Loving a little spy!

Today as I wandered through the publications office of Zayed University I was treated to a little video folly! I had never heard of Spy Films, the company, but now I cannot stop talking about them. The film/ad I was treated to is just very cool. Spy Films and directing duo Alex & Steffen, roll [...]

Mobile Media is Under Used!

If you are like me there is no shortage of mobile media in your life! Smartphones, PDA’s, semi-smartphones there is an overabundance of hand-held technology today. But what we are not seeing are the education and professional communities picking up these, anyplace and anywhere enabling tools as a means to advancing personal/professional/directed information exchange. And, [...]

Radio the forgotten Media

As we all tuck into our smartphone,PDA’s, notebooks,laptops,desktops,games… we are swimming is a saturated pool of Apps and programs to get the latest in news, entertainment and just plain fun. The sorry truth is many of us have for, no good reason, turned our back on being champions of old-school media. Sure there are reasons [...]

Are we too tied to our media.

I teach in a college of communication and work in the media and am now asking if we are too tied to the very media I am pushing people towards. It would seem I am not the only person asking this question. AdAge has recently published a report online titled ‘Study Brings New Meaning to [...]

10 seconds — Tell me the Story!

I give a lot of experimental assignments in my communication classes at Zayed University. To be honest sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. One of the greatest challenges with many of the assignments is to convince the students that the project is a viable way of presenting ideas and thus messages to a wider, [...]

Export the smart from smartphones.

Smartphones are changing the world we live in. Sure there are many people who are not riding the smartphone wave. But the sad truth is in the very near future the smart phone is going to not only be the primary resource for storing and communicating information but it will also be the primary tool [...]

What if you did it from scratch?

When I say did it I mean built something, anything, the stuff we live with. I remember my Dad building an Apple lle way back when on a piece of plywood. I wonder if the problem we are confronted with is the simple fact that we really make little of what we interact with. What [...]

Back to the Factory?

Today I had the opportunity to sit in on a meeting with the people from du here in Dubai. The meeting itself was about Zayed University and du working toward some common goals. The conversation was fascinating and could lead to a very innovative teaching environment. But as the conversation progressed I became aware of [...]

Thoughts on Technology from 1982

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, via twitter, for passing on this little piece of vintage video. Bill Murray at his best. And Bill Murray does have a point about technology! Who is thinking this stuff up? And for who? Give FastCompany a read to know what I am talking about. I would love to see this [...]

The New Face of Assignments?

One of the issues i am confronting students with today is to make their reports, assignments, work product useful to the larger community. I am not just talking in terms of content but also in terms of delivery. This is a huge challenge that I think we as academics get a well deserved F! The [...]

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