Change Happens...Lessons Live On (hopefully)

A Fall weekend hike in the woods of beautiful central Pennsylvania with my family and my camera reminded me of some things about change:

• Like the color of the leaves, change happens...
• Like the seasons, change happens...
• Like the technology of yesteryear, change happens...
• Like our children, change happens...
• Like the way we use things, change happens...

...but hopefully we learn valuable lessons along the way, and enjoy/embrace/relish the change. More often than not, it is a sign of growth.


(click on the slideshow to visit the album and view full-screen)

-JG

A highly entertaining, but poignant talk by David Pogue (2006, TED) on simplicity that fails to permeate much of the technology we use or design. One of the best lines (for me) comes toward the end. Speaking primarily of hardware and software, but I feel is equally relevant to instruction and CONTENT, Pogue says...
"The hard part is not knowing what features to add, but deciding what to leave out!"
-Joel G.

A cute video on fair use and copyright--cleverly done...A Fair(y) Use Tale

A perennial problem in education and online instruction.

I've started a Gallery of some of my best/favorite photographs. Enjoy.

http://picasaweb.google.com/joelandsha/BestPics02

Best Pics

-Joel G.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

--B. F. Skinner, US psychologist (1904 - 1990) New Scientist, May 21, 1964