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This week’s post is framed around some experiences from this week, and some ruminations from weeks past. The title comes from a Winston Churchill quote that I have kept with me over last seven years or so from being involved in a new building design. And in light of the visits we had, some of the readings, and most importantly my own thoughts and experience, I have some thinking going on about design for formal and informal environments.
A week ago, we visited the Bishop Museum, and toured the n… Continue

Just posted to my regular blog the following entry - first paragraph pasted with link to original from there

The context of this post is the readings from our ETEC 697 “Educational Technology in Informal Learning Environments” class.

The bibliography for this week:

Csikzentmihalyi, M., & Hermanson, K. (1995). Intrinsic motivation in museums: What makes visitors want to learn? Museum news, 74(3), 35-37 and 59-62.

Falk, J., & Dierking, L. (1992). The Museum Experience. Washington, D.C.… Continue

Just finished my visit to the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington DC. Lots of great stuff happening and learned.

A bunch of HAIS folks attended - the EdTech group form Kamehameha, Judy Beaver from Punahou (who presented as well), Curtis Ho from the UH EdTech dept. Any others there?

My blog here has the full details of my days - so far I have put up the first two days - will keep addding as I get notes organized.

BTW… Continue

At the Honolulu Board of realtors meeting on June 5, we had the chance to hear Payton Dobbs, who leads Googles effort in e-commerce. he shared seven key ideas emerging for anyone involved in thinking about technology overlays with their development. There is nothing here that is terribly groundbreaking, but what is significant is someone as high up in Google really identifying the importance of these things -- they are all relevant to our mission education and are worth taking to heart:

mobile… Continue

Microsoft Future School Summit day 2
(All of the presentations (powerpoints, etc) are available on the conference website:
http://sofsummit.com)

Also - don't forget that I maintain a delicious site - all conference sites I tagged with sofsummit

Breakfast - met Mari who works with FinPol - She is working with SRI to develop an architecture for immersive virtual worlds for the Finnish government. Diana Oshiro spoke with her sum is well to try and find a connect… Continue