Archives of the bridge photos, channel gap and approaches
Why these web pages happened
Being a curious bioengineer and university
professor, I have passion for enabling others to enjoy
learning and problem solving. Internet-centric learning is a major
addition to our box of enabling tools.
Examples include newer community sites
such as Flickr which enable learning about
photography. Other community sites such as the
Participatory Culture Foundation
and
Conversate are appearing which
facilitate locating and interacting with other like-minded individuals.
On June 12, 2005, Gene
Stead, 97 years of age, quietly died while sleeping. Gene was Chairman
of Medicine at Duke from 1947 - 1967 and was my first boss. But he was more
than a chairman. He paid great attention to individuals, whether
faculty, students or patients, and worked at
enabling them to reach beyond their grasp. He understood that problems
could rarely be solved by technology alone and demonstrated over and over
again that success often rides on resolving personal and cultural issues.
Several years ago, my son, Josh, and I visited Gene for the weekend. Gene
was frustrated by the difficulties in maintaining communication with younger
people. We talked about the Internet, about Google, about what to learn
and how to avoid the forgetting curve. We shared our frustration that
many younger people have lost their curiosity and wrote a short paper about
restoring the joy in learning and about
learning and forgetting. Together, we built his
web site as a tool for exploring
Internet-centric learning and addressing issues of curiosity and
forgetting. These pages are a continuation of
our explorations in learning, sharing and igniting curiosity among young
learners. Here I am using the construction sequence of the new Cooper River
Bridge as the learning theme.
- Schedule of Opening Events
- Bridge Stories
- Weekly Update Archives
- Slide Shows and Photo Galleries:
An all around look
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Attribution: C. Frank Starmer from http://ravenelbridge.net
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