Re: tkt8763-01: Re: Help with Ideas for Assignment #9, etc.

["Naomi M. Bates" <nmb2@ra.msstate.edu>]

Hi Tammy! I am enjoying snooping over the shoulders of you and your SIP
classmates. I gain so much by maintaining my ties to this class. That's
part of what makes this class so special. The circle just keeps growing
and growing, allowing our minds to continually expand and be
challenged .This is why I felt compelled to respond to your questions in
this paragraph. 
Yes, you care consuming a wealth of information, and Yes, you probably
feel overwhelmed at this point. You should continue reading and searching
out what others have written. Let you mind and heart soak up all that it
can. When the dust has settled and you get back to your *real* life, you
will find yourself looking at things a little differently. You will
approach situations and people with a different perspective. One of my
favorite quotes (other that my signature below) is *Even if you are on the
right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.* You are
definately on the right track.
Also, If you design the instrument described below, please let me know. I
would love to see it. Great idea!!

Take care,
Naomi Bates
Philadelphia, MS
P.S. (on a personal note, state Junior Miss is Aug. 3,4,5)

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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson                                     

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tammy Parkes wrote:

> I have gotten some very valuable information from your very impressive and
> informative web pages, but I am overwhelmed by the amount of information I
> am consuming.  Also, I feel like I 'm stealing your ideas.  Everytime I look
> at someone's work, I want to use it.  Is this feeling normal or should I do
> my work and stop peeking?  Am I sitting in the wrong nest on someone else's
> eggs?
> 
> I really would like to design some sort of instrument that could keep
> administrators and technology planners abreast of the ability levels of all
> their staff and where they stand at any given time in terms of their
> knowledge and training needs.  I have seen staff development planned at the
> beginning of the school year and by the time the formal training was
> conducted the teachers themselves had already aquired the trained elsewhere


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