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 [...]

The Training We Need

I am constantly amazed by how ill prepared students really are to go out into the big bad world of work. YES we do give students a wealth of ideas and knowledge. YES we do tes the life out of students to prepare them for failure and criticism. But how well do we prepare the [...]

Advertising to New Hights?

I teach a communication history course and the general theme is that communication change comes from 2 things. The 1st thing that provokes change is the environment, the larger lay of the land at any time. The second thing that provokes change is people and their curiosity to try things, invention! What I believe today [...]

Parents,Music and Goals

Chris Isaak talking to George Stroumboulopoulos on TheHour on CBC TV. This is a fantastic 3 minutes. The worth of validation, our parents, communication, luck… So many things happen around us that we take for granted. Maybe we need to sit on the sofa and take a look at our lives once in a while? [...]

Teens and the Internet

(Reuters Health) – One in every 25 teens had “problematic Internet use” in a new study of high school students from Connecticut. Are we doing enough to make our youth aware of the risk and danger to their physical and mental health with excessive internet consumption? This Reuters article should make us all sit back [...]

Who did what?

One of the greatest problem faced by any organization, unless it is a solo operation, is understanding the value of what people do. Too often we all play the ‘I did/You did’ game which is wholly destructive to any organization. And add to the above, ‘what I did is more valuable than what you did.’ At the [...]

Put up or shut up

We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]

Taking a little back

Have you caught wind of PirateBox? What is it? PirateBox is a self-contained mobile collaboration and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open file sharing network. This is pretty cool stuff and turns any space into an interactive learning environment. The “at-you” education model simply does [...]

Pick up the phone!

I think, just maybe, with all our text, tweets, SMS, MMS, facebook, Qik, blogs… we have forgotten how nice it is to just pick up a phone and tell someone something, anything! I think, just maybe, we are hiding behind technology when it comes to communication today! The old voice on the phone can be [...]

death by email

I love the way Hugh MacLeod gets right to the point! Technology is great,don’t get me wrong, BUT we are failing in a epic way to manage the use of it in a manner that is healthy! And the classic example of our failure to manage and live with technology is email! We have lost [...]

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