Change Analysis Reflection Week 5







I did a lot of thinking about Transformational Leadership this week. Clearly! It is the kind of leader that I would hope to be, but sometimes it's hard to sustain that level of passion and energy. When I received the Klein Award this year, I was filled with gratitude, but also some level of satisfaction.  Is this an indication that I am becoming a Transformational Leader? Transforming into one, perhaps?

I've been spending a great deal of time in Virtual worlds, interacting with other educators there and really enjoying the vibrant, collaborative community. This is so much fun, and so invigorating. There's nothing like sharing ideas to excite and inspire. I've been invited to apply for a space to continue my project at the Non-Profit Commons, and I absolutely will. 

Change....

This catclysm has forced a huge change on us all. 
It's allowed parts of me to grow and shine. 
I'm letting the path lead me, it seems to know what it's doing.




Digital Climate Crisis Tartan
An Educational Data Visualization Project in Second Life
June Julian
Julian Crooks, Rodrick B. MacLennan
The Climate Crisis Tartan will debut online as an educational pilot project in Second Life
in collaboration with Julian Crooks. The objective of the project is to visually present the
Climate Crisis research data that was collected by June Julian and Rodrick B.
MacLennan, and to create an educational data visualization model for students using
Tartan patterns. Combining art and archaeology, the researchers were awarded the
prestigious Explorers Club Flag in 2015 and 2017, where they recorded the current
status of archaeological sites on the Isles of Vallay and North Uist, Scotland, as
impacted by climate change.
The project will be virtually displayed as a large-scale computer projection in The
Viridian Gallery in Second Life, as created by Julian Crooks. The crisscrossed
horizontal and vertical bands in the Tartan pattern refer to the erosion impact status
upon the archaeology sites using the variables of sea erosion, wind erosion, intertidal
status and entirely gone, as vertical and horizontal bar graphs as warp and weft. The
distribution of the Tartan’s colored bands in the design will quantitatively reference the
qualitative analysis made from the field observations in the researchers’ published
reports. The digital tartan will be projected on a virtual large hanging woven fabric (60”
by 162”) in the style of The Great Kilt. The project will provide immediate awareness of
the threats to worldwide coastal heritage in a non-verbal way and provide a data
visualization method for students using Tartans.
Double Diamond Archaeology http://www.doublediamondarchaeology.org/




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