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The Roman
Aphrodite is the also the Neolithic mother goddess who rises
from the sea and epitomizes collective values:
FEEDBACK FORM sent by turnpike
The
documents journal we are
now working on is at
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beteen office Suites and Internet communications.
Netscape is a leader
in the Internet environment because it
helps other companies succeed,
co-evolut ion.
These others range from Yahoo!, Pointcast, and
Macromedia to Sun Microsystems, Oracle and IBM--and from the smallest web
site operator to AT&T, who is using Netscape software as a basis for intranets on
which it is running customer service. Altogether, these contributors are not unlike
a biological ecosystem
. They depend upon and enrich each other. Their
capabilities must coevolve, in order that all grow together.
The percentage of large and midsize companies deploying
some sort of intranet has soared to 55% from just 11% a
year ago, according to Business Research Group, Newton,
Mass. By January, the figure should reach 70%, the group
forecasts.
MicroSoft is doing what IBM did, sell less than top of the line products because:
" The numbers show that Microsoft now owns (with astounding 90 percent
shares) software categories that just a few years ago it had barely entered. And often with lackluster products
that won purely because of synergy and muscle. " James Gleick The article does not have a
single hyperlink, which after all is the
REAL power of the net . They are afraid if you go off you will not come back.
The new files are also there. For only the new stuff go to Synergy Files
on trevista.com and look in directory /NEW or http://www.wiredbrain.com/ documents ethos/ethos for education //pathos for psychology and Sufi
and http://www.wiredbrain.com/ documents logos/logos for policy ( meaning )
It's interesting to have files in California ( Turnpike) and in Florida
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site will have a search engine, CGI files and forms, and we will get it together. Be patient god is not finished
with us yet.
The
first class group ";Administrators"; to report The
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Venus and David, -
FUSION put together
design with nature...
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self,
the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take
apart - Two very different people from different
times. At the same time the analogous as
biological humans.
. 
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TOUR GUIDEto the Internet
A SITE OF OUR OWN , We will build a low cost
almost free Intranet system for groups of 30 or so, the Virtual Office or classroom.
While big companies spend $30,000 to $300,000 getting
connected we will do it for less than $100.00 ( not for 1000's of PC but dozens ) using existing
NT software and NetBios. We will be / when the domain trevista.com becomes
active. We will have a site with great new technology and will be able to do a lot more.
We have a group of beta testers that will be using WINS technology.
FOR BETA testers of the WINS method of making interactive ( Virtual ) office/classroom the
current instructions are on http://www.wiredbrain.com/ documents Vobinfo.txt.
From digital AltaVista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#";
You need a modern computer, up to date Netscape with Hot Java and
you tell me if this is not a lot better than anything else in operation
with a interactive and friendly interface. It's education and training possibilities
are there for all to see. MS new internet explorer 3.0 doesn't quite do it on this
site.
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FIRST page in the orginal long
form
Directory
of the site
100's
of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE
to the site made by Altavista
Guide
for NEWBIES and the internet
NEWBIE
in plain.txt
START
of the network
Register
as beta tester
VISIONS of blue sky futures
MAIN http files
includes LOGOS and
current
case discussion and
activities
documents >
meaning and policy
documents >
current discussions and documents THE SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.com documents JOURNALS
ARE HERE documents >
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intro to groups
education; small schools
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
setup for group STYLES
SYNERGY A new style of writing - New Visions
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:51:24 +0100 X-Sender: eds023@mailhost.bangor.ac.uk To: Pflaump@wiredbrain.com From: t.m.owen@bangor.ac.uk (Martin Owen) Subject: Reasau D'Enseignment Multimedia Some folks may want to look at this Europan Project I am engaged in. We have some published deliverables covering our evalaution strategy and our user needs analysis. both attempt to build on our platform of a constructivist approach and lead us to trying to develop an appropriately defined technology system.They are on: http://weblife.bangor.ac.uk/rem/deliverables/deliverables.ht ml Feedback (public or otherwise) Welcome Regards Martin
http://www.ce c.lu/en/comm/dg22/news/659.html Adopted on 15 March 1995 by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, Socrates has a budget of ECU 850 million for the period 1995+1998.
The WEB without the approval of higher authority vs. the
traditions of conformity and the chain of command:
The WEB is producing a libertarian populism that is still mostly underground. This new counter-culture is building energy and gaining force. For many it is hard to understand because it is different. Our site is a mild introduction, but most people have trouble understanding what we are about. It's all there, right before you eyes, wake up. pay attention and you will see, knock and it will be opened. Our model is the SAS, Special Air Services or the rangers, when we are behind enemy lines we have to be creative, innovative, and can't depend on a chain of command, but on the team; other examples are the skunk works, the quick, young, INTRANET happening. We will not have this technological revolution and maintain the existing power structure, something will have to give.
The technology can not be stopped, or managed or controlled by the institution of the past. So get on board, be left behind, or be run over; ye school boards, superintendents, deans, directors, CEO's, presidents and the powers that be.
The organizational pyramid get turned up side down.
The vision thing:
When people share a common vision they can argue about the
details. When they do not have that much in common, or are unsure
of themselves and their standing, there is a strong compulsion to
pretend, be polite, or avoid the real issues. Fight and flight,
anger and fear, the stress response, increases with insecurity,
sudden change, and unexpected events. We live in a time of
change, uncertainty, where discontinuous forces swiftly
transfigure the familiar and fault our expectations.
We have had a national media defined the current ideas of social
and political correctness.
The expansion of 100 cable channels created a trend to narrow casting rather than broadcasting.
The
business of mass media, however, is to attract an audience, by
what ever means necessary, get them aroused and sell them
something.
The age of Unreason:
The social political impact of the WEB is the creation of virtual communities giving support to alternative viewpoints and personalities without the approval of higher authority.
The
dominate social system does not and can not understand the
"freedom" of this diversity and will be taken by surprise by a
major social revolution.
A Nation of Hypocrites:
We are insecure as a people and cling to our /images, to vanishing
illusions, to double talk, to a profound sense of the unreal. No
wonder the political debate this season is dominated by
superficial hypocrites on both sides.
The same phoniness is true
of some of our University Presidents, some Corporate Leaders,
School Boards and congress people. It all seem so counterfeit, an
imitation, artificial, fraudulent, like the Supper Bowl,
breakfast food, quick meals, white bread, and Bud Lite. More Hype
than Hope, an industrial model from Madison Avenue and Hollywood.
Being American and a part of humanity:
Being a human comes from culture, our civilization. As James Q.
Wilson
says It takes a long time, many generations to create
organized and humane societies, but they can collapse quickly,
such as Bosnia, Lebanon, Cambodia, or Houston.
There is a common core of American civilization, it's closer to Rush Limbaugh than anything else. It's little England, I'm all right Jack, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German Midwestern individualism of small farmers, traders and businessmen, craftsmen like the original AF of L unions.
They are born like Andrew Jackson with a chip on their shoulder.
They define themselves as against as much as what they are for -
They are not the Eastern Urban, FROM NEW YORK CITY, and it's Banks, environmentalist, conservationist, feminist, gays, integrationist, liberal, unitarian, and the European style Establishment.
They are white Protestant males who have been the
backbone of populism in all it's forms.
American Civilization has many themes, like our federal system,
or class system is not a layer cake but more like a marble cake.
Because we do not universality share a common culture there are
overwhelming social pressures to conform. Immigrants have never
been welcomed and were forced to go along the get along.
Social pressures: populism
Social pressure in America has a strong and profound effect on
all aspect life. Public opinion tends toward tyranny, in
business, education, and political life. Majority rule can be as
oppressive as the rule of despots and Aristocrats. As de
Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, noticed in the
1820', there is a tremendous leveling effects of immigration and
democracy. Real Individualism, other ideas and cultures are
fiercely repressed. While we pretend to support "individualism"
we a nation of conformers, fearful of doing anything " strange"
or different. Tocqueville was from an establishment in the Burke
and George Bush tradition. Most American "conservative" are in
the Buccaneer populist tradition so it's no surprise they can't
get along. Reagan put this package together and the only thing
that worked was electoral victory. Dole has no chance.
Populism, Nativism, nationalism, is a core American tradition,
of a mythology of the rough pioneer western woodsman, who kills
buffaloes and Indians, doesn't respect foreigners, blacks,
Mexicans, hates railroads, banks and the Eastern Establishment,
Universities and professors, and parts of their representatives
on the national media.
Our literature and films are about social pressure to conform,
Death of a Salesman,
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Place in the Sun, Pinkie,
The Rebel Without a Cause, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Moby Dick, are all about trying to be an individual in a crass materialist society, of Hypocrites, frauds, where appearances is everything, keeping up with the Jones the foundation of the national economy. Lies all lies, a Claude Kirk said. (
The First Republican Governor of Florida who drank too
much and when asked about a stack of policy papers and his
platform, said truthfully " Lies all Lies " ).
RE:
The WEB vs. the traditions of conformity:
Against these traditions of conformity,
The WEB is producing a
libertarian populism that is still mostly underground. This new
counter-culture is building energy and gaining force. It is hard
to understand because it is different. Our site is a mild
introduction, but most people have trouble understanding what we
are about. It's all there, right before you eyes, open and you
will see, knock and it will be opened. Wake up, pay attention.
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RE: Sufi Stuff and the Intra-net as a life form:
We are both more and less than we think we are. How many of our
own and our
projections of others passions, false prides, superficial
positions take up our living
time ? You, your boss, my wife, our children are more and less
than you think they
are, I am or you are not very much what we think we are, and this
place is not where
we think it is. We confuse the map (imposed ideas) with the
territory. That is the
way of the mind works.
The INTERNET is a new life form, few understand its meaning with
any profound
knowledge, more hype and hope and dream stuff.
My Sufi practice helps innovate with
a changing reality as it comes along with fewer assumptions and
blinders on perception,
chains on action, walls, barriers, pits, shadows, and resistance
to loss of place,
power, jobs, homes, families, belief, stability,
empi res of soul
that may vanish
without a trace.
My Sufi stuff is not a mystic withdrawal from this world in a
drunken love
affair with G-D. (//ht docs/astory.htm)
A Glass Bead Internet?
My way is not the way of the mystic, the monk who suffers in
order to gain
a union with himself and g-d. My Sufi is not body-mind practice
of Hatha Yoga or
the extreme self hypnotism of the faker. My Sufi is not gnostic
philosophy or some
form of neo-platonic mind games. But the Sufi appears in all
these forms. My Sufi
stuff is material, rational, functional, practical and
scientific. My Sufi is not
the spiritual Pentecostal sects of Islam. Some people have called
this the fourth
way. (
/document/careful.txt )
From Adam to atom:
My Sufi is based on the most current theories of evolution,
biology, medicine,
cosmology, physics, psychology, and inter- knowledge.
The interior knowledge is situational so is somewhat different for different people in differed situations.
The operation of nature is universal.
There are universals in the situational, when you look it from a different viewpoint. Knowledge is the application of universals to particular conditions.
The are the guides to human behavior, policy, practice, education, business, and other ";soft"; subjects.
The psychological and social
theories become
harder as they are in reasonable relationships with universals.
Most of current psychology,
social ideology and theory say more about the observer than the
observed, their function
in who gets what when and how, than any universal truth.
The problem with rules, sop's and religions and dogmas is
whatever wisdom they
may have contained can be misused, badly applied, because the
message is lost in
the practice, like Christian, Communist, MD's, PhD's, and all my
other friends.
I've tried to make fool-proof (//pathos
/fees.txt)
systems but the fools are too cleaver.
Deming knew what he knew, he has some profound principles that
many took as
a tool of Quality Circles, and they didn't get the message and
didn't work very well.
Education in America is a history of good ideas misapplied, from
John Dewey, teams,
ungraded, core programs, to block schedules.
This site is a door to profound knowledge that you discover for
yourself and
is relevant to whom you are and where you are coming from, but
contains some element,
more or less, of universals. You can build your own intellectual
home and live in
it. You have a world view, a set of assumption that lets you get
along. Maybe there
are ways of improving the furniture if not the architecture of
your mind body place
you call home. (//pathos /humor.txt)
The Internet allows a more complex set of relationship and a
shift in the time
innovation takes to get critical mass. It shakes thing up.
Intranets challenge how
we make a living and our place in the world. We need viewpoints
that are different
from the industrial top-down assumptions of the factory school,
the auto driven city,
the federal political system.
Jim
Clark: But really Marc Andreesen who wrote a program called
Mosaic when he was
in the computer science department at the University of Illinois.
He conceived this
idea of having a mixed multi-media viewer or browser and, along
with a couple of
his buddies, implemented this. I ran into him a little over a
year ago and said why
don't we start a company in this area. And he said yeah that'd be
great. So we recruited
all of the students that helped him and founded Netscape and got
underway.
The future is crashing down on us, and there will be, as
there always
has been more losers than winners. For the chance to WIN look at
the new SYNERGY
FUTURES and MARKET news on /market.htm
Please stay seated until we have come to a complete stop and the
seat belt
sign is turned off.
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generations.
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.com documents JOURNAL: INTRANET and The
Gold Rush:
The effects on business, education, services of all kinds will be
much greater
than you think. This is the kind of quick change that we have to
be prepared to take
advantage of, rather than be run over by.
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/at_work/white_paper/intranet/vis ion.html#community
It seems to me Netscape as an advantage in not having to rewrite
everything
but can look at the services from a fresh viewpoint.
They have
also lined up a lot
of powerful partners.
FROM NETSCAPE: You really need to look at this:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/at_work/white_paper/intranet/vis ion.html
Momentum.
The Netscape INTRANET product family and Full Service
INTRANET vision
is defining the direction of the industry. Netscape's INTRANET
products are the market
leaders in each category, and other vendors are scrambling to
catch up. Because Netscape's
products are built entirely on open Internet standards, Netscape
is busy innovating
and addressing customer needs while competitors are trying to
paint a thin veneer
of standards compliance via gateways and converters on top of
their proprietary systems.
Companies worldwide are moving forward with INTRANET systems and
rejecting proprietary
alternatives.
Cost savings. Netscape's INTRANET solution is significantly
cheaper to
acquire and to own competitive systems. First, the software is
significantly cheaper
to acquire. (For example, the cost of acquiring Navigator and one
SuiteSpot bundle
and 1000 clients is approximately $33,000. Current cost estimates
for comparable
Microsoft BackOffice and Lotus Notes packages are approximately
$170,000 and $277,000,
respectively.)
Then, training and development costs are slashed
through use of an
industry-standard unified user interface - Navigator - and
industry-standard APIs
and scripting and programming languages. Finally, applications
can be developed and
deployed far more easily in the Netscape environment.
The key to the Gold Rush on the Internet is services affinity, a
smooth interface
between office suites, Internet web pages, conferences and
exchanges, shopping, banking,
getting entertainment, general and specific news as Point Cast
does now. You have
to understand the power of hyperlinks and search engines to
create a new life form.
OFFICE 97June 13,
1996 -- Microsoft
INTRANET Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET? Intranets are the integration of
Internet paradigms
and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure
to create dramatically more effective business management
systems.
Microsoft's approach to INTRANET systems is based on: melding
public and private
networks into one, integrating Web page and link paradigms for
all products, simplifying
applications deployment and administration, and integrating all
of the above into
existing investments
Dear Peter,
The Microsoft Network is pleased to offer members dual channel
ISDN access
to msn.Ô and the Internet. This technology allows you to
access all the great
content, community and communication features of the Internet and
msn. at speeds
of over four times faster than a 28.8 modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) connection.
msn. is the first online service to offer dual channel ISDN
access at over
239 locations across the United States. For more information,
double-click on the
icon below to check out the msn. ISDN Network web site.
http://www.msn.com/about/isd
n
Sincerely,
The MSN Team
Subject:
INTRANET and Education
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:30:31 AST4ADT
From: WANDA GEORGE
Reply-To: Educational Computing and Instructional
Development Organization:
Acadia University To: Multiple recipients of list ECID-L
INTRANET - using the infrastructure of the Internet for Intranets
present challenges
and amazing opportunities not only for businesses, but for
educational institutions.
If the Internet infrastructure with Netscape is in place,
innovators can put their
creative minds to work and utilize an universal and standardized
system.
One example of creativity using the Internet infrastructure and
Netscape as
an Intranet system is demonstrated with a teaching tool created
by Odyssey Research
& Communications for Acadia University, N. S. An interactive
case study was written
in HTML, full of /images and tables, and loaded on a Web server.
Access is given to
students and faculty within the university system who retreive
the assigned case
study by logging on to the Internet and using Netscape as a
browser. Access is available
from any computer lab on campus or, for that matter, from
anywhere off campus if
users have access to the Internet. Password control allows access
to only those who
are given the assignment. Such a teaching tool can be designed
with links to anywhere
in the world providing students with instant current facts, ie
statistics and other
required information, required to complete an assignment. This
concept presents incredible
opportunity for distance education. We are developing these types
of teaching tools
here at Acadia University, which is in the process of becoming
the first totally
";wired"; university in North America for education
delivery.
To see demo of case study - http://aics.acadiau.ca
To access case, type as username, ";guest"; or
if busy, type ";guest1,
or guest2, ..etc .up to guest13 (no quotation marks). Password,
type: guest. We'd
appreciate comments and discussion at e-mail: wgeorge@ace.acadiau.ca
E. Wanda George, BRM,MBA Coordinator Acadia Institute of
Case Studies
Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. B0P 1X0 Ph: 902 342-2200 x
1622 Fax: 902 342-4111
Sometime within the last six months you sent email to us
with a suggestion
for improving the CASO site which lists over 700 college courses
(http://www.caso.com).
The site is the companion site for the book
The Internet
University - College Courses
by Computer.
We are contacting you today to tell you that we have recently
revised our site
and that now course descriptions are included. This means that we
have added over
700 new HTML pages to our site, each giving the description of a
different college
course as given to us by the course provider.
Cape Software is offering the tremendous volume of information at
its CASO
website completely free as a contribution to the Internet and
education communities.
We invite you to visit us again and give any comments you feel
would help us achieve
our goal: providing the most comprehensive database of online
courses available today.
The URL for CASO's Internet University site again: http://www.caso.com/.
Yours,
Cape Software
//--------------------------------------------------------
The INTERNET UNIVERSITY - College Courses by Computer -----
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I read a lot of your synergistic http://www.wiredbrain.com documents JOURNAL... interesting idea --
like a conference
engine for those who can follow directions.. the ideas are very
cool - and eclectic
or electric... so much so that what is the thread? Are these a
collection of ideas
that you want feedback on to submit to your newsletter... is this
close to the final
draft... there's so much there..
This is one of the hottest collections I've read -- on or off
screen for quite
a while.. Not since Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New
Science have I been
so challenged. Challenged with the richness of ideas and the
quest for making more
of them part of my http://www.wiredbrain.com/ documents JOURney. When I find the opportunity I want to
investigate your
Suffi files.. Its ideas have been very helpful in my past
wanderings.
My Braintrust project -- thanks for referring to my page -- is an
'on the edge'
experience. It takes middle school students and corporate mentors
to take on real
community and business problems. 'Seeing entrepreneurship' where
adolescent energy,
and 'no limits' mentality are the norm.
Christopher Bowers
cbowers@cln.etc.bc.ca web page for Phoenix Braintrust --
http://www.cn.camriv.bc.ca/sd72/Secondary/Phoenix/braintrus
t1.html
Each step counts -- there's something in every conversation for
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PROBLEM of ACCESS:
Some rough figures.
There are about 130 million school children (
6 to 18 )
in the places with the infrastructure that can now support the
Internet, about 1/3
in North America, 1/3 in Europe and 1/3 in Asia. Less than 2 %
now have any meaningful
Internet access.
There are about 30 million post secondary students with computers and possible access, maybe 11 % now have any meaningful Internet access this is the same as the other 330 million households and firms with computers that could now access the Internet, only 11% now have some sort of access.
The rates of growth will
double these figures
each years so that by 2000 30% will be using the Internet or
about 123 millions computers.
Thinking and doing learning is and will be very different.
The
Internet is
a new life form, and those that learn to use it will be
significantly better off
than those who don't. You need to learn Hypertext linking now.
All other office and
educational systems are at a disadvantage. We discuss Bill Gates
and Microsoft's
Vision below.
NETSCAPE'S VISION
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET DEFINED
The Full Service Intranet is Netscape's vision of how
companies can
use standard Internet technologies to deploy a rich,
full-function, ubiquitous environment
for information sharing, communication, and applications, built
on top of open networking
technologies and on an open network-based application platform.
The Full Service Intranet is a concept that Forrester Research
first explored
in a report of the same title dated March 1, 1996. Simply put, a
Full Service Intranet
is a TCP/IP network inside a company that links the company's
people and information
in a way that makes people more productive, information more
accessible, and navigation
through all the resources and applications of the company's
computing environment
more seamless than ever before.
The Full Service Intranet takes advantage of the family of open standards and protocols that have emerged from the Internet.
These open
standards make possible
applications and services like email, groupware, security,
directory, information
sharing, database access, and management that are as powerful,
and in many cases
more powerful, than traditional proprietary systems, such as
Lotus Notes or Microsoft
BackOffice. Because the Full Service Intranet is built on these
open standards, customers
reap the benefits of cross-platform and cross-database support,
flexibility, and
vendor independence; they also gain the ability to leverage the
innovation and products
created by an entire industry, not just a single vendor.
THE FULL SERVICE INTRANET'S SERVICES
The Full Service Intranet model is described in terms of services.
These services
are provided by the intranet's software environment - which,
since intranet software
runs across all client and server operating systems and hardware
platforms, results
in a common network environment that spans even the most
heterogeneous network environments.
The Full Service Intranet's services provide users with capabilities like looking up information, sending and receiving email, and searahing directories.
These services also allow custom and third-party applications, such as sales automation systems or financial applications, to take advantage of the Full Service Intranet's capabilities in areas like replication and security.
These services make life
easy for IT managers,
since everything can be centrally managed, and capabilities like
security and directories
are built right in.
Two basic types of services make up Netscape's Full Service
Intranet vision:
user services, which provide resources and applications for end
users, and network
services, which help tie together and run the overall network
environment.
As envisioned by Netscape, the Full Service Intranet provides
four major user
services:
The Full Service Intranet also provides four major network services:
The following two sections explain the Full Service Intranet's
user and network services. USER
SERVICES
You can't count on existing systems such as public education,
colleges and
universities to provide what is needed. Individuals need to take
charge, wake up,
pay attention, be ready for this non-linear change. Evolution does
not happen is slow
steady, small steps but it also happens in sudden extinctions and
bursts on new life
forms.
Much of this statistical information is now available on NCES's
new Web site:
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http://www.ed.gov/NCES/
For a sampling of what you'll find there, please read on. How
well are U.S. students
doing in reading, history, geography, & other subjects?
For example:
EDUCATORS HOME PAGE Enrich
your teaching
and reach out to new learners using technology. Here are
resources that can help:
strategy papers, staff development resources, evaluation tools,
and more. http://www.learner.org/
HIGHLIGHTS RFP for Noncredit Online Courses CONNECT WITH ENGLISH
at TESOL New Geography
Series SIGNATURE Videoconference
The Annenberg/CPB Math and
Science Project Web Site
Participate in the global migration project http://www.wiredbrain.com/ documents JOURney North
or read about
the latest techniques in the teaching of math and science in the
Math and Science
Guide to Reform.
Copyright by THE ANNENBERG/CPB PROJECT Please send all
questions, comments,
and suggestions to info@learner.org
Suzanne Toomey Spinks TO: Pflaump@wiredbrain.com
I too am using a freenet system through the University. An
interesting concept,
developed at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio.
Community access
and public/private partnership in funding.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually
dial in from
home using an old Amiga 300, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100
emulation programmed - the
mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I
get zillions of formatting
commands distributed through the text - any clues on how to make
it more readable
for myself??
REPLY FROM Suzanne: Until a few weeks ago, I too was using
a 2400 baud,
8088 chip laptop. I was perfectly happy with what I had.
Technology has a way of
advancing too fast. I don't worry, Use what I have and push it to
the limits and
beyond. Saved my $$ and bought a multi media system with too many
whistles and dials.
Thing is, there probably will not be a final decision for quite
some time about how
data and info will be transmitted, so my advice is, don't rush to
get the latest,
it isn't the latest for long and you may even cripple yourself by
spending too much
too soon. digital, wireless, fiber optic, satellites,
microwave??? one or all? Who
knows what will be the mix? It's a gold rush atmosphere. Caveat
emptor.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed
some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I
would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY- people
who are not financially
able to access even a moderate level of up to date technology ( I
am a tertiary graduate
of 10 years living in Australia and it is a struggle for me to
maintain my meager
system) - as you can see from the description of my system I am
at the low end of
technology but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the
access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access,
ftp, etc to all students
- if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
REPLY FROM Suzanne: See above. And let's hear it for the
Universities.
At least some.
They are changing and looking at what their roles will be in future.
The Internet changes everything. Well, not everything. Think
about places on the
planet that don't have running water. No electricity, no
knowledge about what's available
and not at all in a position to crave digital. But still in a
position to leap over
some of the more cumbersome infrastructures. A satellite dish and
some solar power
add a few lap tops, cellular phones add they could be connected.
Not a lot of copper wire, generators, hydro, central switching
etc. Also, the
research and technology and computer sci departments of many
universities are developing
and maintaining much of what manages the information flow on the
Internet. PINE for
example is designed and managed from the Univ of Wisconsin, (
Washington ) (I think)
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of
access is
because all big institutions, business and schools have their
priorities wrong. I
was just talking to a local boy who finished the IB program: IB
program and is going to MIT. MIT gave him $20,000 of
the $30,000 annual
cost. I thought that the cost is too high for humanities or
social science. You have
to go to MIT or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment -
financial and all that
effort.
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
REPLY FROM Suzanne: I have just investigated an open market
in a mainly
Hispanic Bario in Buffalo NY where I will establish a secondary
market for used and
useful high tech ";stuff"; gadgets that people own but
have replaced with
next generation of ";stuff";. Trader Tech. If people can
buy what they can
afford, use it and keep trading up in the secondary market, at
least they will be
able to access the world better.
Suzanne Toomey Spinks, Buffalo NY, President, Hostelling
Intl.Niagara Frontier
Council American Youth Hostels.Promoting world understanding
through travel and cultural
exchange. Drop a pebble on the beach and shake a star.
C.R.E.A. Institute Creativity Research, Evolution, Application If
you need
a Dream and Do Team, E-mail me. From:
michael.gaffney@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Michael
Gaffney)
Tom tells us of some of the changes occurring in education, and
yes it is big
business, people are spending lots of money on hardware, software
and more recently
professional development to integrate this material into the
educational process.
In addition learning is occuring as a result of the computers
presence but it is
more difficult to show that it would not have happened if the
computer is not there.
This would not be a problem if there were unlimited resources
available but when
decisions are made to purchase computers and forego other
resources then the rationale
*is no longer straight forward and schools must be more critical
in their decision
making.
Yes computers are taking on an almost omnipresent status in
western societies
but that presence is a result of the decisions made by people
given the knowledge
they have at the time. Research has a small part to play. A
recent example of our
own is the CU-Seeme tool for desktop video conferencing. We put
it in several classrooms
and used it within several different learning contexts to find
that it was better
suited to certain types of learning activities. Teachers are much
more receptive
of ideas if we can say we have made this tool work successfully
when used in this
manner but avoid these problems or scenarios. This reduces the
energy required for
teachers to integrate technology into the classroom and greatly
improves the chances
that its use will be successful and thus used more than once.
The majority of teachers, I find, are unwilling to expend large amounts of energy on making technology work successfully in the classroom.
They prefer it if someone has done most of the hard work as they would rather spend their 'spare' hours doing other things. At the same time we are very appreciative of the few teachers who are willing to spend large amounts of time getting technology to work in the classroom.
Their dedication makes our research possible.
Teachers are becoming more critical of technology and thus as an
advocate for
technology I have to be more accountable for what I say. Word of
mouth has a bigger
impact than research reports when it actually comes to getting
technology into schools.
regards Michael Gaffney
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Gaffney Phone: 479 3098 ( ) Childrens' Issues Centre, email: ( )
Otago University
Michael.Gaffney@stonebow.otago.ac.nz ( ) New Zealand
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Physical reality, and social realities are not what they seem. We
impose order
on a system that is uncertain.
The internet is and will cause big
changes ( downsizing
), new bursts of evolutionary creativity, more losers than
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the power of the Internet and hypertext to make connections.
The key to the Gold Rush on the internet is services
interlocation, a smooth
interface between office suites, internet web pages, conferences
and exchanges, shopping,
banking, getting entertainment, general and specific news as
Point Cast does now.
OFFICE 97June 13,
1996 -- Microsoft
Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET? Intranets are the integration of
Internet paradigms
and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure
to create dramatically more effective business management
systems. Microsoft's approach
to intranet systems is based on: melding public and private
networks into one, integrating
Web page and link paradigms for all products, simplifying
applications deployment
and administration, and integrating all of the above into
existing investments
The Internet will only work with a direct connection, not AoL,
Prodigy or CompuServe.
I enter MSN ( MicroSoft Network ) from the internet connection.
On-line services
is an example of a new business which is already out of date. I
am writing for those
that get E-mail only or have limited Web access. Otherwise I
could just say go to
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The Origins and Growth of Action Learning (
1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's
";Punctuated Equilibria";
I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is
Werner Heisenberg
Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us with this
?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason involves
management,
learning organizations, education, economics and policy ) Mancur
Olson's Rise and
Fall of Nations.
Technology : Zuboff's
The Age of the Smart Machine
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct, hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable, predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies, freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive,
process of change is reasonable and politically correct.
Predictable Change depends
on the future being determined by the knowledge of the past.
Change can be understood
by the rules of the past and controlled by the leaders, scholars,
politicians of
the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact
but Darwin's
theory of evolution does not explain the "; Origins of the
Species"; or the
";Decent of man";.
The physical fossil record does not
support, and never
has, the idea of slow steady ";progress"; from simple to
complex, in small
steps from ammonites to people. ";Time Frames"; by Niles
Eldredge explains
how science adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the
machine age by
imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and order.
Darwin's type of
slow evolution does happen but so does rather sudden extinctions
and discontinuous
bursts of creative activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine
model, clock work
world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of
strange and mysterious
forces. Up until now we thought we could figure it all out. It
was just a matter
of time before we ";solved"; the puzzles of the universe.
Quanta theory is
a lot more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept
of Complementarily
is the ability to look at one and the same event with two or more
frames of reference,
with different prospective, with different time frames and view
points at one and
the same time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events,
often seems to explain
nature in ways that deterministic models could not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry,
Harvard Business
School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George
Bernard Shaw. Shaw
observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable
people adapt to the social realities of their time. Unreasonable
people try to make
reality adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus,
Galileo, ( add your
candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond the
conventions of their time
) ..we call this ";blue sky paradigms";, bold imagines,
going where no man
has gone before, leadership, courage, heroic, in public and
private lives doing and
thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa,
the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means
a period of uncertainty where new rules are played in a new game
by different people.
The ecological niches are how all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way ";work"; is organized in communities make the biggest difference in our lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central power source, to more diversified production using electrical energy and ";high"; tech chemistry and communications, transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business, political and spiritual.
The introduction
of running water in a small Spanish village changed the way
people met and talked
at the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the
earth, ";earn
a living"; is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological
systems, business, families, and nations. New absurd, strange,
weird, freaky, ideas
sometimes are new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities
and avoiding the
dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment, where
the wisdom of leaders,
scholars, investors, and bosses maybe very wrong. Learning maybe
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grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline, takeover,
collapse, DOWNSIZING,
new faces, new rules, new questions, organizations frieze like
rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living
are under great
stress and will break loose and time now as an earth quake. We
are expecting the
";big one";;
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks: Mancur Olson's
The
Rise and Fall
of Nations.
Lord Keynes shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself,
Cambridge University,
and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of money. I have
hear Mr. Soros talk
about the difference between Illusion and reality. ( He made a
billion or so shorting
the pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality.
( Government and Bank of England statements about defending the
pound ) When the
difference becomes great there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures
contracts ( much
more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ). This is
going SHORT. You
borrow something today and hope to pay for it later at a lower
price, thereby keeping
the difference between today's price and a future lower price.
This is how people
can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is overvalued and
will drop by 30%
to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in
gold ( the
money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money meant
the relative value
of gold was lower - it would buy less stuff.
The ancient regime
with it's medieval
mind set drove out the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and
replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money and the price of stuff is way out of
line. If
they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change,
if they don't stop it ( having a large trade surplus ) the price
of their money will
drop from a discontinuous change.
Their idea that they can
";control"; the
future is vain glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II
and the Roman Catholic
Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat Robinson.
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How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
";earn
a living"; is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological
systems, business, families, and nations. New absurd, strange,
weird, freaky, ideas
sometimes are new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities
and avoiding the
dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment, where
the wisdom of leaders,
scholars, investors, and bosses maybe very wrong. Learning maybe
disrespectful or
down right rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.com documents JOURNALs seldom have a new
idea. Peer reviewed
grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline, takeover,
collapse, DOWNSIZING,
new faces, new rules, new questions, organizations frieze like
rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress
and will break loose and time now as an earth quake. We are
expecting the ";big
one";;
The Internet is an amazing opportunity for great software. It
will be intensely competitive
but room for lots and lots of winners. If there's one thing you
walk away from this
conference with is that we're very hard core about the Internet.
With all the positive
connotations that implies. Finally,
this is a communications revolution, we're swept up
in it, during
the the day to day activity here, it's easy to forget what this
can mean broadly.
The editor that we
have built into Windows
will help you compose the HTML form that's the successor. By
doing that, the browser
is always in the working set. We want to have the unification of
interface take place
not only for directories and pages which you've already seen, but
also for messages,
documents, the way you navigate around, find favorites, traverse
links, there's no
reason as you move to what have been different storage systems,
different containers
that you should see any difference there at all. That synthesis
is very important
for providing ease of use.
This is the important idea.
The central role of html because of the links.
The index page of / is an example. Ask a question, give a reference, go to AltaVista and get information.
The power
of the net is in
Connections - Me to you, data to data, referenne to reference.
The implications for office products, education, economics,
communications
are very extensive. It may take awhile for you to understand this
";new";
idea.
In 7/94 James Fallows wrote for the Atalantic Monthly, an
article about
TECHNOLOGY: NETWORKING. ( Link to Fallows
Article )
In the past year ( 1994 ) millions of people have heard about the
Internet,
but few people outside academia or the computer industry have had
a clear idea of
what it is or how it works.
The Internet is, in effect, a way of
combining computers
all over the world into one big computer, which you seemingly
control from your desk.
When connected to the Internet, you can boldly prowl through
computers in Singapore,
Buenos Aires, and Seattle as if their contents resided on your
own machine.
The gee whiz of the conference involved advances in ";interactivity,"; a dull-sounding concept that became vivid and real as products were demonstrated. ";Interactivity"; includes all means of exchanging information or issuing requests by computer--E-mail, electronic bulletin boards, office networks, computer shopping or banking systems, and so on.
The computer industry
will have to battle
the video-game industry, led by Sega and Nintendo, for control of
the interactivity
business: the game companies are about to release fast and
powerful machines that
can be connected to phone lines to transfer data and that produce
sharper, more dramatic
visual /images than normal computers do. But for the moment the
highest hopes (and
biggest doubts) about interactivity concern the Internet.
This year Bill Gates reference to HTML
Building Internet Applications
Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco -- March 13, 1996
The Internet is its own distribution system. News about the
Internet, new
Internet software, it's all there in the blink of an eye. So, we
now know what the
seedcorn for electronic publishing and electronic communications
is. It's all these
wonderful protocols many of which have been around for over 20
years of what we're
going to use as the foundation for this new world. Now, I've
talked about the Internet
as almost a gold rush.
There's really no other way to describe the kind of frenzy that's
taking place.
That's partly reflected in the rising and falling stock prices. I
think Internet
stocks have greater volatility than any category out there.
Fundamentally, when you
have a gold rush atmosphere, people suspend disbelief. If
somebody says hey, I can
do something on the Internet, no matter what it is people are
fairly open minded
they want to invest, start a new company, do an IPO.
MR. GATES: I think the bottom line is that any
company who's got
PCs and has connected them together really would benefit
immensely they would get
a lot more leverage out of that huge investment by buying a
little bit of extra software
and coming up with the internal standards for how they want to
connect.
Dr. Peter Pflaum
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