Design, Build, Operate (Experience), Innovate

This is a ‘Blended Learning’ strategy appropriate for many skill levels and ages. In a collaborative atmosphere this strategy can lead to emergence.  I’ll try and just quickly outline this to get it out there.  This is also a completely immersive kind of model that allows you to engage students.  Choosing which point to introduce [...]

Education in the New Environmental Economy

This is the title of the conference i attended hosted by the VEC, or Vermont Environmental Consortium.
The list of presenters was very impressive, with the keynote presentation by Dr. Grant Trump setting the bar very high. As president and CEO of Eco-Canada he put the eco-nomy in the environmental side of the discussion. [...]

Architectonic

I’m begining to understand the activities of engaging in the virtual creation of being as creating an architectonic. I’m specifically using this to describe the elements of my web 2.0 activity as revealing a design ecology where by the aggregating elements hold together in a non-linear fashion. (Granted, I’m just begining to stumble around) What [...]

Polymorphus

Taking many shapes, morphing into multiple expressions of the same being–or even morphing your being. The Transformers. Shape shifters.
During my Stagecraft class Thursday: I discussed ‘dressing an electric,’ ‘dressing the stage,’ or ’setting the legs’ –and I asked the class if they knew what I meant by ‘anthropromorphisizing’–well after blank stares and suggesting it [...]