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Berlin's most famous trademark department store is KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) – or department store of the West. It is Berlin's shopping paradise, a favourite, easy to spot landmark on Wittenberg Platz. With 60,000sqm, the equivalent of nine football fields, 380,000 articles, 40,000 visitors a day, this is the legendary, largest department store on the continent.
The KaDeWe has survived the turmoil of 20th century German history unscathed. Beginning its commercial life in 1907, the store was a constant Berlin presence, its highs and lows reflecting those of the city. From World War I to the Golden Twenties consumer metropolis – the Depression and Nazi years and World War II - the Cold War and the 1950s "Wirtschaftswunder" - and finally German reunification in 1989. Through all the turbulence, KaDeWe retained its aura - somewhere between consumer temple and Berlin institution – intact. The store's 100th anniversary was a grand occasion celebrated in its 500sqm foyer with a gigantic cake. Amongst guests and celebrities was Berlin's Mayor, Klaus Wowereit.
Whether browsing through the ceramic department, letting your mouth water at the sight of a serving of champagne and oysters, buying praline truffles in the chocolaterie departement on the sixth floor Food Halls, or lingering in the fashion boulevards, shopping here is more than just shop-till-you drop; it's stocking-up on product awareness and consumer kudos in style.
The department store, owned by Jewish retail entrepreneur Adolf Jandorf, first opened on Wittenberg Platz in 1907 with a 24,000sqm retail surface. Designed by architect Emil Schaudt, it served the increasingly affluent middle class neighbourhood of the new Tiergarten district. In 1927 it was bought by the Warenhaus Hermann Tiez AG from whose initials the German retail giant HERTIE gets its name becoming part of the group. Founders of HERTIE, the Jewish family Tietz, in business since 1882, made retail history by pioneering the new business model, acquired by Hermann during his time in the US; large turnovers at small profit and selling at fixed prices. Tietz bought Adolf Jandorf's store – KaDeWe - by 1926. It was at that time the largest department store in Europe with a 128 million RM turnover and 18,000 employees. In 1931 two floors were added to the original five and more extensions came in the 1990s, particularly the top of the world rooftop and Wintergarten where the self-service restaurant is today.
In 1929 the Great Depression, followed by the 1933 Nazi takeover meant that the company was boycotted together with other non-Aryan businesses when the Nuremberg race laws were implemented. Forced to sell their shares the Tiez family left Germany but the store survived. Georg Karg was the Nazis choice to manage KaDeWe and an 11 million loan from the Riechs Ministry for Trade and Commerce followed. A restitution settlement in 1949 recognised the claims of the Tietz family heirs and the Karg Foundation renamed the group Hertie in 1972.
An American plane crashed into the building in 1943, devastating the building. It was rebuilt after WW2, unlike its competitor, the Wertheim department store in the Leipzigerstrasse, which was razed to the ground by the GDR authorities.
KaDeWe reopened on July 3, 1950, celebrating with over 180,000 visitors on the day. In the years of Germany's "economic miracle", economic recovery was underway and the new-look KaDeWe included the gourmet Food Hall, with a new touch of luxury and flair. In the immediate reunification days in November 1989 it was literally flooded by the largest numbers of visitors in its history, eager for a taste of consumer culture Western style. The Karstadt Quelle group took over Hertie in 1994, and the last spurt of renovation in 1996, produced its present retail space of over 60,000sqm and two floors of gastronomic bliss with a view, extremely popular with Berliners and visitors alike.
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There's no question the past few months have been tough for the American Auto Industry, but those who trust in the industry may be the ones to keep it going.
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Google Search is one of the most commonly used online tools. It's so closely tied to daily web browsing that many people barely think about it. But even though you've probably looked at the Google results page more times than you can count, there's one powerful element of it that you might be missing.
On the left sidebar, way down at the bottom, there's a single line of text that says "Show search tools" — click it, and you'll find a set of tragically underused options. The The search tools provide greater granularity over your queries, and can be invaluable when you're trying to find something specific. Much like the humble keyboard shortcut, you'll never use those options until you understand them, so let's go down the list.
Time range
Limiting your query to a particular time range may seem simple enough, but it's a great feature for two reasons. First, it lets you prevent your results from being too focused on recent events. For instance, if you search Microsoft Surface right now, you'll mostly see posts related to the tablets announced last week. But if what you really wanted was articles about the company's futuristic "Surface" coffee tables (now renamed Pixelsense) you could use a custom range to filter out all that recent news. The second, and even more powerful, aspect of the time filters is that they can be combined with the other tools — any one of the items below can also be restricted by time.
Sites with images
Don't be fooled by the name, this tool is much more than just another way to search Google Images. Instead of a page full of pictures, Sites with images returns a list of links that are accompanied by up to 6 thumbnails from each page. It's a good way to find galleries of a particular subject, or visually confirm that a page is what you're looking for.
Related searches
Related searches won't alter the normal set of results, but it will drop in a list of links to other things you might want to search. All in all, it's probably not as useful as many of the other Search tools, but it could point you in a new direction you wouldn't have otherwise thought of.
Visited/Not yet visited
The Visited and Not yet visited filters are two of the handiest Search tools. Let's say you found a really interesting article yesterday, but it was several pages deep in a list of results. Rather than simply checking the same query, then digging through all the links again, the Visited filter would show you only the pages you've been to before. If you knew when that article went up online, you could also employ a time filter to narrow it down even further.
Not yet visited is the flip side of that coin, ensuring that you won't have to sift through dozens of results you've already seen. It's a good option to use if you're looking for new information on a topic you've researched before.
The Dictionary tool returns a full listing of definitions from various web sources. It's the same thing you'd get by searching with the "define:" operator and then clicking the "More info" link — which is probably the faster and easier method.
Reading level
The Reading level tool is a bit of an oddball, but sorting results by Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced vocabulary has it's uses. The Advanced filter tends to make the biggest difference, bringing the most technical articles to the surface.
If you've got a Google+ account, you've probably noticed posts from your circles listed alongside regular search results. This tool lets you search only those personalized items, and nothing else.
Above the search tool list, you'll see your auto-detected location; the Nearby option returns results relevant to that place. Take note that you can manually set your location to anywhere, should you want to see results for somewhere else.
Translated foreign pages
Like Reading Level, this tool displays a short menu at the top of the page with various languages and how many translated results exist for your query. Click one of the result numbers to see them as search results.
Google Search is always trying to help out with spelling corrections, synonyms, similar terms, and other such improvements. But sometimes you know exactly what you want, and don't need auto-correction messing with your terms. The Verbatim tool ensures that Google searches exactly what you typed, any nothing else.
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Middleton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award with David Beckham to Sebastian Cole, the recently-elected chairman of the British Olympic Association and two-time Olympic middle-distance champion, and the sports personality award to Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins, according to Today News.
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The Giving Tree
Leaning on the deck rail of my little Sausalito house one spring day, straining to see through the upper leaves of a large tree obscuring the hill beyond, I wished idly that if only the top two feet of the tree were gone, my view could be restored. Within the next few days, leaves began dropping from the top of the tree, but only from the top two feet. A few days later the last leaf dropped from that area of the tree.
I could once again see the hill across the valley.
It became apparent, a couple of weeks later that no more leaves were going to follow, that the remaining lower leaves were intact, healthy, and secured. Then it dawned on me that something utterly remarkable had happened. I caught my breath in confusion and amazement. Was this possible? There, indeed, was the view I had wished for. It was as if the tree had "understood" and granted my wish. A thrilling idea.
I was grateful. But as time passed, I became uneasy, for even though I couldn't have expected what happened, the tree had granted my wish at its own expense. I read once that a tree's topmost leaves are unique in that they protect it in some way, processing the sun's energy differently from its other leaves.
After telling a few friends this story and showing them the empty top branches, some were silent and some squinty-eyed. Cold observation proved the tree to be bare on top. "Right, it's bare on top," they would say and point out possible reasons, "Not enough water?"
Pretty soon the novelty turned into concern for the tree's well-being.
I wanted those leaves back more than I wanted the view. I went out and pleaded with the tree to grow the leaves back and said that I was really sorry to have caused it any harm.
Slowly, to my great relief, buds started reappearing on the empty branches, tiny ones at first, only a scattering of green here and there. Then more and more popped open and stretched into leaves. Within a short time, the treetop was filled with beautiful new green leaves. I was weak with gratitude. Friends now marveled to see the perfectly normal tree. The rationalizers still rationalized. But I knew what I knew.
One of my friends, Francis Rath, who prior to becoming a bookstore owner had been a rather imposing law enforcement officer, found that in the course of his work, he could put his hands on people in trauma, and they would instantly stop convulsing and breathe normally. He was a true healer and a sensitive. About a year after the leaf-dropping incident, Francis was at my house for a party. He stepped outside for a breather and leaned against this tree. He later told me that he felt it to be remarkable; its emanations were compassionate and giving. He asked me if I knew that this was "one special tree." So I told him the story that I have just told you.
"Compassion is no attribute.
It is the Law of Laws…a shoreless universal essence,
the light of everlasting right and fitness of all things,
the love of love eternal."
From Buddhism: The Seven Portals
Heather Preston is an award-winning artist and author. After graduating with honors and distinction from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she studied in Europe, taught fine art, was represented by leading galleries, and exhibited widely. Her book "Tree Spirits: Tales and Encounters" won the silver finalist medal for the 2010 INDIE Book Awards; it is available at ARECatalog.com. She is a regular contributor to Venture Inward magazine, a benefit for members at EdgarCayce.org/members. For an extensive biography visit HeatherPrestonArt.com.
The Power of Intent
Most well-known healers, including those who have a specialty or technique to impart to others, embrace the notion of intent as a guiding principle in their work. Probably, next to centering (a grounding, meditative practice that usually precedes the therapeutic, healing sessions), intent is an all-important component of the process, focusing on the motivation of the practitioner.
This component involves several aspects. Not only does the healer need to have a strong desire to help, but also an understanding of how to achieve the goal and how to facilitate the intervention and relinquishment of attachment to the outcome. Understanding one's motives (why one wishes to help or to heal) is part of the healer's responsibility in self-learning, making the healing act one of careful consideration and mindfulness.
Before we present Edgar Cayce's approach to intent, here are several explanations from the dictionary and from other healers that may help to clarify the meaning of intent.
As a noun, intent signifies a purpose or aim that is firmly directed or fixed, with some degree of earnestness and intensity. It implies a meaning or significance to an act that may not be explicitly expressed. There's also a spirit of determination in carrying out the act.
"Early in the development of Therapeutic Touch" (a healing modality that has been taught to tens of thousands of health professionals), co-founder Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, stated, "Dora Kunz and I had realized that a foundational concept underlying its efficacy was that the therapist rebalanced vital energies with intentionality. The connotation of that term 'intentionality' is not only that the will was involved—for example, wanting the person to get well—but there was also the implication that there is a goal in mind for the object of the intention. Logic would then suggest that Therapeutic Touch is being done as a conscious, mindful act based on a person's knowledge of the therapeutic functions of the human vital-energy field." (Therapeutic Touch: Inner Workbook, Bear & Company, Inc.). Dr. Krieger began to recognize that the mind directs the flow of energy, transferring it through the universal field. The therapist is helping the one being healed to relocate his or her own center; and the impetus for this transport of energy is the therapist's intentionality.
Osteopath Dr. John Upledger received his introduction to the power of intent in the late 1960s, when he and other physicians began using acupuncture to treat patients at several free clinics in Florida. Some of the doctors had great success, while others didn't—even on the same patients. As described in his book Your Inner Physician and You, Dr. Upledger at first thought it was suggestion, so the doctors tried to control any negative or positive comments about the expectation. What they discovered is a seemingly strong correlation in the practitioners' unspoken attitude: Those physicians who genuinely believed in the beneficial effects of acupuncture got better results than those who didn't. It became apparent that it wasn't where or how the needles were placed that counted, but who put them there.
"The therapist's attitude...has much to do with the success of the patient in his/her healing process." Indeed, the success rate seemed in this instance to reach beyond technique.
Cayce consistently emphasized the importance of attitudes for healing success. In several readings regarding massage, we have examples of intention on the part of the therapist. One 38-year-old man was given this advice, some of which was also aimed at the practitioner:
A gentle massage to quiet the body would be well, with prayer—and not by those who do not live what they pray. Do not merely pray that he will be well, but well for what? Do not pray for the body to be well for what the body can do for self but for those whom he has aided and also hindered. (3439-1)
For a five-year-old boy the time during the massage was to be a "period for meditation and prayer, and for the conversation about the spiritual life to the unfolding mind and body." (5406-1) Good conversations during massages were also mentioned in other readings. The quality of the massage was addressed in this reading:
Do not hurry through the massage. Take time to give same, and let it be done with the spirit of truth, of hope, of purpose, of the suggestive influence as will aid in establishing the coordinations needed for the rebuilding, the replenishing for this body of those conditions. (2642-1)
Often in the readings the word intent is equated or linked with purpose, such as, "The intent, the purpose, is to serve..." (254-34) Mentioned in nearly 600 readings, intent denotes one's "highest motives" (31-1) and, when used in healing, that certain conditions will be overcome.
For, while mind is the builder, it is the purpose, the intent with which an individual applies self mentally, that brings those physical results into materiality. (257-252)
The power of intent, it may be said, awakens a response in the body for the healing to begin. Whether done with the laying on of hands, a massage, a pack, or a spinal adjustment, there is a force that will flow through us when we begin to apply what we know.
The methods of healing we use—be they of the physical, the mental, or the spiritual—simply awaken within the cells and atoms of our bodies the willingness to allow this life force to flow through us. In achieving this awakening through intent, we, as practitioners, become, then, authentic channels of blessing to those for whom we care.
Excerpt from the Spring, 2013 issue of Venture Inward newsletter, available to A.R.E. members at Edgarcayce.org/members.
Elaine Hruska is a therapist for the Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Health Center & Spa located in Houston, Texas. She holds her MA in transpersonal studies from Atlantic University and is considered an expert on the Edgar Cayce health readings. She trained under Harold J. Reilly, a pioneer in the field of massage therapy and a world-renowned physiotherapist who created the Cayce/Reilly Massage. She is the author of the best-selling books Edgar Cayce's Quick & Easy Remedies and Your Key to Good Health: Unlocking the Power of Your Lymphatic System.
Angel in the Basement
After months of waiting to close and lots of hard work remodeling, our retirement home in a nearby 55+ community was finally ready. This was our third home and we expect it to be the last in our 46 years of marriage. Hanging the family photo collage on the living room wall brought back wonderful memories of our previous homes. Our first was a row home in downtown West Chester, Pa., where we spent five years. Our second, where we lived for 41 years, was a suburban home surrounded by wonderful neighbors near our parish church. Along with raising three children and caring for three dogs and two cats, we were also fortunate to welcome two grandchildren into our lives during those years. It was a special memory now from this second home that I was focused on while studying my photo collage and realizing how quickly the years slipped by.
It started out as a typical Sunday in our suburban home that spring day in 1973. My two boys, Michael, age six, and Steven, age four, were in the yard playing with their new friends. My husband Bill was out for the afternoon, and my seven-month-old baby girl, Lisa, was happily rolling around the kitchen floor in her walker as I did some chores. This was such a happy time in my life with my young family, my husband, our new home in the suburbs, with so much to look forward to.
I was tidying up the first floor early in the afternoon and then went to the basement to gather trash from my laundry room. After that chore, I came up the steps, went through the kitchen, and then outside and around the garage to empty the trash. Just as I opened the trashcan lid, I was struck with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as a thought entered my mind. Did I remember to close the basement door before walking through the kitchen and outside? I quickly justified this terrifying feeling by saying to myself, "I would never have left that door open with Lisa in her walker!" I uttered a prayer, "Please God, if I did, send help for my baby"! My legs turned to jelly and fear was rampant within me as I walked back into the house to find baby and walker missing from my kitchen. Sure enough my worst fear was true; the basement door was wide open.
I stood at the basement doorway looking down the steps to the concrete floor, and there at the bottom was Lisa's walker. But where was Lisa? I ran down the steps, turned the corner, and there in the middle of the floor was my baby girl—rather far from the stairs. She appeared to be in shock—chalk white—but other than that, she seemed perfectly okay. She wasn't crying but whimpered instead. I felt so ashamed of myself as I carried her upstairs. I immediately called my pediatrician. He reassured me, saying, "She's probably fine, but keep an eye on her to see how much she sleeps. It's possible that she might have a concussion." I made another call to my sister, a registered nurse, who lived nearby. She came over right away and shared my anguish and horror, but by the time she went home, she concluded, "I think she is fine."
I made it through the rest of that Sunday chastising myself for the most careless thing I had ever done since becoming a mother! On the other hand, I realized something very special had taken place, which relieved my dreadful feelings. For my baby to land in the middle of the basement floor meant that she flew out of the walker as it fell down the steps. She must have gone airborne through the open handrail and dropped about six feet to the concrete floor, without even a throw rug to soften her landing. And yet, here she was, fine. How was that possible? My brief but heart-felt prayer had been answered.
During the days ahead, the horrible guilt subsided, and my baby continued to be fine and healthy. It was many years before I shared this story with anyone, for obvious reasons. I was reluctant to do so but yet was anxious to tell of the miracle that had taken place. Gratitude fills my heart now as I return to the present moment in my retirement home. Looking at the pictures in my collage of Lisa's wedding, my son-in-law, and her two beautiful children, I'm no longer ashamed to tell this story. I know full well that none of this would have been possible without divine help on that day so long ago. I have come to believe that a very speedy angel caught my baby in mid-air and laid her softly on the concrete floor. There is no other possible explanation that comes into my mind after all these years. I often think of that Sunday and feel so special as I remember having my very own "angel in the basement."
Judy Cosgrove is a spiritual seeker and long-time member of the A.R.E. A certified Asian body worker and graduate from the Meridian Institute in Wayne, Pa., she practiced Shiatsu and Tendino-Muscular Meridian work at a chiropractic center and a healing arts center, both in the West Chester, Pa. area. She retired from a career as an administrative assistant from a major corporation in the Philadelphia area. Following the death of her son Michael in 1992, she has been involved with "The Compassionate Friends" (TCF), a global support group for parents whose children have died. A volunteer, she leads workshops and writes articles on after death communication to help bereaved parents in their grief process. She has been married to husband Bill for 48 years, and is the proud mother of three children and two grandchildren.
From the perspective of the Edgar Cayce readings, each of us is our own best psychic. Whether the information comes from a hunch, an intuition, our dreams, or synchronicity, each of us possesses a wealth of internal guidance that can be drawn upon whenever we need it. In fact, the Cayce material suggests that our true natural state is psychic and that as we progress spiritually in our lives we will have more personal experiences with this psychic dimension of our beings.
Still, there are times in life when we may feel the need to receive external guidance. Just as it is appropriate for individuals to seek out help from a doctor, a counselor, a minister, or a trusted friend, there may be occasions when we feel the need for intuitive information.
Whenever A.R.E. features a professional psychic on one of our seminars, programs, or psychic fairs, it is because the individual has demonstrated some measurable ability. However, individuals on our programs are not being endorsed by the A.R.E. While we have worked with individuals who are sincere, ethical, and interested in being helpful to others, we have yet to find an individual who is 100% accurate – and that includes Edgar Cayce, whose calculated 85% accuracy rate is still considered the highest known in contemporary times. The physical, mental, and emotional condition at the time of the reading of the person getting guidance, as well as that of the psychic, may affect the accuracy of the information and/or the ability to communicate/understand this information clearly and coherently.
To get the most from a psychic reading, whether it is external (from a psychic, a numerologist, an astrologer, a "guide," etc.) or internal (one's own dreams, inner guidance, visions, intuition, etc.), it is extremely helpful to do a little preparation first.
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Albino Farm Legend
As with all legends there is always a modicum of truth. Whether veering into wild stories from that truth over time or twisting back to it in some form of reality, the Albino Farm legend continues to haunt the outskirts of Springfield, Missouri to this day.
The actual farm was built before the Civil War and with one family's determination and hard work it later became the toast of the town – so popular that people came far and wide to admire the farming techniques and animal husbandry on display. The local townsfolk continually flocked to the site for picnics, horse races and had a grand time touring the huge horse barns and see the rare Jersey cattle. In the afternoon people would gravitate toward the stately manor house which became the gathering place to socialize into the evening.
Over time, and with several changes in ownership, the farm fell into disrepair and a series of personal setbacks fell hard on future owners. Reports came out that seemed to defy logic after two sisters, living out their remaining lives in the manor house as reclusive spinsters, spurned serious distrust to outsiders and took action to protect their privacy. Tales of suicide befalling their close family members and then hatchet murders and decapitations blamed on a lone albino caretaker spawned imaginations to run wild.
After speculation became fact to many and with others, creating myth or legend, the site never could live down its eventual existence. The sole albino caretaker was said to be from a colony of albino people held captive or a descendant from an outcast group sent from nearby towns at the turn of the century. Further talk made mention that these albinos were used for heinous medical experiments in an underground bunker secretly located deep into the woods but still on farm property.
After the last family member died, an auction was held at the farm and one hundred years worth of memories were carted off and the site eventually became abandoned. The manor house and other buildings were near derelict and finally succumbed to fire in early 1980 from an act of arson. The suspects were never caught but presumably thought to be from the myriad of teenagers and miscreants that used the site as a local hangout for mischief and misdeeds.
The ensuing years brought continual notoriety after strange occurrences spawned other stories of havoc. A nearby iron bridge, the site of the hatchet murders, is said to host paranormal activity which includes ghost sightings on the bridge and occurrences where cars parked in the middle of it would move on their own accord or not startup unless rolled completely off the bridge.
The old iron bridge may be gone (replaced by a new cement structure) and the farm site being slowly encroached by new housing tracts, but stone remains of the manor house and several out-buildings and towers can be seen through the woods. Its once grand entrance with stone pillars, skilled carvings on capstones and a beautifully constructed stone bridge are just off the main road but hidden under overgrowth and can only be found if stumbled upon. With decades of further neglect and the latest series of arrests of Goth kids running around the place, the once proud estate is but a shambles of its former glory. Further graffiti and acts of destruction speed up its eventual demise but new myths will follow the old, and in all of that, a truth is still somewhere to be found.


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Beloit, WI -- For Jennifer Randall, the nerves were there all day, and likely yesterday too.
But the Beloit College Women's Basketball team settled the nerves of their first-year head coach in a big way by topping Concordia University 63-55 in Flood Arena on Tuesday night in the season opener for both squads.
Beloit came back from a double-digit deficit in the first half and then stayed strong down the stretch for the win over the Falcons, who they hadn't faced in over 20 years.
The game was tight early until CUW went on an 11-0, four-minute run to turn a 17-16 deficit into a 27-17 four minutes before halftime. But the Buccaneers put together their own 10-0 run over the last four minutes of the half and the teams headed to the lockerroom tied at 27-all.
The Bucs led 36-34 six minutes into the second half and then used a quick 6-0 run over the next 30 second to build their lead to eight at 42-34 with 13:35 remaining.
The Falcons battled back with a 7-0 run and pulled to within one at 42-41 at the 11:54 mark but Beloit seemingly put their stamp on the win over the next six minutes, outscoring Concordia 13-4 to take a 54-45 lead with 5:52 left.
The Bucs hit 5-6 free throws in the final minute to hold on.
Sarah Stariha led three players in double figures with 15 points and also handed out a game-high five assists. Lauren McNanna scored 14 with four steals while Kirstin Acosta had 12 and tied her career high with nine rebounds.
Beloit now hits the road for an extended period, beginning this weekend at the Lakeland College Tipoff Tournament in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Buccaneers play the host Muskies on Friday night at 6:00 p.m. and then take on either UW-Stout or Wartburg College on Saturday afternoon.


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As unique educational institutions, camps across America are as diverse as the children who attend them, and we have much to be thankful for that. As the natural world so vividly teaches us, diversity is what is required for creativity, and it is fundamentally through our abilities to create, that we are capable of evolving. The most creative places in the natural world are found in the margins that exist between the larger biological systems. For instance, wetlands that exist between the ocean and the land are fertile crucibles whose extraordinary biodiversity leads to natural evolutions that are crucial to the viability and ongoing evolution of the larger systems. Camps can be thought of in the same way — like wetlands on the margins of our massive mainstream educational systems. Seen in this way, camps have a mandate delivered by the truths of the natural world to not only honor and maintain our own diversity, but to use the creativity that such diversity fosters to support the ongoing evolution of all of education.
Becoming a Powerful Force . . . .
How can we best foster our own evolution in the camp industry and become a more powerful force in the evolution of all of education?
Step 1: Embracing the Truth That Camps Are a Unique Educational Institution
"You don't need me to tell you what education is. Everybody really knows that education goes on all the time everywhere all through our lives, and that it is the process of waking up to life." — M. C. Richards
As professional educators who have become camp directors, we have been drawn to and struggled throughout our careers with the questions and concerns we consider central to education. What should be the aims or purposes of education? Who should be educated and how? Should education differ according to natural interests and abilities? Since we firmly agree with ACA's view that camps are a unique educational institution, we also consider these questions central to the camp profession as well.
If the general intent of the camp experience is educational, then we also must struggle with the questions that are of central concern to genuine educators. These questions concerning education have, of course, been asked for centuries — and the answers have varied according to the differing cultures and contexts in which they were asked. Fortunately, through visionary leadership within our profession, we as camp professionals are systematically furthering the process of collectively and individually answering these questions for our industry. What is desperately needed in America is for these questions to be answered, not once and for all, but as well and conscientiously as it can be done for the benefit of our children, our youth, and for the future of our earth.
Step 2: Understanding Why a Focus on Youth Development Is Desperately Needed
"What the intellect has to say concerning any matter, should only be said when all the other faculties of the soul have spoken." — Rudolf Steiner
Camp professionals have traditionally considered the camp experience as primarily involving youth development. As ACA and others have now begun to document with formal research, anecdotal evidence has long suggested that children who attend camp "most often" develop or demonstrate growth in such capacities as "positive identity, social skills, physical and thinking skills, and positive values and spirituality (American Camp Association 2005)."
What is not clearly represented from this kind of abstract categorization of what happens at camp is how wanting in the development of these capacities is our youth and our culture in general. In mainstream education where our children and youth spend most of their time, we have focused most of our efforts toward the development of skills related to the mastery of specific subject matter, but we have done very little toward fostering our other human capacities. This is the essential reason why camps have traditionally been — and must remain — of primary importance in the field of youth development.
The disturbing trend in American education today is toward an even greater under-emphasis on educational efforts aimed at fundamental learning — not academic fundamentals such as reading, writing, and arithmetic — but life fundamentals such as the development of compassion, the promotion of a sense of community, and the evolvement of a loving will. We have been successful at developing our capacities for thinking that support academic achievement, but we have failed miserably in learning to relate to each other and the world with the concerns of a decent principled heart.
It is not hard to find examples of the lack of decent principled hearts in America today. Look at the number of businesses that appear to be only concerned with their "bottom line." Businesses conducted in this predatory fashion operate without a decent principled heart. Jerry Springer, Howard Stern, and many reality-type television and radio shows sell heartless conversation. Author George Leonard describes vividly what is common in America today when he writes: "The glorification of ego-driven violence, torture, taunting, bullying, destruction, and physical and mental abuse of every conceivable stripe continues to escalate in our entertainment media. By the time our children come of age, they've witnessed many thousands of episodes of these types of behaviors. Those who produce it argue that children can tell the difference between what happens on the screen and what happens in real life. They're right; there is a difference. What happens on the screen is far more vivid, more immediate, more compelling, and more appealing than the same sort of behaviors would be in real life (Leonard 1999)."
When we say that we have defined youth development as the desired outcome of the camp experience, we have placed the intent of education where it is desperately needed, toward the holistic enrichment of children and youth.
Step 3: Accepting the Challenge That Each Camp Must Decide What It Fundamentally Believes
"Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in themselves that seeks expression. They gesture toward the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair." — Joseph Chilton Pearce, Evolution's
If we can collectively agree that the aims or purposes of the camp experience are to foster youth development, then let us boldly announce and struggle openly with the implications of such a commitment. Let us define and organize each activity of our camps in ways that acknowledge and support this intention — let everything we do be defined by our desire to help youth develop to their fullest capacities.
If we can collectively agree that the purpose of the camp experience is to foster youth development, then let us boldly announce and struggle openly with the implications of such a commitment. Let us define and organize each activity of our camps in ways that acknowledge and support this intention — let everything we do be defined by our desire to help youth develop to their fullest capacities. In order to accomplish this, we must be willing to examine all our notions about what a camp is with fresh eyes. Though we have been by all measures amply successful in our past, let us copy the example of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi who reportedly started each season the same way. Despite his team's unprecedented successes, Coach Lombardi started each season by holding up an inflated leather oval and saying, "This is a football."
With fresh eyes let us redefine youth development and our approach to education with depth and breadth. Let our goals be as large as a return to the wholeness we all had naturally as children — as a return to the wellness or wholeness that occurs when there is balance between our intellects, our imaginations, and our emotions. With fresh eyes let us recognize anew that the capacities that are so missing or out of balance in our children, youth, and culture are exactly the capacities (with the right intentions) that the pristine settings and meaningful challenges of our camps are most capable of kindling.
Step 4: Facing the Real Challenge of Challenge Education
"You don't dance to get to the other side of the floor." — Alan Watts
Translating Abstract Youth Development Goals to Pragmatic Practices
When we teach using this triangle symbol, we often place the words cosmos, earth, cosmology, creation, world, nature, or universe (used almost interchangeably according to the circumstance) on top of the triangle. With this word at the top of our triangle we are always attempting to connect every specific task we were doing to its larger "cosmological" context and to teach that there are, in M. C. Richard's words "deeper meanings than those of private sensation."
This touchstone symbol is the result of our considered belief that human or youth development only occurs when we expand our capacities beyond the concerns of our individual egos — what expands my world is probably healthy; what shrinks it is probably not (another touchstone). True youth or human development happens when humans investigate and see the world through a broader lens that goes beyond their own human experiences. Since this is the way we envision youth development, this is how we approach everything at our camp from the intent of specific tasks to the design of our camp T-shirts.
Translating Beliefs into Actions
"Carpenters fashion wood; fletchers fashion arrows; the wise fashion themselves." — Buddha
Although we could provide many other examples of how we translate our position on human development into camp practices, the point here is made. In order to effectively and credibly participate in youth development, we, as an industry and as individual directors of camps, must explicitly decide what we believe about youth development — and make everything at our camps and in our industry, as consistent as possible with those principles. As camp directors, we have decided that the prime questions concerning education aimed at youth development are as deep as those posed by M. C. Richards over sixty years ago. "Where is the moral source? How are the laws to be learned in the human will? How may intellect and sanctity marry? Where does one look for the teaching; and once found, how does one use it (Richards 1989)?"
After defining our beliefs about youth development in such contexts, we must then attempt the most important and challenging job of a camp director — to translate those answers into tangible practices within our camp environment. This, in essence, is what we are all being called to do — to demonstrate the teaching that fosters the development of our youth. How to do this comes down to us from every great wisdom tradition: We are asleep. Becoming more conscious in our beliefs about the larger issues of living and translating those beliefs into actions requires that we continually find ways to wake ourselves up.
Anthony H. Howard, M.S., and Thecla Helmbrecht Howard, Ed.D., are cofounders of Sheltered Risks Incorporated (SRI) in Shelby County, Kentucky. SRI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing therapeutic foster care to youth with special needs and wilderness and equine-facilitated human development experiences to individuals of all ages. Anthony and Thecla spend their time at Kamp Kessa (www.kampkessa.org) surrounded by children, youth, dogs, horses, and guitars.
Originally published in the 2005 September/October issue of Camping Magazine.
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A lot of hay has been made over Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's recent decision to end the practice of allowing employees to work from home. If you have watched television or picked up a paper, you no doubt saw a plethora of opinions on the subject. Some are saying that this will damage the company's ability to recruit and retain top talent. Others are concerned for what this will mean for families as many employees depend on companies allowing them to telecommute. I have heard that this change constitutes a backsliding in the progress created by the digital age. On the flip side, I've heard from employers who say that they understand Mayer's choice. They worry that when employees work from home, there is the potential for missed moments – creativity, conversation, and those human moments that can sometimes spark the next big idea.
I have had occasion to both work from home and work in an office environment and honestly, I generally am more productive when working from home. I attribute this to two factors. At home, I am in control of my environment. There are no surprises or distractions. There is no office drama. There is no chatting by the coffee machine or discussing last night's episode of American Idol. There is just me and my computer…and a blanket. Also, at home, I'm not watching a clock. I don't leave the building for lunch or at 5:00 pm. There is something about working from home that makes an 11 hour day seem far less unpleasant. Personally, when the goal is productivity and efficiency, working from home is the way to go. But…what about when productivity isn't the goal? The best job I ever had was in a lively office environment. We put in long hours. We ate breakfast, lunch and dinner together. We had inside jokes. We even created office games. Working from home was never an option because we all had to be ready to spring into action on a moment's notice and act as one cohesive unit. If you have ever worked in an office like this, you know how satisfying it is when it goes well – when you go to work every day with people you consider friends, when you are part of a team that not only works collaboratively but thrives on comradery.
I have to say, when a manager says "employees are not permitted to work from home," my first reaction is usually a snicker. Maybe we cannot work from home between 9-5 but most are still expected to work from home…or the car, or the plane, or a restaurant. The same technology that enables employees to telecommute is also creating an expectation of 24/7 employees. Is the standard 40 hour work week becoming a thing of the past –destined to be replaced with some sort of on-call system? When I was a little kid, my parents had a family friend who was a surgical nurse. She carried a pager with her and if it beeped she was expected to make herself available. I remember thinking how important she must be…life and death were in her hands. Nowadays, just about everyone I know is expected to have a cell phone that receives their work e-mails. Even on vacations…many of us receive phone calls and texts from our jobs. I suppose the flip side of this argument is that technology is also providing employees with a wider range of distractions. Who among us isn't guilty of checking their personal e-mail on company time? Maybe checking Facebook? Sending a text message or two? Just as smart phones are allowing our employers unprecedented access to our free time, its giving the outside world unprecedented access to us.
At the heart of this issue is corporate culture. In recent years Yahoo has earned itself a reputation for being somewhat stodgy. Compared to its competitors, the company just seems rather unimaginative. I think this reputation is what Mayer is hoping to change. She needs to harness the creativity and passion of her staff in order to right the course of her ship. I suppose every company should elect to do what they feel is best for themselves. If an employer fears they may lose productivity or creativity, they will need to weigh that against the potential loss of talent that may occur from banning working from home. I tend to feel this particular situation has gotten blown out of proportion. Time will reveal whether or not Ms Mayer's decision was right for Yahoo. We'll see. But, I do think it's bringing up some interesting workplace issues that don't often get the attention they deserve.
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RBS Crash - Management Prefer Offshoring to Modernization?
When you slump into your aircraft seat you don't give a seconds thought to whether the aircraft is properly maintained. Same on the Eurostar or TGV, and you don't worry either about the air traffic control systems or the railway signalling systems. We certainly don't give any consideration to our bank's systems . . . until last week when the RBS core banking system fell apart. Tens of millions of customers in the UK and Ireland were unable to draw cash, pay bills, check balances. And most of them found they relied on their bank more than they realized as mortgage payments were not paid, credit limits were exceeded and individual's credit ratings were downgraded.
The bank responded with good PR but abysymal action. A week later many customers are still in trouble. The PR spin on the cause of the crash has been attributed to a misapplied patch. On the Internet, the cause is being attributed to:
- Total lack of investment in modernizing ancient core banking systems because of perceived cost and risk by the Leadership Team too busy counting their huge bonuses . . .
- Who instead cut costs by outsourcing the core banking systems support to India to be supported by people with weeks of experience at best . . .
- To be trained in a few weeks by highly skilled staff that have decades of experience who are now being made redundant . . .
- Who will now be blamed (because they are no longer there) for the totally inadequate change control, contingency planning, fall back procedures . . .
- The absence of which will be effeciently swept under the carpet so that . . .
- The regulators inquiry will find the management's explanation of the "Act of God" as entirely believable and will report same so that . . .
- Levels of government funding (this is a bailed out bank) will be continued and senior management bonuses will be paid as usual.
We live in a real time world. Core banking systems (and other businesss domains also ) should be managed in the same manner as aricraft and air traffic control systems. They should be architected and designed to undergo constant change and supported by security, contingency and fail safe systems that are tested by independent experts on a frequent basis. Continuous investment in modernizing core systems and the surrounding ecosystem is necessary housekeeping. Further modern architecture approaches and methodology enable progressive modernization and continuous evolution in a properly managed environment. Continued investment in skills is equally important by maintaining continuity of personnel and investing in their education in the new architectures and methodology to complement their deep, core business expertise.
Outsourcing and or offshoring just just save money is analagous to finding ways to keep the Boeing 747 running for another 20 years by bringing in maintenance engineers skilled on single engine turboprops and expecting them to acquire 30 years of experience in weeks. Similarly architecture led application modernization is a new IT discipline that banks and other organizations need to understand and deploy. You don't find this level of expertise by offshoring to a company that advertises on the open market in February 15th 2012 for "4 - 7 years experience of Batch Administration using CA7 tool. Urgent Requirement by RBS." Location: Amberpet, Hyderabad, India. Nuff said!
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Nikon announces Android-powered Coolpix S800c camera; interest in webOS makes sense now 5
Ten months ago, a report surfaced that HP was "actively meeting with a number of interested buyers" for their webOS hardware - two months prior HP had cancelled webOS hardware development and was busy exploring their opportunities for the software and asking for too much money. Among the rumored potential buyers was an oddball: Nikon. Yes, the camera guys.
It didn't make much sense at the time, but today we're finally getting the answer as to what Nikon was getting at with their interest in webOS: a smart camera. Sure, cameras have been getting smarter and smarter over the years and picking up more advanced features, but they've always been grounded in photography. The newly-announced Nikon Coolpix S800c kicks this up several notches for the point-and-shoot game by including Android 2.3 and Wi-Fi and GPS.
The camera+smart device combo has a 16 megapixel sensor with 10x optical zoom, something that no smartphone can lay claim to. The 3.5-inch OLED screen isn't huge, but it's a decent size for a point-and-shoot camera. From the front the S800c looks like a straight up camera, but the back is very much Android in look.
So we have to wonder this would have looked like had HP and Nikon been willing to agree on a purchase price or licensing structure for webOS. Imaging has never been a strong suit for webOS, though for that matter it's only recently been a strength for Android - and that was only with the assistance of third party manufacturers. A webOS-powered Nikon smartphone would have needed some tender-loving-imaging from Nikon to enhance its imaging capabilities, and would have lacked the numerous camera-related apps to which Android's Google Play app store provides access. Really, what's a smart camera without access to the most popular photo sharing services?
While owning webOS would have allowed Nikon better integration opportunities than what they'll get with hacking their camera software onto Android, the software ecosystem that Android provides (for free, nonetheless, thanks to Android's past, present, and future open source status) is a strong draw in opposition to the much smaller ecosystem and user base of a Nikon-only webOS. Really, we'd just have been happy to have a smart device with real optical zoom.
Source: Nikon; Via: Android Central
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Zoom with your feet.
There's a huge difference between approaching something at a wide angle and zooming in from afar. Approaching the subject with a wider lens distorts it, shrinks the background and adds depth. Zooming in flattens out the image, and generally sharpens the corners and fixes distortion. There's a reason they don't use 24mm lenses for portraits.
This is a great idea. You can take high quailty pictures and video and do the following:
1. Geo tag you pictures.
2. Share pictures/video on Facebook, Google+, Intragram, etc
3. Share pictures/video as an iReoprter to CNN, The Weather Channel, etc
4. Instantly store your pictures in cloud storeage; Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, etc.
I know you can do all this with a smartphone, but nothing beats the picture quality of a camera.
Come on Canon...now's your chance to compete without copying (i.e. going with WebOS in lieu of Android) :-)
Exactly what I was thinking.


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Release Date: January 23, 2014
MPAA Rating: PG13
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Crude or Profane Language: None
Drugs and Alcohol: Mild
Will it Appeal to Kids? No
Science experiments can be very interesting, especially for scientist Victor Frankenstein; he created Adam (Aaron Eckhart). Since Adam is immortal, he survives many horrific situations and gets caught in the middle of a centuries old battle between the gargoyles and demons. Both clans desperately want to discover the secret of Adam's immortality. I, Frankenstein is an action packed, violent, sci/fi movie based on a graphic novel, "I, Frankenstein."
Initially Adam reacts violently when meeting people. However when he's introduced to Terra ( Yvonne Strahovski), we see another side to Adam. She tells him, "You're only a monster if you behave like one." He gradually learns to protect and care for others.
The film is very violent and dark. Though there is a lot of action, I don't think the storyline will appeal to most kids.
Sexual Content: None
Violent Content: Excessive
• There are violent and graphic battles between demons and gargoyles throughout the film.
• Adam gets into several brutal situations. He falls from high places crashing to the ground, he even goes through the ground, landing on a subway car.
• Adam gets into numerous fights; slicing people with blades, punching and hitting characters with clubs.
• A man is strangled to death.
• We see thousands of corpses.
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• The demons and gargoyles are scary looking creatures, they will most likely scare young kids.
Crude or Profane Language: None
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• Characters are shown drinking at a nightclub.
Will it Appeal to Kids? No
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International Journal of Designs for Learning https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl This multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal is dedicated to publishing descriptions of artifacts, environments and experiences created to promote and support learning in all contexts by designers in any field. The IJDL Library of Congress ISSN is 2159-449X. Assiciation for Educational Communications & Technology / Indiana University Bloomington en-US International Journal of Designs for Learning 2159-449X
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 Introduction to the Special Issue on Historic Design Cases https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/13257 Craig D. Howard Colin M. Gray 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 TICCIT: Building Theory for Practical Purposes https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12894
In 1971 the National Science Foundation contracted with the MITRE Corporation (MIT Research Corporation) for the production of an experimental system to test the computer-assisted delivery of information and instruction to homes: the TICCIT system—an acronym for "Time-shared, Interactive, Computer-Controlled Information/Instructional Television". The networking concept of TICCIT linked minicomputers through coaxial cables to color television sets. The theoretical design challenge was that the agreement with NSF specified that the instructional component of TICCIT would be learner-controlled. TICCIT system specifications produced a type of instruction that adapted moment-by-moment to the choices of the learner.
 Andrew S. Gibbons A. F. O'Neal 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 Automated and Amplified: Active Learning with Computers and Radio (1965-1979) https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12906
Two combined design cases examine historically significant projects in technology-assisted instruction developed at Stanford in the 1960's and 1970's: Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) for elementary school students, and the Nicaraguan Radio Mathematics Project (NRMP). The combination of the cases allows for the exploration of the commonalities in instructional design, use of technology, and methodology of each project, and reveals the practical and theoretical forces which positioned the highly experimental CAI as the genesis of NRMP, which became the model for Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) which itself fulfilled the initial projects' vision of active learning at scale. Today, as we pursue these same goals of student engagement and global access, these two integrated cases offer the successes and failures of the early experiments as considerations for our present designs while establishing a clearer intellectual heritage of technology-enhanced instruction.
 Anne Trumbore 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 MPATI: The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (1959-1971) https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12939
It is 1964 and high in the sky, flying in a figure-eight formation over a 200-mile radius and six Midwestern states, is a plane with a large 24-foot antennae hanging from its belly. Transmitting 24 separate courses recorded ahead of time then played back to member schools in six states, the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) was designed to meet the need of providing educational television to a wider audience. In the late 1950s, the FCC decided that certain channels would be allocated for non-commercial educational use. Schools were bursting with students; teachers were in high demand and educators wanted television classroom instruction to ease their burden. Offering simultaneous programs to schools across the country similar to commercial networks seemed impossible. Hence, the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, a not-for-profit consortium of educational institutions and television producers, was born.
 Monica W. Tracey Jill E. Stefaniak 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 Disclosing the Design of an African American Educational Technology: Bridge: A Cross Culture Reading Program https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12978
Produced in 1977, Bridge: A Cross Culture Reading Program could have transformed what we presently know as urban education. However, Bridge met with the disapproval of parents, communities, and school districts. The execution of a truly transformative curriculum died as an experimental project implemented in urban school districts. This article documents the transformative nature of Bridge as an educational technology that could have better educated African American youth. Bridge was designed as an intervention reading program that sought to improve the reading levels of black junior and senior high school students in America's public schools. The program was normed for "inner city" black students in grades 7-12 who were reading between 2nd and 4th grade levels. A text and context analysis and interviews with the designers are offered to provide details surrounding the construction of Bridge: A Cross Culture Reading Program. This is the story of its design, designers, and dormancy.
 Patricia A. Young 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 Creating Minimalist Instruction https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12887
The early 1980s were disruptive for computing. In many countries, the set of persons who regularly used computing expanded rapidly from a tiny and homogeneous set of data processing professionals to include nearly everyone. The dawn of the "new user" entrained challenges for training and instructional design: the economics of smaller systems ruled out vendor-provided, face-to-face training, which was succeeded by the paradigm of self-instruction. Our group at IBM's Watson Research Center was in the cross hairs of this challenge: IBM wanted to expand office systems toward microcomputer platforms, and to enter the personal computing business. Our initial studies focused on office workers using standard self-instruction materials to learn these new systems. We identified key problems in self-instruction, and created alternative designs, such as the Minimal Manual and the Training Wheels Displaywriter, to address them. Our "minimalist" designs sought to leverage user initiative and prior knowledge, instead of controlling it through warnings and ordered steps. It emphasized that users typically bring much expertise and insight to this learning, for example, knowledge about the task domain, and that such knowledge could be a resource to instructional designers. Minimalism leveraged episodes of error recognition, diagnosis, and recovery, instead of attempting to merely forestall error. It framed troubleshooting and recovery as learning opportunities instead of as aberrations.
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Expert system technologies are varieties of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in which decision-making knowledge is codified and modeled. This design case has the challenging task of characterizing this set of technologies during a particularly important period in its development (1984-1991), with an emphasis on a particular system that was used in food production environments by Campbell Soup. It analyzes the social and research impacts of early, pioneering information elicitation and processing strategies that focused on the distillation of the knowledge or know-how of individuals construed as experts in particular arenas, approaches broadly labeled as "knowledge-based engineering" (KBE). Widely-publicized notions of "thinking machines" and "canned experts" provided motivation for a good deal of early expert systems development (Feigenbaum & McCorduck, 1986), with accusations of "hype" often levied (Blair, 2002). This article historically situates these technological strategies in the period from 1984 though 1991, then links them with current instructional systems approaches that more fully involve collaborative elements as well as contextual perspectives. The motivation for this article is to explore how larger technological and social trends and assumptions can influence particular research efforts, especially in the richly interdisciplinary area of information systems. The article also explores the circumstances and consequences of "failures" of system development, with expert systems providing widely-discussed exemplars (Gill, 1995; Oravec & Plant, 1992). This article is rooted in the assumption that historically-informed perspectives can provide some underpinnings to the building of humane and sustainable research projects, particularly in areas that have human subjects and volatile contexts as essential elements. This article also addresses the continuing legacy of university curricula and business training initiatives that were shaped to accommodate expert system and KBE approaches in past decades. Discourse about human expertise generated by expert system efforts in 1984 through 1991 holds insights for current research and development, as well as signals potential sources of dysfunction of, and opposition to, future instructional system initiatives.
 Jo Ann Oravec 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 "Making Alcatraz Amazing": The Alcatraz Cellhouse Tour https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/13141
In 1987 the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy launched the Alcatraz Cellhouse Tour as part of the interpretive program educating visitors about the island and its history. Using an existing format made possible several years previously by Sony Walkman™ technology, the designers framed this individual, and innovative, audio tour as a means for visitors to experience the cellhouse through the voices of people incarcerated there, or living and working there, during the years when it served as an active federal prison. Such a design called for different decisions about content, scripting and moving people through space than had been required for ranger-led tours or the lecture-type audio tours prevalent at the time. The original tour has been updated continuously since its launch, and experienced by millions of visitors in multiple languages. The author of this case experienced the tour in 1988 and interviewed key designers in 2014.
 Elizabeth Boling 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 SimCalc: Democratizing Access to Advanced Mathematics https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12975
Historically, what people can learn is co-determined by the representational infrastructure for knowledge building. When Latin was the required medium of knowledge building, few could engage in scholarly activities; without the change to the vernacular, nearly universal access to higher education would not be possible. The highly compact, abstract, and opaque symbolism of mathematics presents similar barriers to the necessary democratization of access to important mathematics.

Over the course of a program of research lasting more than 20 years and involving contributors from institutions throughout the United States and worldwide (Hegedus & Roschelle, 2013), the representationally innovative design of SimCalc Mathworlds® has provided affordances for novel and effective approaches to teaching important algebraic and calculus-related ideas. When integrated with appropriate curricular workbooks, teacher professional development, and other instructional factors, dynamic representation has enabled diverse populations to learn more advanced mathematics. Research has included both design research as well as large-scale experiments involving hundreds of teachers and thousands of students; overall, the approach also has an unusually strong base of empirical support. We focus on lasting, essential design contributions of this body of work with a special emphasis on the dialectic relationship between affordances of technology and curricular progressions.
 Deborah Tatar Jeremy Roschelle Stephen Hegedus 2014-11-03 2014-11-03 5 2 Using Analytics for Activity Awareness in Learning Systems https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/12886
The purpose of this design case is to tell the story of our work to design context-aware activity notification for learning management systems. The story of the design experience is not simple, in that it includes research and development, conceptual evolution, implementation and extinction, and multiple phases, including inspiration for future products. The main character in our story is the Context-aware Activity Notification System (CANS). CANS was created by researchers and students in a university laboratory and started (as do many designs) while doing something else; became a dissertation; drew FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) funding; was implemented over a number of years in a localized setting; eventually could no longer be supported; and continues to provide inspiration for visions of new forms of online learning. The design process is described across three phases: 1) initial design as part of a dissertation, 2) extensions to CANS enabled by a grant, and 3) future visions for the impact of CANS.
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