{"id":592,"date":"2009-01-24T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=592"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:29:18","slug":"looking-back-to-look-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2009\/01\/looking-back-to-look-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back to Look Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent Saturday writing a draft of a journal article titled, “CloudSocial: Changing Teaching and Learning by Changing Perspective”. After a round of review from my co-authors I will blog the introduction to the paper.
\nHere is a cool quote I got from Wikipedia that I wanted to use in the paper so badly – but could not find a way to fit it in: “”Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another. To choose a perspective is to choose a value system and, unavoidably, an associated belief system. “<\/i> I like it – it sounds like talking to the Architect in Matrix 3.
\nWriting the journal article made me spend a whole day stretching my brain and got me looking beyond the current important issues and tasks of the next 6-12 months and instead wondering about the “future”.
\nSomehow as I got farther and farther into the future, my mind wandered back to an NSF grant I had written over 10 years ago where I laid out my view of where we needed to go back then. Of course I was never funded – the comments felt that the proposal was “too obvious” and not really “research”. I can’t disagree with the comments – I knew that everything I proposed in the grant was doable and feasible.
\nI had a sneaking suspicion that I might get some good design ideas about where to go next from my 1998 NSF grant application. It was interesting to jump back in time a decade and see which of my dreams had come true and which of my dreams still needed to be delivered.
\nYou can read the grant application Using Asynchronous, Web-based, Video to Humanize Distance Education<\/a>. Much of the proposal talks about my lecture capture system which I developed in 1996 called Sync-O-Matic<\/a>.
\nOf course web lectures are pretty much a solved problem these days so I was more interested in the software I proposed to build around the lectures. I still do kind of like the lecture-centered UI of the LMS for certain distance education contexts. In a way Google follows the pattern by trying to put some video “above the fold” on every page they want to be a sticky\/welcome page. It brings humans to the front and center rather than just text and icons.
\nSome of my favorite excerpts form my 1998 NSF grant proposal are below.<\/p>\n


\nSynchronous Targets of Opportunity
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