The year is 1982, and my little family was green before green was cool
The year is 1982, and my little family was green before green was cool. Fast-forward to today, I wonder if our ideas and what we learned in the early 80’s could outlast the years. I thought so. If nothing else, it would get those creative juices flowing for those who like to tinker with new ideas. We were green before green was cool. We were green before green was cool. As I have aged, I’ve been judged for a lot of things – one being that I’m not an environmentalist. I think too “locally” to ever be a true environmentalist. I’m too old school. That term environmentalist (or conservationist) unfortunately, has been…
A Gentleman’s Agreement – What ever happened to the term
A Gentleman's Agreement - What ever happened to the term
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption? You can have all the systems in place that you want, but if you don’t know who to call when trouble happens, what good will your systems be? Fifteen years later and businesses still call on their past employees for help. There are some skills that cannot be easily shared, or packaged in a system. Licenses and professional trades that only a few aspire to ever learn. Hands-on crafts and design work are true pieces of wonder. You can’t systemize dreams, and you can’t bottle creativity. What makes people think they can systemize another man’s or woman’s thoughts? Processes can be systemized,…
Creating Innovative Students
Creating Innovative Students in an online classroom and making sure that the students can be successful in them is a craft,. A craft that instructional designers and instructors work on endlessly. Building online and blended content for the new technological classrooms requires more time and energy than the traditional classroom that most of us grew up with. However, online instruction offers something that the traditional classroom doesn’t offer – the ability of the student to actively engage in the technological learning process, and gain hands-on experiences that push them to really think about how things work in an innovative way within the field of emerging technology. That is one of…
Out-of-Office
Out-of-Office I was trying to write an out-of-office (OOO) message the other day, and I wasn’t feeling any love flowing from the process. Rummaging through a number of my co-worker’s past OOO messages, it was apparent none of them were feeling the love when they wrote theirs either. I decided to search out some smarty pants OOOs on the net. But… most of the ones I found of value, would probably have gotten me into serious trouble if I used them. Dang it! I didn’t want to leave the standard “‘ ….. — ……” I also knew I couldn’t post any pictures of my fluffy little pink body lying on…
