Power of a Congo Woman’s Voice!

Voice from the Congo. You like me have been sure to have read and watched reports about what is going on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The number of people displaced is beyond my comprehension. The fact that malaria, respiratory ailments and diarrhea are rampant is beyond my comprehension. But what pushed me [...]

Change your career focus?

I was looking at Seth Godin’s blog and as usual he has let lose a very relevant idea. What have you been trained to do or what are you training to do? If you are like me, probably, your talents could be utilised in a far more productive and meaningful way. My big complaint about [...]

The right stuff?

I found this on BoingBoing.net. You been to BoingBoing lately? Give the piece a read! What I am wondering is if we need to think about this when we talk about education? No not the phones but the idea of giving people what they really need and not the crap that we want them to [...]

the egg.

If anything can be done, happen or tried it will be in Dubai. I could not believe this one yesterday. We were doing our shopping at Spinney’s the local grocery full of UK products and we came across these in the egg section! WOW! US exchange rate on the dirham is 3.67 to dollar. So [...]

changethis.com

For the last 2 years, maybe 3, I have been telling business people, teachers, students, parents, friends,cleaners, burger flippers ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN about changethis.com! I met a COO of an education group and was surprised he had never seen or used the site, go figure! This site, from my perspective is the supplemental reading [...]

Scouting 2009 a need!

I love education and hate the way we are doing it from the ground up! Yet, I persist in my own humble way to try and at the least change the way the next generation of parents are going to think about how their children are educated and what they are educated about. One of [...]

Do it in 30 and people hours.

I just gave a class an assignment. 1. produce a PowerPoint about the essential public speaking skills to be passed on to new students. 2. create a handout to go with the PowerPoint. My class was broken into groups and given 30 minutes. The result was not good. I am amazed really! What I have [...]

Break Free From Technology and Start Communicating!

I am steaming mad! Increasingly I find my self dealing with managers who are dependent on technology, think BlackBerry, but are absolutely pathetic communicators! If you do not plan to answer email please use the auto responder built into your email service to let me know that you have no plan to respond! BUT if [...]

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