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The Gates Project: Installation Crew
Gates Crew Originally uploaded by timlauer. The Gates Project A lot being written and said about the Christo, Jeanne Claude installation in Central Park. From the New York Times today... Even at first blush, it was clear that "The Gates" is a work of pure joy, a vast populist spectacle of good will and simple eloquence, the first great public art event of the 21st century. It remains on view for just 16 days. Consider yourself forewarned. Time is fleeting. The Times also has a special section with all of its coverage. One of the parents from my school... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 13, 2005 at 4:49 p.m..
New music label
Schismatik, a new music label, has launched. It seems to me to say the right things, and to say them emphatically. But I'm not yet 100% convinced. (The company blog is here.) Schismatik gives to the artist half of the price of a downloaded album and half of the profit on the sale of a physical CD. They expect the price of either to be $8, and the highest cost of manufacturing a physical CD to be $2.25. Obviously that's much much more money going to the artist than in a standard label contract. But why 50% and not 40%... From
Joho the Blog on February 13, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
SF Day 2
On Saturday, Leah and I walked from Union Square to Alamo Square, home of the "painted ladies," AKA, "Where Full House was taped." Leah was wearing her Ashley and Mary Kate t-shirt. I saw part of a "Full House" once and found it unbearably dopey, but, well, what are you going to do with kids today, especially when they're 20 and have a complex, post-Modern relationship to the media crap that forms a mythic background in which they themselves don't believe? From there we went to the far side of the Golden Gate Bridge and walked back to the SF... From
Joho the Blog on February 13, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Sunset from space
This is an astonishing photo, taken from on board the Columbia, of the earth at sunset. (Thanks, Mas!)... From
Joho the Blog on February 13, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Rainer Rilke: I beg that you give all that up
The artistic sensibility is an endangered species. All too often we see ideas about art closely aligned with the production of things and the technical requirements needed to produce them rather than being an orientation to life and lifestyle that... From
Experience Designer Network on February 13, 2005 at 3:55 p.m..
Children's Learning in a Digital World
OWL Children's Trust and Brock Research Institute for Youth Studies are hosting a Conference on "Children's Learning in a Digital World" to be held at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada on August 19 and 20, 2005. Computer games, software,... From
Rick's Café Canadien on February 13, 2005 at 3:50 p.m..
How do we learn the things we value most?
Perhaps we have placed too much emphasis on generalization and abstraction over the complexity and mystery of living. If we come to believe that our models can hold up under all or even most circumstances, I believe we are living a delusion. A delusion that can come back to cause discomfort and unhappiness. It is not so much that generalized models are in and of themselves a problem, but it is, perhaps, that we have become too close to them and biased by them. The very need to ask ourselves the question, "How do we capture the essential experiences of another person's life so From
Seblogging News on February 13, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..
Blogging Beyond Text: Adding Sounds and Photos
All the talk this week at our
Weblogging in ESL/EFL group on adding sound and photos to blogs got me thinking about how I could go about incorporating these applications into my work with personal webpublishing in Japanese EFL classes. If students are already blogging, or at least reading and writing on blogs (not necessarily blogging!), then the addition of sound, photo, and video serves to enrich the communicative environment with the elements of sight, color, and sound; working the students' speaking and listening skills and perh From
apcampbell News on February 13, 2005 at 12:53 p.m..
A week in a row
I see that this is the first time since September that I've managed to post here seven days in a row. Until August I posted every day most months, with an occasional week off either four or five times a year, for close to a year and a half. For me, the issue was time, as I started up a daily web publication for our university -- a tolerable excuse, but still a disappointing falling off here. But time stands in for the real problem, which is losing the chance to recharge by reading what... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on February 13, 2005 at 4:49 a.m..
Long way 'round
Go to MSN's Mappoint site by clicking here. Tell it you want directions from Haugesund in Norway to Trondheim in Norway. Click "Get directions." SPOILER: [I find out about this through an email that was forwarded.]... From
Joho the Blog on February 13, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..
In Motion: African American Migration Experience
In Motion A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism. This site from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture provides access to 8,300 images, 17,000 pages of texts and over 60 maps. In Motion focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. In From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on February 13, 2005 at 2:49 a.m..
CIESE K-12 Education Curriculum
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. From
eLearnopedia on February 13, 2005 at 1:46 a.m..