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Yesterday, I met with Ken Mueller from Inkling Media at the Chestnut Hill Cafe in Lancaster to discuss the implications of technology, social media and networking (TSMN) on businesses, education, and community. Or, one word covers all: Culture My general interest with TSMN trends to education; how we as educators can leverage the inherent attraction that students have to TSMN to further their education (their academic and social understanding of the world). My particular focus in education is on college preparation and college transition, a topic that I have been working on professionally since 1989. In 2001, as I entered Temple University's Educational Psychology Ph. D. program, I decided that my concentration was going to be on technology. I had little clue at the time how prescient that decision was going to be in the dawning of the era of TSMN 24-7. In my dissertation on "College Knowledge" (what students and parents need to know about the college preparation and col...

2 Samuel 1:26 "I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. " David mourned the death of both Saul and his son Jonathan after their deaths in battle. David's mourning for Saul shows David at his best. Saul either directly (by chucking spears and the like) or indirectly (through battle placement and etc.) tried to have David offed many a time. David could have mocked Saul in death instead he honors a man who was truly less than honorable in many ways. The victor is noble when he does not mock the vanquished. Jonathan, however as compared to Saul, was an honorable man. He would not support his father Saul's designs of destruction towards David. Jonathan knew that David was the Lord's anointed and that Saul's reign was setting as the sun. Jonathan's loyalty (really love, a pure love with no homo-erotic intentions) to David was not self-serving. In many instance i...

With this blog, I don't like to be theologically top-heavy like Dolly Parton all of the time. Today is one of those days. One of my most reviewed and commented upon blog was my quick write about about a local Vietnamese place. Maybe I am meant to be the food critic . Now that is ludicrous. I have an unconditional love for all food, an agape appetite, so being a food critic would be hard for me to do. Lina's tagline for her blog is "Will travel for food." My tagline for food is "Anything, Anywhere." Well, not quite everything...even garbage dumps have a forbidden list of item like radioactive waste that they don't take in. (BTW, Lina and I were just talking to some guy in Columbia who told of us a man who got busted for storing radioactive waste in his warehouse in Columbia. Yikes. Nazareth is to Israel as Columbia is to Lancaster). Although, Lina knew that is becoming more discriminating in my eating preferences and standards when I came home from b...