These documents recently turned up at my parents house. For the last few days I keep thinking about how my ten year old self seems pretty much the same as my present. I’ve studied about behavioral change and personality enough to not be surprised by such findings, but it feels a little earth shattering to […]
Filed under: personality, fostering identity, observations and opinions, goals on September 30th, 2011 | No Comments »
Updates to Come:
5:00 p.m.: EDUCHUDS, The Gentrification of Web-Based Education; Jim Groom
Best presentation of the day. Post to come.
4:30 p.m.:What it Really Takes to Support eportfolios; Lisa Brundage, a Tech Fellow with the Macaulay Honors College.
The Honors College uses WordPressMU for their eportfolio program. Lisa showed a few eportfolios and how they represent the goals […]
Filed under: technology, goals on November 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
The idea to use a moodle, rather than blackboard or some other alternative, has been an on-again, off-again discussion for me for what amounts to a couple of years.
As mentioned a few days ago, I set up a moodle for my social psychology class this summer. The course starts July 13th at Hunter. If you […]
Filed under: education, goals on June 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The other day my good friends Michael and Gregory and I were talking about zoo environments. I said something about how when I was a child I remember the school trips to the zoo and how much I loved watching the animals’ every move. I remember learning about how flamingos are less pink when they […]
Filed under: leisure, education, eco-tourism, future, fostering identity, goals on June 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’ve installed a moodle to use for my Social Psych class this summer.
I hope it will augment social interaction and get some creative juices flowing. I don’t know if I’ll make a page here or not; the more visible it is the more likely I’ll get spam.
Here it is so far: www.ourfutureenvironment.org/moodle (You will have […]
Filed under: education, goals on June 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
Eco-tourism can have a negative or positive influence on a local natural landscape or economy; this is not a new idea.
But, a critical analysis of which and how individuals are affected in processes of eco-tourism is needed and relatively fresh in leisure studies. Eco-tourism studies, and those individuals studied, can benefit from the inclusion […]
Filed under: eco-tourism, critical theory, goals on June 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
UNDERGROUND
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference November 6-7, 2008
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Call for Papers
I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be
kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for
forty years and never open […]
Filed under: caves, goals on June 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Eventually this will be either reality or the next Lost. Hopefully we won’t have a fleet of spaceships with hierarchies of civilian classes experiencing food and water shortages and poor educational opportunities.
photo credit:chefrandenchefranden
Filed under: future, observations and opinions, goals on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
A friend of mine recently said that for him social justice was righting an injustice rather than promoting a right. However, I believe I may be the opposite.
I am taking three courses: Environmental Planning in the Architecture department at Columbia, Anthropology of Property in the CUNY GC Anthro department, and American Political Culture and National […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, goals on March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
In Malinowski’s ethnographic study of a coral garden population some miles from New Guinea he writes this about his field work:
“The principles of social organization, of legal constitution, of economics and religion have to be constructed by the observer out of a multitude of manifestations of varying significance and relevance. It is these invisible realities…which […]
Filed under: environmental planning, goals on February 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
