educating eric

Those who've been keeping up with my Twitter posts know that I'm at the EduCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership program right now, which is giving me plenty of opportunities to introspect -- one of my favorite activities! And what I'm pondering right now is my "personal leadership style". I found in today's "project meeting" (we've been put into a "team" and were given just under 47 hours to bang out and deliver a proposal) that my natural inclination is to listen to the "vision" of those around me and then start reaching into my miscellaneous knowledge to find a way to implement that vision. (For instance, we discussed the idea to find low-cost ways of engaging students in the community. I immediately thought that one low-paid university staffer could serve as "volunteer community coordinator" and work with the volunteer groups in the city -- organizations that would love to have students help them and would prob...

Concrete isn't a very eco-friendly material, but the blog posting of Next Big Future: Built for Speed: Printing Buildings is really interesting on the "how to build more homes for people, better and faster" topic. What I don't get yet (and, yes, that's because I haven't read about it in detail) is how you can build on top of concrete when you have the issue of curing it -- unless you build really slowly. But I'm sure I'm just missing something...

So I'm listening to a podcast and I got an idea, there's a reference to a competitive ecosystem being more healthy for innovation. The contacts being cable companies where there's competition the prices are lower if there is no competition prices are higher, and that's harmful for start ups like Utube sort of organization. Well I wonder if the same thing applies to biological ecosystems, where if you have competition the ecosystem is healthier over all. I have no idea. And I wonder if jott will handle this long if it gets posted to blogger. listen Powered by Jott

Driving home, and using Jott supposed to blogger. Apparently, I have 30 seconds. I don't know if it puts in periods or not. Now that I've mentioned period maybe it will actually join an extra period. But I've been using this for twitter. It's been working pretty well. I'm trying to carry on so much, so I can squeeze into 30 seconds. Maybe it's the way I can give back eventually(?) blogging heamit(?). listen Powered by Jott

It's amazing how my life in Twitter has taken over all my blog-related tendencies; hard to believe that it's been almost four months since I posted anything here. Out of curiosity... is anyone still listening here? :)

Last Saturday, Candela and I got up at the crack of dawn in hopes that the Hudson Hot Air Affair would go off as planned... and it did! So Candela got to experience the same thing that Dad and I did nearly three decades ago (only once or twice, as I recall, because they were often cancelled).

For a long time we've been hunting for a good "throw a bunch of photos on the web" solution. Looks like Picasa Web Albums might be an option (thanks to a tool called Migratr, which helped move a bunch of photos that I had on Flickr). Here's an example of the embedding function; let's see how it turns out.