The Power of YouTube and AC/DC

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!

If you can dream it you can do it

I have a group of students making TED-like presentations on the Disney quotation, “if you can dream it you can do it.” Every student looked at me, blank. One student said she didn’t have a dream! And today I stumbled, again, upon the idea of using Icebergs as a viable water source. This is not a new [...]

Good Idea?

While in California I could not help but make my way into a McDonald’s to see what the fast food giant was doing to re-invent itself. Well, there were the huge LCD televisions playing sports, in this case high school basketball and then there was the game consul above. And not just one but half [...]

Simple but good ideas

I ran into this in Palm Springs at the Grocery store and you know what? As I stood there watching this and got muscled out of the way by patrons to the store I couldn’t help but ask why all grocery stores don’t have this system? Proven fact cold and flu nasties can be caught [...]

Simplicity Works

I know what you are saying, everything cannot be simple. Sure the way an aircraft engine is manufactured is not simple, but the ignition and monitoring of the action can be. I think we spend too much time complicating things. Sometimes complexity makes us feel better, we get a sense of self worth. Sometimes complexity [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mash up the University Experience with TEDx

If you are a TED fan then you have to also be fanatical about TEDx events. I find it amazing how many events there are globally and wonder if I can plan a vacation or year sabbatical attending TEDx events, writing, filming, blogging and creating the ultimate learning resource? Think of it as the resources [...]

Get on With Things Part Two

10,000 Women is a five-year investment by Goldman Sachs to provide 10,000 undeserved women around the world with a business and management education. What does it take to change a community? What does it take to change a person? As it turns out little more than giving that person, who wants to change, the opportunity [...]

In Search of the ideal work space.

Where do you work best? Home? Coffee Shop? Library? Car? How do you make the best of the imperfect work environment? I have come to realize, after 11 years of work in a University environment, that we spend too little time think about our personal work space. University offices are generally identical, desk, cabinet, drawers, [...]

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