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 [...]

An Artists Mind

I had the opportunity to speak to the music sensation Rash Radio on my ever popular radio show on Dubai Eye. Honest, sincere and real. I loved his answer to the question about writers block. Rash said that he felt like every song was his last and then the next one just seemed to arrive [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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