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 [...]

Telling a good story!

We live in the world of storytelling, yet we don’t do a very good job of it a lot of the time. I am always impressed by a good story. Jawbone is a personal electronics company that does a great job of not only telling a story, enabling you to tell a story but also taking the tools [...]

Communication Outside the Box

Too often when we think of communication we get caught in our our known and accepted reality, the reality trap. Communication can and does take many forms. The ability to harness a variety of forms of communication through the creative process is something we are not doing so well in our education systems. Don’t get [...]

Must Have TED Podcasts!

I make no bones about it I think that the TED idea is the best thing I ever stumbled upon as an educator. I use TED.com materials in all my classes, have collaborated on various sized TEDx events. I have even settled on producing TEDx Salon events at my University. And now there is a [...]

Today TEDxZU Was Launched!

Well today was a special day, TEDxZU was launched. Since 2009 I have been a curator or co-curator of 3 different TEDx events, spoken at a TEDx event and helped mentor 2 events. After my last TEDx, TEDxAbuDhabiU which was excellent, I went back to the drawing board. Actually I asked myself why [...]

Talking to TED, well people who have been…

I have been really fortunate to have been to 2 TED events, one in 2009 and the other in 2011. TED in Long Beach was great but it was TEDActive in Palm Springs that blew my mind. One of my passions has been to talk to as many TEDsters on the radio, I host a [...]

Can you get past the name? Holy F*%@

This is one of the coolest “genre bending” bands I have listened to in a long time! And these guys are playing the music! Can you get past the name? What I love is that these guys are bending ideas and expectation! Watch, listen and marvel.

TEDxAbuDhabiU Continues

TEDx events are a curious thing. What I have come to learn, and love, is that once you start a TEDx event rolling it is very difficult to get out of the way and jump free of the momentum. TEDxAbuDhabiU happened April 23, 2011 but it is far from over. Sure the speakers, organizers and [...]

We need a new perspective!

Chris Anderson recently spoke to a group of Harvard architecture grads. The speech was published here, http://tedchris.posterous.com/a-speech-to-graduating-harvard-architects-6122, I think it is worth a read for several reasons. 1. Chris Anderson is swimming in the TED idea pool so it is interesting to get his view from the pond 2. This is a wel prepared talk 3. Another [...]

Those People We meet.

I met Yasser Bahjatt at TEDActive this year. It is incredible what we can learn from others and never seem to get a chance to. This is also the magic of a TED conference. TED puts a group of people together for 6 days and stands back to see what happens. Yasser and I hooked [...]

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