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RHYTHM RIVER
2008-12-16 22:46:00 Just attached to the squareONE-learning web site is its Rhythm River offshoot. Basically, Rhythm River is an experiential process during which participants listen to music they’ve unlikely encountered before, and then voluntarily report about what the music evoked. I tested the concept in two sessions at Lakewood Public Library in 2006. Here’s an Animoto clip I ...
LIT UP STORY
2008-12-15 22:30:00 November 25th I sat at a table of participants I had just met, and then collaborated to create a vision for Cleveland’s sustainable future. In collaborating together and imagining together a middle ground where we fruitfully share our different interests, the group set about doing something I immensely enjoy. This is to then synthesize and ... More About: Story
TENTATIVITY
2008-12-07 23:01:00 I came across Hannah Fearn’s article The Great Divide, about the battle between social anthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists, (in Times Higher Education; Nov 20:2008) several days after it had been published and decided to let the comments percolate a bit. It’s not a very good article in the sense of offering any substantial definition of ...
DOUBTING THE ANCIENTS MADE MODERN MISTAKES
2008-12-03 15:32:00 John Perkins. The categorical splitting between masculine/feminine; head/heart; thinking/feeling; (etc./etc.) is at least interesting for this splitting maneuver being long-standing. It sometimes says more about the splitter. It carries with it the appeal of heartfelt reductions. On the other hand, for me, a useful dichotomy or polarity–and they are a crucial structural aspect of some of ... More About: Made , Modern
PLAY OF OPPOSITES-DEMO
2008-11-28 00:39:00 The first beta test of videographing a squareONE tool process. I recorded demonstrations of Grab Bag and Play of Opposites . Thanks to my brother and his camera. (I’ve got my eye on a Canon HV20 to be purchased after the first of the year. I’ll also use it to tape a new tool I’m developing ... More About: Demo
ONLINE VIDEOS FOR TEACHERS
2008-11-27 01:09:00 Annenburg Media provides online and material resources to, “to advance excellent teaching in American schools.” Anybody can sign up and view the online videos. Each is described and most are components in comprehensive continuation of teacher education. I highly recommend A Private Universe. I’ll be working my way through the lot. I just happened upon ... More About: Videos , Online , Teachers
SOUND OF PLAY
2008-11-25 22:46:00 I was dumping audio from my Zoom H4 digital recorder, and, lo-and-behold, there was an environmental recording on it etched from placing my backpack with the recorder in it next to the chain link backstop on the Freeplay softball diamond. I blogged in November about that endeavor. What’s neat is how the recording captures lot of ... More About: Play , Sound
MANY ANNALS OF APPLE
2008-11-22 13:10:00 …but little drama. I’ve been an Apple user ever since a fried hauled a six month old original Macintosh, (’the Macintosh-128k, floppies only,) and gave the $4,000 computer to me in the fall of 1984. I used that machine until 1992, when I got a hand-me-down Macintosh HD30, and in short order had an LC, ...
GRAB BAG
2008-11-20 21:05:00 My brother and his family came to visit and I finally remembered to ask him to bring his camcorder. He did so and we were able to ‘beta test’ my concept for documenting demonstrations of squareONE experiential learning tools. He and I went to no lengths at all to make this slick. The video of ... More About: Grab
DUB COLLISION OBAMA RULES! MIX
2008-11-15 22:17:00 Post-partisan, global, unity sounds compiled by my music montage-making alter ego, Dub Collision , available as an mp3 download over at nogutsnoglory, my music blog. More About: Obama , Rules
FIELD OF FRAMES
2008-11-13 02:19:00 Sometime in the spring of 2002 my colleague and professional partner Judith hipped me to an interesting project. She knew a filmmaker who was hoping to commence a project about sports and experiential learning. ‘Would I be interested in talking over the experiential learning aspects with the filmmaker?’ Sure. And so Judith waved her finger across ... More About: Field
YES WE DID!
2008-11-05 14:26:00 Although I will pour over the satisfying demographic breakdowns in the coming days, the one that jumps out this morning showcases Barack Obama’s victory in every age group except the over-65 one. A new era has dawned. The future trend lines are clear too: doctrinaire conservatism is headed toward hard times as the U.S. heads ...
ON THE CUSP
2008-11-02 22:17:00 . . .of much needed change. We started our journey to the Barack Obama and his family, and Bruce Springsteen, rally at 1:00pm at the third most easterly stop on RTA’s Blue Line. The gates were to open at 2:00pm and it usually takes 30 minutes to get downtown if you get on the train right ...
OUCH! BOOO!
2008-11-01 21:35:00 click to enlarge This Soup To Nutz comic provides an excellent, subtle, version of an old teaching story. More About: Ouch
Grab Bag
2008-10-25 22:05:00 My brother and his family came to visit and I finally remembered to ask him to bring his camcorder. He did so and we were able to ‘beta test’ my concept for documenting demonstrations of squareONE experiential learning tools. He and I went to no lengths at all to make this slick. The video of ... More About: Grab
WARPED BY THE RAIN
2008-09-30 21:49:00 I returned Monday from New Mexico. The service and wake for Jamie was spontaneous, soulful, and deeply moving. There was country rock, desert vistas, and Jamie’s karass. It was an event every bit as spiritually complex, and necessary, as the man himself. click pic for larger version / Photo montage created by compositing unknown student ... More About: Rain
BEACON CALL
2008-09-19 20:32:00 March, 1972; at the Cohen family’s ‘ranch.’ In 1997, at our 25th reunion, insisting to Jamie that the bar be set high, we worked to configure our relationship to be about who we both are, and not about what we know, or who we know, or do. Our relationship became man-to-man. And this was a ... More About: Call , Beacon
STRUCK NOTE
2008-09-13 23:16:00 On September 9th I published a post to celebrate two new artistic creations by my soul brother Jamie Cohen. Yesterday I received a call from my other soul brother David. He told me Jamie had passed away on September 11th. Man! Ripped away. Losing Jamie is to lose one among the handful of people who are ... More About: Note
MISSING YOU
2008-09-09 14:55:00 Jamie Cohen, musician, actor, writer, producer, artist, was also a filmmaker our senior year, in 1971-72. We partnered to make a movie for our Cinema class project. It’s intent was to load up so much obscure symbolism that the unsuspecting might take the whole 8 minute flick seriously. For example it started with a roll ... More About: Missing You , Missing
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
2008-09-07 23:34:00 Political question of the day: who is more experienced? Questioning the efficacy of experience begs the questions: “what is meant by experience; what are the relations of experience to capability; what–for you–are the optimal benefits of experience?” My informal surveys reveal that most people have never thought in any sophisticated way about the nature and benefits of ... More About: Experienced
WHEN FRUITS ARE VEGETABLES
2008-08-26 01:47:00 A voter?s behavior at the polling place reduces to a decision. Hold that idea. This is analogous to a shopper?s behavior. How much time does a shopper spend in deciding what tomato in a pile of tomatoes will provide the biggest payoff in return for their investment of ?selection? time? Why is it that a given ... More About: Fruits , Vegetables
SEMIOTICS TO THE RESCUE
2008-08-20 01:41:00 If you don’t know who Harry Smith was it may be too late. This video is titled Boy - Am I in Trouble on youtube. But I would have retitled it, Semiotics to the Rescue .
TOURIST GUIDANCE
2008-08-17 18:04:00 Mullah Nasruddin went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and on the way he passed through Medina. As he was walking by the main mosque there, a rather confused looking tourist approached him. “Excuse me sir,” said the tourist, “but you look like a native of these parts; can you tell me something about this mosque? It ... More About: Tourist
BANG BEFORE
2008-07-27 01:18:00 The Integral Spiritual Center lands a come-on in my email box every week. Yesterday’s gave me a whack on the side of the head. Modern science has given us a compelling picture of the evolution of our universe, from its first moments: quantum fluctuations?i.e. the ?Big Bang ??led to a massive inflation, followed by ?the dark ...
ANYONE WHO THINKS DIFFERENTLY?
2008-07-19 16:03:00 These are all scattered excerpts from Jung’s book “The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual In Modern Soceity.” Jung rarely talked about politics in his work. In fact I’m quite sure this was the only time he did, only in reference to his individualism (so for those of you looking for a book centered ...
PINPOINT
2008-07-13 16:03:00 An organization is a collection of choices looking for problems, issues and feelings looking for decision situations in which they might be aired, solutions looking for issues to which they might be the answer, and decision makers looking for work. [sic] Organizations keep people busy, occasionally entertain them, give them a variety of experiences, keep ...
BLOCK WALKING & BOUNCING BALLS
2008-07-09 14:53:00 EXPERIENTIAL MARTIAL ARTS I. (originally published in The Lakewood Observer) “The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.” - Maurice Merleau Ponty It is the case ... More About: Walking , Balls , Block
FACADE COSTS
2008-07-06 17:33:00 via Naomi Klein University of Chicago Faculty Letter on The Milton Friedman Institute 6 June 2008 President Robert Zimmer Provost Thomas Rosenbaum University of Chicago 5801 South Ellis Avenue Suite 502 Chicago IL 60637 Dear President Zimmer and Provost Rosenbaum: We were interested to read President Zimmer?s recent message announcing the Milton Friedman Institute, with its 200 million dollar plus endowment and prime real ... More About: Costs
DEEP COUNTRY
More articles from this author:2008-07-04 15:23:00 [Patriotism] I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power?-to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect of all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a patriotism which is not short, frenzied ... More About: Country , Deep 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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