How to get things done.

There is no magic pill that gives you more time or more energy to get through all the things you have to do. But you can be more organized and focused. Every now and then I stumble upon some ideas on time management and project management that make me take notice. One of the resources [...]

The Power of YouTube and AC/DC

Mark Hurst, Mr Gel, included this link at the end of his latest newsletter. I love the idea that someone has go to the trouble! And over 538,000 people have taken a look. Don’t ask why, ask why not!

Old/New Publishing

I stumbled upon this piece a few days back. About 100 Hawaiian-language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948 are being translated by roughly 3,000 volunteers. The newspapers are currently housed in Hawaiian archival collections as originals and microfilmed images, but when the project is finished, more than 60,000 pages of daily life in the Hawaiian [...]

A Must Watch

Why go to school? What is a teacher? Public education? Smart? Not? Economics vs intellectual? I am moving to a new school in September to help create the UAE’s leading mass communication program. I say leading because if we are going to just do what is typical today there would be no point in moving [...]

A very cool TEDx

There are a lot of TEDx events taking place these days, things have sure come a long way from 2009 when Giorgio Ungania and myself organized the 1st TEDxDubai. Big, small, local, regional, ethnic, artistic the question that people are asking is what makes a great TEDx? Unlike many things size does matter. It is [...]

MITx a great Idea.

MIT has consistently pushed the education envelope. One of the greatest challenges to any education institution is how to take what is happening inside the walls to a larger community. Think ideas and think finances. What we are talking about is a win win. What if I could get a million people doing courses and [...]

The Power of the Muppets p2

Google+ and the Muppets. This just works so well on so many levels.

Alternative Presentation

Lately I have been looking at how my students are presenting ideas and I realize that they are caught in the PowerPoint box. Of course not literally but they are generally not thinking about how they are presenting ideas and instead getting caught up with the noise. Video artists Mac Premo and Oliver Jeffers summed [...]

More than you want to know

Livestream has got to be one of my favorite places on the Internet. You name it, from National Geographic to a local radio station, it is being broadcast to the world through Livestream. And what I really love about Livestream content is the simple fact that this alternative content is easy to find and watch. [...]

It is all about connections…

I think the beauty of social networking is the ability it has to bring strangers together to collaborate, or people who would not normally work together. I would love to see how I could use the collaboration model to create content on my radio show or in my own classes. Heineken has done something that [...]

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