Innovation in Everything!

I think, I know that we all need to be thinking about innovation in everything we do. Of course we don’t or we like to say we are not innovative. The biggest failure today in pretty much every industry is failing to see the ability to innovate what we do. And education is top on [...]

Low Tech Simplicity and it works.

The problem. How do I let students know I am in the office even if I am not sitting in my office? I could use an email, twitter, facebook but then I am faced with the problem a student is not tuned into the tech messaging network. For under $5 I have come up with [...]

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 [...]

Innovation X2.

Innovation is a word, idea, concept even a dream that is tossed around today like common currency. There is a lot of innovation going on that we see and realize and even more going on that we don’t see. The easy see is the blatant technology the iThis or iThat. The more difficult innovation is [...]

The Idea Seed! To Idea farm!

There is no question that today ideas are a very important commodity, yet there has been little done to tap into the huge number of ideas out there. One of the problems of course is people/investors don’t know where to find the ideas. Another problem is that people with ideas don’t know where to find [...]

Looking for education innovation

There is a lot of noise out there today and too much of it revolves around innovation that is not innovation at all. Mark Hurst of Good Experience spends a lot of time looking at the experience we have in a retail and even education environment and has tapped into 3 examples of innovation on the [...]

In search of the next best thing!

I wonder if at times the institutions of education are doing us a dis-service? Think about it for a minute, we want people to take risks, create the next best thing, work as teams and WOW the population. And we learn this where? School. Sure we have IB schools that claim to do this BUT [...]

Why we fail?

One of our greatest problems today is the silo culture of education. Business schools do not talk to design schools who do not talk to education schools who do not talk to IT schools and nobody is talking to the cooking schools. Well, if the core elements of our education system are not relating to [...]

New Year’s Day, What I Read.

Leading up and out of New Year’s day I was consumed by the book, ‘The Road’. Give the book a glance. I think ‘The Road’ might be one of the most personally instructive (by way of reminding me what I have) book’s I have picked up in a long time. I had not followed this [...]

It is a PREZI world now

How many of you have gone from an overhead projector to PowerPoint, maybe Keynote, and are now feeling pretty comfortable? Most of us have been using some variation of the slide projector/asetate presentation format all our lives. But you know what? We now live in a whiteboard era. Can you imagine using a chalkboard? Yet [...]

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