Extreme makeover.

Extreme makeover. It is an enormous privilege for me to greet the readers of DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION as interim editor-in-chief and update you on the continuing development of this publication and its related online resources. The Pulse Perhaps the most significant enhancement is The Pulse, a free new blog section where you can read up-to-the-minute expert opinion on topics that affect schools. As The Pulse editor Gary Stager (gary@stager.org) describes it, "This is not just a blog site where some narcissistic nar��cis��sism? also nar��cismn.1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit.2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in lunatic rants or reads the newspaper for you. The Pulse features exclusive articles by many of today's leading educators, authors, scholars and policy-makers, along with news related to education. Best of all, you can talk back and add your voice to the conversation. Please do!" For example, Roger Schank's recent comment "We have got to get rid of the library metaphor or school will always be the same: an experience to be endured rather than relished," unleashed a firestorm fire��storm?n.1. A fire of great size and intensity that generates and is fed by strong inrushing winds from all sides: the firestorm that leveled Hiroshima after the atomic blast.2. of controversy about schools and libraries. Similarly, Will Richardson discussed why Internet blocking and filtering may push kids to use objectionable sites "even more than they already are," Alfie Kohn This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . shared thoughts on why kids are required to do homework in spite of "a stunning lack of evidence that it's beneficial," and Susan Ohanian discussed a project where "Philadelphia taxpayers paid $63 million for a school designed by Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. & Company, a school where kids don't have books and the school itself has no library." You may agree, disagree or take offense, but The Pulse is always interesting and informative, and truly "Education's Place for Debate!" New Interactive Site But it doesn't stop there. The Pulse is just one component of a totally reengineered and updated Web site, developed under the technical direction of CIO CIO:see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. David Brennan David Brennan is a Dublin born Gaelic football player who plays for Laois under the parentage rule. David's father Dessie was a famous player in the 1970's for both Laois and St. Josephs.At club level, David usually lines out at centre half back with St Marys (Saggart). and web manager Debbie Carroll. A year in the making, this powerful online destination offers searchable content to help you do your job better, featuring daily news stories, product reviews, guides to Internet resources, professional reports, events calendars, descriptions of Webinars, links to company Microportals, information on the annual Educomm conference, and school executive job openings throughout the United States United States,officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . And the site is personalized and interactive, so you can share your comments and ideas with the online education community. Stager says, "In an interconnected world of 80 million MySpace pages, 40 million bloggers and half a million people contributing to Wikipedia, you need to not only keep up, but make sense of a world speeding along in Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. ." The resources of DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION empower you to do just that. Join us! (www.districtadministration.com) Odvard Egil Dyrli INTERIM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF gdyrli@edmediagroup.com