The ITEC
project lab is well equipped with computers which support much of the same
software we use in developing sites and working with multimedia ourselves. These
computers and their software are available to faculty and staff wishing to
work on websites or other media related presentations, and also to
students who are employed by their department to maintain the department
website.
Available
software includes:
Adobe
Photoshop 6.0 and 7.0
(graphics and photo imaging)
Adobe
Premiere
Adobe
Illustrator
Adobe
PageMaker
Adobe
InDesign
Adobe
ImageReady
Acrobat
Full Version
NetObjects Fusion MX and 7
(web development)
HomeSite 5.0
(web development)
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Project Management
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Publisher
WordPerfect Suite
Macromedia Director
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia DreamWeaver
Cakewalk
Sound
Forge
Cool
Edit
Real
Producer
Quick
Time VR Studio (when MAC available)
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How can we
best prepare our children and our students, as well as ourselves, for a
future that is difficult to imagine? How can we all learn to take an
active part in determining a positive course for humanity? Homes, schools,
and other places of learning must take these challenges seriously as we
head for an evolutionary challenge early in the next century. We offer you
some insightful ideas to help in this undertaking in the article:
The 2020
Challenge: Evolutionary Bounce or Evolutionary Crash? This report
in progress is written by Duane Elgin, one of the world's foremost
futurists who is involved in a comprehensive study of the challenges and
opportunities that lie ahead. Elgin was a senior social scientist at
Stanford Research Institute, senior staff member of a joint Presidential-Congressional
Commission on the American Future, and is currently advisor to some of the
world's most influential organizations. He is author of Voluntary
Simplicity and Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture
and Consciousness.
Articles
Education's Achilles Heel: Unlocking The Dilemma of Difficulty Dee
Dickinson, Margaret Gayle, Rick Smyre and Bob Stott
Four educators discuss why current movements fostering educational change
are not enough, and announce the formation of a Transformational Learning
Meta-Network.
Futures
Studies: Preparing Learners for Success in the 21st Century
Sandra
Burchsted
The how and
why of futures studies.
Learning Society of the Future: Questions to Consider Dee Dickinson
Today, everywhere in the world people of all ages are asking how
educational systems can be transformed into ones truly appropriate for our
time. How can people of all ages learn how to learn, unlearn, and relearn?
How can they develop skills to deal with complexity and challenges that
have never before existed? How can schools that were created for another
time meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of students? Can
schools alone meet these needs? In considering these questions, Dee has us
look at new possibilities for individuals, learning communities, and an
emerging global learning society.
On Searching for
New Genes: A 21st Century DNA for Higher Education Rick Smyre
A key challenge for the future will be to rethink many aspects of how we
create learning experiences so that graduates will be prepared for a
different kind of society, one that is constantly shifting, interdependent
and increasingly complex.
The Future of
Learning in a New Free World and how to Build a World Wide Learning Web
Gordon Dryden
New Zealand author of the New Learning Revolution notes that
millions of teachers and billions of students continue to work mainly in
isolation, yet in today's world of instant communication, collaboration is
essential in order to make the most effective changes.
Education 2050 Dee Dickinson
This essay on the future of education appears in the new book, Imagine:
What America Could Be in the 21st Century, edited by Marianne
Williamson.
Social
Artistry Jean Houston
One of the world's great educators and director of the Foundation for Mind
Research advocates a new type of leader that can deal with the complexity
and chaos of today's world.
Education for
the Third Millennium: Looking Back From 2050 Hazel Henderson
An economist's view of what education may be like in the future.
Summary of the
report Global Consciousness Change Duane Elgin with Coleen
LeDrew
Duane Elgin, author of The Awakening Earth has conducted an inquiry
based on existing, comprehensive surveys. The inquiry was organized around
five thematic areas: Is the global communications revolution fostering a
new global consciousness? What is the extent of humanity's global
ecological awareness and concern? Is there a shift underway toward "postmodern"
social values? Is a new kind of experiential or firsthand spirituality
emerging? Is there a shift underway toward more sustainable ways of living?
Read two excerpts from a study guide produced by The Fetzer Institute, The
Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Brande Foundation, The California
Institute of Integral Studies, and The State of the World Forum.
Vision of the
Future Jean Houston
An article by Jean Houston about imagining and creating change.
Asking the Right
Questions Charles Johnston
When culture is relatively stable, the average person doesn't need to give
big picture questions much attention -- we appropriately relegate them to
philosophers and the like. But in times of significant change and
challenge, the situation becomes dramatically different. The big picture
comes to have ultimate practical importance. This is particularly so for
educators. Education in such times is about teaching for realities that
barely exist, and that often we barely understand. If we are not deeply
attentive to the big picture, what we do in the classroom will be at best
irrelevant, at worst a violation of the sacred trust that education is
ultimately about. Asking the right questions can begin the inquiry process,
helping people identify the often unconscious threads with which -- for
good or ill -- we are weaving the fabric of the future.
Democracy In
A Learning Mode
Rick Smyre
The author describes how electronic systems can be implemented by
educators to help foster a 21st Century approach to democracy: A Knowledge
Democracy that is a Direct Consensus Democracy.
An Ohio
Champaign Aging To Be New Dave Faulkner and Rick Smyre
Champaign County, Ohio's economic development director and the president
of the Center for Communities of the Future explain how a Big Idea was
developed to create a learning community that combines cutting edge
communications technology, transformational leadership, and cultural
transformation.
Transforming the
20th Century Mind: The Roles of a Futures Institute Rick Smyre
As progress accelerates, reality changes . . . increasing the strain on
traditional ideas until the dam of convention breaks, and we are left with
apparent chaos. Our institutions are struggling to deal with today's
complex issues. Most of traditional ways no longer work. Of all the
changes occurring, none is greater than the change in context of our
society. Rick Smyre looks at rethinking how we think.
The Worm Hole of
Generative Dialogue Rick Smyre
Communicating on a deeper level can only happen if we stop thinking of
dialogue as a linear progression which ends with a winner and a loser.
Out of Chaos:
Finding Possibility in Complexity Sarah van Gelder
Sarah van Gelder explores the power of creative thinking in times of rapid
change.
What I Learned in
the Rainforest Tachi
Kiuchi
In a keynote
address to the World Future Society, Tachi Kiuchi, Managing Director of
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, General Manager of Global Communications,
Former Chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric America, and Chairman of
The Future 500, shares lessons he has learned about the link between the
environment and the emerging information economy. He outlines five lessons
learned in the rainforest that can benefit everyone as we change our
institutions to meet the needs of a changing world. As he says in his
talk,"I learned how we might operate our company not just to save the
rainforest, but to be more like the rainforest."
The Last Taboo on
Television Duane Elgin
The last taboo
topic on television is television itself -- and how it is profoundly
biased toward high consumption ways of life that the earth cannot sustain.
Futurist Duane Elgin maintains that by programming television for
commercial success, the television industry is also programming the
mindset of civilizations for ecological failure. He proposes using
television in new ways to encourage people to contribute creative and
positive ideas and for our planet's future.
The Club of Rome:
A Learning Organization? Dr. Jim Botkin
The Club of
Rome is an international think tank which became well-known in the early
1970s for its report entitled The Limits to Growth. Limits, translated
into nearly 30 languages and over 4 million copies sold, was part of the
fledgling environmental movement. Since its publication in 1972, the Club
of Rome has commissioned more than a dozen reports - among them No Limits
to Learning - but none attracted attention so widespread as its first one
did. People not familiar with the Club assumed it had ceased functioning,
particularly after the death of its charismatic founder Aurelio Peccei in
1984.
Peace is the Only
Gold: A Global Education Initiative Marilyn King
Beyond athletics-- another major function of the Olympic Games.
Articles on reinventing living:
New Beginnings
Dee Dickinson
Not Lemons, But
Apples Darlene Hughs Axtell
Renée Fuller:
Realizing Human Intelligence Dee Dickinson
Marilyn King:
Realizing Olympic Achievement Dee Dickinson
Recommended Reading
Creating the Future Free and complete online book on the future of
education from New Horizons for Learning with articles by Luis Alberto
Machado, Reuven Feuerstein, Howard Gardner, James Botkin, and many others.
The
Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time
of Fear edited by
Paul Loeb
The
Power of Partnership : The Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life
Riane Eisler
A Call
for Connection Gail Holland
Jump
Time: Shaping Your Future in a Time of Radical Change Jean Houston
Conscious Evolution Barbara Marx Hubbard
Visions:
How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century Michio Kaku
Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century edited by
Marianne Williamson
Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators: A New Tool for Assessing
National Trends edited by Hazel Henderson, Jon Lickerman, and
Patrice Flynn
Who
Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and Your
Life Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Related
links
The Chaordic
Organization: Out of Control and Into Order Dee W. Hock
This article describes a new organizational form that carries within it
the seeds of a new organizational culture- a culture that might well spell
the difference between a smooth, orderly transition to a salubrious and
sustainable global society, and the chaos and anarchy that some see in our
near-term future.
The World Future Society
A nonprofit educational and scientific organization for people interested
in how social and technological developments are shaping the future.
Association
of Professional Futurists
The mission of the Association of Professional Futurists is to help each
member be a successful futurist by professionalizing the field,
facilitating networking, assisting consumers of futures research and
futurists, and offering professional development and supporting services
to its members.
Creating Preferred
Futures
A web-based learning environment with the objective of
empowering young people to be proactive in creating a more positive future
for themselves and their communities.
Implications Wheel
The Implications Wheel is a tool that steers creative thinking to
anticipate the potential results or implications of making a single
decision or change.
The
Communities of the Future (COTF)
is an evolving network of people and organizations throughout the U.S. and
other countries that are working in collaboration to develop new concepts
of governance, economic development, and education/learning for a fast-paced,
interconnected, and increasingly complex society.
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