I was writing my resume and i was looking for some examples on the net. While looking for some samples i was looking for some innovation news and here is what i found out: "The passage of the stimulus bill last week instantly doubled the federal role in funding schools, with an unprecedented influx of $95 billion. The question is, in education, what will that money buy? Read more..."

They say the only consistent in life is "CHANGE". And our professor asked us to write an essay about the innovation and changes that occurs on a place or country that we think is good as a topic. I found this Article about "How to Drive Innovation in Europe": In today's crisis there is an opportunity for change. It would be a crime to waste that chance. With the global economy in turmoil, a new administration in Washington and new leadership coming to Brussels this year, the rules for economic policy are being rewritten. Much of the thinking so far has been short-term, reacting to the immediate financial crisis or industrial dislocation. Read more...

I love arts and designs and so i tend to use it as a topic for some of my custom papers. "Continued investment into art and design education will make Britain design a world leader." That is a mantra i've read from TimesOnline.

"Sir, I am delighted that Sir James Dyson has made the extraordinarily generous and visionary decision to support the future of design education at the Royal College of Art. His reported landmark gift of £5 million will ensure that young designers will continue to push the boundaries of innovation. Over the past ten years, the creative sector has grown at twice the rate of the overall economy. Support for art and design education will fuel our economic recovery. Read more..."

From the site http://ChangingNormal.com

CONCEPT 2 of 2:
Creating an Open Design Matrix for Realizing New Forms of Sustainable Innovation

The creation of 64 globally-aligned incubation centers are used to realize new and advanced forms of design and innovation relating to organizational practices and technologies that are symbiotic with natural rhythms and planetary culture. This innovation matrix will help to advance the design of communities using ‘whole system’ knowledge that is realized within the centers and shared world-wide. Ecological design principles and sustainable business practices are followed that adapt to the needs of a globally conscious society. An eighteen community domain learning framework is
used, along with a unique concentrix management process, to direct the centers within the innovation matrix. Collaborative learning methods are used to guide participants to create product and service solutions that support a diverse, interdependent, thriving world culture system.

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The web link below will show you draft concepts that will direct the manifestation of these amazing new 'learning communities' and 'sustainable innovation' networks. I believe that these approaches hold seeds for realizing a world culture that is based in reverence, peace, and awe to emerge. It will unfold an exciting new journey for all of us; a new way for humanity to live and evolve.

http://www.wholesysteminnovation.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?Inclu...

I want you to contact me for further dialog. Or build on this discussion. What are your thoughts, interests, ideas, suggestions, creations?

I can be reached as per below ...

Vic Desotelle
Facilitating Collaborative Design
831-454-8046
http://DiscoveryFuel.com]
http://WholeSystemInnovation.com/BLOG

http://www.wholesysteminnovation.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?Inclu...

Also see the following 'Discussion Title' subject:
Building a World-wide Network of Learning Communities

From http://ChangingNormal.com

Concept 1 of 2:
Building a World-wide Network of Learning Communities

I would like to see a unique form of collaboration and design network occur across the world. Its creation will be comprised of a model for bringing people together with common passions and interests who want to participate in the changes at hand, both at the visionary and practical levels of implementation. The frameworks for gathering and connecting people will be very open, allow for group and individual empowerment, be guided by principles of sustainability and collaborative learning, and allow those with knowledge and wisdom to lead rather than those with (so-called) power strength and money, and (rather than our present unhealthy forms for discussing and debating) it will be based on an open dialogue system for sharing and learning from a world of people who are wealthy with ideas. Together, from community-to-community, we will create a wonderful new reality.

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The web link below will show you draft concepts that will direct the manifestation of these amazing new 'learning communities' and 'sustainable innovation' networks. I believe that these approaches hold seeds for realizing a world culture that is based in reverence, peace, and awe to emerge. It will unfold an exciting new journey for all of us; a new way for humanity to live and evolve.

http://www.wholesysteminnovation.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?Inclu...

I want you to contact me for further dialog. Or build on this discussion. What are your thoughts, interests, ideas, suggestions, creations?

I can be reached as per below ...

Vic Desotelle
Facilitating Collaborative Design
831-454-8046
http://DiscoveryFuel.com]
http://WholeSystemInnovation.com/BLOG

http://www.wholesysteminnovation.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?Inclu...

Also see the following 'Discussion Title' subject:
Creating an Open Design Matrix for Realizing New Forms of Sustainable Innovation

Bonnie DeVarco

Education Innovation is a "4-part overview of Buckminster Fuller's approaches to Education and their intersection with Education Technology on the leading edge in the new millenium." | Copyright 2002, Bonnie Goldstein DeVarco. All rights reserved.

The article appears on the author's website as part of Media Tertia, an extensive digital portfolio of work dedicated to "emerging technologies in education." The site includes 2 important essays about Fuller: "Life, Facts & Artifacts" and which are both featured in the PBS Thinking Out Loud companion website to the American Masters Special on Buckminster Fuller which debuted in 1996). Also included, is Ms Devarco's seminal 1997 digital work; "Invisible Architecture - The NanoWorld of Buckminster Fuller" (1997), in which Ms. Devarco places Fuller "into a contemporary context by juxtaposing the relevance of his ideas to some of the newest technological advances of the latter part of this century - including the newest work on buckminsterfullerene and nanotechnology."




Emerging Technologies in Education

Bonnie DeVarco regularly writes and lectures on emerging technologies in education, virtual worlds, next generation geographic information systems, information visualization and the culture of cyberspace. She is currently Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator for the NSF funded Interactive Earth 2 Project, a next generation interactive for Earth Systems Science led by WorldLink Media, TERC, NASA Goddard and the World Resources Institute (WRI). And for the past five years, she developed and co-directed LinkWorld, a 3D multi-user world for high school students, as part of the Borderlink Project, a federally funded Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Through Planetwork.org, Telascience.org and other non profit organizations and educational institutions, Ms. DeVarco leads efforts to research, explore and develop new opportunities for telecollaboration, visualization, education and environmental action using advanced satellite and network technologies, visualization and open source tools.

Ms. DeVarco has served as an education technology consultant to non-profit, corporate and educational organizations for the past 16 years (this list includes PBS, Stanford University, the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies, San Diego and James Burke's Knowledge Web, UC Santa Cruz, UCOP, Smithsonian Institute, DigitalSpace and others). She has helped develop multi-institutional programs for distance and media enhanced learning for the University of California Office of the President and the K-12 as a research and development consultant for the UC College Prep Initiative, one of the first statewide virtual high school programs since 1998.

As a member of the Board of Directors for the Contact Consortium, Ms. DeVarco founded the VLearn3D initiative in 1998. Vlearn3D is an international networking hub for educators using multi-user environments to enhance the learning process. She has regularly produced educational events in cyberspace and in distributed physical locations through Vlearn3D.org, UC Santa Cruz's "Tech Innovation" program, UCLA, the Los Angeles Festival, Telascience and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. From 1989 to 1995 she was chief archivist for the Buckminster Fuller Archives, recently acquired by Stanford University.

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