I've been working on our original website 
Folks, here’s a piece that introduces you to Show in A Box. What is Show in A Box? It’s a bunch of plug-ins for Wordpress that makes your video look great on the web. Originally designed as a monolithic plug-in that you down load and install, it has evolved over the past year into a dynamic group of plug-ins that are continually being improved and added to, so that you can pick and choose which pieces you want to use. You can also choose which “theme” you want to use with your blog. There are many people that have been involved with the development of Show In A Box, and frankly I’m the least of the crew. But I can make videos, and so I volunteered to make this intro. I might be wrong, but I believe the original idea came from Ryanne and Jay, or Michael Verdi, or….well, it just keeps growing, and over the past year it has grown to many more folks. After you have seen it, go to the Show in a Box website, get involved with the project yourself, download some of the plugins, and take control over how your video looks on the web.
Archive for May, 2008
We went to a wonderful workshop last week with Dr. Ed Zlotkowski from Bentley College in Boston. Ed is the senior faculty fellow at Campus Compact, an organization that promotes Service Learning. This piece is a short clip of Ed talking about “Kolb’s learning cycle” and why so many students in America are basically left out of the education process.
According to an article on the web, “Kolb’s learning cycle is typically expressed as four-stage cycle of learning, in which ‘immediate or concrete experiences’ provide a basis for ‘observations and reflections’. These ‘observations and reflections’ are assimilated and distilled into ‘abstract concepts’ producing new implications for action which can be ‘actively tested’ in turn creating new experiences.”
Most students in America are forced to begin learning by entering in 3rd stage - the “abstract concepts” stage, which really means that as a student, you began to learn a topic by reading a book. And because most people in America do NOT learn that way, higher education becomes “education by selection”.
This is part of a series of interviews that I’ve done on learning, and how so many of our schools are failing. Our intention is to open a dialogue about the educational system in America, and to create a new model of education that actually works for students.
I used to be a stage manager, and that meant that I was also a stage hand. I don’t do it much anymore, but it’s fun to keep you hand in. A week ago or so, I did the “in and the out” for Chicago when it came to Rapid City. It’s usually a 4 to 5 hr IN and about 2 hrs OUT. In between, they do a show or two. On this day they did 2 shows. This piece shows you in less than 4 minutes about 6 hrs of work, from an empty stage to when the truck pulled out to go to Cheyenne, Wyoming for the show the next day. Hope you like it - it was a lot of fun.
I’ve been doing Jin Shin Jyutsu for the last 10 years, and I can honestly say that it has been the one thing that has kept me healthy. It’s really amazingly simple to do, but when you study it, you realize that it is the study of a life time. So simple - just be the smile - drop the shoulders.
This flow is called the Main Central and it’s included in The Touch of Healing, a book by Alice Burmeister. Alice is the daughter-in-law of Mary Burmeister. Mary brought Jin Shin Jyutsu to America in the 1950’s. She had studied with Master Jiro Murai in Japan during the war.
The Main Central is designed to harmonize your entire body, but it works especially well on your endocrine system. It works by opening the path of the Chi that constantly flows in your body - up the back - down the front. I like it because it helps my memory, and clears my head.
