JOE JURCZYK

Check out this Run@Work Day kit. It’s a 6-page Word 2003 document from RRCA with ideas, suggestions and sample documents to use to plan a Run@Work day at your place of employment.

Note: the file is about 5MB.

…hopefully your place of employment is located in the middle of the woods.

Read more about the latest in the Polygamy situation in Texas on the Child Protection Project web site that I’m revising.

John Wallace, a TransAm runner himself, has compiled a great list of runners who have run across the United States. His web site, SeeJohnRun.com has more details on the runs, the courses, etc.

Last Friday I gave an online presentation titled “Blogging and More: The Ins and Outs of WordPress” on WizIQ.com as part of a seminar on “Web 2.0 for Blended Learning and Instruction”. The presentation gave an overview of how to customize WordPress using themes, plugins, widgets and custom coding.

View the entire 2+ hour seminar here

You can get the PowerPoint for my presentation here.

The web site for Western Reserve Trail Running (WRTR) has been revised. The site includes a new logo, information on a couple new races and information about the 2008 WRTR Series.

Read about how each of the 50 states are doing in using technology in the primary and secondary classrooms. Read the Education Week special report.

The finishing touches are being put on Northeastern Ohio’s newest ultramarathons, the Green Jewel 100K and 50K Fun Runs being held on May 5. The course covers the entire Emerald Necklace of the Cleveland Metroparks, starting in Rocky River and finishing at Squire’s Castle in Willoughby Hills. More info at GreenJewel.org.

The SETI project from Berkeley has been around for years. With unused PC cycles, the SETI software performed the math necessary to determine if telescope reading at Berkeley might contain data from extra terrestial signals. While that software (with the familiar black screen saver with the 3D bar chart) is no more, about a year the SETI project became part of an even bigger project. The BOINC project uses the same PC cycles from volunteers on a number of other projects, such as identifying new prime numbers, a genome project, etc. Read more about the whole phenomenom in this article.

From Usability.gov:
Widget: def. Screen-based controls that are used to interact with a website and other systems. Widgets include pushbuttons, selection lists, radio buttons, sliders, etc.

Read more on the pros and cons of widgets at BusinessWeek.com.

Take the test from the Harvard Business Review.