Bottle brush in August

My first Ning site

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Thresholds

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I made this video some years ago to evoke some of the adventure and wonder of exploring e-learning or any new world.

The power of 'e'

The power of 'e'

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This is the slideshow for my presentation at the 'E-learning showcase' this coming Friday morning, the 20th March, in Melbourne.

A 'Wordle' composition

House parties for Obama

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Susan Greenfield: The Quest for Identity

Yesterday, I went to hear Susan Greenfield speak at the State Library of Victoria. Her latest book is ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century. She posed the question: Is individual identity in crisis? In other words, instead of being SOMEONE or ANYONE, could we be heading towards being NO-ONE? In exploring these questions, she differentiated between 'People of the Book' and the 'People of the Screen'. To explain the latter, she listed the effects of screen culture on thinking, identity and risk-taking. She believes that an emphasis on sensory stimulation and sensational fragments leaves little room for a continuous narrative, a characteristic of book culture where cognitive meaning-making develops a conceptual framewok for navigating the world. She sees a focus on creativity as vital for the future...

Two of many reviews of her book and ideas can be found at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/31/scienceandnature.society

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3901315.ece

Delia's family

Here is Delia's family, photographed in 1907.

My father is the youngest child,

sitting on his father's knee.

Homage to Delia Bannon

I am back writing letters to Delia Bannon,

my Irish Grandmother.

This fuzzy photo was taken in 1912.

I love it.

The fountain is flowing again

First sign of Spring 2008

I took this photo yesterday,

at the entrance to my upstairs studio.

It is the first leaf on the vine.

Thirst

This is an educational Slideshare presentation made by Jeff Brenman exploring humanity's water use.

THIRST

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Organ Pipes National Park

Mildura sculpture

Russian icon

Many scholars consider Rublev's Trinity

the most perfect of all Russian icons

and perhaps the most perfect of all the icons ever painted.

I prefer to call it 'The Three Graces'.

clipped from http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/trinity.html

The Anthroplogy of YouTube

This was presented by Michael Wesch at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. It is 55 minutes long and WELL worth a look.

Society hard-wired for a fall?

Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
The Australian
June 14, 2008

Here is a sample of an article on Susan Greenfield, ‘a passionate advocate for taking science to the masses’. It can be read as a companion article to my previous post:

People who spend many hours a day in front of computer screens and televisions, she warns, are going through an unprecedented process in which the brain is churning out and consuming excessive amounts of a natural chemical called dopamine. Other brain scientists agree that heightened levels of dopamine could produce important changes in the fine wiring and functions of the brain, suppressing certain types of more sophisticated thinking.

The hard scientific evidence is limited but Greenfield believes the result of all that screen time and addictive dopamine will be the biggest physical changes to the human brain since the Neanderthals 100,000 years ago, producing changes in behaviour and thought patterns that amount to nothing less than a different type of person.

Older generations - she describes them as "the people of the book" - have developed powers of imagination, empathy, context and meaning which she fears will be much reduced in "the people of the screen".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23858718-28737,00.html
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