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In search of the next best thing!

I wonder if at times the institutions of education are doing us a dis-service?
Think about it for a minute, we want people to take risks, create the next best thing, work as teams and WOW the population.
And we learn this where? School.
Sure we have IB schools that claim to do this BUT every IB school [...]

Bring on the mobile media!

I have been doing some experimentation with mobile media and breaking my own rules!
The main rule I live by with mobile media is keep it short!
I have been recording my classes at the university and formatting them for an iPhone! The lectures are about 60 minutes and they actually seem to have a small audience.
If [...]

How transperent do we want our education? Bring on the curious public!

By the very nature of going to a school, 4 walls to separate the students from the curious, and then rooms to further separate the spectators from the curious, we have bought into an idea of education that promotes elitism and anything but transparency!
Teachers go behind closed doors and deliver classes to a small special [...]

I was not at TED this year, lived TED via the video feed.

I love the description of www.ted.com as something like the Sundance Festival for geeks and ideas!
This year I was not in the audience at TED, and how I missed the buzz!
As much as I could I watched the live feed of the show and tweeted my observations, #jamesed_me.
Even though I lived only a piece of [...]

Do we need more social connections in the classroom.

I am wrestling with the use of technology in my university classes.
To be very honest the use of new communication technology excites me!
I love the way Twitter, #jamesed_me, allows me to communicate links, materials and ideas to my students.
Facebook creates another forum for interaction, especially if the group is protected.
Livestream allows me to actually film [...]

Branding for Women

For the last few years I have been very interested in how we brand ideas and concepts for the different segments of the population.
The mud on the wall method of delivering content, if some sticks it is ok approach, is simply not good enough.
Again and again I return to Michele Miller and Wonder Branding.
www.wonderbranding.com is [...]

The new world of work

THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM
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One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist.
So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they need?
Unfortunately, [...]

apps are the future.

The 4th screen (your mobile/cellular phone) holds the key to your information world.
And are we teaching app creation, management, imagination in our schools?
I suspect many teachers/professors have only a passing knowledge about apps given that they are not using phones that easily take on board advanced applications.
My advice to students, anyone really, don’t wait for [...]

It is a PREZI world now

How many of you have gone from an overhead projector to PowerPoint, maybe Keynote, and are now feeling pretty comfortable?
Most of us have been using some variation of the slide projector/asetate presentation format all our lives.
But you know what? We now live  in a whiteboard era. Can you imagine using a chalkboard?
Yet we still use [...]

Better use of time!

The problem with social media is that is can and will be all consuming if you allow it to be.
The problem with the Internet in general is there is simply so much out there how do you know where to start looking for information, ideas and just stuff?
The usual approach is to go to your [...]

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