In 2002, we fell in love with Alaska and purchased property near Fairbanks. Our Alaska log home was built in 2003 by Bill Kisken of Log Weavers here in Fairbanks. Bill is an artist, who uses the hand scribed Swedish cope system. Notice how tightly the logs fit at the ends, this is very diffucult to achieve. We retired in 2013, and moved our residence to Alaska.


April 27, 2008

Connections & Information Science

  1. Idea worth considering: GPS systems and Information Science connections. Information Science when taught the old way involves a search for information and retrieval. Today the new way to understand the world of information involves searching for informaton within a co-ordinate system similar to the way a GPS system works. You need to know your location within the system. GPS uses three satellite co-ordinates. To understand Information Science, one needs awareness of co-ordinates, leading to idea below for teaching Information Science.
  2. Idea worth considering: Information Science Curriculum needs to take into account the history of Information Techology. This could be taught on the elementary level as an "information family." The modern computer dates to IBM research during World War II-- Computer is age of grandfather. The Internet dates to military research of the 1970's-- Internet is the age of parents. The Web dates to invention by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990-- Web is age of older brother/sister in college. Mosaic browser invention in 1993 made web accessible-- Browser is age of older brother/sister in high school. Ward Cunningham invented wikis in 1995--- Age of middle school student. Blogs became popular in 1999-- still in elementary school.
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