{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"42334802","dateCreated":"1315844942","smartDate":"Sep 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/42334802"},"dateDigested":1532129383,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Teaching with Evernote","description":"So, I have been a huge fan of Evernote as a personal journal and note taking service. Here is a great article on teaching with it.
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\nhttp:\/\/blog.evernote.com\/2011\/08\/30\/teaching-with-evernote-a-6th-and-8th-grade-science-teacher-shares-his-top-tips-back-to-school-series\/<\/a>","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"42334472","dateCreated":"1315844635","smartDate":"Sep 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/42334472"},"dateDigested":1532129383,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Economics","description":"For the love of all that is holy and right in the world. Some one needs to get it through their thick heads (public school leadership) the importance of teaching basic economics and personal finance (yes and taxes too) to all K-12 students.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38382576","dateCreated":"1304286896","smartDate":"May 1, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38382576"},"dateDigested":1532129383,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Wondering","description":"Have been wondering lately if I have enough worth saying to warrant an actual blog???? Please comment accordingly.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38382536","dateCreated":"1304286778","smartDate":"May 1, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38382536"},"dateDigested":1532129384,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"How to make a juvenile delinquent with stuff at home","description":"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/thinking-about-kids\/201002\/how-create-juvenile-delinquent-materials-easily-available-home-0<\/a>","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38355382","dateCreated":"1304173831","smartDate":"Apr 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38355382"},"dateDigested":1532129384,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Dilution","description":"For several years I have wondered if the education system was pushing too many HS students to graduate and post-graduate study. My fear being that society was incrementally diluting the talent pool and using up the job market with over-qualified job seekers. I believe the following article is just scratching the surface of this problem.
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\nhttp:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2011\/04\/the-phd-problem-what-do-you-do-with-too-many-doctorates.ars<\/a>","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"37522536","dateCreated":"1302608516","smartDate":"Apr 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/37522536"},"dateDigested":1532129384,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Great tweet.","description":"One of the greatest tweets I have read.
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\n"Facebook asks what I\u2019m thinking. Twitter asks what I\u2019m doing. Foursquare asks where I am. The Internet has turned into a crazy girlfriend."","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13436695","dateCreated":"1249393362","smartDate":"Aug 4, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13436695"},"dateDigested":1532129384,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Ode to Wireless","description":"To WEP, or not to WEP: that is the question:
\nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
\nThe slings and arrows of an open network,
\nOr to take arms against a sea of iBook G3s","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"11117825","dateCreated":"1239738279","smartDate":"Apr 14, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/11117825"},"dateDigested":1532129384,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Fully functional or fully hobbled?","description":"I hear the argument all the time that Netbooks are the way schools need to look at deploying more technology in the classroom. At the same time, the argument turns to platform and making sure to put the student in front of Windows because that is going to "be what they are expected to use in the corporate world". Now admittedly I can be viewed as having a bit of bias on both fronts...
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\nTo this, I have two questions:
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\n1. Why should it be viewed as an absolute that whatever profession a student enters, they are going to be expected to be able to use Windows? Why not educate on the basis of function and not solely on platform. I honestly thought this argument was settled years ago. It is better to teach them to fish, etc....
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\n2. Show me a Fortune 500 (or 1000) that has planned for the deployment of Netbooks for their workforce?
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\nThe point here is that educators truly need to provide a solution that leads to the greatest creativity and inspires learning in their students.
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\nAs an aside, I recently asked my wife (Elementary school teacher) what she thought of teachers using a Netbook (in this example I showed her an Asus). Her response "Don't expect me to get anything besides email done on that toy...."
\nLater, she amended her position "If you try to take my ***Book, you will come away with a stump"","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"11496289","body":"More proof
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\nhttp:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2009\/04\/27\/road-tested-why-the-hackb00k-is-a-fail\/#continued<\/a>","dateCreated":"1240853457","smartDate":"Apr 27, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"1495095","dateCreated":"1193797785","smartDate":"Oct 30, 2007","userCreated":{"username":"tbachner","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tbachner","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/tbachner-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/tbachner.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/1495095"},"dateDigested":1532129384,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Another has fallen","description":"On Monday morning, Oct 29th 2007, at 8:35am another member of \u201cThe Greatest Generation\u201d left this life to carry on in the next.
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\nMy Grandfather, Captain Thomas E. Bachner (Sr.) was born on May, 28th, 1916 in Youngstown, OH and is a member of a generation that Tom Brokaw recently coined as the \u201cGreatest\u201d. I was very fortunate to have been present in his last days, offering comfort and support as he began his transition. I can unequivocally state that he was a great man, one with a deep sense of family and community. As our family descends upon Fort Worth to pay respects to our patriarch, we find ourselves remembering fondly the life we knew with him. This posting will act as a way to share all of our individual experiences.
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\nThe following is the Obituary that was crafted around the kitchen table in his home by his oldest son Ed Bachner (my father), his brother Martin and wife Kim, Kathleen (granddaughter), and myself.
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\nRICHLAND HILLS - Thomas Edgar \u201cEd\u201d Bachner, 91, died Monday, October 29, 2007, in North Richland Hills after a brief decline in health, during which a loving member of his family was in continual attendance.
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\nGRAVESIDE SERVICE: Private, in Muskogee, OK, at a later date.
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\nVISITATION: The family will receive friends 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, at Lucas Sylvania Funeral Home, 517 N. Sylvania, N. Fort Worth, to celebrate his life.
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\nMEMORIALS: Alzheimer\u2019s Fund in loving memory of Irene and Ed Bachner, 7132 Dover Lane, Forth Worth, Texas, 76118.
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\nCELEBRATION OF LIFE: Born 5\/28\/16, in Youngstown, OH, Ed Bachner was a retired American Airlines Captain, and Grey Eagle #399. He was preceded in death 7\/25\/2004 by his loving wife of 65 years, Irene. He had a rich and full life during which he was able to live independently, caring for home, dogs and yards. He safely maintained an active drivers license and a concealed carry permit. His FAA Certified Flight Instructor, Single-Engine, Multi-Engine & Instrument ratings were kept current from 1940 until the time of his death. During his final, two month decline in health, he was continuously attended by a loving family member.
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\nEd was a Life Member of the NRA, the Amateur Trap Shooting Assoc., the Grey Eagles, the OX5 Club, and the Over the Hill Gang. He participated in RACES the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services where he employed his HAM radio license, K5BDF. He had been a Haltom City Mason for fifty years and belonged to the Quarter Century Wireless Assoc. and the Moslem Shrine Temple.
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\nCaptain Bachner was very proud of his long, dependable history as an American Airlines pilot. He soloed his first biplane in1939 after very little instruction, and then instructed himself to become instrument, multi-engined and instructor rated by 1942, when he started flying for American Airlines. He flew the DC-3, 4, 6, 7 & retired on the DC-10. He also flew the Convair 240, 340 & 440, Lockheed Electra, and Boeing 707, 720, & 727. He taught army primary and naval instrument flying during World II, flew the Berlin Airlift in 1948 & 49 and the Military Air Contract to Viet Nam. He was a serious, careful pilot who safely handled several dangerous in-flight emergencies and near mid-air collisions. After one such event, when a reporter asked how he handled the heavy responsibility of all those sitting behind him, he said he never really thought of them - he just figured if he concentrated on taking care of himself, then they\u2019d be all right too! After retiring as a pilot at the maximum age of 60, he spent several years serving as a DC-10 instructor at the AA Flight Academy. A highlight of his life was when he soloed his 16-year old son, Martin, who is now a Northwest Airlines Captain.
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\nCaptain Bachner also had a long history of community service. He served as a Birdville School Board Trustee, and was the first Fire Marshall for both Haltom City and Richland Hills. He was on the
\nHaltom City Council, a Haltom City Mayor Pro Tem & Municipal Judge, and Assy. Chief of the Haltom City Fire Department. He had served several times as Richland Hills Interim City Manager and the Chairman of the Richland Hills Zoning Board of Adjustments. He participated continuously
\nin the Fort Worth Star Telegram phone-in rain reports, and the monthly RACES emergency siren check, Siren #1.
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\nDuring his full life, Ed\u2019s hobbies included wood carving, shooting, boating, fishing and HAM Radio. More recently, he enjoyed digital photography, personal computing and the internet.
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\nCapt. Bachner is lovingly remembered by his two sons Thomas E. (Ed) Bachner, Jr., and Capt. Martin Bachner, their wives Mary Ellen and Kim Bachner, Ed Jr.\u2019s two son\u2019s Charles Stuart Bachner and Thomas E (Trey) Bachner III and Trey\u2019s wife Anne. He is also survived by his daughter Jane Barnard, her daughter Kathleen Barnard Ross and son Bill Barnard, and Bill\u2019s wife Julie. He has four great- grandchildren, Destiny Ross (6), Nathan Mather Bachner (7), Daniel Thomas Bachner (5), Lauren Reynolds Bachner (3). He also has two step-grandchildren, Benjamin Rodenkirch and Jessica Rodenkirch Fuller, and two step great-grandchildren, Colin Michael Fuller (3) and Holden Benjamin Fuller (8 momths). He will be sorely missed, as is his beloved wife, Irene.
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\nFamily and friends are encouraged to continue this brief summary on a life that was so clearly rich and will be missed dearly. Thank you.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}