Announcing my New Adventures as the Scientific Astral Monk!

        
           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