Here's the agenda for tonight's Board meeting. I note that people can no longer sign up to speak at a Board meeting by phone. It is strictly by online sign-up. Not good. Public Testimony seems to cover two topics. Apparently, the Chinese program at West Seattle High School is in jeopardy and there are several speakers for that issue. The other issue is, of course, school closures. There are six people on the waitlist. Here's the latest from the Times which says that " Seattle Could Close about a quarter of its elementary schools." First, that would be a heck of a lot of schools (17) and two, only elementaries? My cynical side is that the district is throwing out a big number so they can "generously" only close 10-12. The article claims that the district is taking "$32M from its reserves" which is not true; they have no reserves. I think the reporter means capital reserves. I'll be tuning in with updates. 4:15 pm and has the 4:15
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TS
Who provided the useless Singapore Math PD training?
I took 3 online PD mini-classes on Singapore Math last school year. The instructor was based out of Puget Sound. These were above average as PD goes.
How does SPS make decisions as to math PD?
-- Dan Dempsey
On a positive note, it's so nice to finally have some curriculum!
TS
I'd love to look, it sounds like it might be something good. But all I see is a blank white box.
Melissa, very often you do what the industry calls "hotlinking", which is embedding a link on your own site to data/images on another web server. You can read about it here: Wikipedia Inline_linking.
It's bad practice for several reasons, among them legal/copyright issues, privacy and 3rd party tracking issues, bandwidth stealing, dangerous bait-and-switch (see Wikipedia Goatse for an extreme example of what can happen. Not for the squeamish!)
With bait-and-switch, anyone hosting an image that's displayed on your web site can change that image without your knowledge and now you can have an obscene or illegal image on your site. It happens, and it's not pretty.
In the case of embedded facebook images, if one's office or VPN has a facebook filter, for example, your blog text displays fine but the images are just blank. If the post is simply an image, like this one, well, you get the picture. Not. (pun intended) Also, it gives facebook information about all your readers, even if they are not signed into facebook, or even if they don't have accounts, because their browsers now request the images directly from facebook, not your blog.
All in all, it's a bad practice. With as friendly voice as I can muster, I would suggest reading up a bit, starting with the wikipedia link above. Other than that, just keep up the good work.