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Their capabilities coevolve, grow together as biological humans. When people share a common vision, they argue about details. When they do not have that much in common, or are insecure of themselves and their social standing, there is a strong compulsion to pretend, be polite, avoid the real issues or start a fight. Fight and flight, anger and fear, the stress response, increases with insecurity, sudden changes, and unexpected events. We live in a time of change, uncertainty, where discontinuous forces swiftly transfigure the familiar and fault our expectations. Synergy is about social, educational, political and business evolution working in " Punctuated Equilibria "


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GO ON A TOUR OF THE INTERNET as a teaching system.

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The short and cleaner version of this page is on my newspaper article.

There are 100"s of newspapers now becoming on line newspapers but all saying the same thing. THIS is

Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -

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The DocFiles )

Th e Synergy documents journal


Go to and find the http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNALs by Date.

RE: I have seen the future and IT WORKS ! Small is Beautiful, faster, maybe smarter.

The battle is for IntraNets, the connection beteen office Suites and I nternet communications.

DEATH of Competition ?

Netscape is a leader in the Internet environment because it helps other companies succeed, co-evolut ion. Altogether, these contributors are not unlike a biological ecosystem .

They depend upon and enrich each other.

Their capabilities must coevolve, in order that all grow together.

The Web Wars, the battle for Intra nets


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RE:

The Question of Reform: EDUCATION

CAN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM REFORM THEMSELVES ?


The answer is NO !

http://quantumweb.c om/robin/disco.html

RE:

The horn in the fire.

An anthropologist at the University told me that Laps when they hunt ( reindeer )) have lots of information and theories about the habits of their prey. Sometimes because of changes in climate the patterns of reindeer migration change. After trying what they know, after using magic, and the Laps are still hungry, they call in the wise man, consultant.

The shaman throws a reindeer antler into the fire. He examines the patterns made by the fire on the bone and that becomes their map for the hunting.

When you keep doing what you do, you keep getting what you get. WYKDWYDYKGWYG. *

Charles Peters, says "Bureaucrats write memoranda ( or have a meeting ) both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." ( How Washington Really Works Addison-Wesley 1980 ).

The more bureaucrats do wrong to the public, the more favors congressmen ( school boards ) can do for their constituents as they right the wrongs- or as they appear to try to right them.


The other Peter's principle ( Laurence J Peter ) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; the cream rises until it sours. (

The Peter Principle Morrow 1969 ) Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.

(Why Things Go Wrong:

The Peter Principle Revisited Morrow 1984 )

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at becoming incompetent.

Work expands to the number of people assigned to the task, like bookshelves, hard drives, closets, organizations will collect programs that fill the space allowed. You have to clean out stuff off your drives, clean your closets and toss it out, not just move it around. Bureaucracies have to down-size. State monopolies always get top heavy.

They add, rearrange up but never toss out. In 1960's 80 % of Education money went to teaching ( directly involved with instruction ) and 20 % was overhead. Now less than 50 % is instruction and more than 50 % is overhead. That is why private schools can product a better product at half the cost. This is why Communism ( socialism ) does not work and free markets do. Only the pressure of competition forces institutions to clean their closets.

Martin Luther knew that the " Church " could not reform itself. He proclaimed a protestant reformation. Thomas Jefferson knew the British Empire could no longer rule the new world, he proclaimed an American Revolution. Edward Gibbon knew the Roman Empire was not destroyed by external enemies but fell of it's own weight. (1)

The USS-was when it just stopped working.

The American Public Schoool vouchers, private public supported education, will happen. It is only a question of when. All large institutions build up overhead and suffer goal displacement.

They are of administration, by administration, and for the benefit of administration.

They forget about their clients.

The U.S. Congress, the Department of Agriculture, Columbia University, General Motors, IBM, Microsoft, NASA, all age and build deposits in their circulation systems.

The best argument for free markets is that competition forces organizations to knock of the rust and calcium buildup or get fossilized and die.


The European/Japanese national school systems have ways they can be changed.

They have standards, an inspectorate, uniform expectations.

Their degree's mean something. Our system does not. We lack the political structure to reform education or much of anything else.

The only practical choice we have is deregulation and free markets.

John Dewey remarked in the 1920's that the structure of teacher colleges, textbooks, school boards, superintendents, professional organizations, grade structure, state regulations, has been unchanged since the 1860's. Now it is over hundred and thirty years since these closets have been cleaned out and there is a whole lot of junk in there.

The problem has greatly expanded with "special education", alternative programs for behavior, emotional, learning, physical, or any other special need child. In 1960's less than 3 % of children has special needs now it is 15 % and growing very fast. Where there were 1,000's pages of regulations there are now 10,000's. None of this improves learning.

RESPONCE:

TO: Franklin Schargel, George Westinghouse Vocational & Technical High School

Franklin P. Schargel Assistant Principal 105 Johnson Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 718-625-6130 scharge@aol.com

I have added your site:

/charge/


An excellent list of Bibliography and Resource Guide: http://www.wtp.net /langford/biblio.html


The books you suggested are:

Enlightened Leadership Getting To

The Heart of Change by Ed Oakley and Doug Krug


The integral point about "Enlightened Leadership" is that it shows you how to enhance your leadership ability so you can tap the spirit of your people and empower them to provide their own solutions to both current and future issues.

http://www.lightworks.com/Reviews/MetaphysicalReviews/Book/Enligh tened.html

Erlkönig:

The Monster Under

The Bed.

The Monster Under

The Bed Copyright © 1994 Christopher Alexander North-Keys All Rights Reserved; temporary... http://www.rda.com/~erlkonig/ ( not working ) Erlkönig: Homepage. On Names. Erlkönig has been the primary username of. Christopher Alexander North-Keys. since about 1986, and was taken from...


The model here is the traditional information model is not the only one;


The model has been - a group of official information producers - scientist, have their work ratified and it become part of the "body of knowledge"

The Universities then transmit the approved knowledge and it gets into textbooks and after 10 to 40 years into the schools where it becomes "common knowledge" When the official word changes as in Geology with plates, or biology with new ideas of evolution, or in psychology with more physical chemistry, it takes a long time to sink in. People have a sunk cost in existing " knowledge " and don't want their status, jobs, and power threaten.

First from the Illinois School Board http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL, http://www.ias b.com/iasb/files/j6010208.htm

TQ devotees say the commonsensical principles of W. Edwards Deming can transform education and bring about the radical change they believe to be long overdue. "If Rip Van Winkle woke up today, he'd find the whole world has changed except the schools," says an acerbic Franklin Schargel, a Long Island quality consultant who retired in 1994 as quality coordinator with George Westinghouse Vocational & Technical High School in Brooklyn, New York. "Schools use a classroom model taken from prior to Gutenberg's printing press."

then I found the following:

A Critical Look at Higher Education: Why Faculty Resist TQM http://fairway.ecn.purdue.edu/fre/asee/sect95/5A/5A4.html

Trident Area Community of Excellence, http://www.quality.org/qc/ASQC_Sections/Section_1122/tac eprog.html

Westinghouse High School Painting Workshop, http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Tourism/Th ingsToDoAndSee/Attractions/Gallery37/Westinghouse.html

From: Peter Gribble

Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 1996 7:26 PM

To: Peter Pflaum

Subject: Re: TQM and real reform

Peter I think you sent me this mail inadvertently (but most beneficially!). Actually I just checked out Langfords bibliography this week and agree it's a great list. I'm about to look at some of the sites you list - the one that jumped up and grabbed me was: "/dhy Faculty resist TQM"

On the subject of leadership a title whichhas intrigued is "How to unleash the Power of People" by Bennets Simonton. Published privately. Contactmhd39A@prodigy.com - Bennets Simonton. I've read a review and some info from Bennets and it seems to make sense but until I actually read the book I'll have to reserve judgement.

Peter Gribble

Quality Coordinator

RMIT University

Homepage: http://min yos.its.rmit.EDU.AU/~rfepg/index.html

Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D.

225 Robinson Road New Smyrna Beach FL 32169- (904) 428 7924 pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.com

Mr. Trecey Bailey 1193 National Teacher of the Year Director, Office of Charter Schools Florida Education Center, 454C 325 W. Gaines St. Tallahassee, FL. 32399-0400

baileyt@mail.doe.state.fl.us baileyt@popmail.firn.edu

cc: Franklin P. Scharge, scharge@aol.com

The Scharge Consulting Group


The Edward de Bono Programme for the Design & Development of Thinking,

The University of Malta create@unimt.mt, create@jaguar.is.unimt.mt, Masters of Arts Creativity & Innovation http://www.is.unimt.mt/~create/


RE: Internet Charter School: small, smart and sincere. proposal is attached and on: on charter.htm or charter .txt

Dear Tracey:

Fear not to go where no school has gone before. Let's break the mold.

The time when information could be packaged, put in textbooks and into the hands in not the heads of teachers, has passed on and is long gone in many fields.

The Synergy Schools of the future learn by doing, and the students often know more than the "teachers." When industry moved from factories to professional work the institutional framework had to change from the top down, father knows best mode, management does the thinking and workers do as they are told style to newer synergy forms. That is the experiment here. It works if we are small, smart and honest.

I got your packet today and have lots of questions. Volusia county has not responded and I wonder if I have to ask them first. Maybe as part of the IB ( International Baccalaureate ). My resume is on site at pflaum.htm or click my name at the start of any page.


The idea is very simple but the implementation looks overwhelming unless I have partners. Digital AltaVista, Netscape, others are possible as well as some foundations. But where to start ? What I envision are a network of small schools, classes, ( like the IB ) connected through a server which we have (www.trevista.com ) so they share and use the Internet resources.

The core curriculum is learning by doing, a vocational program for the information age. It works if we are small and honest with ourselves and others. If we had $ 10,000 to $ 100,000 and a board of established names then we would be in much better shape. That's not much money given the stakes involved in the welfare of the republic, I'm serious. New forms of education and training are perhaps our most critical problem. More than any foreign danger is the loss of skills and knowledge of young Americans.

The big, stupid hypocrites need some balance by the small, smart and sincere..

Take the tour of the technology on tour.htm to get an idea of what I am thinking about. Real audio, Narrative Communications, VDO, ( see PBS ), plus Intranets via WinFrame for sharing of presentations, files, data, chat, and forming remote work groups. Is there any start up funds ? Can we get a board together. We have sites for local small ( less than 20 ) schools in mind but I think the effort should be in remote sites. Any teacher in the state ( or non-teacher for that matter, but the legislation is wonderfully unclear ) could set up a remote site. It works if we are competent, committed, hard working and sincere and honest.

Small Smart and Sincerely Yours,

Peter E. Pflaum, Ph. D. ( A.B. University of Chicago, Ed. M. HGSE, Harvard University, Ph. D. FSU. )

RE: Lath and plaster: Performance based education: Charter Schools

For years, in Chicago when you build a house you had to use the Lath and Plaster method rather than wall boards. This was clearly because of the political power of the Lath and Plaster's union. Performance standard building codes specify the engineering requirements for building rather than the materials or methods used.

The difference here is between INPUT requirements and OUTCOME requirements. People in education ( and maybe Airline Safety and other areas of public regulation such as Chicken Inspection ) seem to have a hard time understanding this difference. It maybe difficult setting legal systems to manage outcomes while inputs and process is easier.

Case in point is teacher certification.

The union, teachers colleges and lots of other "special" interests hang on the a complex set of requirements for teacher certification.

There is no evidence it helps improve learning in school but supports lots of professors of education and their required courses, training programs, personal offices. All these groups don't want their "iron rice bowl" taken away just as the lath and plasters union. If you don't have input requirements you have to make judgements or have real standards on performance, know what is going. Every other country in the world ( Except the Philippines that copied the American system) has external ( emphasis on external ) exams. Again the same unions resist external inspection of their work. It's hard of people to believe that taking a class in something doesn't require any real learning.

There are lesson plans, required textbooks, hours of attendance but no requirements than anything be achieved.

The coach can teach " Social Studies" where they discuss football. It happens all the time. Football has external evaluation - you have to do something - win. See Charter school below...

I can't teach in public schools with a Ph. D., a masters in Education from Harvard, and 30 years of teaching experience and in the top 2% of the academic talent pool, ( teachers are drawn from the bottom 25% because of the working conditions and pay scales ) because I don't have specific hours in specified classes.

There are only a dozen or so qualified physics teachers in the whole of the country partly because of these certification requirements.

All teachers are paid the same ( except for extra for coaches and administrators ) and people who can do something else mostly do so.

The old system depended on talented women who had limited career opportunities. Now they become accountants, managers, or other better jobs. I can work in GB, and other countries but not in the U.S..

The "hours" don't require "knowledge" only attendance. High School graduates can't read, college students don't know where Brazil is on the map. ( or much of anything else ).

The system of input regulation doesn't work.


The whole American school system has complex requirements but no outcomes requirements. Attendance, hours rather than being able to do something. Foreigners find this strange.

There are 100,000's of high paying technical jobs that can't find people. Migration of foreign engineers continue. About 50% of students in hard subjects in Universities are foreign, oriental or both.

The long term effects will be to export high skilled work.

The unions helped force American Manufactures to use off shore factories and the American School System is forcing the export of high skilled jobs.

noun, plural laths: 1. A narrow, thin strip of wood as a supporting structure for plaster.

ADDING UP THE UNDER-SKILLED

A survey finds nearly half of U.S. adults lack the literacy to cope with modern life

By PAUL GRAY

For years U.S. employers have been grousing that more and more aspiring workers lack the know-how to get the most basic jobs done. Last week ( 09/19/93 )such complaints received alarming confirmation. Adult Literacy in America, a 150-page survey conducted by the Princeton-based Educational Testing Service and released by the Department of Education, reported that roughly 90 million Americans over age 16 -- almost half that category's total population -- are, as far as most workplaces are concerned, basically unfit for employment.


The tasks simulated real-life situations, calling upon basic reading and math competence and the ability to interpret charts, graphs and timetables, and were assigned degrees of difficulty on a scale of 0 to 500. Thus totaling the sums on a bank-deposit slip rated a 191; calculating the costs, including handling and shipping, of a catalog order garnered a 382.

After tabulating the test scores, ETS designated five different grades and projected that 42 million American adults fall within the lowest category; 52 million fill the next rank, which is still below the level required to perform a moderately demanding job. Perhaps the worst news from the survey was the hubris expressed by those who were tested: when asked if they read well or very well, 71% of those in the bottom grade said yes.

If the ETS survey is accurate, the U.S. is not only significantly populated by people unprepared for current and advancing technologies, but most of them do not know that they do not know.

Reported by Janice C. Simpson/New York

Copyright 1993 Time Inc. All rights reserved.

Transmitted: 93-09+19 09:25:24 EDT


The original Report on

eth os/literacy.txt

http://www.ed.gov/NCES/naep/



Then in Reading:

http://www. ed.gov/NCES/naep/y25flk/rbro.shtml;

In 1994, 30 percent of fourth graders, 30 percent of eighth graders, and 36 percent of twelfth graders attained the Proficient level in reading. Across the three grades, 3 to 7 percent reached the Advanced level.

COMMENTS:

From: Eric Harvey Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 1996 4:31 PM To: Peter Pflaum; 70272.3606@compuserve.com Subject: Free market

A free market in the school industry only offers school reform not education reform. I will post your response without comment on NEW but the desire for the free market comes from frustration with 30 years of trying to improve the SYSTEM We must concentrate on offering an education that will equip students with the knowledge needed to intelligently discuss a variety of viewpoints and theories. My wife and I are choosing to send our children to a private school,

We all went to public school, my wife, me, my parents, my grandparents etc. It's just has declined very quickly and my children need a chance at a real life.


They go to a small SDA private school at about $125 a month each for 10 months ( less than 20 students ) and its wonderful.

but are they just going to get more attention and quality instruction or are they going to learn how to reason and discuss disagreeable topics in a rational manner.

The latter is more important in the overall scope of humanity.

But a "public system" can't really be free - it's so worried about the political problems..

We need an education system which empowers students to "free think" and reason based on a wide knowledge of viewpoints and theories. Education expands itself when a student can take a variety of theories and bring different parts of them into a practical and usable invention. Limited viewpoints stifle learning.

As viewpoint based education is presented to students we will find that realities will surface and non-truths will fade away. A student must learn to construct a viewpoint about an issue or understand how one was constructed so they may get involved in the discussion.

The internet cannot be discussed intelligently unless you understand the different viewpoints of its usefulness. You cannot discuss the wide ramifications of pornography on the net unless you understand all of the viewpoints and know how to formulate one on your own. A judge cannot rule a case until all viewpoints are disclosed, facts alone may be misleading, just as views alone are misleading.

We need schools that will teach students how to learn not how to remember facts. This will become true reform.

Eric Harvey 




See Subject:Beyond Teaching Beyond Teaching



















by Guy Bensusan, Senior Faculty Associate and









Professor of Humanities, NAUNet



















As we have developed our efforts through various stages 









of "teaching off-campus" to "teaching on-line," it has become 









clear that Distance Learning and Traditional Teaching require 









distinctive considerations, methods and institutional mechanisms. 









We have put this as a text file as bensusan.txt and as a http file









 as beyond teachingbeyond.htm in /
Gibbon, Edward, 1734-94, English historian. He is the author of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vol., 1776-88), one of the most influential historical works of modern times. Gibbon also wrote a subtle and interesting autobiography, Memoirs of His Life and Writings (1796). He served in Parliament from 1774 to 1783.

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documents JOURNAL JULY 1

- the news and tips of the day ? pflaump@cfl.rr.cpflaump@cfl.rr.cpflaump@cfl.rr.cpflaump@cfl.rr.comnt size="+1">Textbooks and http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAList, tell you what they think you need or want to know so they sell their product.

The Internet let's you do it yourself but .. there is so much news and growing.


The idea of the Synergy Network : people let me know what they think is interesting or important, or both, and I pass it along and post in on my site on the WEB ( with some editing and choice ).


Then you can decide what you want to look at.

The original sources are there so the middle people - textbooks, http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNALs, newspapers, media people, professors and experts are not so important as guides, gate keepers, filters, and interpreters of the news for us. Think about it.

The time frame and information control system has changed. Why have 1000's of sources telling all the same thing. Broadcasting is becoming narrow casting becoming a personal information system.

Visit a interactive education site:

http://www.baynetworks.com/Corporate/Solutions/Education/ mec.html

from http://www.baynetworks.com/


By joining together, local school systems are overcoming these challenges and bringing the Internet's many benefits to the classroom. In New England, the Merrimack Education Center (MEC) has built a network and introduced a turnkey solution that offers Internet access, training for educators and administration, and on-going technical support. By forming a consortium, MEC has helped schools get connected to the wealth of ideas and information on the Internet. This network is based on backbone routers and remote access routers from Bay Networks.

http://www.baynetworks.com/Corporate/Solutions/Education /nasa.html

Case Study: Education

NASA Classroom of the Future (COTF)


The challenge:

Enhance the learning and teaching process for mathematics, science, and technology education using advanced computer and telecommunications technologies.

A very commercial model of interactive Communications:

http://www.thepalace.com/


- Intel, Time Warner and Softbank major investors See, chat and interact with other people from all over the Internet!


The Palace is a complimentary technology to Web browsers and provides real-time interactivity between people. Users can create their own appearances, or avatars, by importing photos and graphics or selecting from a suitcase of "props" included in the software.

Once inside a Palace environment, or server, it is possible to see and talk with other people in the same space. Users can move between "rooms," talk privately, make sounds and change avatars as they move throughout any Palace environment. Unlocking the server software allows anyone to create their own Palace for the PC, Mac and UNIX platforms.


There is a $20.00 registration fee. ( no free test ) and I didn't see any of the places I wanted to visit. It's a fancy World Chat that is not free.

DCI will present Explorer 96 Conference web technology from MicroSoft, Digital, Compaq, Wang, Fulcrum, Staples, Platinum Software and Stream on http://www.DCI.expo.com/ July 17 th not on line yet.


The material on Sambo's of technology has moved to the NEW page /

documents JOUR71.txt

A SITE OF OUR OWN , http://www.wiredbrain.net/



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RE:

The Styles Temperament Game


The site then works like a BBS. You open the site in your browser and there are the messages from people who share the same type with you.


The gateway to the Styles directories and groups http: //www.wiredbrain.net/STYLES/chart.htm

THE STYLES - TEMPERAMENT - GAME Come on play the game: I will help you set up files for YOUR group. First Take the Sorter

http://www. gse.rmit.edu.au/~rsedc/keirsey.html

Or better yet: http://sunsite.unc.edu /jembin/mb.pl is the inventory site: In addition to evaluating your temperament type, it provides a description of the type as well as a list of the famous and infamous that share the type. Reading level is high and we've had only limited success using it with students, but works really well for adults.

cheers Chris

crust@esd112.wednet.edu


The temperament sorter from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Bates is a clue to how you react to the world and your learning style. A simple method of sorting by style. You are not one self; but many selves - depends on conditions, diet, environment, mood, etc. PICK A GROUP - then SEND ME E-MAIL with you name and group. Or those with FTP can transfer their notes and comments to ftp you will get your own user and password.

Then each group can leave notes that can be opened in the files by CLICKING on your group name on the MAP on http://www.wiredbrain.net/STYLES/chart.htm

Send feedback to: pflaump@cfl.rr.pflaump@cfl.rr.pflaump@cfl.rr.pflaump@cfl.rr.com

I am working on this: This is the way to divide groups ( for a class ): First by S/N (concrete/abstract) then by P/J Expermental/Sequential and then by Reflective (F) and Abstract (T) only if any group is too big by interdirected (I) or other (E). A CLICKABLE MAP ....

from Hot Dog's Cross eyes:

HTTP EDITORS

See TUCOWS for a good list of Http editors and other Windows95 tools.


Links lost of links ( in sausages ) connected parts from Visual Basic +++

I am surprised this works. I have tried for almost a year to get MS Word to interface with the internet. Here HOT DOG does it. I can up and down load between the web pages and the editor.

GO TO our chart on perso ality/learning styles Made with Hotdog's Cross Eye


Netscape's editor is NOW WORKING (sort of ). I just got Gold 3b and here we go. I am writing this in the editor and the FTP will send it back to the site. Let's see - it works GREAT !! You can test the method. and see for yourself.

I am using AOLpress. I may be able to write on the page from the web and save to the web !

A list of the main editors are on: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/HTMLEdit.htm

The Mosaic Page ftp://ftp.mcia.com/pub/windows/ant/ the ant

HOLD THE PRESS Oh forget it ! - I am working on AOLpress and it looks like it's going to save /images and WYSIWYG for REAL ? Well sort of ???? BUT it works as a browser so I can go right from the editor to any link !!!

BUT, just as Netscape's Editor changed all the local links and image references when it was clearly asked not to.

WHAT A PAIN

What they say about the dancing BEAR: It's not that it dances well, but that it dances at all.

I am using Hot Dog




The editor works very well plus the built in FTP ( use ftp.sausage.com to get Hd32binst.exe and use toolbone bar only ) means I edit and transfer to my Web site on the left coast ( from Florida the Right coast ) very quickly. (only in the professional model ) I open in Rover and down load, save to file, edit and return, almost as if the files on right here on this machine.

With www.wiredbrain.net and the WINS connection, I open g: which is a remote computer and work with the files just like on c: but slower, open edit and save.

The people in the beta group can open a http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL right into their HTTP editor, make additions, comments, and save to file. ( or use an FTP program )

They will be able to use real time on-line chat and phone. CuSeeMe if they have the set up, share a conference package, use a data base, and be really in conntact.

They can Click on computer icon pflaump and connect through trevista to my machine if it is also on line.

The interface from Digital is very active and dramatic.

I have pulled this page from my Web site, edited ( without the editor creating problems ) using WebPro Ver 2.0 for windows from Nesbitt (www.nesbitt.com ) Now that should be easy, but believe me , it has not been. I guess I have to give up on WYSIWYG it just doesn't.

I am testing a nice clean editor: HOMESITE http://www.dexnet.com/homesite/download.html "

HomeSite is a 32-bit freeware HTML editor

that resulted from my frustration with updating and maintaining Dexter on the Web. For the first few weeks of the site's existence, new pages were created using Windows Notepad. As time went on, however, I found that I needed something a little fancier. I tried what seemed like dozens of HTML tools - from simple text editors to full-blown WYSIWYG environments - but never found one that suited me."

THIS REALLY WORKS - After testing the other editors HomeSiteX works

Now I am trying WorldDOC, ( WYSIWYG ) but it messes up.

The Microsoft Internet connections ( X-files) he suggests seem to improve my system. It messed up the /images - otherwise O.K. I am back on WebEdit, and save the time wasted repairing the mess make by these other editors.

Downlo ad MSICPB.exe - USA Site (2MB) Updated! 4/25/96

This update installs Beta 2 versions of the ActiveX Internet controls and its helpers.

These controls require either Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 as an operating system.

They do HELP a lot.

The browser and FTP work a lot faster.

Webber is fine but don't interface with the WWW. Hot dog and WebEdit pro maybe the only one that works for home PC with a WWW inface. Why is it so hard to do a WYSIWYG word processor for http.

The people who wrote mosaic are Netscape. It reminds me of the old days ( more than 10 years ago ) when I used word processors that used codes.

Then Word Perfect moved from a fixed space mode to open graphics. Why doesn't WP handle Http formats ? I know big companies have been connecting Word with the internet for some time but I couldn't. It didn't make sense to not have editor, browser, FTP all connected.

We will build a low cost almost free Intranet system for groups of 30 or so, the Virtual Office or classroom. While big companies spend $30,000 to $300,000 getting connected we will do it for less than $100.00 ( not for 1000's of PC but dozens ) using existing NT software and NetBios. We are on http://www.wiredbrain.net/ since the domain trevista.com has becomes active. We will have a site with great new technology and will be able to do a lot more. We have a group of beta testers that will be using WINS technology.


The new files are also there. For only the new stuff go to Synergy Files and for BETA testers of the WINS method of making interactive ( Virtual ) office/classroom the current instructions are on winhttp/documents/Vobinfo.txt. It is working.


From digital AltaVista http://www.alt avista.software.digital.com/# "


The current http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL is on the Inter Intra Net market.

Todays http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL Sunday, June 23, 1996 10:52:58 AM is on OR .. For only the new stuff go to Synergy Files

The revolt of the Nerds On the FIRST page.


Index of



The files are open
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[DIR]

GO HERE FIRST


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[TXT] FIRST page in the orginal long form


[TXT] Directory of the site


[DIR] 100's of DOCUMENTS

[TXT] GUIDE to the site made by Altavista


[TXT] Guide for NEWBIES and the internet


[TXT] NEWBIE in plain.txt


[TXT] START of the network

[DIR]

The first class group " Administrators " to report You can see what a synergy class is like.

[TXT] OPEN-ME is the second page

[TXT] Registe r as beta tester


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for information on the internet also internet news


Our model is the SAS,

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Special Air Services or the rangers, when we are behind enemy lines we have to be creative, innovative, and can't depend on a chain of command, but on the team; other examples are the skunk works, the quick, young, INTRANET happening. We will not have this technological revolution and maintain the existing power structure, something will have to give.

The technology can not be stopped, or managed or controlled by the institution of the past. So get on board, be left behind, or be run over; ye school boards, superintendents, deans, directors, CEO's, presidents and the powers that be.

The organizational pyramid get turned up side down. We confuse the map (imposed ideas) with the territory. That is the way of the our minds works.


The INTERNET is a new life form, few understand its meaning with any profound knowledge, more hype and hope and dream stuff. My Sufi practice helps innovate with a changing reality as it comes along with fewer assumptions and blinders on perception, chains on action, walls, barriers, pits, shadows, and resistance to loss of place, power, jobs, homes, families, belief, stability, empi res of soul that may vanish without a trace.

My Sufi stuff is not a mystic withdrawal from this world in a drunken love affair with G-D. (winh ttpd/ht docs/astory.htm)


A Glass Bead Internet?



The fourth way. (/~ document/careful. txt )



The mind body place you call home. /synergy http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/humor.txt


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THE VISION OF INTRANETS

Jim Clark: But really Marc Andreesen who wrote a program called Mosaic when he was in the computer science department at the University of Illinois. He conceived this idea of having a mixed multi-media viewer or browser and, along with a couple of his buddies, implemented this. I ran into him a little over a year ago and said why don't we start a company in this area. And he said yeah that'd be great. So we recruited all of the students that helped him and founded Netscape and got underway.


NETSCAPE'S VISION:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/at_work/white_paper/i ntranet /vision.html#community


The Internet, federal government, and this WEB SITE is more of a marbel cake than a layer cake.


It seems to me Netscape as an advantage in not having to rewrite everything but can look at the services from a fresh viewpoint.

They have also lined up a lot of powerful partners.

FROM NETSCAPE: You really need to look at this:

http://home.netscape.com/comprod/at_work/white_paper/intranet/vision.html



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The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL contributions:


The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet and other life forms, education, management, economics, and policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the Internet and hypertext to make connections.


The key to the Gold Rush on the internet is services interlocation, a smooth interface between office suites, internet web pages, conferences and exchanges, shopping, banking, getting entertainment, general and specific news as Point Cast does now.

OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day. GATES Last weeks copy and an effort to get contributions is open syj613.htm or SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL June 13th or anew.txt


OFFICE 97June 13, 1996
1996 -- Microsoft INTRANET Strategy Day. ISDN Network web site.



The MS ideas about ISDN lines:
http://www.msn.com/about/isd n Sincerely,

The MSN Team


The vision of



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Tuesday, June 25, 1996

To see demo of case study - http://aics.acadiau.cawgeorge@a ce.acadiau.ca

E. Wanda George, BRM,MBA Coordinator Acadia Institute of Case Studies Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. B0P 1X0 Ph: 902 342-2200 x 1622 Fax: 902 342-4111



The URL for CASO's Internet University site again: http://www.caso.com/.


Dr. Pflaum:

Just read your posting on AERA-J listserv on

The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL. I was " in the field " last week and out of touch with my e-mail (have to figure out how to do long distance retrieval). Fascinating thoughts! I am working on a piece on the role of the faculty in the next century and have touched on some of the same thoughts -- albeit not with the same creativity that you do.

The preliminary digging last week was on the topic of privatization (out-source as well as public institutions seeking private funds -- the gulf between public and private is quickly disappearing). All of this is prelude to asking you to put me on your list for the Friday distributions of

The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL. I too do not believe that we can predict the future, but I hold out hope that by analyzing the patterns, we can at least try to shape it better than we have been. Dot Finnegan Ass't Prof. of Education Higher Education Program

The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187 definn@facstaff.wm.edu

GREAT any additions - anyone ?

This has been posted to the index page on and I will be more that happy to get something from you for the http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL. Dead-lines are not important - we are always in the now ? Have you looked around the site for any support - charter schools, that the system can't reform itself - in reform and smart in /documents and /synergy documents ethos/ethos and /synergy documents logos/logos

The fall of the USS-was a surprise - I think the end of public education as we know it is a lot closer than we think.


Dr. Peter Pflaum

Since I am getting questions, from all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rpflaump@cfl.rr.comp@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdth="45" height="52">
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The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before you jump ...

THE PROBLEM of ACCESS:

NOTE:

The experiment: Please download this into your word processor and E-mail it back to me at pflaump@cpflaump@cpflaump@cpflaump@cfl.rr.comh.

The Synergy process is for you to provide input to the draft copy which is on: http://www.wiredbrain.net/wiredbrain documents syj613.htm for the hypertext version and syj613.txt for plain txt and in SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNAL June 7.txt

Revans, R.W.

The Origins and Growth of Action Learning ( 1982)

THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:

BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's " Punctuated Equilibria " I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I do.


PHYSICS:

The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us with this ?


Social Science: Charles Handy:

The Age of Unreason involves management, learning organizations, education, economics and policy ) Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.


Technology : Zuboff's

The Age of the Smart Machine


These topics are on the FIRST PAGE


Natura non facit saltum;


Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?


The idea of natural stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct, hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable, predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies, freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our collective hands in the storm.

The slow, continuous, evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.

Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of the Species " or the " Decent of man " .

The physical fossil record does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady " progress " from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites to people. " Time Frames " by Niles Eldredge explains how science adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative activity.

Physics:

The Uncertainty principle:

Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we " solved " the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location.

The concept of Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective, with different time frames and view points at one and the same time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could not.

Social Science:

The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard Business School Press 1990)


The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, ( add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond the conventions of their time ) ..we call this " blue sky paradigms " , bold imagines, going where no man has gone before, leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.

Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played in a new game by different people.

The ecological niches are how all creatures great and small earn a living.

The way " work " is organized in communities make the biggest difference in our lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central power source, to more diversified production using electrical energy and " high " tech chemistry and communications, transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business, political and spiritual.

The introduction of running water in a small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at the common well and washing house.

How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth, " earn a living " is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment, where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net documents JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline, takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING, new faces, new rules, new questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.


The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth quake. We are expecting the " big one" .

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