Learning Aesthetics

“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of I Ching into the Glass Bead Game.  Elder Brother laughed.  ‘Go ahead and try,’ he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out. Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.  But I [...]

As part of my official job duties I had a mid-morning meeting with the director of the University’s Office of Disability Services. if they are in the market for a website redesign, and we’re in the process of rolling out a new simplified content management system based on WordPress. His enthusiasm for the project was infectious, and [...]

A Chart from the Gartner Group that strikes me as pretty interesting: And the tip ‘o the hat to the Oldaily: Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010 the Sloan Consortium report on the state of online learning in the United States. Learning Technology – Pervasive Learning and Usage of Sensors in Technology [...]

1.00  There’s an apocryphal story about John F. Kennedy  touring the Houston Space Center and being introduced to one of the employees who turned out to be part of the custodial staff and we assume somewhat obviously not one of the brightest crayons in the box.  “What do you do here?” the President ask. “I’m [...]

In an effort to set a good example for those who work with me it’s become necessary to start a blog, well something like a blog, that is primarily “work related”.  Following my own good advice to rely on Occam’s razor and resist the temptation to multiply entities, I’ve decided to re-purpose LA for a few [...]