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I’ve been working with the members of my own Mastermind Group: two women with whom I have been meeting with-virtually- now for over a year.  We just launched our own website  MasterMind Meetups which is built to support you as you grow your business by integrating technology with networking.

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For the last few weeks, on Mondays, I get myself over to the new Ford Building on the Smith College Campus. Now, I’m the first to admit, I am not a programmer.  However, as a designer I’m intrigued with development and thus am assisting Lou Franco with ‘testing’ some chapters of his soon-to-be-published book.

Lou has the patience of a saint. St. iPhone or St. Xcoder is how I like to refer to him.  He is a great teacher! In class, he sometimes tends to run through code pretty quickly when he is showing examples.

Some of the stuff we cover in our workshop goes over my head….Lou does move thru the information.  But I am happy-no, I am joyous to say, I get most of it! I mean, come on everyone has an idea for an iPhone app. A few that have just recently come to mind:

  • A Shit List App: something you could interface with that would assist you in being sure others met your criteria for being on your Shit List. And, of course, there would be some type of meter or rating system.  Maybe it could even connect with your Contact list? Humm…..the possibilities. [Note: this is obviously a bit of a joke here.  Then again, who knows….maybe there is something to this.  Humm.].
  • Then there is this behavioral app I’m working on….I can’t reveal the name just yet….let’s just say the market is for parents to use when their child isn’t behaving in the manner the parent prefers.  This one is still in development stages.
  • And then, an app to help you ‘know’ what types of organic foods are currently ‘ripe and ready-to-pick’. This needs to coordinate with locate organic farmers and dovetail with their crop growth charts….however, I firmly believe there is a need for this.  Especially, as we grow more conscious of the foods we eat, where we buy those foods and in getting the freshest possible foods-locally.

If  you have an idea for an iPhone app [or iPad app for that matter]. Leave me a comment….maybe we can get started on one.  After all, I have a classroom full of Techie-Developers all of whom I am sure would love to develop a iPhone app.

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Another group I am happy & proud to be working with is  The Institute for Digital Media Arts [IDMA].   I am creating a Web Design Diploma for them.

  • The Web Design Diploma offers students the opportunity to explore the design of websites, interactive media, and other digital technologies. Following a project-based curriculum, students will immediately gain knowledge and learn skills about tools and technologies used in designing and creating digital products.
  • Student studies will focus on design, functionality, target audience, and user experience. The studies will remain grounded in the fundamentals of information architecture, basic front and back end web development, and interactive media design.
  • These courses are developed to be presented completely online.

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Having lived in Beijing for 15 years I could really relate to this report;

“In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.”

Always adapting, the Chinese are masters at analyzing trends, seeking to copy and then improve. I remember Chinese education being delivered in the rote memorization formula.  Those days are gone.

As Daniel Pink reported [frequent readers will note I really do respect Mr. Pink’s work],

“[Indiana University professor Jonathan] Plucker recently toured a number of such schools in Shanghai and Beijing. He was amazed by a boy who, for a class science project, rigged a tracking device for his moped with parts from a cell phone. When faculty of a major Chinese university asked Plucker to identify trends in American education, he described our focus on standardized curriculum, rote memorization, and nationalized testing. “After my answer was translated, they just started laughing out loud,” Plucker says. “They said, ‘You’re racing toward our old model. But we’re racing toward your model, as fast as we can.’”

In America we are having a Creativity Crisis! Research show that American creativity is declining.  what went wrong -and how we can fix it.