Monthly Archives: January 2006

List of Possible Speakers

Ian Moll on early childhood development Sr.Dipty of the Brahma Kumari on soul consciousness and values in children’s education Halle Berman on creativity Graham Codrington on youth issues (LOCUS members are invited to add to this list by leaving comments here)
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Possible Initiatives to Explore and Learn from

The Southern Cross school in Hoedspruit Taizé Gezonheid – the Patch Adams approach The Living School in Colorado St Benedict Pre-primary in Bedfordview And a school in Swellendam, which Rose will follow up on. (LOCUS members are invited to add to this list by leaving comments here)
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LOCUS

Invitation | Mailing List | Meeting Group | Discussion Resources Invitation to join LOCUS development group and/or mailing lists Calling parents, teachers, and other interested people …to be part of a reading, research, discussion and ultimately development and planning group working towards creating a wonderful new learner-oriented ‘school’, primarily/initially for kids, in JHB, Gauteng, South Africa! LOCUS is an [...]
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‘a new member every hour’

The new SA Top Sites site, is allegedly growing at a rate of about a new member every hour (I did have trouble opening it this am though). After my membership being solicited via a friendly email I asked Justin Hartman for something to post about his site. His response in full below. Now I’ve [...]
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on bloggers explaining blogging

Purely for the sake of discourse (about bloggers explaining blogging)… (For an intelligent take on the cause of this discussion see Sean Coon’s retort post Bloggers Are More Than Writers: We’re Social Connectors to the original A BLOGGER IS JUST A WRITER WITH A COOLER NAME Why Blogging vs. Traditional Media Has Been Oversold article by [...]
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Experimental upgrade in progress

Just upgraded the backend of this blog to Wordpress 2.0 and am experimenting with some themes, unexpected results and various inconsistencies highly probablepossible for the next day or two. (Yes, yes I know one is supposed to do design modifications off-line, but its just a little more exciting this way. About to reorganise the categories etc. [...]
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Design is procedural formulation and management

Design is procedural formulation and management of elements in the flow between how things are, how they might be – and as far as it is possible to achieve – how they should be. (In other words trying to make the most of whatever the hell you have to work with)
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We shall soon see for ourselves

My response to concerns raised about eyespy being used for sinister purposes by unscroupulous types like stalkers etc. in threads on the Mail and Guardian Online and 419legal.org forums. “… concerned about what is released to the public. … things like Stalkers and other loonies… … Big Brother information could be quite dangerous… :bugeyes: ” Yes, you suggest [...]
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Services and Products

Design Logo, Corporate Identity and Information Design Conceptualisation Web, Blogs & CMS (Content Management System) Development Content Optimisation Search Engine Optimisation Graphic Smithing Illustration & Visualisation Interactive Multimedia Presentations Facilitation Innovation Lecturing & Tutoring Assessment Creativity & Capacity Development Creative Research and Development Situation and Contextual modelling and more… But my time and availability has become limited, for a more comprehensive offering see ForgeCorporation where I do most of my work these days.
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on The Salutogenic Challenge

With regards to the invitation to responses included on the document Morton Wagenfeld, Ph.D. on The Salutogenic Challenge (Walden University)
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