I can be reached at:
drhanzonscience@gmail.com
I have been busy with my
AstralMonkJames project, establishing a site that provides troubled people a
place to find comfort and understanding. I trained as a Roman Catholic monk for
six years and spend the next eight years teaching in Catholic High Schools and
a Catholic college. I withdrew from the Order (De La Salle Christian Brother)
and continued doing church music during about fifteen of my twenty years with
the DoDDS (Army) community schools in Germany. (1974-1995).
Another order of Brothers invited me to Bangkok as a visiting professor of
education in July 2005, and by October 2005, and I moved into the Office of the
President as his editor. I was not a monk again, but enjoyed working with the
Thai Brothers.
I decided to return to the life of a monk, but creating my own religious
Brotherhood/Sisterhood of people who feel called to a more transforming way of
life. I am married, but living at a distance from my second wife. I live alone
in a large apartment complex and on the door to my study/office/studio I placed
a framed notice: "Bro. James' Cloister."
I will be visiting the county clerk of court to register as an ordained
minister. I arranged the legal ordination on-line.
I'm posting this on my Lou-Vee-Air blog to let you know that I have taken
this new role in life, but still maintain my practice of fostering hands on
science through my blogs and my downloadable Teachers' Manual and Handbook. It
is there to supplement my mass-produced Lou-Vee-Air(tm)Car, which is now in its
sixth iteration.
Students who go through the method I detail in my fully illustrated eBook
will experience the whole exciting process of quantitative and qualitative
research and will learn
to invent a new
educational product of their own while working in a team of two to four
learners (of any age, grade 7 through the PhD). The will also learn to develop,
document, and demonstrate their invention, and are encouraged to present their
worksheets and designs to their teacher (or parents, if homeschooled) who will
screen them and may submit them to me for possible publication on a Student
Research Website. If published, they can expect to receive feedback with peer
reviews.
The eBook is easy to download. It is constantly being revised. It contains
not only the photographs illustrating the assembly and use of the Mk 6 AirCars
and the product development activities, but reprints of letters I've received
from supervisors, educators, parents and students, but useful reprints of
articles I've published in journals and on-line. It even features profiles of
three of my hero-scientists who are also outstanding educators, like Seymour
Papert of MIT, who advocates "hard fun" and invented the LOGO
computer language for young children, David Hestenes of Arizona State, the
astronomer who founded "Modeling Physics," and Robert E. Landsman,
neuroscientists and founder of the ANOVA publishing company.
Thanks for reading this long blog post. It marks a new stage of my very
happy life. I wish you every endless joy and success in all you do.
"DrHanzonScience" (see YouTube) AKA AstralMonkJames P Louviere
