The New Face of News?

Design and content the never ending battle. This is something I found on the Nieman Journalism Lab website. Scroll, a new editor that aims to de-templatize news design. The tool, created by soon-to-be-serialentrepreneursCody Brown and Kate Ray, wants to take the basic design approach of print — start with a totally blank page, add elements — [...]

Design or Content or Both?

The never-ending battle in the content creation industry is whether it is the design that matters or the content that matters or a bit of both. Truth be told some days I think that content is king and others I am sold that it is the design that is going to pull people through and to the content. Today [...]

Space Matters.

Today I moved my classes to a soon to be lab. Soon to be are the three words you need to hang on. At this moment the space I have moved my classes to is a big echoing box with a few desks for good measure. Funny about the desks in my class, I only [...]

We got education wrong!

I really do think we are going about the art of informing and developing our children on the wrong way. Not that the whole process is broken, but it does need a serious renovation. So where do we start? I think the starting point is a huge issue. We have old school administrators looking at the problem [...]

Wasted Space be gone.

I don’t know about you but I am not a huge fan of wasted time or wasted space. How many times have you been given a piece of paper, especially by a teacher, and turned it over to find it blank? A classic example of wasted space. And from our humble days in the classroom, [...]

Basis of New Ideas…

John Kolko, author of the new book, Exposing the Magic of Design, has been writing in FastCompany and I think hit on an issues that is not just important to the design world but organizational change in general. In communication, well journalism, we are constantly teaching and being told to think about objectivity! Good advice [...]

The people or the thing?

A huge question we all deal with is whether it is the people or the thing that matters. Is it the school or the teachers (notice administrators were not there) that matter? Is it the restaurant building or the food? Is it the words of the book or the cover that matters? And then there [...]

Think Design and Use!

More than ever we need to be design thinking, BUT we also need to consider how things will be used. I was sure that we had gotten past the old web design mindset, “blind them with gadgets”, but I was wrong. One of the best media websites was The National was is the key word. [...]

Education thinking from FastCompany!

As I get ready to return to the classroom I find myself looking around to see what professors are reading as they prepare for the coming term. The sad reality is too many professors prepare for the coming year using the tried and true techniques and resources they became familiar with in grad school. I [...]

An Education rethink?

There is no better place to be than the UAE when it comes to rethinking how education can, should and might be delivered to meet the challenges the next generation will face. Primary and secondary education is rapidly evolving in the UAE and trying to come to grips with the lessons from welfare states around [...]

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