An Artists Mind

I had the opportunity to speak to the music sensation Rash Radio on my ever popular radio show on Dubai Eye. Honest, sincere and real. I loved his answer to the question about writers block. Rash said that he felt like every song was his last and then the next one just seemed to arrive [...]

The New Face of Assignments?

One of the issues i am confronting students with today is to make their reports, assignments, work product useful to the larger community. I am not just talking in terms of content but also in terms of delivery. This is a huge challenge that I think we as academics get a well deserved F! The [...]

MOvember grow a Mustache for Prostate Cancer Research

There is a lot of noise out there trying to get you to think and act for cancer. We all have to do our thing so I suggest we pick that cause we can do our bit for, just do your bit and do it well. MOvember is my cause! It is easy to make [...]

Content Curator New Job Title

I don’t know how often you read Robin Good but there is no question if you are into tech applications and dare I say New Media, even convergence/divergence, this is a must read blog. Yes we need more local coverage of ideas and issues, maybe that means we need more journalists. But I dare say [...]

Sweet Experience

Being an educator has its ups and downs. Recently in a class I have to admit things could not have been at a lower level. What to do? Some might just take it. Others might say you cannot change students. Others might take up chocolate. I decided to take the issue directly to the students [...]

Thinking UAE Media.

The media in the UAE takes a few punches, more often than not. I teach about media and the communication process in the UAE and also work in the media in the UAE giving me a unique perspective on this very young industry. There is no question the media here is still developing. But compared [...]

Pessimistic but cool

Douglas Coupland has put together a 45 point survival list for the current environment. I wonder how we might take this list and apply it to what we are teaching at University today? Get a look at the entire list. A few of my favorites. 14) Something smarter than us is going to emerge Thank you, [...]

Anatomy of My Best Class Ever!

Today I had my best teaching experience ever! The class in question is COM311 a Zayed Media Lab practicum at Zayed University. The class is worth 1 credit and asks students to bring together their cumulative experience to produce a project that is well outside their comfort zone. This time around my students are engaging in [...]

Breath!

A huge part of my day is delivering an academic show. Today I put on 2 shows, one was on the basic infrastructure of a newspaper and the second was an intro to semiotics. Whether you are in a service, knowledge or manufacturing industry you are working your mind hard for several consecutive hours. Yet [...]

New Media to New Education, living convergence! A humble start.

The world of media and the world of technology are changing, whether they like it or not. As much as we talk about new media and new education both seem to be caught in the mud of their old ways. TV/radio/press/film all talk new but are doing very little that is new. New media is [...]

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