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AWS EC2: Hello World – Forward to the Past

December 12th, 2013 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I enter the world of cloud computing and learn that, once again, we go forward to the past. I finally did it. I entered the world of actual virtual cloud computing. Not just Facebooking or DropBoxing, but actual computing. Well, not much computing, but making a few bits move. Earlier this year […]

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Tags: Computing · Internet · Learning · Linux · Technology

HealthCare.Gov – An Excellent and Terrible Teaching Example

November 14th, 2013 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Take care when choosing an example for teaching. Often what seem to be great examples are terrible in that people concentrate on the unintended. I have taken a lot of courses related to project management. I have taught a few. I have read a lot of books on project management, and, as […]

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Tags: Communication · Education · General Systems Thinking · Learning · Teaching

The Personal Learning Environment

October 17th, 2013 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I learn a few things about learning environments. I recently attended a conference on innovation in education at George Mason University. I am not a professional educator and, to be candid, I never thought much about professional educators. To show that I am not all cold hearted and stone headed, I learned […]

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Tags: Education · Learning

Prior Experience

September 26th, 2013 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Every organization and endeavor is unique to a degree, but not absolutely unique. Learn the prior experience of each person and find a way to benefit from it. LikeĀ  many of my (hi)stories, this one is from yet another experience with morons in government. I had 20 years experience in the larger […]

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Tags: Learning · Management · People

Public Funding of Research

March 11th, 2013 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Once again we have a controversy about who owns publicly funded research. There is much debate recently about who owns the results of research that is funded by the public. See here for one article on recent policy statements. The simple answer is that when the public funds research, the public should […]

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Tags: Government · Learning

Selecting Our Teachers

November 26th, 2012 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Everyday I select a few teachers. Note, no one else selects them for me. It is all my selection. As with most aspects of life, there are good and bad points here. We all have teachers – people from whom we learn things. Tiny, rural Loranger High School graduated me a few […]

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Tags: Choose · Learning

Knowing What You are Doing

August 13th, 2012 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There is no substitute for knowing what you are doing. I love working with people who know what they are doing. They come to the workplace, see challenges in front of them, and eagerly plow into the work. Short pause – I don’t live in LaLaLand. I live and work in the […]

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Tags: Learning · Work

Learning Environments

July 30th, 2012 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips A learning environment is one where people can learn. It may not be a teaching environment as that focuses on the teachers instead of the learner. Several years back, author and consultant Jerry Weinberg told me a story about learning. The story telling was years ago, so my memory will fail me […]

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Tags: Learning

A Lesson about using Apple Computers

July 26th, 2012 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I learn how NOT to backup an Apple computer. Apple has a piece of software called “Time Machine.” It automates backups. The software puts all the files on the computer disk into a “big ball of bytes” on a backup disk. You must have Time Machine to access the individual files in […]

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Tags: Apple · Computing · Learning

Free Time

July 19th, 2012 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Giving employees free time may bring great new ideas and products. Not giving employees free time may cause them to “try things” while working on projects. The projects often suffer. I have met many engineers, programmers, administrators, and others who have great imagination. Ideas come to them (I used to be one […]

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Tags: Learning · Management