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 DOING RADIO?

Never really!

And that never is exactly why every other week the students from Wellington International School in Dubai come on my show, Nightline, and take over the broadcast.

Risky? WC Fields said never work with pets and children.

Challenge? You bet!

Worth it? 200%

These students are doing a live broadcast every other week for an hour and doing well!

Imagine this program in 2 months time!

Why don’t more stations and presenters do what I am doing?

No clue!

But you can be more organized and focused.

Every now and then I stumble upon some ideas on time management and project management that make me take notice.

One of the resources I return to with respect to time is Inc.

Here are 22 tips to manage your life!

And these are my favorite.

6. Don’t check e-mail first thing in the morning. The first thing I used to do after waking up was read e-mails and reply to urgent ones on my iPhone. My brain went from sleep to start-up mode in only a few seconds. That was killing, so I forced myself to not read e-mail first thing in the morning. The funny thing is that if you allow yourself to wake up gradually, it feels like you slept better and longer. Now I shower and have breakfast before reading my e-mail. – Ronald Mannak, founder and CEO, Yobble, creator of the Air Guitar Move iPhone appcessory.

1. Start dancing. It’s physical, it’s fun, it’s social, and you can’t check your phone or be working on your laptop while you’re out dancing. Find the coolest place wherever you live, and go out dancing once a week. You’ll feel completely renewed, energized and ready to tackle the world, or at least your start-up. – Vivian Rosenthal, founder and CEO of GoldRun, an augmented reality iOS application.

15. Communicate constantly with your spouse. Then you will know how to  best support each other. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, says the biggest decision you’ll make in your career is who you decide to marry. I think this has really been true for me. Start-ups are not just physically challenging but also emotionally challenging, with amazing highs and equally strong lows. Having a spouse that you know is in your corner is a huge source of comfort and confidence. – Anishiya Taneja, founder and CEO of TravelDNA, a travel planning site.

21. Be schedule driven. If someone has not scheduled a meeting with me in advance, including my daughter, it won’t happen. We text each other using a free texting program called Jaxtr that I hope will allow me to soon phase out AT&T texting (I’d save $360 a year!). I also use Microsoft Outlook with Google Calendar. At mADtivity we also use a SmartSheet for scheduling, timelines, and project management.” –Stan Weitzman, CEO of mobile ad network mADtivity.

I think this Inc. list is a useful starting point for the real world transition of students.

The big question is always how do we take our book smarts to the curb and become street smart.

Mark Hurst, Mr Gel, included this link at the end of his latest newsletter.

I love the idea that someone has go to the trouble!

And over 538,000 people have taken a look.

Don’t ask why, ask why not!

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 thinking into some real world possibility.

How often to we link the comic side of things with the thinking side of things?

Not often enough is the short answer.

Well there is an answer to this challenge.

Marc Abrahams: The founder of the Ig Nobel Prize describes some past favorites – including some connections to other Gel 2011 presentations. See also Marc’s Annals of Improbable Research.

Marc Abrahams at Gel 2011 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

Here is an interview I did on DubaiEye during the Nightline show.

I spoke with Charmaine D’Souza and Dr. Amala.

Find them on Facebook “its about you” or call 04 434 5960 or 055 947 1882

Here is our interview.

This is also a good example of how you can talk about sensitive topics in the UAE.

One of the parts of the show I really enjoy is talking a look at some of the new technology out there and doing some hands on testing.

We looked at 2 items last night on the program.

I know several people who have mapped things out and have pretty well followed the road-map.

My plan has been pretty haphazard and gone more with luck, intuition and chance.

What if your career was only really destined to last 4 years?

It was interesting to look at how some people have lived this in the last couple of years.

Like this lady.

Stacy Brown-Philpot, 36

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 Kingdom will be available for viewing on the Internet.

This is the coolest idea I have read about in a long time.

And the 1st thing it made me think about was the rich history of the printed press in the UAE.

Well, if we go back before the federation of the UAE there were a handful of people writing broadsheets, by hand, and placing them on their Majalis doors for the community.

Imagine if these publications could be brought back to life?

In a sense this is the type of historical journalism that the UAE needs to embark upon.

A history project that is still young enough to have materials and people of the era around.

The Awaiaulu project is a great example and a doable idea here in the UAE.

Anyone interested?

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 to CUD from ZU.

We are going to put a program in motion that is in constant re-invention.

We are thinking of journalism in terms of the craft and the delivery.

We are thinking advertising in terms of what, who and where.

We are thinking about PR in terms of the story and delivery.

No more we need huge expensive pools of equipment to make media, WE DON’T NEED A HUGE SET OR A HUGE LAB.

What we need is people who are engaged as mentors and learners.

Watch this video this to me is where CUD’s mass communication program is going.