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		<title>An Open Letter to Steve Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Colwell Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much speculation again about your medical leave of absence. Apple&#8217;s stock prices were down 7 to 8% in Europe today. Tomorrow Apple is reporting financials. I suspect it will be very good news. Someone asked me recently if I thought you were a good leader. I had no good answer. I have never worked with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=81&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is/isn&#8217;t Policy &#8211; a few thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a quick look at Wikipedia:  Policy is NOT law, but gives direction to what laws might be necessary to fulfill policy.  Policy by default orients to &#8220;What&#8221; It is our policy to be transparent. It is our policy to integrate geo-dispursed knowledge contributors It is our policy to have accessible and affordable health care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=74&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who is responsible for what? and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Colwell Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whose responsible for what?  and Why? I can&#8217;t seem to shake this question.  As I begin reading &#8220;Responsibility in Context&#8221; a &#8220;gut level&#8221; take is that because we are social we have a responsibility one for another.  I don&#8217;t yet see where this is a foundation of society &#8211; good or bad. A given person&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=68&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my M.Ed program I recall looking at Social Responsibility. The context was clearly corporate social responsibility. About as deep as I recall going was the role of higher educational institutions&#8217; role in corporate social responsibility. We can see the actions of corporations and the impact on the areas/locations in which they operate. Soda manufacturers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=62&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is the purpose?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Colwell Jr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effective Communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Jarvis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that most often, in communication, we are trying to drive home a message from one person or group to another. It seems the purpose of which is to get that other person or group to do something they might otherwise not do. A keyword to describe this would be &#8220;persuasion&#8221;. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=59&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Colwell Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the tools of communication I can&#8217;t help but think of &#8220;Methods&#8221; as well. Tools would be completely neutral to effective or ineffective communication. Methods &#8211; well, I&#8217;m still thinking about methods. On first thought &#8220;face to face&#8221; is a method, not a tool. Where as any form of telephone is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=57&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication: a basic definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sereno and Mortensen text comes this definition of communication: &#8220;a process by which senders and receivers of messages interact in given social contexts.&#8221; (p 5) It was in my M.Ed program that I really began to probe the concept of complex adaptive systems. The individual human is a complex adaptive system. When combining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=55&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my morning walk with Trixy (my wife) and Jordan (our dog), I was reflecting on basic communication: message sent; message received; and a feedback loop. That was the message I sent to Trixy and she received my words and gave me feedback &#8211; that of affirmation and examples; which I in turn affirmed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=53&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning and Human Development</title>
		<link>http://billcolwell.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/learning-and-human-development-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jarvis puts forward that there are four &#8220;types&#8221; of learning.  All of which are based on either &#8220;harmony&#8221; or a state of disharmony, or what he calls &#8220;disjuncture&#8221;.   What are the influences on learning?  And are these influences bi-directional? There are a number of pictures we can draw to depict the learning process.  Jarvis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=49&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Learning</title>
		<link>http://billcolwell.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/human-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Colwell Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Learning I am now reading Peter Jarvis&#8217; book &#8220;Human Learning&#8221;.  I am trying to remember why I chose this book, but I can&#8217;t remember.  I do know the reviews on Amazon.com stirred my interest as I reviewed dozens of titles.  I also picked up his companion book &#8220;Globalisation, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billcolwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2060310&amp;post=46&amp;subd=billcolwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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