Aimed at a broad cross-section using technology for educational purposes, "Façade" powerfully offers a fact-filled holistic viewpoint plus more importantly checklists, tools and steps to assess current success/failure and action items to improve. Bottom line, it's suggested that as with office workers, despite billions spent, the raw usefulness of most IT falls way short of realistic expectations. {aside, Yourdon, Constantine, Booch, Jacobsen and other software gurus over the years have backed up this viewpoint}.

Thorough, attractive and provocative chapters span:
-Definitions
-Surveying as is
-Instructional technologies for the classroom
-Competencies and skills of students and teachers
-Taxonomy of technology
-People in the façade
-Funding the façade
-Resources - including plans and equipment
-Planning the curriculum
-Integration of technology
-Successful learning
-Reflections & lessons learnt

By avoiding specifics of technology, and focusing on applications and management processes, this book is unlikely to date rapidly. It's a recommended "workbook" to getting the most out of educational IT.

I bought "Intuitive Light" to learn more about techniques in pastel media. I thought the book is useful in this regard. The book could have been much better if other work was also displayed and discussed. The entire book shows nothing but Albert Handell's paintings. In my own opinion I like to see painting instruction show lots of different artist's work.

I have always wanted to attend a seminar given by Mr.Handell, however due to allergys, it has not been possible. I am so pleased that his book is available and it is all that I had hoped for and a treasure to review again and again.

Not a workshop-type paint-by-numbers book, the book is more a photo-gallery packed with colorful, clearly rendered paintings. The text illustrates how the artist "sees" light under different conditions, for "light" itself is the subject matter Mr. Handell's paintings. The artist/author is very cognizant of the emotional effect that light conditions create in a viewer, and extremely gifted at translating this response through pigment. The paintings in this book show the success of Mr. Handell's emotional approach. Gives insight into "seeing" and "frame of mind".