Subject: Re:Distance Learning and David's Meteor Discussion
From: Arthur M. Recesso (amrecess@valdosta.edu)
Date: Mon 15 Nov 1999 - 17:23:21 MET
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:23:21 -0600 From: "Arthur M. Recesso" <amrecess@valdosta.edu> Subject: Re:Distance Learning and David's Meteor Discussion
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Ok David I'll bite...
" What could be more precious, or more difficult, than conceptual
innovation? We need to access all the tools at our command--even when
linguistic and sociological convention parcels out those common mental
devices among noncommunicative disciplinary camps---
if we wish to triumph in this hardes, yet most rewarding, or all
intellectual pursuits"
Let's join this Thursday night to discuss the Leonoid meteor shower ...but let's point our
cameras to the sky connected to a multipoint video website with realtime audio and live
chatroom and discuss the definition of the shower in terms of a blaze of glory or a fizzle of
light. Different locations on the face of the earth..and maybe one from the space
station...would certainly catch different viewpoints of the events...but now we would all
share in each other's events. From there emerges a discussion of perspective and place in the
space-time-continuum and how we as a smattering of humans across the globe come to define one
event as something totally different. Then maybe we gain knowledge in the socio-psychological
realm with discussion based on diffusion of innovations and communication of ideas.
Art
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/amrecess/amrecess.htm
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