User:Michaelcenkner

Michael Cenkner is an educator and designer. His design work includes learning design, visual design and a form of "cultural design."

Learning Design

In the area of learning design he worked in Alberta Education (digital resource development), and MacEwan University and Athabasca University (online course development). In this roles he was able to bring his interests in the structuring of thinking processes by adaptations of de Bono's Six Thinking Hats to bear.

His current independent project in learning design is the online course, "Beauty and the Phi Ratio," available on the open-access Moodle site FreeMoodle.com (http://www.freemoodle.org/enrol/index.php?id=444). He is developing an eText to support the course, which is interdisciplinary and competency-based and aimed at homeschoolers and life-long learners. It uses the notion of "beauty" as a central point around which are organized activities intended to develop thinking skills and multiple intelligences. The activities will be curriculum correlated, clustering around junior high outcomes as described in the Alberta Program of Studies. The eText is expected to be published in the early summer of 2013.

Visual Design

Michael Cenkner has developed visual art based on the geometry of the phi ratio/Fibonacci series. The art can be viewed at his blog, michaelcenkner.com