Thoughts on the City
This year the TEDPrize went to City 2.0. Interesting idea. How much do you actually think about your city and the interaction you have with the city? I can honestly say I give the idea of CITY little thought. But I do love living in the city and can’t imagine living any other way! FastCompany posted [...]
Everything is a Remix!
Thanks to Cory Doctorow for of BoingBoing.net for catching this one, a must watch! Go catch the series here.
Rejected Innovation
Dream and dream big I always say when it comes to innovation. And even if your ideas don’t see the light of day they may actually inspire and lead to other things. Or there is the possibility they will become the lesson on what not to do. Here is an example of both when it [...]
Old School from New School
It is funny really how when we think of innovation we seem to be grasping at straws to find the next best thing. And for some reason when we think of that next best thing we are looking at some technomodified gadget or means of disseminating information that is iEnabled or, well you get the [...]
24 hour projects!
OK this is cool. This is what I want my Zayed University students to be doing TODAY! The 24 hour magazine project, oh yea! Go check them out. Here is what it is all about. We have made our goal a full day before the magazine even starts production. That is so amazing. We will [...]
Simply Cool.
Innovation is really about looking at the world around us and imagining what might be! These boards are just too cool and the fact that they use coco husks is amazing!
Plan fitness like your retirement!
How many of us have detailed plans for our retirement? And how many of us have taken a bit of time to plan our career? And do we plan and work on our relationships? I suspect most would answer yes and to what degree for each question. What about your life fitness? Do you have [...]
6 Word Story?
We spend a lot of time teaching our students to write essays, news stories, press releases and the list goes on. What about combining words an images to create a complete story? What if you did it every day? Here are some samples from http://sixwordstoryeveryday.com/?et_mid=533708&rid=233339100 [...]
Make it!
One of my favorite magazines is MAKE. I love this magazine because even a guy like me who is hopeless with a soldering iron can dream and actually do. The other thing about this magazine is it gives you a way to actually think about taking an idea to prototype. And sometimes the most obvious [...]
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 [...]
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