This site was created at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City, largely during 1999. The site's drawings and comments reflect several things about my experience and work during the last decade, 1990-1999. In that decade, a growing portion of my focus in teaching and research has shifted toward the globalization of education, reflecting the Twentieth Century's broader globalization of human society. Making and studying both art and music have always been important parts of my like, and the amazing blend of local and global culture in both makes them particularly important to education today, as we try to come to terms with current levels of globalization and prepare for greater future levels. As an active computer educator over the decades since 1970, I have been well aware of developments in digital technology, including the global implications of the Internet and its predecessors like Bitnet. Inevitably, creating websites has attracted my interest and occupied considerable time and effort in this decade. Websites can feature both art and music, and can provide a powerful world-wide forum for exploring globalization and its impact, using either or both.This site is only one of a number since 1996 that I have created, alone or with others, to explore these ideas. All the sites have something to do with education, in some degree with redressing the imbalance (1) between learning based on text and learning based on other representations of intelligence, and (2) between societal understanding based on local, narrow outlooks and that based on a broader, more global outlook. Of course, though challenging, it has been very enjoyable to conceptualize and create new sites during this period, too. Many of those in Related Taylor websites (below) are examples of my own work in this area, documenting the manipulation of images once digitized, and exploring the powerful new possibilities for concurrent exhibition that the web makes possible. At least one site there, Recital also incorporates the presentation of both art and music.
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