The power of cooperation!

WEB 2.0 is a fact of life. WEB 3.0 has been tentatively defined in WIKIPEDIA as… Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, [...]

Mortality thoughts…

Last night I went to a celebration of the life of Luis Lovera May 18, 1963-Sept 3, 2008. Luis is survived by his wife and 3 children. Sitting and listening to music, poems and stories about Luis was humbling. How do people remember Luis? Great father, wonderful husband, caring man and a pilot. Four things [...]

50 words on you!

You may have heard of the extremely short story contest that Prof. Peter Hassal has championed for several years now. Here is a little twist on the Hassal exercise. In 50 words can you describe what makes your career interesting? Worthwhile? Interesting? Worth doing? Imagine if you were put to this test on a monthly [...]

Education?

My thought on education! EDUCATION IS A STATE OF MIND.

The Power of Talk.

All too often we seem t forget that every time we open our mouths and breath a word there is going to be an effect! Maybe a person will get mad, maybe they will become sad, they are certain to become informed. The spoken word is powerful and we each do ourselves a dis-service by [...]

Twitter!

Has become a vital communication tool for me and is slowly becoming a tool that my students use to know what I am looking at and what might be feeding into my classes. In case you have missed it www.twitter.com is a free micro blogging tool, you can only use 140 characters per post. Twitter [...]

Technology

Today as I was sitting in my office having a meeting I pulled my phone out of my pocket and placed it on my desk. I was given instant credibility because of what was recognized as a phone that is packed with all the latest technology. The fact of the matter is the phone is [...]