Comments for Steve and Pam Wise

Comment on Urban Community Health Education by Steve and Pam Wise

Steve and Pam Wise — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:04:26 +0000

@Jon: Read the article and found it spot on. Pam and I were in a church cell group 10 years ago that was studying ‘Experiencing God’ by Henry Blackaby. Good book, good study. Key phrase? “Find where God is working and join Him there.” We are still doing that 10 years out. The article is a secular interpretation of the same principle. Thanks for the link.

Comment on Urban Community Health Education by jonandnic

jonandnic — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:27:31 +0000

Cool, related article, I read at LeadershipNetwork a couple weeks ago:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/142/switch-how-to-change-things-when-change-is-hard.html

Comment on Manila, Philippines by Steve and Pam Wise

Steve and Pam Wise — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:23:10 +0000

Nice to hear from you Laura- we appreciate your prayers and encouragement so much. The gray thing in the picture is an old Karaoke machine without the electronics which I guess they pulled out of the garbage and found some use for in their house.

You need to do what Steve does – he just keeps buying the $5 magnifying glasses so that he has so many that he can always find some glasses laying around.

God bless

Pam

Comment on Manila, Philippines by Laura Fulford

Laura Fulford — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:09:48 +0000

Hello my dear friends,

I finally found the short cut that Chris made for me to your site ( technology and I are like water and oil ) and was found your posting for today. It would appear that I have quite a bit of reading to do to catch up. Chris usually keeps me up-dated with your news now and again but I feel I need to follow myself more closely now. I was just checking my mail before heading to my cosy bed but somehow it will not feel as cosy tonight. Pictures do say a thousand words and I thank you for posting these. Can you tell me what the grey thing is in the second picture and is that someone inside? My eyes are weary and I lost my glasses yesterday. They are in the house somewhere hiding on me.

As always you are missed so much and at times I am find myself being selfish wishing you were here. It surely helps my heart knowing that God took you and uses you where you are. I found your picture that we keep on the fridge yesterday ( still unpacking – perhaps I should use a more updated one ) and as soon as I get to the magnets we will be able to see you each day.

As always praying for your health, safety, the work you do and the doors that will next open. Smiles and love, Laura. <

Comment on Crash, Burn and Learn by jonandnic

jonandnic — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:10:53 +0000

You can use our library cards and borrow the books! We have an account with the region here in Ontario, and in Redmond. There’s tons of free books that you can take out for 2-3 weeks at a time.

Comment on Crash, Burn and Learn by Steve and Pam Wise

Steve and Pam Wise — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:01:16 +0000

Amazon has started to recognize the new reality with their lending program, and I intend to push that in the future. I have had to buy a whole pile of literature through Amazon to get caught up on the new literary scene myself. There was a list of 50 books making the rounds on Facebook a couple of months back. I had read 42 of them. But that was old school stuff: Dickens and the Bronte sisters. I compiled a list of the 122 books that my students have selected to read for this semester. I have read 22!

What I am trying to do over here – and I’m the only one in a department of eight, all young bucks, who is pushing the envelope like this – is both costly and a little intimidating. Read 100 new books between now and the end of May? Are you kidding me? But that is the task I have set myself, and although failure is inevitable, it will not be permanent. Because even if I have built that mountain too high for one term, there is another term, and another. And I will get there. And you know that is true because you have the same fire in your belly as well. God put it there. And so long as it burns, I can’t quit!

Comment on Crash, Burn and Learn by Jon Wise

Jon Wise — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:47:27 +0000

The difference is that in the digital world you’re not actually *buying* anything — you’re *licensing* it. Read those agreements carefully when you sign up for an account! Its dumb, but its how the old world is comfortable moving forward.
By all means, individually you should push at those limits and use your licensed content however you see fit — even if you have to circumvent the technology attempting to limit that fair use.

For your students, though, you do them a better service by teaching them how to leverage technology legally — and by demonstrating that, whether or not the legal system has caught up, it still needs to be respected. Especially in Malaysia where they probably don’t grow up recognizing that those laws exist, or that they have value.

Look into Amazon’s lending system — it works pretty well, and most of the publishers are on board.

The founders of Kno first started out with a textbook rental service, and I think they have digital content sharing built in to their platform as well.

Comment on Crash, Burn and Learn by Steve and Pam Wise

Steve and Pam Wise — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:53:10 +0000

Wow! That is a great lead! I will check into that one, thanks!

Comment on Crash, Burn and Learn by Liz

Liz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:09:32 +0000

*a year, sorry
And, you cant print the pages of the books you have ‘checked-out’ which is what I do with the study guides.
I don’t know with internet censorship if your students would have access to the site, but its worth taking a look.

Comment on Crash, Burn and Learn by Liz

Liz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:19:06 +0000

Well, it sounds like you have plenty of your own ideas. But just to put it out there, I recently needed a textbook for school (that I will probably never use after this) and the campus bookstore wanted me to buy it for over $150!
Instead I looked for it online, legal sources first then from the other sites, torrents, etc. and I still couldn’t find it either for free or for a price that I thought was reasonable. Finally I found a site called Course Smart (coursesmart.com)
You can buy a hard copy, but you can also “check-out” an e-book from their online library and access the books on your “bookshelf” from anywhere, as long as you have a screen and an internet connection. You can rent the book for year before you have to check it out again. It cost me $15. And they had thousands of books.