Storytelling and Platform Innovations in Design Education
This Meeting's Highlights
Program: Storytelling and Platform Innovations in Design EducationSpeaker: Ian PollockMeeting for the week of March 21st to March 27th, 2016
Is this your first time to visit us? If so, welcome to our meeting!Each Monday our week's meeting is posted early in the morning, U.S. Pacific Time. These meetings are designed so that you can read and watch what we post anytime during the week. The entire meeting takes about 45 minutes to complete, with the video conference recording of the program being the bulk of the time.Note that you can easily read this meeting with your favorite device, so feel free to take our meeting on the go with you; read it while on public transit, waiting in line for coffee, or even at the park! Please also make sure to complete the attendance form at the bottom and leave a comment. Enjoy!
Welcome!
Message from our Club President
Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, where we work each week to highlight stories of innovation, entrepreneurship, and education!Two weeks ago, I spoke at a conference in Michigan, and saw this scene in the Grand Rapids airport as I approached the baggage claim area:It turns out that they are part of a church group that had adopted a Syrian refugee family, and this was their moment to welcome them. With so much news about conflict and hatred inundating us each day, it was downright energizing to see people in the act of showing the very best of who we can be.May this be a week when the kind words you say and the good deeds you do give hope to those needing to see the best of who we are!Rotarian guests, we ask that you consider contributing something - whatever for you is the regular cost of a Rotary meal, perhaps - to the efforts of our club. Please choose one of the options below:
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* To pay via Google Wallet, you'll need to log in to your account to donate.Those of you who prefer a more traditional approach can mail a check made out to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley to our treasurer: ℅ Allen Thompson, 13500 Cascade Ct., Bakersfield CA 93314.Non-Rotarian guests, there is no need for a donation from you. As we see it, your job is to simply enjoy what you read and watch, though at the end we do ask that you let us know you were here and also leave a comment letting us know what you think. This club is loaded with folks who love sharing ideas, and we look forward to your sharing yours!
Yours in service,
Rushton Hurley,
President
Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
The Power of Images
They say a picture says a thousand words. Every week we try to bring you a picture that we think will inspire you a thousand times.
We seek to share that which will allow us to see our world a little differently, and this week, our Camera Czar, Keith Marsh, treats us to another gem."Here is something completely different. On our way back from Yosemite, we were in awe of the almond orchards that were in bloom and stopped to take a few photos. With mid-day light, the trees were difficult to photograph so I thought I would try something different. A few of my photography friends like to do multiple exposures where the camera is moved just a fraction of an inch with each exposure to create an interesting abstract image. This can also be done with a zoom. For this photo, I set my DSLR for 10 multiple exposures (in-camera) and clicked off 10 exposures. With each click, I expanded the zoom just a fraction. You can still see that it is a tree, but the spent pedals on the ground make it look like snow."
Nice work, Keith. We all learn something when we try looking at our world a little differently!
The Power of Ideas
A good idea is one that catches our attention, and then catches our breath.
What have you heard that made you stop and see the world differently? There are quotes from people from the distant past, and quotes from those who live today. Our goal is to find the ones that intrigue us and share them with you.Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.- Marcus AureliusI'm not sure that's true. (Ha ha ha ha.)
The Power of Innovation
One thing the internet can do for us is give us a sense of the past. Consider this "news" piece on a historical phenomenon you may remember:
So are eclubs the Netflix to traditional clubs as Blockbuster?No.The development of Rotary is less about how we meet, and much more about what we can point to across time. That is to say, there are clubs that can only point to the past, and have very little to show for the now. However, no matter how young a club may be, its members have to continually tap their creativity to see what they can accomplish. The importance of focusing on what's possible is nothing new.What is new is the amazing variety of ways we can tell our stories - stories of what we've done, what we're trying, and what we're hope to craft. Let's keep pushing ourselves to ask what we can accomplish, and whom we can inspire, by telling the stories of what we do.
New Member Induction
One of the many things we can do to make a difference where it is needed is continue to expand the team of people contributing their talents to our efforts. This week, we do just that, bringing in one who has been away from Rotary too long.
Members, you may remember Linda Diekman's bio from a recent email, but we'll include a personal message from her below to remind you.
"I am Linda Diekman from Wilmette, Illinois, where I live in a circa-1890, Victorian-era home with my husband, Owen MacBride, our daughter Mary, and our rescue pup, Spencer. I work at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge as an Instructional Technology Coach helping teachers to integrate technology into their classroom practices. I was previously a member of the Glenview (Illinois) Sunrise Rotary group until a position change created a conflict with the club meeting time. I'm excited to be able to reunite with Rotary through the flexibility of the eClub of Silicon Valley. I have a masters degree in library science and enjoy reading, researching, and writing."
Linda, our board and our members have approved your application and we welcome you into our club. As you have learned in the application process and from the content of our meetings, we expect you to share your ideas, contribute your time to worthy causes, support projects of this club and The Rotary Foundation, attend weekly and participate actively, and encourage all those who are working to improve communities around the world.Let our club's focus on education, entrepreneurship, and innovation inform your thinking about possibilities for what you do.Know that the members of this club are here to support you and work with you.And finally, keep Rotary's Four-Way Test in your heart.
The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say or do:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
You are once again part of an organization of over 1.2 million women and men in over 34,000 clubs around the world. Our motto is Service Above Self, our members are glad you are with us and back in Rotary, and our belief is that you will help us make great things happen!
Welcome to our club, Linda! We're glad to have you with us!
Attend Our Club Events in the SF Bay Area!
While our meetings and programs occur weekly online, our Rotary club holds in-person events throughout the San Francisco bay area every month! We now have a group on Meetup.com for you to follow our upcoming events and RSVP for them.
Check us out at meetup.com/siliconvalleyrotary/ and join the Meetup group if you are interested in attending any of our events or future events!http://www.meetup.com/siliconvalleyrotary/
Our Events & Projects
This section of our meeting is where you learn about both recent and upcoming events and projects our club is leading or supporting. We welcome guests to all of our events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
Did you miss our past events? Come join us for any of our upcoming events! Guests, you are welcome too!All times are in Pacific Time (San Francisco, CA, USA time!)
This week!
Nightlife Exploration at the California Science Academy on Thursday, Mar 24th, 7p:
Come to San Francisco with our club to explore the amazing exhibits and experiences at the planetarium during the evening for California Science Academy’s Nightlife program! We will be meeting at the California Science Academy in San Francisco on Thursday, March 24th, at 7p for an exciting night of science adventures! Open to all members and guests. Please note you must be at least 21 years of age in order to enter Nightlife! Everyone will be responsible for purchasing their own tickets. Tickets are $15 from the California Science Academy. If you are going, please RSVP on our Meetup page here. We will be meeting at 6 PM in front of the ticket booth area! Please RSVP on Meetup so we know to look for you.
We hope to see you this Thursday in San Francisco! Here are some photos from Nightlife:
In Upcoming Weeks:
Justin’s House Chili Cookoff on Sunday, Apr 24th, 9:30a-3p:
Do you think you have the best chili in town? We’re putting together a team (maximum 4 people) for the first Justin’s House Chili Cookoff, to be held Sunday, April 24th, in Santa Clara, from 9:30 to 3:00. We’re helping raise money for a great cause during a fun day of ‘competition’ and food. We could win, too! If you’re interested, find out more about the Justin’s House Chili Cookoff day by clicking here. To learn how you can get involved with our club's team, please email Gene Tognetti (gene.tognetti@gmail.com).
Food Sorting at Second Harvest Food Bank on Saturday, May 7th, 9a-12p:
Come join us for a morning of sorting food at Second Harvest Food Bank! We will be at the Cypress Center in San Jose. This event will be capped at 5 people, with priority going to those whom we haven't seen out at an event yet. If you are interested, RSVP with Andrew Taw at service@siliconvalleyrotary.com. Confirmations of attendees will be finalized no later than Saturday, April 30th. Due to the limited spaces for this service project, Club Members will have priority registration until April 17, 2016. After April 17, signups will be opened to members of the public through our Meetup group.
For Our Members: Min-e-Grants
Support a Good Cause with a Min-e-GrantAs we announced last week, the club will consider suggestions from our members to support a good cause. To do so, the member should make a case through our Min-e-Grant process, identifying a third party (another Rotary club, perhaps) which will match what our club donates to an appropriate cause.Sound intriguing? If so, read the rules, gather what's needed, and make something happen!
Rotary eClub of Silicon Vally Min-e-Grants
The World of Rotary
We are part of the Rotary International family, with over 1.2 million members in over 180 countries around the world. Rotary’s reach is global. Here we tell our members and guests about Rotary’s initiatives and events.
Triple Your Donation to End Polio
from Governor Susan ValentaBecause of Rotary and its partners, the world has seen a 99% drop in the number of polio cases. But the fight is not over. And we need your help. We ask you to contribute to The Rotary Foundation's Polio Plus campaign, so we can reach our goal of complete worldwide eradication of this dread disease.
For the month of March, Rotary District 5170 is conducting a "Flash" campaign - you know, sort of like the "Flash" sales that retailers conduct. For the month of March, we ask that you contribute a one-time $30 to The Rotary Foundation, in support of the End Polio Now campaign. Why $30? Because if every Rotarian in our district contributed $30, we would raise a total of $120,000 toward the polio effort.
These funds will be matched 2 to 1 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, resulting in $360,000 toward the effort to eradicate the disease!
What inspired us to do this is the Rotary International’s cycling team, led by General Secretary John Hewko, which will Ride Across America for Polio in June. The organizers of that event determined that if every Rotarian in the United States contributes $30, the total raised would be $10,000,000 and, when matched by the Gates Foundation, it would become $30,000,000. So we asked ourselves, "Why not be a part of this?"
Your support would mean a lot. You will support the Rotary cycling team with your contributions. The total will be reported to them and included in the (we hope) $10,000,000 that they hope to reach. Your contribution will receive full recognition points to your first (or next) Paul Harris level.
If you and your club have already contributed to polio, please take this one extra step and write a $30 check in support of this effort. We will let you know how we did when the campaign ends, on March 31st!
Members, you can go to our Donate page now and indicate that the donation is for ending polio to be part of this, and we'll send one check next week to the district. Let's all take part!
Service Survey
Have you covered the cost of a sandwich for someone who was hungry? Have you given time to an organization that does something that's important to you? Have you let us know about it?Each week, we ask our members to tell us of the service, small and grand, that has been a part of their week. Click below and tell; what you share may inspire that which will help someone who desperately needs the kindness of others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Happy Dollars
Happy Dollars is the segment of our meeting where anyone can choose to make a voluntary donation to tell us a short story about something good that has happened to them this past week. Maybe someone paid for your coffee, gave you a ride somewhere, or you got a job promotion.
Happy dollar notes from last week:Why do we share a thought and a donation? It happens for many reasons, and among them is the chance it provides to share our stories with each other. This week, we're happy to include a message from a guest, who reminds us that this is a great month to help end a horrible disease!from guest Rob King ($30)Rotary - $30 becomes $90 with this March 'Flash' PolioPlus Campaign!!Members - an honored guest has started it for us! Let's all join in!
Member Birthdays
We are in a stretch without birthdays, but are looking ahead to April, when we'll celebrate those of Chris Cochrane and Gene Tognetti. Have you ever had someone surprise you in some interesting way? If so, please let us know about it in your comment at the end!
The Tidbit
Every week we bring to you a new life hack or tech hack that makes your everyday life a little bit more convenient.
This week, we offer up another nice keyboard shortcut for those working on a Mac!
A Little Humor
We think a chuckle and a smile is a good way to spend a moment. Well, friends, here are our attempts to bring on both!
Last week we got perspectives on knowledge from Brewster Kahle. This week, we'll hear from Ian Pollock with perspectives on stories and innovation. Here's another perspective on perspectives:
A buddhist monk approaches a burger food truck and says "make me one with everything." The buddhist monk pays with a $20 bill, which the vendor takes, puts in his cash box, and closes the lid. "Where's my change?" the monk asks. The vendor replies, "change comes from within."
This search bore fruit at the Higher Perspectives web site.
Selected Comments from Last Week
There is no club nor organization so good at what it does that it has no way to improve. We ask for our members' and guests' impressions of the meeting and program each week, with the hope that reading about what strikes them as interesting will help us improve what we do.
Last week, President-elect Mitty presided over a fascinating meeting capped by a powerful message about possibilities with knowledge from Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive. You can read all the comments by going back to that meeting, and we'll give you a handful of them here, as well.
Comments from last week:
From guest Mary Anne Kramer-Urner (California, USA),
"Really enjoyed the meeting. I'm a member of Santa Cruz Sunrise club, but was inspired to attend an eClub meeting after your club president spoke at our meeting. Thanks for welcoming everyone to attend!"
From member Nate Gildart (Tokyo, Japan),
"I enjoyed being a part of your presentation Brewster, and was quite blown away. (part of my job is helping faculty and students alike learn with technology, as well as foster digital literacy, academic honesty, etc. The resources available on the Internet Archive are simply incredible. What brilliant work you and your team have done! I'm working it into my classes.
Keith, another awesome photo! Loved the 360 video! I'm going to learn how to make a 360 video. Our Google Educator Group has an event coming in May that will be perfect for this!"
From member Brian Liddicoat (California, USA),
"OMG: I LOVE THE INTERNET ARCHIVE! If you grew up playing Apple II games in the early 80s, this place is HEAVEN. Now, having said that, let's talk about something important that is holding back the Internet Archive, a black mark on an otherwise noble cause. That is, your copy of the classic Atari 800 game "Caverns of Mars" does NOT work. I played this game all day every day at TimberTech computer camp in Scotts Valley back in the 4th Grade. This MUST be fixed. Until "Caverns of Mars" works in my browser, the "best works of humankind are not yet available to our children", as you so nobly said."
From member Linda Diekman (Illinois, USA),
"As a librarian, I've been aware of the Internet Archive for some time and have used it's amazing collection as a resource. Loved hearing Brewster talk about universal access to information, something that the profession holds dear. After I finish this comment, I may go play "Oregon Trail" again, just for old times' sake."
From member Tzviatko Chiderov (Nairobi, Kenya),
"Brewster, this is really impressive. I can hardly think of a more noble use of the internet than what you are doing. I love that I can go to archive.org to play 1983 Pacman, see 1969 NASA images of the moon landing, or even watch a 1912 video of the Titanic. Wow."
From member Gene Tognetti (California, USA),
"I've always wanted to know more about the internet archive, and this was an excellent recap! Brewster, I totally agree with you - the web's 'info' needs to be all inclusive and not just the superficial stuff. What a phenomenal (and kind of mind boggling) service you're providing! This was one of the best presentations we've had. Way to go, Mitty - nice overall meeting - well done!"
From guest Ferheen Abbasi (Osaka, Japan),
"Brewster, that was incredible. The moment you said in your presentation that archive.org has a bunch of old software, I quickly went to the website, went to software and a wave of nostalgia hit me as a clicked Sega Genesis, my first ever gaming console, and watched a stream of Sonic the Hedgehog 1, the first game I ever played. That was a really beautiful moment for me - thank you. Your piece about sustainability and having debt-free apartments was phenomenal. What an incredible organization to provide such a service to your employees. Also, the idea that whatever that is on the internet is easy to access but the things that are not are difficult is so true. When I was in college, I naively thought that all the research I needed to do for my papers would be a simple google search away but there were so many articles/books that weren't available online. I had to get the physical copy from the library, or wait until it was returned or transferred from another library! Thank you so much for your presentation! PS. Gorgeous picture of Yosemite, Keith! I miss California :("
The Program
Every week we work to bring our members and guests speakers who think about and act on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education in fascinating ways.
This week, we'll delve into the creative work of the Graduate Multimedia Program at California State University, East Bay. Our speaker, Ian Pollock, will highlight and present some of the innovative projects of students and the ways in which we think about leaderless creative teams for the 21st century.Professor Pollock is an artist, activist, and educator, and directs the Graduate Multimedia Program at the California State University, East Bay. His areas of interest include neuroscience and game making, creative team building, using technology to map intrinsic bias, and guerrilla grafting.Members and guests, welcome Ian Pollock!
Links:Take a longer look at the sand noise device.The Master of Arts in Multimedia Graduate Program has other projects you can discover on its YouTube channel.There is more information about the graduate program available to the interested, or better yet, come to one of their information sessions.Here are direct links to the Guerrilla Grafters Project and the Bias Map Project.You can also learn more about Ian (his exhibits, publications, and more) at his CSU East Bay faculty page.
Upcoming Programs
Week of Mar 28th: Lowell Sheppard - Lessons for Business and Life from Cycling and the Tsunami Stones
Week of Apr 4th: John Hewko, General Secretary of Rotary International - Rotary: The Original Social Network
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