Last night I was thrilled to check my message inbox on kickstarter to find they had approved the project!

Thanks Kickstarter!

And thanks to my brooklynite friend Lee, who intrested me in Kickstarter in December. And, thanks to my wife Amy who did editing kung fu on my proposal while caring for our little daughter at the same time!
I'm super excited to switch into a higher gear as the project goes live, around next week sometime. I'm working on the video and doing sketch sessions for the mini book and top level incentives right now. The sun is out and my shop is humming with pre-production.

Logged into taskstream today and was greeted with this. have to complete it before I can continue. Not sure why this is here. It says national is collecting data, but it seems like National should have all this data about me??

A friend sent me a link to applying for a pilot of Google's chrome OS noteboook. Never hurts to try. I currently really want to try using an iPad as well, but I really think something like the ChromeOS notebook is potentially much more free. I thought it would be a great experiment if I got to try it out and try to live entirely on a web brower. My ideals certainly lead me to believe that the future is the brower, but it is all too easy to be seduced by our desktop predecessors with it's "unlimited" speed and storage and applications. But if we are going to embrace the web in all it's glory, we need to, well, embrace the web.
I have for years thought that our youth today are only going to know the internet when they become responsible adults and take over the workings of the world. But if we look at what is going on in our schools, the situation is very messy. We have an old system, trying to make sense of and provide access to a new system, the internet. But somewhere along the way, the internet seems to remain something outside of 'how things are done', so we have competing systems. What we need is a complete embrace of the internet, because there is just no use in pitting one against the other. The internet will win, it's only a matter of how. So lets get crackin, and make education over again on the web.

This is my 6th class at National university to get my Industrial arts teaching credential. I have nailed down my workflow on this website to capture my process and share my ideas and build my shop model that I will take to a public school shop. I got behind on my reflections for TED624 after the first class, so I will pick up with a reflection on the second class.

Why can't CTE model start before the school system does. this would literally build a new foundation under the old failing system.
the basics of Career technical can be applied to play for the preschool curriculum. Academic standards can be mapped to children's interests in the home, and build a road map for entering the school setting.
career and tech model is based around te formation of coop business structure. Coop between teacher and student and also teacher and professional.
The role relationships are are a spectrum people can float between all three roles based on their own decisions and work, as well as peer review.
if CTE model is adopted by parents early the co-op model comes into play as a period of parent leave, where parents can work in cooperation with other parents and care providers, in conjunction with other work on a limited basis.
I was looking through the book, Making Toys that Teach, and thought of mixing the CTE/industrial arts standards and practice with early childhood dev, by building toys. Math standards are applicable too. This could function in a CTE wheel type course, where students have to get broad exposure to arts and home econ, etc. This is an example of a very standards dense curriculum.