Pass It On: 4-3-08: Good People Day

h/t to @drthomasho on Twitter for this Gary Vaynerchuk tip and a nice change of focus. I’ll make it a voluntary meme. As Gary says, if we can make time for Twitter color wars, we can make time to prop a good person. A fun, lovely idea for the beginning of Spring.

My good person of the day? History teacher John Larkin from Oz comes to mind - generous with his comments (I see him all over the web), gentlemanly in tone, of a scholarly bent, but in a down-home way. A fine writer too, with good enough taste to put Nick Cave in his sidebar.

His shining “good people” moment for me this week: Offering some first aid to my iTunes when he heard I’d accidentally deleted my entire 18GB library.

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Written by Clay Burell

April 3rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Posted in meme, video

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I second your nomination. John is gentlemanly even when we disagree and full of good ideas.

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Mathew

3 Apr 08 at 10:41 pm
Carolyn Foote
http://futura.edublogs.org/
is always helpful, always postive. She was my first online mentor and has been a kind and gentle presence ever since.

Thanks, friend! And nice idea Clay.

diane

diane’s last blog post..Letter to the NYS Board of Regents

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diane

3 Apr 08 at 11:28 pm
Hi Clay and Mathew,

Well, here I am, sitting comfortably at home, alongside my wife Shao Ping, with a big grin on my face. And rosy cheeks too.

I would like to thank both of you for your thoughts and correspondences. I feel quite proud to share with both of you from time to time. You are both good persons Clay and Mathew.

I do appreciate your thoughts, thank you both very much,

Cheers, John.

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John Larkin

4 Apr 08 at 6:24 pm
Hi Clay,

I would also like to nominate my friend Siva at Singapore National University as a good person. Sive and I collaborated on a CD-ROM about mangrove environments back in 2000.

I tracked Siva down via the ether as I looked for subject matter experts and we discovered at our first meeting we both had a fascination for the Mac. Following that we spent many adventurous moments in the mud, humidity and tropical waters of south-east Asian mangroves. I even returned 40 water snakes to a mangrove on his behalf. If only the taxi driver knew what was in the two carriers. I can hardly believe it. Siva helped me to stretch outside my comfort zone.

We have been sharing ideas and notes ever since. He helped me get through a very difficult patch with his wisdom and friendship.

Siva had an informative web site that shared all his knowledge and resources. In 2003 he established his own excellent blog, the Otterman…

http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/index.php
http://otterman.wordpress.com/

Siva has been generating blogs with his students and museum helpers for 5 or so years now. The latest crop are here.

http://nusbiodiversity.wordpress.com/blogs/

Siva is a tireless worker for the environment and a teacher’s teacher. Siva pushed me to start blogging again following my return to Australia. We still get to catch up from time to time.

Thanks for the chance to post Clay,

Cheers, John.

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John Larkin

4 Apr 08 at 6:51 pm
@All,

Yes, yes, yes, to quote Molly Bloom.

John, hope you don’t mind my pasting that nomination of Siva into the Favorite Teacher Blogs Open Thread?

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Clay Burell

4 Apr 08 at 6:59 pm
Hi Clay,
That is fine. Siva has constantly provided an exemplary use of blogs in education. He evolves words into action.
Cheers, John ^_^

John Larkin’s last blog post..Sort Of ~ Dunno ~ Nothing

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John Larkin

4 Apr 08 at 8:00 pm
I’ve accidentally deleted off my Ipod too. Do you mean there was a rescue?

Pat Hensley’s last blog post..Useful Information In and Out of the Classroom 03/28/08

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Pat Hensley

6 Apr 08 at 3:18 am
Pat, you say “deleted of my iPod”….and if that’s the case, I may not be able to help. But if you deleted your iTunes library on your COMPUTER, you can upload the library FROM your iPod TO your computer - with the help of a little program called Senuti.

It’s a free download, I think. Unforgettable name, since it’s iTunes spelled backwards.

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Clay Burell

6 Apr 08 at 12:33 pm