http://herocamp.net good apples come from good barrels Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:38:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This card is virtually passed along to Henry Halff for furthering the cause by sharing this video... Henry, sorry for spilling the beans on your last name. I understand that Akoholics Anonymous keeps 'em secret. Does anyone know any financial engineers and Wall Street wunderkinds we could play a card like this ... http://herocamp.net/2008/10/additional-cards/ Photos from Houston Slideshow I am a true believer in the power of reflection. Artifacts light up dim neural pathways, keeping them front of mind. Enjoy the pictures. If you were in the room, take a moment to reflect on what was going on at the time. jay http://herocamp.net/2008/10/camp-photos/ Streaming video of Day 3 sessions in Houston http://herocamp.net/2008/10/video-of-october-25-discussions/ Today, we made awesome progress! We picked a project and we started to work on it. I'm exhausted, but elated and I'm super proud of the amazing people here who have worked so hard over the past couple of days to get to this point. Lemme tell ya, it ain't ... http://herocamp.net/2008/10/the-herocamp-project/ Risk / sacrifice Recognition of Injustice Psychological Preparation Willingness to be Different Acting Altruism Being conscious recognizing change/action is needed self-empowerment sense of justice not celebrity http://herocamp.net/2008/10/elements-of-a-heroic-act/ Hi HeroCamp! From Zim himself! http://herocamp.net/2008/10/dr-zimbardo-sends-a-message-to-herocamp/ I was having a coffee yesterday with the amazing Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, regarding HeroCamp. Marina shares many things in common with me, passion for public education, want to change the world, willingness to sacrifice alot to get there...as well as being the mother ... http://herocamp.net/2008/09/goal-of-herocamp/ I thought this one is appropriate because, although we all care deeply about education (liberals and conservatives), we tend to approach the solution to the current woes in education VERY differently. No Child Left Behind, for instance, which was inspired by a conservative focus on solutions to fixing the education ... http://herocamp.net/2008/09/jonathan-haidt-discusses-morality-at-ted/ See this at TED here. http://herocamp.net/2008/09/sir-ken-robinson-talks-about-schools-killing-creativity-at-ted/ Watch it at the TED site here. http://herocamp.net/2008/09/dr-phil-zimbardo-discusses-good-and-evil-at-ted/