. We can't fix the other guys problems, but we can say, "I've been there." Sometimes we can also say what we did to work out the situation. Getting together with other sups is a lot like sitting with a sick or dying person. There's not a lot to say or a lot to do to fix the situation, but you need to be there just for the support.
Are teachers then an enemy? No. Staff? No. What are the real problems then in administration/leadership that make administrators seem so weird? 1st, the focus is different. You're always saying that you don't know how we did what as Heritage Project teachers now that you're in our shoes. We knew that. I knew that. The same is true with most teachers. They don't know what all the pressures are, what the focus of the job is, what has to be done. It's the walk a mile in my shoes. 2nd: People don't feel valued. They've had their feelings hurt by previous administrations/boards, so they test to see if the current administration/board will do the same. Much like students do to teachers. But the testing teachers do lasts longer, and they are more jaded. Supts. also are human and get hurt, then strike back. There goes the cycle.
Additionally, its the superintendents and principals who get the calls from the parents/community/feds/state (Remember Art?) that they must fend off. I try to remember how you fended off Art for us. I try to do that for teachers. Of course, I knew that you held Art off; the teachers don't know how we hold off the parents/community/feds/state. Then when there is a change, teachers often don't see all the work behind the scenes. I know I didn't with you.
I'm not different. I simply have a new perspective from which to view events. Same goals. The kids need, and deserve the best. But if I had a teacher like you, I'd make sure you had plenty of time to fly.
Oh, and about the truth. When I do, I'm called a liar or a manipulator. Thanks for reminding me to keep trying.
I went to our local sups meeting last week. A sup from not to far away was there when I arrived for the meeting. He is never early. I asked him a question about his week, and he said he had to be, needed to be, there that day--he had been cleaning up messes and he needed to get out of his school. Needed someone to understand, someone to sympathize. We can't fix the other guys problems, but we can say, "I've been there." Sometimes we can also say what we did to work out the situation. Getting together with other sups is a lot like sitting with a sick or dying person. There's not a lot to say or a lot to do to fix the situation, but you need to be there just for the support.
Are teachers then an enemy? No. Staff? No. What are the real problems then in administration/leadership that make administrators seem so weird? 1st, the focus is different. You're always saying that you don't know how we did what as Heritage Project teachers now that you're in our shoes. We knew that. I knew that. The same is true with most teachers. They don't know what all the pressures are, what the focus of the job is, what has to be done. It's the walk a mile in my shoes. 2nd: People don't feel valued. They've had their feelings hurt by previous administrations/boards, so they test to see if the current administration/board will do the same. Much like students do to teachers. But the testing teachers do lasts longer, and they are more jaded. Supts. also are human and get hurt, then strike back. There goes the cycle.
Additionally, its the superintendents and principals who get the calls from the parents/community/feds/state (Remember Art?) that they must fend off. I try to remember how you fended off Art for us. I try to do that for teachers. Of course, I knew that you held Art off; the teachers don't know how we hold off the parents/community/feds/state. Then when there is a change, teachers often don't see all the work behind the scenes. I know I didn't with you.
I'm not different. I simply have a new perspective from which to view events. Same goals. The kids need, and deserve the best. But if I had a teacher like you, I'd make sure you had plenty of time to fly.
Oh, and about the truth. When I do, I'm called a liar or a manipulator. Thanks for reminding me to keep trying.
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:42:31 -0600
Michael L. Umphrey
Apr 12, 2008, 8:07:22 PM4/12/08
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All that sounds vaguely familiar.
I know teachers often don't see how things are in the admin office. The best ones do, especially the ones who've been around for a while, but lots are pretty childish--I'm thinking about the touchiest ones in my current school. Many also won't take politics seriously, by which I mean the reality of power. Making an argument that sounds correct does not thereby create the power to do what is desired. Administrators can only do what they have power to do, which is often quite a lot less than people want them to do.
I think truth is the hardest part because there are so many untruths that people believe so fervently that doing the sensible thing is sometimes not possible. & reality is exquisitely designed so that even when dishonesty isn't in play what we can see from one perspective looks dishonest from another so good people often get crossways of each other.
I'm glad you're fighting the good fight. But take time to go do some HDR photography.
Mike
I know teachers often don't see how things are in the admin office. The best ones do, especially the ones who've been around for a while, but lots are pretty childish--I'm thinking about the touchiest ones in my current school. Many also won't take politics seriously, by which I mean the reality of power. Making an argument that sounds correct does not thereby create the power to do what is desired. Administrators can only do what they have power to do, which is often quite a lot less than people want them to do.
I think truth is the hardest part because there are so many untruths that people believe so fervently that doing the sensible thing is sometimes not possible. & reality is exquisitely designed so that even when dishonesty isn't in play what we can see from one perspective looks dishonest from another so good people often get crossways of each other.
I'm glad you're fighting the good fight. But take time to go do some HDR photography.
Mike
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