Tom Haymes brings with him a unique combination of experience. From over 30 years in technology (going back to his Apple ][+ in 1981) to over 30 years in photography (Haymes Images Website) to over 15 years as an educator to 25 years as a political scientist. For the last 12+ years he has been a technologist, which combines all of these experiences in a unique way. IdeaSpaces is an outgrowth of Tom’s interest in design and the visual aspects of environment combined with his social scientist’s interest in organizational change and growth. Tom is also a keen historian who has published articles on military history, particularly as it relates to innovation, and uses his extensive research in that area to inform him of the history of successes and failures that led us to today.
Tom is the proud father of five ambassadors to the future (Nikki, Tessa, Carter, Rob, and Lexy) and married to a wonderful woman who keeps it all together for him.
His LinkedIn Profile can be found at: www.linkedin.com/in/tomhaymes
He Tweets at: @ideaspacesnet
His Email is: tom@ideaspaces.net
His Photography Email is: tom@haymesimages.com
A career of applying SPACE-TIME-STRUCTURE
to Education and beyond
SPACE
- Design lead for the West Houston Institute
- Developed the ELITE Strategy (Empowered Learner-Empowered Instructor–Technology Empowerment) for connecting active learning and innovation to virtual and physical space design
- Developed the FAR Strategy (Fluid-Adaptive-Reactive) for connecting curriculum to learning space design
- Developed the Learning Spaces Institute concept for implementing and testing of learning spaces and their integration of space, technology, and furniture
- Collaborated on the development of a Makerspaces Typology (Creation Station-Design Lab-Fabrication Lab) to simplify MakerSpace design decisions and to begin to develop packages to simplify implementation based on use- case and budgetary scenarios
- Led a team to develop the Empowered Learner Modules to assist schools in creating small, self-contained innovation spaces on campus
TIME
- Produced West Houston Institute Promotional Video
- Experience facilitating a wide variety of Faculty Professional Development experiences
- Intersectional Thinker that brings a broad range of disciplines to bear on understanding and facilitating innovative change
- Lifelong Teacher and Educator
- Produced FAR Strategy Video for PBK
- Experience developing and executing Alternative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
- Led a team to develop a Knowledge Base on Next Generation Learning and Sustainability technologies for school administrators and architects
- Extensive Visual and Textual Narrative experience
STRUCTURE
- Led Faculty Innovation Seminars such as the New Media Seminar
- Led Innovation Development Projects for the faculty web presence, one-button studio, design lab, active learning classrooms, and many other technology/pedagogy solutions
- Led a team that developed the Teaching Innovation Lab concept which uses Lean Startup methodology to reinvent teaching on an iterative, collaborative basis
- Developed the Three-E Strategy (Easy, Evident, Essential) for technology adoption
- Developed the Ideaspaces Framework (Space-Time-Structure), which informed design and planning for the West Houston Institute
- Understand and appreciate the opportunities and limitations of the Lean Startup Method. Have initiated dozens of lean startup projects
- Part of the FOEcast Leadership Group, an international group of futurists in education and technology
- Business Intelligence, Budgeting, and Strategic Planning experience
- Extensive IT Management Experience
A Chronological Typology of Tom’s Career
