Student Radio!

There are a lot of ways to create and manage student media today. And to be honest students, high school students, are very media savvy today. But what about students not pretending to do radio but actually doing it for real? How often to we hear students on our local commercial or national radio networks [...]

Laugh and Think

I have just wrapped up another round of exams in my classes at Zayed University. And I can’t help but look at the results and ask if I have achieved my goal. The goal being very simply to make my students laugh and think. And of course there is the application of the laughter and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New, well old, Tools

I have been using Evernote for a while and can’t figure out why it isn’t a must use tool for every student? And professors/teachers should also be at the front of the Evernote line. What I really like about this tool is the ability it gives me to take my work anyplace! And the fact [...]

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. [...]

IBM back on my mind.

My father worked for IBM so this company was a part of my life for many years. But I always thought of IBM as this big faceless company that made mainframe computers. Yes I know they had been a big player in personal computing but that never stuck with me, and not them either. Then [...]

Education at what cost?

As a university graduate and university professor I am constantly struck by the number of people who should have access to higher education but don’t. There are many models of alternative education and each has its place. Shai Reshef founded University of the People in 2009 and I think this is a model that we [...]

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