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		<title>The Rubric as a General Purpose Quality Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to dictionary.com, one of the definitions for rubric is “any established mode of conduct; protocol.” But the context you’ve probably heard this word in is education – where a grading rubric or a scoring rubric is used to evaluate a complex artifact like a student essay. In my opinion, it’s time to move the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1287&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, Paul Graham posted an article called &#8220;Maker&#8217;s Schedule, Manager&#8217;s Schedule&#8220;. He points out that people who make things, like software engineers and writers, are on a completely different schedule than managers &#8211; and that by imposing the manager&#8217;s schedule on the developers, there is an associated cost. Makers simply can&#8217;t be as productive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=794&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Give a High Quality Presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m out in Colorado this week working with the NEON cyberinfrastructure team to put together presentation material for a big review meeting they&#8217;re having in June. It&#8217;s a challenging project, chock full of interesting and complex envisioned science experiments, elaborate engineering to design, construct and collect data from sensors scattered all over the country (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=688&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Genius of Asking Dumb Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I commented on how technical jargon can either enhance or impede communications. I ran across this quote today from the 1987 book Thriving on Chaos by Tom Peters along the same thread, and thought I&#8217;d share: Mostly, it&#8217;s the dumb, elementary questions followed up by a dozen even more elementary questions that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=635&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Jargon</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2009/02/18/overcoming-jargon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a group of professors from James Madison University yesterday, when the topic shifted to “discrete event simulation”. They asked me if I knew anything about it – I said no. I don’t think I had ever heard of those words strung together in the same phrase, and so immediately assumed that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=621&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading This Will Change Your Brain</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2008/10/28/reading-this-will-change-your-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title above comes from a Newsweek article published on October 14, 2008. The moral of the story is that recent research in neuroscience indicates that use of modern technology – in particular Web searching – actually exercises the decision making and complex reasoning parts of the brain. The end result is that younger people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=253&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does PowerPoint Make You Stupid?</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2008/10/27/does-powerpoint-make-you-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember a few years ago hearing about a study that claimed using Microsoft PowerPoint makes you dumb. On the basis that effective communication can either enhance or hinder quality improvement efforts, I decided to look back today and see a) where that information came from, and b) if it’s accurate. Given that over 400 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=236&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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