http://www.chrisgribble.com Be yourself - Everyone else is taken (Oscar Wilde) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:08:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just testing how this works for me http://www.chrisgribble.com/2010/03/11/a-short-text/ This is from the Online School post on a 100 things to read about the future of online learning: Full post is here Online Learning Find out what direction the relatively new field of online learning might be taking with these articles. The future of e-learning is social learning. Take a look at what ... http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/10/13/posts-i-must-read-note-to-self/ The more I hear of Sir Ken the more I like what he has to say. Much of what is said here is based on his latest book, "A New View of Human Capacity". http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/10/12/sir-ken-robinson-from-fora-tv/ Vygotsky, has brought many new insights to the world of education that can be applied to one’s spiritual growth. The foundational premise of Vygotsky’s concept of development is that the formation of the mind or cognition is dependent on the social context in which an individual lives. Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach to ... http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/07/31/vygotsky-spiritual-development/ http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/03/03/creativity-how-we-kill-it-and-how-to-promote-it/ In most of the popular literature today we are told that aggressiveness is wrong and that assertiveness is the way to go. I think that this is because we equate aggressiveness with the negativity of a bullying attitude. Of course we know that people get angry. We never really get to ... http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/03/01/when-is-anger-good/ Sometimes I long to sit and reach out to spiritual world. I want to sit and read books and meditate and contemplate life. I want to think about higher things and not deal with the corruption that we face with our physical world. But, I think that I am learning ... http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/02/24/everyday-spirituality/ I quick update on this blog. For a number of months I lost my blog completely. Thankfully I had saved all the neccessary backup files and after some trial and error I was able to recover all my posts. There is still a lot of work to do. You may notice ... http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/02/22/update-on-this-blog/ Not posting any thing over the past few months is symptomatic of a number of things in my life that aren't right. I need to read more - I really haven't had the chance to read anything in the past few months I need to exercise more - I still weigh around ... http://www.chrisgribble.com/2009/02/21/i-need-to-blog-more/ An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” -martin luther king, jr. Say no more. http://www.chrisgribble.com/2008/06/29/martin-luther-king-quote/