http://ewh.org/index.php/daladala/2011-dc-results/
Cell phone powered blood pressure monitoring! Cool.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Be Creative #26, Write it Down!
http://www.jonacuff.com/blog/29-ways-to-stay-creative/
So I have this idea. People from industry can work alongside teachers to enrich their content and align it more with what industry needs from future employees.
Another idea from the above video is to create a framework...that is what I need to figure out. What is the framework for this assign an industry employee to a teacher...I know what it looks like for my unique situation, but how do I back that out into a framework?
HAH! Look at what I just found:
Please contact us at iFOL@nctaf.org
So I have this idea. People from industry can work alongside teachers to enrich their content and align it more with what industry needs from future employees.
Another idea from the above video is to create a framework...that is what I need to figure out. What is the framework for this assign an industry employee to a teacher...I know what it looks like for my unique situation, but how do I back that out into a framework?
HAH! Look at what I just found:
Institute for the Future of Learning (iFOL)
NCTAF is launching its Institute for the Future of Learning (iFOL) to mobilize a coalition of innovation leaders who are moving beyond reform to school transformation. Our national effort to improve education has reached a fork in the road. Fixing factory-era practices and reforming industrial-era policies is the path to the past. The path to the future lies in transforming the nation’s schools from teaching organizations into learning organizations that can develop the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders our country needs to thrive in a global community. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to design an education system that will genuinely prepare every individual for college, careers, and civic affairs. An education system that supports deeper learning, more effective teaching, and higher impact community engagement. NCTAF is conferring with education innovators to guide and support iFOL’s launch. In the spring, we will convene a national leadership coalition to create an initial manifesto and media campaign that will lay the groundwork for a National Symposium on the Future of Learning in Washington, DC during the fall of 2011. We invite you to join us as we tackle this exciting challenge.Please contact us at iFOL@nctaf.org
Monday, August 22, 2011
Coffee...
Deeper than a Coffee Cup
By Sean Brereton
"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. "
Proverbs 27:17 TNIV
THERE IS TOO MUCH in common with the community one finds among Christians and the community that is found at a Starbucks. Our addiction to brand name coffee unites us on a large level. We have something in common with millions of other people, because Starbucks are uniform across the country.
The depth of conversations in the Church has started to take on this surface level depth. This is for two big reasons; the first being that we change churches more than we change what we order at Starbucks.
Churches should really be our homes, where we encounter our family. You are more than a regular. You are involved. It's about more than you. It's about the family as a whole. Even past that, Church is about Jesus, it's not about us.
Christian community should have more depth with one another and more concern for one another. We are amazing at avoiding openness, honesty and depth. If someone opens up or pries we are blindsided.
If we really want to change, we need to get out of being a "regular" and start being a family member. We need to be open and honest about our faults and be pushed toward Jesus, who can fix them.
Think of someone in your church family who you have a "regular" relationship with and attempt to bond with them this week.
By Sean Brereton
"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. "
Proverbs 27:17 TNIV
THERE IS TOO MUCH in common with the community one finds among Christians and the community that is found at a Starbucks. Our addiction to brand name coffee unites us on a large level. We have something in common with millions of other people, because Starbucks are uniform across the country.
The depth of conversations in the Church has started to take on this surface level depth. This is for two big reasons; the first being that we change churches more than we change what we order at Starbucks.
Churches should really be our homes, where we encounter our family. You are more than a regular. You are involved. It's about more than you. It's about the family as a whole. Even past that, Church is about Jesus, it's not about us.
Christian community should have more depth with one another and more concern for one another. We are amazing at avoiding openness, honesty and depth. If someone opens up or pries we are blindsided.
If we really want to change, we need to get out of being a "regular" and start being a family member. We need to be open and honest about our faults and be pushed toward Jesus, who can fix them.
Think of someone in your church family who you have a "regular" relationship with and attempt to bond with them this week.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Open Source Glasses! Read this cool story:
http://www.vdw.ox.ac.uk/2minuteintro.htm
Wow, this is exciting stuff! Imagine vision correction for everyone!
Wow, this is exciting stuff! Imagine vision correction for everyone!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Lucy you have some 'splaining to do....
I am disappointed only one person has asked questions...what is open source?
Let me avoid answering that by describing how I see christianity on this earth in recent history. Much of what christians do is to draw people to Jesus/salvation...but underneath that is an undercurrent. It is kind of like the pyramid scheme of Amway. This product is great, you should buy it, then decide to use all of your relationships on this earth to sell it...and because I sold it to you, I get a little profit from all of your sales.
Many Denominations (or non denominations) often seem to fall into that trap. I have heard the christian church described as "big business".
So that is the "other side" of the Open Source arguement. That is the definition of how it is currently.
Let me avoid answering that by describing how I see christianity on this earth in recent history. Much of what christians do is to draw people to Jesus/salvation...but underneath that is an undercurrent. It is kind of like the pyramid scheme of Amway. This product is great, you should buy it, then decide to use all of your relationships on this earth to sell it...and because I sold it to you, I get a little profit from all of your sales.
Many Denominations (or non denominations) often seem to fall into that trap. I have heard the christian church described as "big business".
So that is the "other side" of the Open Source arguement. That is the definition of how it is currently.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
How God wants us to live?
My pastor really challenged us to not be like Laodicean's...wealthy, independent, and useless to HIS world.
It really got me thinking about all that is going on in my life (and my wife and kids lives)...I have been challenged to go back to the dreams of my youth...Regina and I always talked about how misssions and our work life would intersect. For a while I pursued "tentmaking" and then life happened, our marriage almost failed, life came at us fast, our church life was stripped down to the simplest levels, and God began restoring in the past 2 years.
So now what? I believe God wants us to be where our passions are at. To that ends and also to not be so focused on "church" I have started volunteering at an inner city 5th grade afterschool program. The teacher and I have been creative to maximize our measly $500 budget, because technology can be so expensive, and we haven't been able to raise any money (only some donations from my employer). We have been using "open source" stuff to extend our effectiveness.
This morning I really sensed that "open source" is essentially God's original design. I remember the righteous indignation I had when a mission organization that had impacted me radically released a 2nd video about transformed communities...and they did a multi-level marketing release. You had to attend an expensive seminar to get the video. It just didn't seem very "christ-like". I understand how expensive stuff is, but if God wants something to be out there, it will happen, regardless of $$$...(Bono says, the God I believe in isn't short on cash).
The Loren Cunningham presentation I attended a week ago has also ignited those "tentmaking" dreams of how God has always had a purpose for my engineering career to intersect with my life's call and purpose.
Since this is getting long I will end here...but God has plans for "open source" meeting technology meeting missions as this world has never seen it!
It really got me thinking about all that is going on in my life (and my wife and kids lives)...I have been challenged to go back to the dreams of my youth...Regina and I always talked about how misssions and our work life would intersect. For a while I pursued "tentmaking" and then life happened, our marriage almost failed, life came at us fast, our church life was stripped down to the simplest levels, and God began restoring in the past 2 years.
So now what? I believe God wants us to be where our passions are at. To that ends and also to not be so focused on "church" I have started volunteering at an inner city 5th grade afterschool program. The teacher and I have been creative to maximize our measly $500 budget, because technology can be so expensive, and we haven't been able to raise any money (only some donations from my employer). We have been using "open source" stuff to extend our effectiveness.
This morning I really sensed that "open source" is essentially God's original design. I remember the righteous indignation I had when a mission organization that had impacted me radically released a 2nd video about transformed communities...and they did a multi-level marketing release. You had to attend an expensive seminar to get the video. It just didn't seem very "christ-like". I understand how expensive stuff is, but if God wants something to be out there, it will happen, regardless of $$$...(Bono says, the God I believe in isn't short on cash).
The Loren Cunningham presentation I attended a week ago has also ignited those "tentmaking" dreams of how God has always had a purpose for my engineering career to intersect with my life's call and purpose.
Since this is getting long I will end here...but God has plans for "open source" meeting technology meeting missions as this world has never seen it!
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