Joseph Frank Landsberger

Life-long resident of
the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Professional life

2007 academics/presentations:

June 26-29: Learning 2007: The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Powerpoint available upon request

April 23-25: 2007 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Information Technology Conference

2005 academics/presentations:

January 2005: Winter Institute For Learning Center Professionals
University of Texas at Austin, Texas
 Keynote, mentor

March 2005: Design Intensive: Buenos Aires (DHA 5196), University of Minnesota & University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Joe, as a professional lad of 53
(but now is 62...)

2006 academics/presentations:

October: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MNSCU), Developing courses and learning objects

26 - 28 June: University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, England Developing Skills for Study in Higher Education Keynote speaker; workshop presentations

3-5 July: Higher Education Academy Conference focusing on all aspects relating to enhancing the student learning experience, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, England

Personal life:

Joe, Steve & family

Animal companions

Ages & Birthdays

Friend/Quaker

Webpoet:
Kentucky mist | Wintering maples | Spring |

2008:  David L Sons Award; Community Service
2008:  City of St. Paul Heritage Preservation Commission
Community Education as President of Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota
1995 and 2005: City of St. Paul, Department of Parks and Recreation; Honored Volunteer Award (sculpture park and garden development and design)
2001:  Association for Educational Communicaitons and Technology (Consulting Editor, columnist)
2001: West 7th Fort Road Federation/District 9 Community Council; Community Service Award

In the garden there are no hours, only seasons.
jfl, May 2007

House & gardens
My house is a Victorian stick-style, and includes additions, the gardenhouse, Japanese lanterns, features, and history. I am also restoring a Craftsman-style bungalow.

Park developer
North High Bridge Park, St. Paul, MN

Family Heritage:
Czech (Dvorak, Moznett/Mazanec, Hlavic),
Swede (Thompson, Peter(son), Bengston),
Bavarian (Landsberger, Pace, Beissel, Kleinsorg),
Luxemburger/ Lützelburger/Luxembourgeois (Moes, Irrthum, Kirpach, Kleyer)
Building giant Czech puppets

Seeker/travels:

I have circumnavigated the world once, and journeyed to all of the continents except "the cold one."
I began my travels with the Peace Corps of the USA.
I was a small city boy who had not traveled before.

My philosophy about travel is that I try to study the language of an area/country before visiting,and that I visit more than "several days" in one location to get a sense of place, to know the people, that they may also get to know me. Travel is a reciprocating experience.

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Travels:
West Europe:

Great Britain, 1978 & 2006
France, 1976
Germany, 1976, 1982, 1992
Ireland 2006
Italy, 2003, 1976
Belgium, 1976
Spain, 1976
Luxembourg, 1976
Monaco, 1976
Netherlands, 1976, 1992
Sweden, 1995
Norway, 1995

East Europe:

Czech Republic, 1992
Hungary, 1992
Lithuania, 1995
Estonia, 1995

Asia

China Nov '99
Japan, 1987
Thailand, 1987
Malaysia, 1987
Singapore, 1987

 Africa:

South Africa, 2007
Togo, 1969-71
Ghana, 1970
Cote d’Ivoire, 1970
Bukina Faso (L’Haute Volta), 1970
Mali, 1970
Niger, 1970
Benin (Dahomey), 1970

Mexico, Yucatan, 1999

Caribbean Sea

U.S. Virgin Islands, 1968
Trinidad-Tobago, 1969
Jamaica, 1986

South America

Argentina, 2005
Uruguay, 2005
Peru, 1986
Brazil, 1986

Pacific

Fiji, 1986
Australia, 1986
New Zealand, 1986

 Canada

Quebec
British Columbia
Manitoba, many years

USA

Arizona
California
Colorado, 1966
Connecticut
Florida, 1990, 91, 92
Hawaii, Oct '99
Illinois, many years
Indiana, 1996
Iowa, many years
Kansas, 1995
Kentucky, many years
Louisiana, 1992
Minnesota, residence
Mississippi, 2000
Pipestone MN 2001
New York, 1969, 97
North Dakota
South Dakota
Texas, 2005
Utah
Virginia, 1994, 97
West Virginia, 1997
Oregon
Washington
Washington, D.C., many times
Wisconsin

"Basically, in my very flawed and human way, I want to be a force for love in the world. I want to let go of and grow beyond everything that constrains me from that intention"

Nina Rothschild Utne, Chair and CEO, Utne Reader.

"Religious values motivate love, compassion, humility, justice and liberty for all people; religious beliefs and practices motivate hatred, cruelty, division, arrogance, injustice and oppression of others."

Reverend Kenneth Carder, United Methodist Bishop, State of Mississippi
Currently director of Duke University Divinity School’s Center of Excellence in Ministry

"But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity."

H. G. Wells War of the Worlds, Book 2

"Queers, to whom normal marriage and parenthood are forbidden, are fools if they do not deliberately look for tasks
which require collaboration, and the right person with whom to collaborate."

W. H. Auden, American poet 1907-73, Journal, as seen in the New Yorker, "I, ME, MINE " a new biography of Christopher Isherwood, by Hilton Alsa, Issue of 2005-01-17

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