Guidelines for online courses

I wrote this draft proposal for developing some criteria for online courses a few years back. Guidelines for Online Courses

Words of wisdom from Bill Fenwick

In a meeting today, Bill Fenwick articulated a key point that was also deliberated at Campus 2010 retreat in Trinidad, “Participation in society in the future requires computer literacy. Almost all aspects of your life will be limited if you cannot access a computer. This could cause an explosion in the gap between the able [...]

Spirit of Carnaval

Newest video from the new Brazilian, Caribbean, Funk band, Bahia a Bahia. What happens when you get three Landau’s and Dandara working on one song? Well, The Spirit of Carnalval …it’s something more than just BACCHANAL…Ay, ay, yai, yai yai!!!

Excerpts from “Developing an Effective Online Course”

“There are five rules that make up good writing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” —William K. Zinsser, author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction “I am not a teacher but an awakener.” – Robert Frost, American poet Goal: Choose the best way to communicate information The goal of instruction [...]

Innovation requires respect- Top 10 ingredients for innovative teams

and 2 Rules for innovation management To feel good most humans need: – to be considered – to be recognized for their contribution – to be rewarded in often – to feel like members of the community What people hate: – to be disrespected – to have less qualified/deserving people rewarded – to be told [...]

Program for the Future Notes from the Lunatic Fringe

Ten Top Take-a-ways from The Program for the Future The Program for the Future met March 3, 2010 for a CoLABoration. Note: The tables at CoLAB had various affinity groups — education, government, health care, communications, business, technology — I asked to label a table “lunatic fringe.” Eileen Clegg describes it “as a popular if [...]

Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck?

Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck? Facebook Fan Page This facebook campaign really caught my attention, (and the attention of another 197,773 people) but I wonder, how we harness this mass frustration against Glenn Beck and convert it into a social/political movement towards change? Or is knowing we [...]

TipTap.mobi keying, chording, typing

The iPhone App, TipTapSpeech, just launched.  It’s based on a Doug Engelbart invention. Available at  iTunes store for $4.99. One of the things that Doug Engelbart invented in the ’60s (along with the mouse and just about everything else about personal computing) was the “chorded keyset.”  His idea was you had the mouse in one [...]

Engelbart’s birthday wish about to come true

After Engelbart’s 81st birthday, I asked Engelbart which one of his ideas he wanted to see implemented in the near future. He said he would like the notion of chorded texting to take off. So for the past few years I’ve been working (on a volunteer basis) with some amazing people: Evan Schaffer, Rob Stephenson, [...]

Cuban Poet visits Oakland

Cuban poet Pablo Armando Fernandez visited Oakland last month and held a series of readings for fans and friends.