CURRENT MISSION To help shape the future ABOUT ME My formal bio is this: Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of nearly 300 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to support learning, research, and creative expression. He is an acknowledged expert on the effective application of new media in many contexts, and has worked extensively to build common ground among museums and universities across North America and in more than a dozen other countries. I will be back with an informal one soon.. PHILOSOPHY Life is too short for drama
Interested in Blues
Fluent in English
Pioneer Badge
4 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING We have hosted several CS parties at our home that were organized by my son Alejandro Johnson COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Not much, but my wife and I are extremely well traveled.
Music, Movies, and Books
I am in many respects a writer. I have written several books, and tons of chapters and academic articles. Love to read and don't get to as much as I wish Love film -- the couch has a full size home theater Music is a theme of my life -- see interests
One Amazing Thing I've Done
there are many many of these...
Teach, Learn, Share
need to put some thought to this....
My Interests
music -- I am an avid guitarist, with some proficiency in the blues photography -- I shoot every single day. I am in the process of uploading my stuff to Flickr -- see some here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drljohnson/ My life's work is to explore emerging technologies and how they can be applied to learning. This is a passion that drives much of what I do. See www.nmc.org for more
