Karen Ellis Biography
TEACHER, Author and Publisher of Print and Online Media.

HISTORY

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It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website. It was, not surprisingly, a pretty basic one — according to CERN:

Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address centered on information regarding the WWW project. Visitors could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information. There are no screenshots of this original page and, in any case, changes were made daily to the information available on the page as the WWW project developed. You may find a later copy (1992) on the World Wide Web Consortium website.

Imagine, in 1991 there I was using a modem, bulletin boards and Lynks connection then 300, baud modem, then upgraded to 1200, 2400 bps, 9600 bps, 14.4k, 56 kp, 36.6k,baud, 56k, DSL, and now cable.

Nov. 3 1992 On the day that Bill Clinton is first elected U.S. president, there are 50 pages on the World Wide Web.

2021 Currently I am offering K12 Schools across the nation access to STEAM classroom projects for financial literacy that includes Bitcoin educational technology, mining and interdisciplinary projects. K12PlayGround.org

My work just seamlessly moved from the meatspace playground to the cyberplayground: from publishing offline to publishing online. This was an organic, authentic process, a path that I followed in my life. That's the short story of how I got here.

Guavaberry Books
Published the compilation titled " Domino" in 1990 using Pagemaker and a Mac 68000.
Picture of my first computer 1990
(Way back in 1985-86 the Apple IIc starter system cost $1098.00)

After watching American Bandstand everyday when I came home in school, I knew I wanted to play the guitar. The problem was that as a little kid the guitar was to big for me. That is why in 1963 I started to study the ukele with George Britton at the Jenkintown Music School who was heavily involved with the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which he and Tossi Aaron helped establish in 1962, and that's how I met my friend Joel Bernstein (Ringleader on this site) who was in my class. Tossi also taught Joel how to play guitar and at his request took him to the Main Point club to hear Joni Mitchell play, and take photographs and eventually became the music archivist for America and the world. Tossi was the one who started his career and mine.

My Best Advice

FEELING FREE?
That happens when you are improvising, being in the moment, but in the end you are really only free to pick the structure you want, and to study; because everyone is interdependent, and that is the fact of life. The more you study the structure you've picked to live within, using those boundaries to figure out how to solve something; the more depth of knowledge you will achieve!!

Collect the Oral Culture of Children's Playground Chants and Folk Songs.

What do you want to show off? Click Here and link to the video of children's achievements! in your school.

The Best Way
to Sum Me Up

culture keeper

A researcher filmed children romping in a school playground at lunch hour each seemed to be "doing his own thing." When they played it and rolled the film, the two fit perfectly-- for all of the film's four and a half minutes. But there was no music playing in that playground, says the author, "Without knowing it, they were all moving to a beat they generated themselves." music and rhythm are part of what draw us into the larger body of the superorganism.

Early in 2002 I helped Allan Slutcky produce 2x Grammy Winning and Nominated for Best Documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

Careful study showed that the group was moving in synchrony to a silent rhythm
But careful analysis revealed that the group was moving to a unified rhythm. One Little Girl, far more active than the rest, covered the entire schoolyard in her play. Hall and his student realized that without knowing it, she was "the director" and "the orchestrator."

I wear many Hats

I'm a teacher, culture keeper, researcher, thought leader, author, publisher of print and online media, webmistress, web developer, consultant, lecturer, interdisciplinary curriculum content developer, blogger, tweeter, online publicist, and the overall RingLeader for the Educational CyberPlayGround.

Imagine helping over 2 million people a year since 1998! Which explains why I'm on the net and not in the meatspace classroom.

Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) Wins 2 Grammys

IMDB Special Thanks to Karen Ellis

HONORING THE UNKNOWN CULTURE MAKERS

	I was involved with Allan Slutsky and the Funk Brothers and went to the Grammys because we won for Standing In The Shadows of Motown 2003. Don't miss Pics of the Movie Screening

I was proud to be part of the production of the movie "Standing In The Shadows of Motown" with my friends Allan Slutsky and the Funk Brothers After years of playing music as the studio band for Motown Records in virtual anonymity, The Funk Brothers received their long overdue acknowledgement as an integral part of rock and roll history.

• 2002 Best Non-Fiction Film National Society of Film Critics Awards
• 2002 Best Non-Fiction Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 2002 Best Documentary: Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics' Choice Award Nominee

Allan Slutsky and Carla Benson both helped me out with the National Children's Folksong Repository where you CAN contribute folksongs and chants to the online archive and document more unknown culture makers .

Mission Statement

Improving literacy through arts education and advocacy by providing collaborative and interdisciplinary resources for understanding world culture.

CULTURE

I witnessed when the original internet became big in the 90s the "golden era" of the internet - before legislation, surveillance and monopolisation took control. In 2014 the darknet has the potential to be a bastion of free speech and creativity, where art can escape surveillance and commercialism.

We care about teaching children to read, the arts, language rights, and censorship .

Reading and Culture Making

Honoring the unknown culture maker must run in the family.

Dr. Leon Eisenberg influenced my work.

David Goldenberg collected the earliest jazz ever recorded!!

We helped uncover the origin of the word JAZZ
with American Book Award Winner Professer Dan Cassidy with research on Scholar Peter Tamony for How the Irish Invented Slang .
Subtitle: The Secret Language of the Crossroads - unknown culture makers . Crossroads Irish-American Festival 2006 March 1 - 11, 2006, San Francisco

In 1976-79 during my lunch hour when teaching at Ricardo Richards elementary school on St. Croix, U.S.V.I. I collected children's indigenous playground poetry then copyrighted the live sound field recording compilation in 1979 when Joe Hickerson was the director of the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.
This photo was taken during the 1957 Folksmiths tour of summer camps.
(L-r): David Sweet, Joe Hickerson , Chuck Crawford, Ruth Weiss, Sarah Newcomb.

I also know Dr. Alan Jabbour who helped me to integrate Folk Music, Folklore, Traditional Culture Instruction, and Technology into K-12 Education.

Visit the National Children's Folksong Repository

I care about teaching children to read.
I care about those who come to school speaking other than standard english.

I care about Language Liberation , access, and protecting our right to know. We have the right to know.

In the same tradition of honoring The Funk Brothers who were previously " unknown culture makers " I used Orff Schulwerk to recover the indigenous playground poetry from the children, who are also "unknown culture makers" to develop a Folksong Reading Module , a thematic reading curriculum for children who only spoke Creole and Spanish on the Island of St. Croix, U.S., Virgin Islands in 1976 to 1979.

MY WAY BETTER 1/2

Karen Ellis + Steve Arone with Star 1998	Karen, Steve & Mollie 1999
Newly Weds 7/20/02	5th Wedding Anniversary 7/19/07
	Barcelona.es
Just	"Do It"

CLIENTS

Definition of Mistress: ECP CLIENTS

Educational CyberPlayGround® provides Web Site Development and Hosting Services.

WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT -- ON THE INTERNET SINCE 1991

CALL THE EXPERT KAREN ELLIS - 276.633.0388 EASTERN TIME

1. A woman who has power, authority, or ownership.
2. A female teacher or tutor.
   

WEBMISTRESS n.

The alias or role - of the person(s) responsible for the development and maintenance of one - or more web servers and/or some or all of the web pages at a web site.

CYBRARIAN n.
A librarian who can maneuver through cyberspace with ease, plucking information from its farthest reaches. The term was coined, according to library legend, by Michel Bauwens, an entrepreneur and founding member of a Belgian think tank called the Fourth Wave, which considers the implications of the digital revolution.

WEBLIGORAPHY n.
A bibliography of World-Wide Web sites, usually appearing on line with hypertext links that let readers call the sites up quickly.

1996 Snapshot of Guavaberry Books
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/guavaberrybooks/index.html

Notice "Only 0 days left until Year 2000" written above? Pointed out for old times sake. That clock clicked the days down one day at a time for a whole year.

QUOTES

Someone dares to cross a boundary. Someone dares to dream, achieving the impossible. And she dared to work in every way that she could to make her seemingly-insane dream a reality. Because of her willingness to risk ridicule for what to others may have seemed a bizarre obsession, she expanded our sense of human possibilities. And by daring to trumpet her achievements in a book, a website, a reading curricula she added even more to the horizon of humanity. Achieving the impossible is part of the process of culture making. Promoting that achievement and its meaning is equally vital. Self-promotion can sometimes be one of your most selfless acts. The more humans you can reach, the more humans you can empower. The more you can embed your message in the cultural fabric, the more likely you are to make a contribution that outlasts your brief appearance on this earth and gives its bounty to generations yet to come. ~ anon

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875-1961)
"You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off." - Joseph Cambell

DE LONGES' PRAYER GOT AMEN. [ Another West Indian Proverb]
How true and wonderful:
All things, both good and evil, come to an end.

Where I'm NOT!

HOBBIES

My Personal Interests Include:

Traveling, reading and research. In the past - my cats whose ancestors came from the pirate ships of the Caribbean, and 2 dogs. Sadly all our pets have crossed over but thinking about getting a new puppy soon.

Integrating Literacy, Music, and Technology into the Classroom; Teaching Teachers about Dialect Speakers and how to bridge from Dialect to the Standard; Self-esteem and learning; Development of higher level critical thinking; More student involvement in their own learning; Motivation techniques; Multicultural education and equity; Assessment that is Intelligence - Fair; New directions in teacher education and technology development training; Collaborating between schools, universities, community and business; Building community among Parents, Teachers, Students, and Business.

TRIBUTES

These teachers "gave me the skills to negotiate for the rest of my life."

My Parents:
My Mom and Dad, Jerome H. Ellis Esq. Former President of the Philadelphia Bar Association 1969 -70 a practicing attorney for 50 years. 2001 page 6 and 11

SETTING PRECEDENT

The Captain of the Ship Doctrine - Jerome H. Ellis, Philadelphia, for appellee
http://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/1978/255-pa-super-381-2.html

The Captain of the Ship Doctrine was originally set forth in McConnell v. Williams, 361 Pa. 355, 65 A.2d 243 (1949) and has agency considerations as its base. The essential question is whether one is subject to the control of another not only to the work to be done but also the manner of performing it. Furthermore, it has been consistently held that a physician may be simultaneously the agent of a hospital and another physician although the employment is not joint. Yorston v. Pennell, 397 Pa. 28, 153 A.2d 255 (1959). However, the master must have control not only over the agent but over the work and the performance thereof before liability can be extended to him. Collins v. Hand, 431 Pa. 378, 246 A.2d 398 (1968). And the determination of whether a resident was the servant of a senior surgeon is a factual issue to be determined by the trier of fact. Thomas v. Hutchinson, 442 Pa. 118, 275 A.2d 23 (1971).

Since hospitals no longer have the benefit of charitable immunity the ordinary rules of agency apply to those institutions. Flagiello v. Penna Hospital, 417 Pa. 486, 208 A.2d 193 (1965). In Tonsic v. Wagner, 458 Pa. 246, 329 A.2d 497 (1974), the court considered whether both a hospital and the attending surgeon could both be liable in tort.

"We conclude that agency law principles applicable to others should also apply to hospitals and operating surgeons. Hospitals, as well as operating surgeons, owe a *398 duty to the patient. If that duty is breached under circumstances from which a jury could reasonably conclude that the negligent party was at the same time the servant of two masters, both masters may be liable."

This was the Precedent Setting Case Yorston v. Pennell, 397 Pa. 28, 153 A.2d 255 (1959)

The doctor gave a shot of penicillin to the patient who had already told told the Doctor he was allergic to it. Dr. Pennell never bothered to read his file so didn't know this info and gave it to him anyway.

Back at that time according to the INSURANCE COMPANIES
said the hospital had "charitable immunity" because in those days a hospital was considered a charity

Mr. Ellis had to sue the VA [ sovereign immunity see above ] for the right to sue the hospital

Mrs. Ellis said IN THOSE DAYS VETERANS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HIRE A LAWYER TO SUE HOSPITAL
AND IT IS STILL TRUE TODAY!!!!

[the work around]
Mr. Ellis DIDN'T TAKE ANY MONEY [ HE WASN'T PAID ] to bring the suit. THAT'S HOW HE GOT IT STARTED.

Most Memorable Teachers the ones who gave me the first "building blocks